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Originally Posted by cnredd
I disagree...99%...
You know damn well there are partisans on both sides that have aleardy lit their torches and grabbed their pitchforks if the "other candidate" gets elected....
Hillary will come with her own card carrying enemies...so will McCain...
I don't see why Obama would be any different...A bit more personal than the others?...Yes (hence, the 1%)...
But it's still expected... 
You know Ron Paulites will hate whoever gets in...You know Militia-types will hate whoever gets in...You know Kucinichites will hate whoever gets in...Wright has that right, too...
Stupid and/or absurd...sure...
But that comment that "the office of president should come pre-saddled with it's own personal Al Sharpton"?...EVERY president has had their version in the last 50 years...And if it wasn't race, it was something else... |
I find race baiters particularly distasteful and destructive. I also haven't seen any of the other candidates' detractors making such public spectacles of themselve.
The way Wright has carried on and Obama has lent legitimacy to his crapola for 20 years, I see nothing but trouble if Obama gets elected now. Sure the other candidates have detractors. But there is a difference between a detractor and a single, polarizing personality taking the stage along with the president. It smacks of a reverse in the progress we have made in race relations in this country.
And you can call me a racist if you want to but I am going to say it anyway: if it had been a white candidate in a similar situation, they would be done by now because the outcry would have been fierce.