Unfortunately, someone named Martin Luther King a long time ago marched against that philosophy of judging an employee's talents and skills by virtue of his or her race or gender. Ultimately, there were laws passed confiriming that which King stood for.

This philosophy of hiring someone based on race or gender is so ironic because we're nominating a judge to effectively apply and interpret the law at the highest level. However, in doing so, we're going to ignore the law and not just any law, Title VII discrimination, the backbone of American culture over the last 40 years. Yet, we expect this person to be an expert in applying and interpreting the law.

2. The Negro family is in disarry due to liberal welfare programs. It is in worse shape than pre-Great society programs.

3. And don't honor yourself, Rev. I don't need you or your ilk to defend my right to speak. I have that right with or without you. Fact.

4. Welfare was reformed to include work mainly NOT so America would stop criticizing all those 'weflare queens' and other bums who leached off the systyem. It was reformed because it was the proper & sane thing to do. It was destroying the underpriviliged — you know, the ones you Dims pretend to care about. [Now that I think about it, I bet you fought against those long over due welfare reforms, right?]

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And poor deluded Chris. He's still trying to enforce his political correctness by banning words he 'thinks' are offensive to protected groups like the Negro. Ah, that's the libs. Always imagining that others actaully need them.

And because I use a proper term that is over his head, Chris thinks I need to fear Negroes. That'll be the day.

But the fact is the libs and Dims who need to fear minorities. For when the Negroes wise up to how libs & Dims have been destroying their children in Dimocrat-run failed urban public schools, through government dependency, support of abortion mills, etc, they just might start hunting you libs down. I can just see it now; little Chris and the Akron Atheist running through the streets of Akron looking for shelter and screaming, "But we meant well."

So let's see, "Negro" is not allowed to be used anymore. I guess I missed that notification from Al Sharpton. But wait — I heard Obama's black racist spiritual advisor — you know, the Rev. Wright — use the term 'Negro" in one of his rants. [He even used the dreaded 'n-word'. Yes he did. Ugh-oh. What say you on that, Chris?].

And why can the liberal LA Times call Obama, "Barack the Magic Negro" and not be hauled before the court of political correctness?

What's going on with this double standard you're trying to apply to me, Christopher? Explain.

Nor can we mention 'Hussein' is Obama's middle name as it might offend him, right?

Nor can we acknowledge that B. Hussein Obama has the most liberal voting record in the U.S. Senate in the past few years.

And it's getting to the point that any criticism of BO is considered racist — at least according to you leftwing thought police types.

Sorry Chris, your political correctness is so yesterday. Grow up, kid.

The first hasn't made blacks beholding or dependent on government any more than FDR's New Deal made us a socialist nation.

Ghost, I'll defend your right to say what you say any time. I will. But silly stuff like this…"The core of racism in America today is found in the Dimocrat Party."….and this…."(blacks) can't possibly be racists, at least according to the liberals."….and this…." Indeed, the white liberal is the ultimate racist. In fact, no group has done more damage to the blacks than has the liberal with their insane government policies.."…..make you sound like a person out of touch with reality. I understand that these may be your perceptions….but your perceptions are not shared by even many conservatives.

Are blacks better off now, or worse off, than they were in the 1950's? Hasn't the black middle class expanded in the last 20 years? Isn't that a good thing? Hasn't welfare been reformed to include work, so that those whites with perceptions like you, can no longer blame America's ills on those "lazy welfare queens"? Hasn't affirmative action uplifted many qualified black candidates into job openings and educational slots?

Sure…if you want to remove all doubt of your ignorance.
LOL

I'd love to see you break that slur out around some black folks.
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The Dims are the party of identity politics, the party of affirmative action & racial quotas, the party of black racists like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Rev. Wright, Rev. Moss, etc.

Oh my. Did I forget and commit a faux pas here by forgetting that Negroes can't possibly be racists, at least according to the liberals.

