and i cant WAIT for a hillary/obama ticket that would ROCK
tw On 1/12/07, Mary Jo Sminkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >This'll show ya what little faith I have in the American people. > > Wow, you're not kidding... > > > >If Obama gets the democratic nomination and runs, it'll galvanize every > >white supremicist and neo-nazi nutjob into one cohesive unit, that will > >fight > >tooth and nail to keep him out of office. > > Most likely, yes. However, those people will *always* be around. Are we > supposed to never allow a minority to run as a result? I think such people > are really on the fringe these days and the behavior you describe, racial ads > and such, would not at all be tolerated. And quite simply, we will *have* to > go through it at some point. If the man is the best-qualified candidate, then > it *would* be a crime to be to deny him the opportunity because of his race > and because we are afraid of ourselves. > > Just look at my old home state of Virginia...first state to elect an African > American governor (Doug Wilder), even though it's a fairly solidly red state. > Even though his race was very close and required a recount for him to be > declared victor, none of these things you describe happened. What they *did* > note however was that the polling was less accurate than typically...an > effect that most likely was due to the race issue. People don't want to > appear racially insenstive so they would tell a pollster they would vote for > him, when they did not intend to. > > > >if he runs and wins you'll see riots and > >lawsuits that claim that he won because he's african american. > > Uh, who would they sue, the American people that voted for him?? Sure. > > --- Mary Jo > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:224521 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
