Political Punch

y'all heard about how obama supported himself in 2000 through what amounts to money laundering, imho - doing political favors for a table tennis (ping pong) company, saying he was doing legal work, although there is nothing to indicate such work - then hiding the name of the company is a huge list of client names of his law firm, even though this was a side deal he had and not part of the firm. check out the la times.

What Obama has made clear, if anyone asks him hard questions, they are attacking him. He is a whiny politician and worst than the average politician.

As expected, Chris Wallace asked Cooper Anderson type questions that allowed Sen. Barack Obama explain away every mistake or every lie that the Senator from Illinois has made since starting his Presidential campaign. Any American enters a room or goes to a restaurant and a terrorist is in that room is not the same as a known terrorist holding a private party to raise monies for ones political campaign. Does the Senator from Illinois believe that all Americans are idiots? The bottom line is that all cable news networks will not ask the Senator from Illinois any difficult thought provoking questions.

At the same time, these same news networks will ask well-prepared questions that allow the Senator from Illinois to explain away any mistake that he should ever make during his political career.

Now all Americans can turn on Fox News and CNN news and see Pastor Jeremiah Wright and the NAACP further explain away their racist remarks. In my view, Sen. Obama has made race the primary factor. Obama has forgotten his White heritage that he clearly shows over-and-over he finds nothing by contempt for his White heritage in the first place. The Senator from Illinois continues to represent one race and instead continues to tear our nation apart. I for one am not inspired by a shaking rock star yelling pastor singing Amen on national news. Finally, if the NAACP as Pastor Wright stated that they represent all races, I fail to recall one time that the NAACP has taken up a visible fight for Hispanics, Asian or other American races.

Pastor Wright did say one thing correctly. His prejudice and attack on America fail to unite our nation in the same manor as the Senator from Illinois. Obama and Wright seem to only discuss one race and not all races. I know that White and Brown poor children suffer in the same manor as any child regardless of the race label given by these two individuals. Both are clear about their one sided message. For someone that attacks the rich, both of these men love the rich lifestyle and live off their people in the same manor.

I think Obama's campaign has created a whole new generation of race based voters....actually they are just anti-Obama voters....it's more about judgement than race.

Summer Simmons: I don't care what race you are, the battleground states that Hillary won did not want Obama as the president of this country. Yes, you probably voted for Bill Clinton but now that there is a half black candidate running all the blacks are going to vote for him. They don't care what kind of church he goes to, if he isn't christian, if he had a prison record as long as he is part black. Therefore the white race should vote for only their own people also. Right is right and wrong is wrong but its this generation of college students that don't which way the wind is blowing and don't understand real politics that would vote for a candidate like Obama. And his wife Michele, run of the mouth, now she likes America. Give me a break.

summer: You better get your facts together. Obama squeaky clean? Absolutely not a chance. Since when is a candidate so clean that he goes to a racist church with a racist white hating pastor. If that's clean we all must be dirty. And his association with Rezko the crooked businessman that purchased the home Obama lives in. We shouldn't forget about Ayers the underground dog who laid three bombs here and lives next door to Obama who had dinner with him at one time. Plus Farrakhan and Ayres. What a background and what low class friends Obama chose. I don't know of any other candidate that chose friends like Obama did.

Can it be that the racist few that would rather vote for Maccain than Obama should Hillary not be the nominee
are actually Republicans who registered Dem to give Hillary last stand some support because they know their candidate (Mccain) cannot beat Barack Obama. Huh !!! They know a clinton they can beat. Barack is obviously sqeaky clean...so they play on associates in his life ...that they somehow dictates his opinion of people...life..the world ...and of course his ability to lead. No one every talked about George Bush being an acholic& drug user or the the many racist we have put in office and today have a senate suite in washington named after a known racist and taxpayers money in going toward his praise for his lifes work of oppression of a people.

I am an african american female and a supporter of Barack Obama...while we are talking about Hillary demographics and why Barack can't seem to get their vote...the same should apply to Hillary were the African American voters, Young voters & the affluent. Please don't assume anything...the African American vote has been a dependable block in the demo party...given this race that to can change. You are not dealing with the same attitude of the 60's.