And believe it or not, King, the liberals actually believe this, and here's why.

It is because the white liberals are the most racists people you'll find. They don't believe the Negro is mature enough to be able to be a racist. In the liberal mind, the Negro is not responsible for his actions … so they condescendingly treat him as if he was a man-child — just like they did in the old days only today they are a bit subtler about it.

One of the proofs of this is the way the white liberals feel they have to speak over for the blacks rather than let the blacks speak for themselves. You see, the libs have this sickening parental attitude towards minorities. They try to project the image that the Negro could not survive in america without them. Ha!

Indeed, the white liberal is the ultimate racist. In fact, no group has done more damage to the blacks than has the liberal with their insane government policies like the Great Society and the so-called War on Poverty which destroyed the black family structure. [Who knows, maybe that that the real intent of the Great Society in the first place ... you know, destroy the black family and make the Negroes dependent on government. Well, if that wasn't the intent, it sure was the result.]

So take a bow all you libs — and that means you, Akron Atheist, Tom, Chris, etc. — you’ve done more to retard the progress of the blacks in this country than the KKK could ever dream of doing.

Now tell us the pipe dream of how the mess you made of things was the unintended consequences of your good intentions gone bad. Sure.

Wright had an audience of 8000, mostly black, Chicago area voters. Hagee reaches millions of, mostly white, voters.

All the racist Democrats of the Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms, George Wallace days fled the Democratic party in the last half of the 20th century. Now racists find solace in the GOP. The GOP's policies reflect the intolerance and white supremacy mentality that racists love and cherish so deeply. If the GOP wasn't purely a white political party, then there would be a black GOP representative in Congress.

Is it that no conservative has an answer to the no-blacks-representing-the-GOP question?

Now don't misunderstand. I didn't say the GOP was racist. I said that racists vote with the GOP. That doesn't mean, either, that I'm saying all GOP voters are racist. They're not.

Tom makes a completely unfounded accusation against the GOP for trashing an Obama campaign office, and then associates the KKK with the GOP, when EVERYONE knows the KKK was a southern DEMOCRAT phenomenon, as Vince correctly pointed out.

Reverend Falsehood again mentions the non-existent relationship between John McCain and John Hagee (for about the 50th time), as if that is somehow a parallel to the 20-year close relationship between Barack Obama and Jeremiah Wright, which it isn't. Rev, you wouldn't know the truth if it bit you in the backside.

And just for the record, Rev, I said the relationship between Obama and Wright RAISES QUESTIONS about Obama's worldview, I didn't say it made Obama guilty of anything. Try to keep up.

Says who — you? lol Sorry, but your political correctness doesn't fly anymore. Negro is a fully acceptable term whether you like it or not.

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King correctly observes that, "Black people are voting for Obama in record numbers BECAUSE he is black."

Indeed they are — about 90% of the Negroes in recent primaries did just that. But of course, the Negro can't can't be racist — or at least that's what the liberals tell us. Right?

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Tom notes that" Indiana's GOP was totally entwined with the KKK in the early twentieth century."

If so, that would be a real oddity as the KKK is essentially a Dimocrat phenomena. It was started by Dim, run by Dim — like Sen. Robert (KKK) Byrd Dim of WVa. This old fool Byrd is the is the senior Dim statesman in the U.S. Senate. Nice.

What say you on that, Tom?

The Post article said this but this statement was surrounded by examples of racism in Indiana that made it sound much more like the people of that state are very racist. I think that this article had a purpose and that it was based on what I consider racism since racism works both ways and Reverend Wright exhibited just this in his racist comments about white people.

Racism is just a whole lot more than white beating on black in any manner. Blacks beating on and killing largely blacks is an example of racism and has to end before the whole thing ends. I am sure that the Obama people have run onto blacks who won't vote for him because of his race, as there are people like that.

Rev Red, do you know the other states that Obama has campaigned in up to his Oregon speech? I haven't heard much about the primary elections in them yet. Is he saving them as a late October surprise?

