Political Punch

Oh and I almost forgot- even a cursory understanding of American history in regard to race should make it clear to anyone that which ever party pulls the votes of the majority of white voters in the states of the Old Confederacy is viewed by those same voters as the "white party".It was once the Democrats but the post 1964 Republican party has done plenty to earn that view from those voters.

Almost all the major positive advances in race relations from the end of slavery to the Civil Rights era are directly tied to "government intervention".In any given peroid most "individuals" certainly didnt lift a finger to help people who were discriminated against,opposed the progess being made by voting for (mostly Republican)politicans who did everything to stop it and judging by some of the resistance (even among Democrats) to Obama still hold the same views but dont-usually-express them openly because there is a certain stigma to admitting your a racist-think and act like one just dont admit it to a pollster!

I have a challenge for those who defend/ignore the GOP's abysmal record on black /white race relations in the US. Write about something positive the Republican party has done, post 1964, for black/white race relations WITHOUT invoking names like Clarence Thomas,Colin Powell ,Condolozeea Rice,Jc Watts etc .These "examples" of GOP race relations progress for the most part are black tokens who are either way more conservative(ie Thomas and Rice) than the avergae black or way more liberal (ie Powell) than the average Republican. I await your replies-it should be amusing !

I am Japanese, Native American and European. I am very conservative. Race has nothing --- NOTHING to do with political ideology. It has everything to do with one's moral/religious background and with their view of the role of government and the individual. I believe in personal responsibility and loath government intervention. Check out Bobby Jindal and you will see a picture of tomorrow's GOP. He and people like him are the future.

Wow! That's really insulting!

I have a challenge for the GOP minded. Write a positive comment reagarding the post 1964 Republican Party relationship with African American WITHOUT using the words Clarence Thomas,Colin Powell, Condoleeza Rice, Jc Watts or any other token black appointment that for the most part (ie Thomas ,Rice) are way more conservative that the average black or (ie Powell) are way more liberal than the average Republican. I know this will be very difficult but I look forward to reading the flood of answers!

This is from a guy who said "Booyah," which was a huge scandal. He just doesn't watch his mouth.

Accident my butt. But you have to ask: what does the Democratic party have to offer white heterosexual males? Let's be honest. Can you imagine the outroar if a ranking R said the Dem party was the "black" party.

The Republican Party was the party of African Americans until the 60's when welfare started being given out in large sums. A sad day for everyone involved because we have created at least 2 generations of people that are now totally dependent on the government, people of all colors, but minorities seem to be the most affected by this.

Just another assertion of Dean's clumsiness in revealing what the Democratic Party has become!

Condoleezza Rice is the 66th United States Secretary of State, and the second in the administration of President George W. Bush to hold the office. Rice is the first black woman, second African American after her predecessor Colin Powell, who served from 2001 to 2005. Is it still the "white party" Dean? I forgot Howard Dean is black so is Pelosi and the Clinton's. Oh wait no they are not. Well at least they have Kerry and Edwards, nope wrong again...well at least the Democrats can say they nominated Clarence Thomas, shoot wrong again that was George Bush in 1991.

In the begining of my post it should have been "American companies" not countries...Sorry for the mistake...

This has been the democratic plan all along, The message they have been pushing is one of division, fear, and making outlandish promises they know they can not keep. They are going well outside the arena of civil politics, how many times has a Democrat "miss-spoke" in this and recent elections? These are not errors in speaking they are carefully calculated tactics to scare any minority into not voting on the issues. Lets see they want to raise the tax on corporations.The company I work for already pays taxes at a rate of 42% they want to raise this, and we wonder why American countries are moving operations out of the United States, I work in the Electrical distribution field and there have been a lot of companies selling to owners outside of the United States. They are doing this to protect profits is that a bad thing? A company with a Lower tax responsibility typically pay more in salaries. Democrats also support NAFTA a program that has cost a lot of Americans good paying jobs that where the backbone of our economy for decades. They want to tax my dividends on the stock I have purchased currently these taxes come out at a rate of 15% there is talk of raising that to 39%. Obama made the irresponsible claim of being totally independent of foreign oil in 10 years..What? If we drill off shore it would take a minimum of ten years to take effect according to Obama who was dead against it until popular opinion was for the drilling then he changed his stance on that. Ten years by drilling but we can totally change directions and use alternative fuel sources in ten years and place an entire National infrastructure in that same time frame? All this and lower the tax burden on the lower and middle class? Does this even sound logical let alone possible? This does not even take into account the position of Health care again more money. Where is all this coming from? According to all of you this war is being paid for by money borrowed from China, So say we end the war in Iraq something even McCain wants to do "when the time is right". That money is not available unless we continue to borrow..Could it come from raising taxes? You can bet on it. Obama and the Democrats keep telling us about change, but without details they tell us what we want to hear. And we fallow like sheep , blind sheep at that.....You can bet that the Democrats will "change" things and that change will leave us with a lot less change in our pockets.

What really bothers me is that the dems actually expect these stupid race card tactics to work.....are minorities or the dem leaders this stupid? As a woman of mixed races---I am very outraged at the shear nerve of Dean and his supporters over this. Mr. Dean Howard------despite your race baiting, I vote solely on issues.

Apparently Mr. Dean is declaring war on the white race in favor of minorities which he can use at will. No problem since the white race will soon become a minority and we can begin our affirmative action movement and insist on free cheese from the non-white government!!! Touche'

Dean is a head of the Democratic party and he's white. So are Hillary, Bill and Nancy Pelosi. Maybe they should fix there own house first.

I am black and not voting for Obama. I strongly believe that Obama is not the best candidate and unqualified to be president.

Obama talks about the audacity of Hope, but what does he Hope for? Change? What does he want to Change? He wants to change things so people can Hope. He just goes around in circles, and that's good enough for the mindless Obamatoids who think he's the greatest thing since soap operas.

Definitely no Martin Luther King. MLK didn't become a millionaire, much less doing it as an "activist" on the government payroll. He was a preacher and he did not preach hate, as has Obama's minister of over 20 years. He didn't have friends who bombed people and things. He didn't get any special real estate deals from slumlords. He was a man of integrity, and he clearly understood what needed to change.

Unfortunately, Obama seems equally committed to changing it all back to what MLK was trying to change it from.

Dean should look in the mirror. The Dems have played the race card repeatedly. But in fact most people are against Obama because he is unqualified for the position. The most inexperienced candidate with no leadership credientials we have had in at least 50 years.

President Bush appointed more people of color to positions of high power in his Administration than President Clinton did.