Jeff Fink wrote:
I'm a white guy who is certainly not racist.
I did not say you were. I was talking about other people. Why should you protest? Ahh . . . Perhaps that means you ARE a closet racist . . .
(In the modern age people who protest they are NOT X are automatically suspected of being X, and vice versa. Fill in the blank! For example, Obama and I frequently say we are favor of nuclear power, so naturally we are both accused of being against it. Ditto free market capitalism, immigration control, education reform and anything else that other people would prefer we oppose, but -- inconveniently for them -- we support.)
Give me Alan Keyes, J C Watts, or even Colin Powell, and I will vote for him any day over McCain.
That would make you a conservative, not a closet racist. That is a completely different matter. A closet racist would be someone who opposes Obama, but who would support a candidate similar to Obama -- with the same views and personality -- if the candidate were white. And as Stephen A. Lawrence pointed out, the Bradley effect is about people who lie to pollsters to be politically correct.
Why are we talking about racist whites when 90% of blacks are voting Obama!
That is another form of racism, called "identity politics." That's not closet racism. For one thing, it is overt -- out in the open.
Palin's main appeal to appears to be toward fundamentalist Republican party regulars who would have voted Republican anyway. However, the selection was fruitful to the GOP because it motivated these people to get out and work for the ticket and vote. Palin may well be the first real person to run for VP or higher in my lifetime.
You sound motivated! You just demonstrated my point.
She wasn't raised rich, and she didn't have her mind corrupted by an ivy league school! We need leaders in this country who are not fans of Frederich Nietzsche or Karl Marx.
I would point out that President Bush and most important people on Wall Street graduated from Ivy League schools. Until this week they were not in favor of socialism. Not for the poor, anyway.
The terrorists around the world are rooting for Obama.
I doubt that.
Doesn't that tell you something?
It tells me that you have an over-active imagination.
Obama calls himself a Christian, but Qadhafi of Libya in a recent interview obviously considers him to be a Muslim in good standing.
Obama is the only one who can say what Obama's religion is. It makes no difference what other people say or think. A religion is all in one's mind. It is purely a matter of opinion, and the only person who can possibly know Obama's opinion is the man himself.
- Jed