"Wright raised valid questions about Obama's worldview, whether the Dems want to admit it or not."

..is only your opinion. You must assume that Obama's views are similar to Wright's to state what you did. It's still, and only, a guilt or smear by association attempt. To use a candidates pastor as a sledgehammer is not only diversionary and unfair, but it's one-sided as well. You accept without question McCain's being honored by Rev. Hagee's endorsement. Double standard at work.

And in addition, with the exception of the HIV exaggeration, what Wright said was mostly all based on truth.

It isn't conservative truth, mind you….but truth nevertheless.

[quote]The bigotry has gone beyond words. In Vincennes, the Obama campaign office was vandalized at 2 a.m. on the eve of the primary, according to police. A large plate-glass window was smashed, an American flag stolen. Other windows were spray-painted with references to Obama's controversial former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and other political messages: "Hamas votes BHO" and "We don't cling to guns or religion. Goddamn Wright." [/quote]

I used to live in Indiana. They burned a cross on the front lawn of the black fraternity where I was going to college. Indiana's GOP was totally entwined with the KKK in the early twentieth century.

We should all be glad the rest of America is not like that. Polling of attitudes of contemporary youth show that young people don't have racist attitudes. That bodes well for politics in America if racism cannot be manipulated. The nastiest of Americans are dying off right now and out of the electorate.

Saying that race is NO factor in the race is quite different from saying it is a BIG factor. Of course there are a few people who won't vote for Obama because he is black. Nobody is naive enough to think racism has disappeared completely in America, but it has diminished. There are also people who won't vote for Hillary because she is a woman (according to polls, there are more who won't vote for a woman than for a black man). Black people are voting for Obama in record numbers BECAUSE he is black. That's the way some people are.

But I think you are missing a critical piece of the picture here. If Obama's race was a BIG factor in this presidential campaign, HE WOULDN"T BE THE FRONTRUNNER. He wouldn't even be close. Hillary would have won long ago. The article you posted even said the racial incidents were isolated. In addition, I think race was barely a factor AT ALL until the racist Rev. Jeremiah Wright's incendiary comments came onto the public scene and cast a pall over the entire Obama campaign (as proof, witness Obama's victory in lily-white Iowa prior to the Wright controversy). Wright raised valid questions about Obama's worldview, whether the Dems want to admit it or not. I think Obama has basically survived the Rev. Wright problem (with damage), but that's where race became a larger issue, requiring Obama to make his "race speech" and ultimately to disavow Wright.

And most of all, MY criticism of Obama had to do with his stupid and unconstitutional criteria for selecting Supreme Court judges. That is a legitimate issue that has nothing whatsoever to do with race, yet everytime I criticize Barack Obama for his political beliefs, some fool shows up and calls me a racist, as if freedom of speech has been repealed because we can't risk offending the black candidate. That is crapola, it's own kind of prejudice, and is every bit as intellectually bereft as someone who won't vote for a black man in the first place simply because of the color of his skin. I'm not falling victim to it, and I hope nobody else does either. Rather than debate the issues, some Obama supporters immediately play the race card instead. Sorry, no sale.

"at least in the Muslim enclaves and amongst the Negroes — but not in the real America."

PS…."negroes" is no longer an acceptable term for people of color you ignorant morons….

BTW…you ignorant assholes…."Negroes" is no longer an acceptable term for people of color…

Racist Incidents Give Some Obama Campaigners Pause
By Kevin Merida
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, May 13, 2008; A01

Danielle Ross was alone in an empty room at the Obama campaign headquarters in Kokomo, Ind., a cellphone in one hand, a voter call list in the other. She was stretched out on the carpeted floor wearing laceless sky-blue Converses, stories from the trail on her mind. It was the day before Indiana's primary, and she had just been chased by dogs while canvassing in a Kokomo suburb. But that was not the worst thing to occur since she postponed her sophomore year at Middle Tennessee State University, in part to hopscotch America stumping for Barack Obama.

