Originally Posted by Gadgetory

Let me explain in another way what I am saying. I am not saying I don't think Obama is a good candidate, I am no saying he wouldn't make a good President, I am not saying his campaign doesn't appeal to some. I am saying he has to stop playing the race card everytime something negative is said about him. I am saying there is a growing thought belief amongst white America its OK for a Black American to say racist comments and not OK for white people. I am saying white people don't understand why a black person can say the "n" word and its OK and a white person cannot. It doesn't matter if Obama never uses the word thats irrelevant.

I do prefer Hilary over Obama (because I do think he uses the race card and I do think he is sexist, sorry thats how he appears to me but I'll vote for whatever Dem in the end because I always do but I am not everyone, I am not a swing voter). And I didn't vote for either of them in the primary, my candidate withdrew after I'd sent in my postal vote. If he'd withdrew a few days earlier I'd have voted for Hilary because over the 2 candidates with little experience she has more experience and I know where she stands on issue close to my heart and I've no idea where Obama stands his word isn't good enough he is a politician afterall. And oddly (and this is the opposite of the way the media portrayed it). I liked her eyes welled with tears when a reporter told her she looked nice because her response was honest, I am sick of people putting on a show I want honesty. Obama is a great showman. And because she had been attacked by the media or years about the way she looked and I thought it was a poignant moment. The press jumped on it and started a rather sexist attack on women being overly emotional which frankly disgusted me. It didnt disgust Mr Lets all work together, he agreed with the press which also disgusted me.

So back to Obama and the need to stop calling white people racist. Many white people are sick of it, they are sick of the line of thought that white people are oppressing black people and we are all racist. They think I never owned a slave, they can't see racism is institutionalized. Which isn't Obama's campaign but its very easy to paint him this way when he calls people racists. They'll end up painting him not as a natural progression from MLK but as the new Malcolm X who blames white people for oppressing black people which isn';t his campaign but people don't read what candidates say they read headlines and only sometimes they may read an article. Now they get to read a headline and if they want an article whereby his preacher for the last 20 years has over a period of timed used racial slurs about white people. It doesn't mater Obama repudiates it, its out there and they will continue to paint him like this and the GOP is going to have fun doing it. Many white people are poor working class and or middle class who don't believe they have anything to do with oppressing anyone because they themselves feel oppressed and resent black people blaming them for their lot in life. So when a rich black guy (he is wealthy he paid $1.65 mil for a home) starts calling them racist they get pissed off. Obama had the perfect opportunity when Ferraro said her crap the other day to say you know I am lucky, I am lucky I live in a time where all Americans have worked together so thats its possible that a black man and a woman are the 2 frontrunners for the Democratic Candidancy for the Presidency of the USA..instead we get the negative racist comments.

BTW Obama said we should bomb our enemies he thought that was a viable response. He also voted for tax breaks for oil companies and not to force them to reinvest mprofit into alernative fue forms and voted against withdrawing troops from Iraq. He has to be careful because the little he has done is often in complete opposition to what he is currently saying. People do not read what he says unless they are interested in him, they read headlines.

Don't believe the war in Iraq is as unpopular as polls would have you believe either, the polls up until the primaries started showed Hilary kicking ass and Rudy would be the GOP presidential candidate, very little issue about it according to polls. Here we are with McCain who was about to pull out of the race and the Dems cannot decide.

And lets all stop pretending that he isn't using his race to his advantage and more power to him but their is a limit in the actual appeal