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by John Cole| 13 Comments
This post is in: Election 2008
Obama doesn’t have a problem getting Hispanic votes.
I really can not believe we had to pretend for months that if Hillary Clinton were not the nominee, Hispanics would flock to the party of Tom Tancredo and company, but now can we officially kill this nonsense?
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[…] Yes, who could have predicted that Latinos wouldn’t join the party of nativists just because we nominated a black guy. Yet another example of why the blubber heads on teevee are overpaid. […]
les
Nope, can’t shut up now, it would ruin the horserace for the talking heads. God I hate our “journalists.”
Con Mhac
Hey John, did you hear? Hispanics won’t vote for a black guy.
jibeaux
Depends. Is p-luk still banned?
gbear
Kill the nonsense in a presidential campaign? Might as well ask for Rupert Murdoch to retire and name Bill Moyers as his replacement.
Doug H. (Fausto no more)
OT, but while we’re talkin’ Obama:
I guess we’ll have to turn in our pearls and hyperventalting bags.
Davebo
It’s purely anecdotal, but I know a lot of Hispanics and they are definately fired up about voting Obama.
And from what I can tell, it has a lot less to to do with the GOP’s immigrant bashing and more to do with the economy and the war.
Bob In Pacifica
But what about poor white women? But what about rich white women? But what about white men who won’t admit that they’re bitter? But what what about low-information unemployed white men who are concerned about Obama taking their guns away and forcing them to become Muslims?
Surely, there is some demographic that feels angry or threatened by the black man!
ThymeZone
And get on the tubes and learn to use teh google, too.
The Obama campaign advanced two principal ideas on Monday:
One, he is setting the tone for the proper respect of his and other candidates’ patriotism in this campaign and has the chops and the will to make that stick, as evidenced by his Missouri speech.
Two, his campaign aggressively attacked John McCain on defense, charging that McCain has supported wrong policies that have led to dangerous situations in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the successful entrenchment of Al Qaeda in those regions, while directing resources toward Iraq in a move that has not made the country safer.
So, we go after the GOP for its demagogic use of patriotism as a club, and after McCain for his claim that he’s better qualified to handle national defense when his record shows that he has consistently used bad judgment as evidenced by ongoing developments and a weaker military.
These are themes that are going to be effective and relevant in the months ahead. But please, let’s spend all our time blathering about whether every remark or statement made by everybody is in perfect alignment with our own preferences and priorities.
Look, that’s how the GOP got its 60-year dominance of the White House, isn’t it? By carping over every subtle nuance of its policies and candidates’ facial expressions all this time?
Zifnab
Yeah, the only people who were actually pitching that line were the dumbfucks who kept yammering on about “reverse racism” and Obama as the affirmative action candidate.
On a secondary note, I’ve never had the desire to take a second look at affirmative action more than I do today. If a black man gets elected by the popular fucking vote and wingnuts can spin it as affirmative action, I feel pity for every colored person who walks into a job interview with one of these people. I’m not sure if forcing black job applicants down a bunch of wankers’ throats would solve the problem, but I’m beginning to see why the idea was proposed in the first place.
Of course, if Colin Powell or Condi Rice was the GOP candidate, we wouldn’t be seeing this kind of bullshit. But then, I think there’s a rather obvious reason why neither of them made the final cut.
Dreggas
A piece everyone, especially the chicken little’s, should read here by Al Giordano
PaulW
Sorry, boss. We can never stop talking about the b-llsh-t. Because if we stop focusing on the b-llsh-t we’d be forced to focus on the real matters facing us like a collapsing economy, broken military, poor health, toxic environment, and all the 100,000 other things that have gone wrong between 2001 until now, and no one wants to deal with reality anymore.
Martin
But the bloods hate the crips, yo.