Here's the worst: In Muncie, a factory town in the east-central part of Indiana, Ross and her cohorts were soliciting support for Obama at malls, on street corners and in a Wal-Mart parking lot, and they ran into "a horrible response," as Ross put it, a level of anti-black sentiment that none of them had anticipated.

"The first person I encountered was like, 'I'll never vote for a black person,' " recalled Ross, who is white and just turned 20. "People just weren't receptive."

For all the hope and excitement Obama's candidacy is generating, some of his field workers, phone-bank volunteers and campaign surrogates are encountering a raw racism and hostility that have gone largely unnoticed — and unreported — this election season. Doors have been slammed in their faces. They've been called racially derogatory names (including the white volunteers). And they've endured malicious rants and ugly stereotyping from people who can't fathom that the senator from Illinois could become the first African American president.

The contrast between the large, adoring crowds Obama draws at public events and the gritty street-level work to win votes is stark. The candidate is largely insulated from the mean-spiritedness that some of his foot soldiers deal with away from the media spotlight.

Victoria Switzer, a retired social studies teacher, was on phone-bank duty one night during the Pennsylvania primary campaign. One night was all she could take: "It wasn't pretty." She made 60 calls to prospective voters in Susquehanna County, her home county, which is 98 percent white. The responses were dispiriting. One caller, Switzer remembers, said he couldn't possibly vote for Obama and concluded: "Hang that darky from a tree!"

Documentary filmmaker Rory Kennedy, the daughter of the late Robert F. Kennedy, said she, too, came across "a lot of racism" when campaigning for Obama in Pennsylvania. One Pittsburgh union organizer told her he would not vote for Obama because he is black, and a white voter, she said, offered this frank reason for not backing Obama: "White people look out for white people, and black people look out for black people."

Obama campaign officials say such incidents are isolated, that the experience of most volunteers and staffers has been overwhelmingly positive.

The campaign released this statement in response to questions about encounters with racism: "After campaigning for 15 months in nearly all 50 states, Barack Obama and our entire campaign have been nothing but impressed and encouraged by the core decency, kindness, and generosity of Americans from all walks of life. The last year has only reinforced Senator Obama's view that this country is not as divided as our politics suggest."

Campaign field work can be an exercise in confronting the fears, anxieties and prejudices of voters. Veterans of the civil rights movement know what this feels like, as do those who have been involved in battles over busing, immigration or abortion. But through the Obama campaign, some young people are having their first experience joining a cause and meeting cruel reaction.

On Election Day in Kokomo, a group of black high school students were holding up Obama signs along U.S. 31, a major thoroughfare. As drivers cruised by, a number of them rolled down their windows and yelled out a common racial slur for African Americans, according to Obama campaign staffers.

Frederick Murrell, a black Kokomo High School senior, was not there but heard what happened. He was more disappointed than surprised. During his own canvassing for Obama, Murrell said, he had "a lot of doors slammed" in his face. But taunting teenagers on a busy commercial strip in broad daylight? "I was very shocked at first," Murrell said. "Then again, I wasn't, because we have a lot of racism here."

The bigotry has gone beyond words. In Vincennes, the Obama campaign office was vandalized at 2 a.m. on the eve of the primary, according to police. A large plate-glass window was smashed, an American flag stolen. Other windows were spray-painted with references to Obama's controversial former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and other political messages: "Hamas votes BHO" and "We don't cling to guns or religion. Goddamn Wright."

Ray McCormick was notified of the incident at about 2:45 a.m. A farmer and conservationist, McCormick had erected a giant billboard on a major highway on behalf of Farmers for Obama. He also was housing the Obama campaign worker manning the office. When McCormick arrived at the office, about two hours before he was due out of bed to plant corn, he grabbed his camera and wanted to alert the media. "I thought, this is a big deal." But he was told Obama campaign officials didn't want to make a big deal of the incident. McCormick took photos anyway and distributed some.