How is it that Clinton supporters can run around squawking about this when it simply rephrases what Ed Rendell said about Pennsylvania voters? It was inelegant, but haven't Democrats assumed for thirty plus years that they will lose the racist vote to the Republicans? I for one consider it a point of honor. The problem is the racism of the voter, not the race or the positions of the candidate. The Clintons would have us pander to xenophobia by talking about nuking Iran. Barack would like to move people past it.

I hope no one is being fooled-the one person who needs this "RACE" conversation to continue is
BARACK OBAMA
it keeps us from talking about the issues that face us.

As in most of his recent statements, Barack Obama is substantially flawed in his assessment of white voters.

A more accurate statement would be that the white, race-based voters will not vote for Obama in November regardless of who the opposition may be.

However the race of these voters is not the primary consideration in their choice. The continued emphasis on race by the Obama campaign is what will ultimiately determine how these votes are cast as they will determine the outcome of the Novmeber election.

The most important consideration in choosing a Democratic nominee that will win the electoral college in Novmeber remains winning the key states dominated by white, working-class voters . And, that should be what the process is about. We know that the Republican party considers nothing else.

This much is certain: Whoever that candidate is that will receive the white, working-class (or, as Obama puts it, "based on race" voters), he/she is not Barack Hussein Obama.

It is absolutely true, the only people who would vote across party lines if Clinton were to not get the nomination would be doing so because of race. If no other issue is at stake, you are going to be voting to continue the war in Iraq or end it. If you want the war to end you vote for Obama, if you want it to continue you vote for McCain.

If Obama is the nominee, this campaign is not going to be about health care or the economy, it will be about race and who is or isn't a racist, Wright, Ayers, small town values, lapel pins and pride. Hillary did not "manufacture" these issues--Barack and those with whom he chose to associate did.
Team Obama wants us to believe he already has the nomination in the bag. Now that Obama is just abother disappointing politician, it's about the math.Don't buy it. There is still a slim chance to avoid the unmitigated disaster of an Obama nomination--let's take it. This country needs a president to focus on practical solutions to real and serious problems, not vacuous promises of hope/change.

The Obama camp is simply throwing any lie at the wall to see what sticks.

I am really doubtful that any "race based voter" whether they be Black or White will make the difference in the election in Nov,

Whether the Obama camp believes it or not there are a lot of White voters that are not voting for him because of his flawed judgement and whinning.

I really do doubt that Obama's current strategy of trying to say all Hillary's voters are too old or too racist or too stupid to make a difference in Nov. is going to do much to bring the party together.

This is not elitism it is terrible judgement.

Making voters "bitter" one vote at a time.

What Plouffe said is nonsense. There are plenty of voters in both parties who will vote based on race, and there are voters in both parties for whom race is not an issue. In any case, the key question is, how will race affect the contests in the battleground states?

Well, I think it's a shame, all the money that Clinton and Obama are spending, Millions upon top of Millions. I am a white woman and I wouldn't vote for Hillary or Obama, not that he's black and not that she's white. Now if Mrs. Condalisa Rice were running now I would vote for her. She's smart,intelligent,not a big mouth like the Dem's we have running. That carry's a lot of clout.

John McCain is a hypocrite and a superficial hot-head. He now supports the very things he once rejected. Like Hillary Clinton, he has the heart of a prostitute. They will do and say anything for money and power. Isn't it amazing that the two never attack each other? It seems that those two old birds are in bed together.

Geevil,

For some reason I also have suspected that Obama is really a weak man. He doesn't seem to know how to choose his direction.. unless he is really a pro-Islamic anti American. If that's the case then suddenly things Obama has done actually make sense.

I liked the guy, even voted for him in the primary, but that was before the pastor came to light, or Ayres....and apparently there is more to come.

He isn't what I thoght.

pt:

how can you tell the people of Florida to vote for the person who chooses the have their votes disenfranchised.

ebony,
Obama is a weak, unqualified deeply flawed candidate, yet many black voters are voting for him despite the fact that Bill Clinton bent over backwards to help black citizens. So yes, they are voting solely on race.

Folks, the Obama campaign will continue to beat the race card drum again and again and again. That is all they have left: accuse people (in overt and covert ways) of being racists for not voting for BO. Ridiculous.

Further proof that Obama is not ready for Prime-Time.