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Date Posted: 17:28:57 03/09/09 Mon
Author: niki
Subject: Re: "Trading color for experience"
In reply to: Jeannine 's message, ""Trading color for experience"" on 09:40:33 03/09/09 Mon

"do you honestly think Obama would be the President right now if his name was Bob Smith and he was a white guy with the exact experience and qualifications"

Yes, I do. Do you seriously believe that all those people only voted for him because he's part-black?!?

Frankly I think almost any color person could have gotten elected with a platform of avoiding 4 more years of Bush-like politics.

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[> [> [> No Niki - not all -- Jeannine, 18:44:42 03/09/09 Mon [1]

but a lot. I do think it is what brought him to prominence and made him the media darling. He was the "hip" politically correct candidate. I actually know people who voted for him that cannot tell you anything he stands for - except, of course, hope and change.

I have many issues with Mr Obama, his race is not one of them. To say that he and the Democrats did not use his race is naive, imo.

BUT - pointing any of this out automatically makes me a racist - a charge that is impossible to defend and is frankly, extremely hurtful. But I am a Republican, so I have no feelings.


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