That about sums up this story at Fox News about democrats vowing once again to end the race debate in the 2008 campaign:
National Public Radio national correspondent Juan Williams, a FOX News analyst, said a potential complication following Obama’s speech is the attention that it continues to draw to the issue of race. It poses a problem in a campaign where the candidates are trying to focus on the economy, national security and health care.
“He doesn’t want to be the black candidate in the race, because he wants to be the candidate who transcends race … suddenly he’s back in the box as just a black candidate,” Williams said.
The race issue appears to have had an effect on voters.
A CBS poll showed that 25 percent of those surveyed had heard “a lot” about Wright’s comments, while 33 percent had heard some. Of those aware of the story, 15 percent of Democrats, 36 percent of Independents and 47 percent of Republicans said it made them see Obama less favorably.
A Rasmussen survey taken from March 14-16 of 1,200 likely voters showed 56 percent of those interviewed were less likely to vote for Obama because of the Wright’s sermons.
And for the second day in a row, Clinton took the lead in the Gallup daily tracking poll. The poll from March 15-17 showed Clinton with 47 percent support among Democrats and Obama with 44 percent. The two candidates have been neck-and neck throughout the month of March.
Obama’s speech Tuesday was widely praised as a heartfelt, candid assessment of racial divisions that put bitterness between whites and blacks in historical context.
“With this speech Barack Obama showed he’s ready to be president of the United States,” said Democratic strategist Dan Gerstein. “The question now is, is America ready for Barack Obama?”
But it was also widely noted that Obama will probably not be done with the race issue if he becomes the Democratic candidate.
The Democratic candidates are finally starting to realize that when it comes to tackling race, they run the risk of doing nothing other than airing their own dirty laundry.
The dirty little secret is that, despite their best efforts, race will always be an issue in a democrat campaign for any office in the land, because for the past five decades, democrats have set up their policies and rhetoric in such a manner that race matters.
Whether it’s regarding affirmative action or any of a myriad of class-warfare inspired talking points, the white limousine liberal establishment have set up the plantation in such a manner as to convince a whole race of people that they are victims; and as such, are powerless in matters of self-determination, and impotent with regard to their affairs without the “benevolent, paternal assistance” of the white limousine liberal establishment; who promise to be there to distribute meager morsels of sustenance as token rewards for their continuing allegiance.
And woe be to those who stray off of that plantation.
I have said it often, and I’ll say it again. If the KKK, the Nazis and the Aryan Nation suddenly came to power, they could do no more damage to Black Americans than that wrought by the limousine liberal establishment over the past five decades.
One cannot extract race from democrat politics. They are forever and inextricably intertwined; that is, as long as there continue to be people of differing levels of melanin who are willing to buy into their empty promises and scaremongering tactics.
Tags: 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Democrats, Hillary Clinton, limousine liberal plantation
March 20th, 2008
“The American Republic will endure until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money.” -Alexis De Tocqueville
Politicians, especially since FDR, have long known that they can bribe the people with their own money. But since FDR, a healthy majority of the American people couldn’t be bought. They loved freedom, less government, and a secure nation more than the baubles and breadcumbs that may have flowed from Washington, D.C.
The nation, on the whole, was a conservative nation.
Nothing illustrated this more than the wholesale acceptance of Ronald Wilson Reagan in the 1980s, and of his legacy as borne in the Contract with America that launched the Republican Congressional revolution of 1994.
And nothing spelled out the repudiation of the conservative principles on which this nation was founded than the third place finish of Fred Thompson in South Carolina.
On point after point, from immigration, to national security, to taxes and to life itself, Fred Thompson mirrored the conservative ideals that, when put to practice, have been proven to be so effective in governing our nation since the penning of the Federalist Papers.
If there was anywhere in this nation where it couldn’t have been more clear, it would have been in South Carolina; traditionally a bastion of clear thinking, small government conservatives.
Yet John McCain, in every sense an opportunistic political populist with a liberal voting record as long as the Mississippi, ran the table.
Newt Gingrich caught a lot of flack when he proclaimed that Reaganesque conservatism was in its death throes, and that politicians needed to embrace a more “centrist” approach.
He was right in the sense that South Carolina is current living proof that Reaganesque conservatism is, if anything, on life support.
Maybe Rush Limbaugh was right last week when he said that it took a Jimmy Carter to give us Ronaldus Magnus.
Perhaps 2012 will be the year of Fred… if the liberals haven’t run us into the ground by then.
Tags: , 2008 Election, Conservatism, Fred Thompson, John McCain, South Carolina, taxes
January 20th, 2008
Interesting:
Republican National Committee Chairman Robert M. “Mike” Duncan announced today that the RNC raised more than $83 million in 2007, easily outpacing the Democrat National Committee and even the RNC’s own internal goals.
“Across the country, millions of hard-working Americans are rejecting the Democrat vision of higher taxes, government-run health care, and retreat from the War on Terror,” Duncan said. “They know that it is the Republican Party that has a positive vision for our future – a future with lower taxes, limited government, and a strong national defense. That is the vision Americans expect from their leaders and a critical factor in our successful year.”
In raising more than $83 million over the course of the year, more than 800,000 supporters sent an average of $227,000 to the RNC every single day. The RNC is debt free and had $17.2 million cash on hand at the end of the year, all of which will be dedicated to helping elect Republicans in 2008.
“Our goals in 2008 are simple: we are going to elect a strong Republican to succeed George W. Bush in the White House and elect more Republicans to the U.S. House and Senate,” Duncan added. “These resources will give us a head start from the very beginning of 2008.”
We should keep in mind, however, that our House and Senate Republicans aren’t doing nearly as well - but the fact that the RNC, in a very hostile environment, has managed to out-raise the supposedly riding-high Democrats shows that things aren’t, perhaps, as the MSM and Democratic spinmeisters would like us to believe.
Tags: 2008 Election, fundraising
January 2nd, 2008
