Reflections on Obama-McCain
Some thoughts:
- By November, it will be a secondary issue, but that issue is race. And independents, who in polling right now are breaking toward McCain, don't want to hear about it.
- Obama is as bad as most whites - and he is half white - talking about race. Admit it - we don't do a good job in this country discussing race, discrimination, etc.
- By November, this will only matter to the tune of 2-4 percentage points. Which, of course, is huge.
- McCain must have thought it some kind of curse when it dawned on him that Obama-Clinton would be getting all the ink after Huckabee pulled out. Betting he has changed his mind on that.
- Unfortunately for Obama, Jeremiah Wright still keeps lecturing and preaching. There will always be someone in the crowd who will be recording hoping for some red meat statement.
- Want to bet what Michelle Obama's take on all of this has been in the past few days? What attitude she has been privately demonstrating?
- The "race" issue has been most adequately "discussed" not by Obama, Wright and the likes of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson but by former representative J.C. Watts, former Secretary of State Colin Powell and current SofS Condoleeza Rice - and they didn't discuss it much at all. They simply performed nobly and well. And...received no credit by black leadership on the left.
posted by Matt Friedeman at
5:11 PM
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"The "race" issue has been most adequately "discussed" not by Obama, Wright and the likes of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson but by former representative J.C. Watts, former Secretary of State Colin Powell and current SofS Condoleeza Rice - and they didn't discuss it much at all. They simply performed nobly and well. And...received no credit by black leadership on the left."
That statement is absurd and it actually is part of the resistance blacks give toward the GOP. It is obvious that race is still a big issue to a lot of people. So, it is a little absurd to suggest that just because there are some black leaders who do not take on certain issue, they represent something positive. I respect all of the people listed, but not for that reason. It goes back to the perception that a lot of black people have that if you talk about racial problems you are not acceptable to a big portion of the white community. The more I think of it, the more ridiculous the thought is. No one would ever applaud a white person for achieving something significant in the discussion on race just by them being white and not having anything to say on the subject. Part of the problem between the races is that people on either side should be able to speak of things concerning race and not be rejected for doing so. Why are the only blacks acceptable to the Republican Party are the ones that take the "hands off" approach to racial issues? If we can see there is a problem, we should be talking about it.
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