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Uppity Obama
Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune
UPDATE: Apparently Washington political big gun David Gergen, who has served Presidents of both parties agrees. Via The Huffington Post’s Sam Stein:
“There has been a very intentional effort to paint him as somebody outside the mainstream, other, ‘he’s not one of us,’” said Gergen, who has worked with White Houses, both Republican and Democrat, from Nixon to Clinton. “I think the McCain campaign has been scrupulous about not directly saying it, but it’s the subtext of this campaign. Everybody knows that. There are certain kinds of signals. As a native of the south, I can tell you, when you see this Charlton Heston ad, ‘The One,’ that’s code for, ‘he’s uppity, he ought to stay in his place.’ Everybody gets that who is from a southern background. We all understand that. When McCain comes out and starts talking about affirmative action, ‘I’m against quotas,’ we get what that’s about.”
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6 Responses to “Uppity Obama”
Obama is a Black man. Of course race is a factor. It would be better for our country if it were out in the open.
I have to confess, I don't understand while John McCain feels he has to do any of this. He's already going to get racially anxious people to vote for him. He doesn't have to court their votes.
I agree with George, and therein lies the real irony of any charges having to do with playing the “race card” – the idea that race somehow isn't (or shouldn't be recognized as) a factor. It's ridiculous, just as the emperors new clothes were ridiculous, just in a converse sort of way.
Gergen is right. McCain has a transition team in place like Obama does, had President on his campaign ads, ect., and yet the press says nothing. However, they keep saying Obama is arrogant.
I wonder why…….
We will see on election day if the country views Obama as George does.
If he is viewed as a presidential candidate who happens to be black – he wins.
If he is viewed as a black man running for president – he looses in a landslide.
The GOP will make sure Rev. Wright is front and center in their advertisements to drive home the point.
I don't even think Wright is going to be an issue. It's up to Obama. When he does stupid things like seeking a windfall profits tax, releasing oil from the strategic reserve, he is appealing to the Dem-core losers and he repels better Americans, which includes many a swing voter. He also begins to introduce the concern that he is a liberal Democrat (Americans: “DQ!”) and may threaten radicalism. I'm not yet worried but concerned when he has done the things he has done already, including the materialistic-paternalistic garbage with tire pressures of motor vehicles. The last thing we need is another Carter or Mondale. No 1972-style takeover of the White House as well as Congress this time, say Americans!
“If he is viewed as a black man running for president – he looses in a landslide.”
This is true if the scummier, neurotic-to-psychotic people on the Left say this is why we _should_ vote for him or that we're racist if we don't vote for him or that we're racist if we criticize anything he says or does (and when they can't prove the existence of non-existent racism, they say it's “code” or “covert” or “hidden”).
They're scum if they do this and they deserve to see Obama lose if they do this.
Meanwhile, we'll still wish we had a chance to see President Powell.