The Audacity of Division: Obama plays the race card!
June 22nd, 2008 | by admin |
Barack Obama has built his whole campaign around the idea of hope and change. Unfortunately he continues to surround himself with racists. His spiritual mentor, his friends and associates, and many of his supporters have all been in the news for race baiting, or outright racist comments!
Senator Obama himself has referred to his own grandmother as a “typical white woman” who was scared of black men. This is the politics of fear, racism, and an era of the past. So why is it that Barack Obama continues to allow it to take center stage in his campaign? Now he’s again bringing attention to it by claiming he will be the victim of racism by Republicans! This is more of the audacity of division! How dare he accuse Republicans of being racist!? He’s the one who keeps bringing race up!
JACKSONVILLE, Florida (Reuters) - Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama said on Friday he expects Republicans to highlight the fact that he is black as part of an effort to make voters afraid of him.
“It is going to be very difficult for Republicans to run on their stewardship of the economy or their outstanding foreign policy,” Obama told a fundraiser in Jacksonville, Florida. “We know what kind of campaign they’re going to run. They’re going to try to make you afraid.
“They’re going to try to make you afraid of me. He’s young and inexperienced and he’s got a funny name. And did I mention he’s black?”
He said he was also set for Republicans to say “he’s got a feisty wife,” in trying to attack his wife Michelle.
“We know the strategy because they’ve already shown their cards. Ultimately I think the American people recognize that old stuff hasn’t moved us forward. That old stuff just divides us,” he said.
This is not the politics of change and hope. This is the same political game played by folks like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and other racist African Americans. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: One of the reasons I can’t vote for Barack Obama is because I am against racism!
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