"The pictures represent what we are breaking through and overcoming," he said. As McCormick, who is white, sees it, Obama is succeeding despite these incidents. Later, there would be bomb threats to three Obama campaign offices in Indiana, including the one in Vincennes, according to campaign sources.

Obama has not spoken much about racism during this campaign. He has sought to emphasize connections among Americans rather than divisions. He shrugged off safety concerns that led to early Secret Service protection and has told black senior citizens who worry that racists will do him harm: Don't fret. Earlier in the campaign, a 68-year-old woman in Carson City, Nev., voiced concern that the country was not ready to elect an African American president.

"Will there be some folks who probably won't vote for me because I am black? Of course," Obama said, "just like there may be somebody who won't vote for Hillary because she's a woman or wouldn't vote for John Edwards because they don't like his accent. But the question is, 'Can we get a majority of the American people to give us a fair hearing?' "

Obama has won 30 of 50 Democratic contests so far, the kind of nationwide electoral triumph no black candidate has ever realized. That he is on the brink of capturing the Democratic nomination, some say, is a testament to how far the country has progressed in overcoming racism and evidence of Obama's skill at bridging divides.

Obama has won five of 12 primaries in which black voters made up less than 10 percent of the electorate, and caucuses in states such as Idaho and Wyoming that are overwhelmingly white. But exit polls show he has struggled to attract white voters who didn't attend college and earn less than $50,000 a year. Today, he and Hillary Clinton square off in West Virginia, a state where she is favored and where the votes of working-class whites will again be closely watched.

For the most part, Obama campaign workers say, the 2008 election cycle has been exhilarating. On the ground, the Obama campaign is being driven by youngsters, many of whom are imbued with an optimism undeterred by racial intolerance. "We've grown up in a different world," says Danielle Ross. Field offices are staffed by 20-somethings who hold positions — state director, regional field director, field organizer — that are typically off limits to newcomers to presidential politics.

Gillian Bergeron, 23, was in charge of a five-county regional operation in northeastern Pennsylvania. The oldest member of her team was 27. At Scranton's annual Saint Patrick's Day parade, some of the green Obama signs distributed by staffers were burned along the parade route. That was the first signal that this wasn't exactly Obama country. There would be others.

In a letter to the editor published in a local paper, Tunkhannock Borough Mayor Norm Ball explained his support of Hillary Clinton this way: "Barack Hussein Obama and all of his talk will do nothing for our country. There is so much that people don't know about his upbringing in the Muslim world. His stepfather was a radical Muslim and the ranting of his minister against the white America, you can't convince me that some of that didn't rub off on him.

"No, I want a president that will salute our flag, and put their hand on the Bible when they take the oath of office."

Obama's campaign workers have grown wearily accustomed to the lies about the candidate's supposed radical Muslim ties and lack of patriotism. But they are sometimes astonished when public officials such as Ball or others representing the campaign of their opponent traffic in these falsehoods.

Karen Seifert, a volunteer from New York, was outside of the largest polling location in Lackawanna County, Pa., on primary day when she was pressed by a Clinton volunteer to explain her backing of Obama. "I trust him," Seifert replied. According to Seifert, the woman pointed to Obama's face on Seifert's T-shirt and said: "He's a half-breed and he's a Muslim. How can you trust that?"

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Pollsters have found it difficult to accurately measure racial attitudes, as some voters are unwilling to acknowledge the role that race plays in their thinking. But some are not. Susan Dzimian, a Clinton supporter who owns residential properties, said outside a polling location in Kokomo that race was a factor in how she viewed Obama. "I think if it was somebody other than him, I'd accept it," she said of a black candidate. "If Colin Powell had run, I would be willing to accept him."

The previous evening, Dondra Ewing was driving the neighborhoods of Kokomo, looking to turn around voters like Dzimian. Ewing, 47, is a chain-smoking middle school guidance counselor, a black single mother of two and one of the most fiercely vigilant Obama volunteers in Kokomo, which was once a Ku Klux Klan stronghold. On July 4, 1923, Kokomo hosted the largest Klan gathering in history — an estimated 200,000 followers flocked to a local park. But these are not the 1920s, and Ewing believes she can persuade anybody to back Obama. Her mother, after all, was the first African American elected at-large to the school board in a community that is 10 percent black.

Kokomo, population 46,000, is another hard-hit Midwestern industrial town stung by layoffs. Longtimers wistfully remember the glory years of Continental Steel and speak mournfully about the jobs shipped overseas. Kokomo Sanitary Pottery, which made bathroom sinks and toilets, shut down a couple of months ago and took with it 150 jobs.

Aaron Roe, 23, was mowing lawns at a local cemetery recently, lamenting his $8-an-hour job with no benefits. He had earned a community college degree as an industrial electrician, but learned there was no electrical work to be found for someone with his experience, which is to say none. Politics wasn't on his mind; frustration was. If he were to vote, it would not be for Obama, he said. "I just got a funny feeling about him," Roe said, a feeling he couldn't specify, except to say race wasn't a part of it. "Race ain't nothing," said Roe, who is white. "It's how they're going to help the country."

The Aaron Roes are exactly who Dondra Ewing was after: people with funny feelings.

At the Bradford Run Apartments, she found Robert Cox, a retiree who spent 30 years working for an electronics manufacturer making computer chips. He was in his suspenders, grilling shish kebab, which he had never eaten. "Something new," Cox said, recommended by his son who was visiting from Colorado.

Ewing was selling him hard on Obama. "There are more than two families that can run the United States of America," she said, "and their names aren't Bush and Clinton."

"Yeah, I know, I know," Cox said, remaining noncommittal.

He opened the grill and peeked at the kebabs. "It's not his race, because I got real good friends and all that," Cox continued. "If anything would keep him from getting elected, it would be his name. It might turn off some older people."

Like him?

"No, older than me," said Cox, 66.

Ewing kept talking, until finally Cox said, "Probably Obama," when asked directly how he would vote.

As she walked away, Ewing said: "I think we got him."

But truthfully, she wasn't feeling so sure.

There are 57 Muslim countries !!!

Beware Obama Bin Liar !!!

Be Afraid !!!

Be Very Afraid !!!

Wait until you see what happens to B. Hussein Obama in the West Virginia primary.

Those people in the Mountaineer state don't let a little name calling compel them into selling out the country by voting for BO.

The W. Va. primary will be a taste as to what awaits this radical leftist come the Fall — if the Dims are stupid enough to nominate him.

Sure.

B. Hussein Obama "will CRUSH McSame in November" — at least in the Muslim enclaves and amongst the Negroes — but not in the real America.

I can't speak for anyone else who posts here, this blog is open to all and I don't censor anything other than profanity, but if you are contending there is some hidden racist agenda behind my words, then YOU are the one with the problem.

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Obama will CRUSH McSame in November.

Have you heard about Obama talking to that group in Oregon and telling that he has been in 57 states and has one to go. Then he mentioned that his staff wouldn't allow him to go to Alaska or Hawaii. Now I saw this twice on CNN Friday afternoon and it has been forgotten. I have seen a picture of his new lapel pen with the 57 states on it but nothing at all from the MSM since that. Here is the whole thing just as CNN carried it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpGH02DtIws

The shocking thing about this is that he didn't correct himself and nobody seemingly wanted to help him out. Not one word from the CNN people about it but they sure stopped running the sound bite. Ignorance shows up in him in more ways nearly daily. I have seen suggestions that he has already talked to Iran, Egypt, Venezuela, and North Korea about joining up with us to make the 57. That number is 60 if you listen to the words he told those poor Oregon people.