Obama Comments on Skepticism Over His Electability
ABC’s Sunlen Miller reports: Barack Obama told an audience of predominantly African Americans that he understands they would be skeptical about his run for presidency, but used his win in Iowa to prove his ability to be elected.
“I understand that many of you are still a little skeptical. You’re not as skeptical as you were before Iowa … Sometimes, ah, I got to be careful here,” Obama stopped himself short, “sometimes it takes other folks before we believe in ourselves.”
Polls have long shown that for African American voters, electibility was key to casting their vote for him.
Obama was speaking before the Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Banquet in Las Vegas, and he regularly summoned up words and images from the civil rights leader’s struggle to make the case for his presidency.
“So don’t tell me I can’t do something. When you tell me I can’t do something you’re telling yourself you can’t do something. You’re telling your children and your grandchildren that you can’t do something. …I believe in ‘yes we can.’ That’s what Dr. King believed in."
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And that sums it up, right there. Black mentality>>>”If I can’t do it, what makes him think he can??? He thinks he’s better than ME? Who does he think he is?”
Black jealousy and low expectations is worse than white racism.
Posted by: ROB | January 19, 2008, 9:59 am 9:59 am
Obama is right on point and right on time. That just goes to show that he can speak to everyone about exactly what is affecting their community. And that’s what this country needs, a president who understands everyone, not like Bush and his mother who think the Black folks in New Orleans were better off after the Katrina, as if it were some kind of godsend.
Posted by: Twigster75 | January 19, 2008, 10:34 am 10:34 am
Hi Folks,
ObaMA IS 1005 correct. I love Obama for that, very straight and bold enough to know the problem of American communities alike and this is why is yannining for a Change to uplift thoe who will never believe on their Ability and Ambition in Life. He, Obama is an Epitome of Positivity and not Negativity.
As such he has fore knowledge of the problems of American, either Green, Pink or Yellow.
Many Greece to your Elbows and wish that your Energy doble daily to see throuh this Primmary Campaign with a Gigantic success to be nominated as the First Black President of America.
Long Life America Democrat, Long Independent and Converted Republican
Posted by: Roy | January 19, 2008, 11:15 am 11:15 am
Obama sound like a preacher; that’s probably what he should be doing taking the place of the Jacksons, Sharpton and other old leaders, probe himself that he is more than works, get experience and more important get hmself a reality check. He is not ready to be President regardless of how many great teleprompter speeches he can deliver, how many jokes and the tons empty -tho sounds great for the moment- promises!
Posted by: Carl | January 19, 2008, 11:28 am 11:28 am
To paraphrase Sen. Gene McCarthy’s nominating speech at the Democratic Convention of 1960 seems particularly appropriate here:
Do not turn your backs on this man, do not leave this prophet without honor in his own party. … Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you not the favorite son of one state but the favorite son of 50 states; the favorite son of every country he has visited and the favorite son of every country he has not visited, but who are secretly thrilled by his name.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you, Barack Obama of Illinois …
Posted by: Martin Edwin Andersen | January 19, 2008, 11:40 am 11:40 am
Obama may be a rookie, but he has the fast learn, the firmness, the team work, and the ethics toward putting this country together.
Posted by: fred | January 19, 2008, 11:48 am 11:48 am
In addition to two whopping years of federal experience, Obama’s foreign relations experience includes playing an especially intense game of Risk against his college roommate (Obama won). He has also seen “From Russia with Love” three times and read “The Day of the Jackel” twice.
Sure, this guy is ready to become the most powerful leader in the world during these especially challenging times. LOL
Posted by: Robert John | January 19, 2008, 1:34 pm 1:34 pm
Magic, go back to your real estate deals, and leave the politics to the people looking for a better future for this country! Don’t tell people what they can’t do! How would you know?
Posted by: w_roos | January 19, 2008, 1:42 pm 1:42 pm
This is long but worth reading before you vote!!!THIS CURLS YOUR HAIR!
(Finally, someone is connecting the dots about this guy)
The Jihad Candidate – by Rich Carroll
Conspiracy theories make for interesting novels when the story line is not so absurd that it can grasp our attention. ‘The Manchurian Candidate’ and ‘Seven Days in May’ are examples of plausible chains of events that captures the reader’s imagination at best-seller level. ‘What if’ has always been the solid grist of fiction.
Get yourself something cool to drink, find a relaxing position, but before you continue, visualize the television photos of two jet airliners smashing into the Twin Towers in lower Manhattan and remind yourself this cowardly act of Muslim terror was planned for eight years.
How long did it take Islam and their oil money to find a candidate for President of the United States ? As long as it took them to place a Senator from Illinois and Minnesota ? The same amount of time to create a large Muslim enclave in Detroit ? The time it took them to build over 2,000 mosques in America ? The same amount of time required to place radical wahabbist clerics in our military and prisons as chaplains’?
Find a candidate who can get away with lying about their father being a ‘freedom fighter’ when he was actually part of the most corrupt and violent government in Kenya ‘s history. Find a candidate with close ties to The Nation of Islam and the violent Muslim overthrow in Africa , a candidate who is educated among white infidel Americans but hides his bitterness and anger behind a superficial toothy smile. Find a candidate who changes his American name of Barry to the Muslim name of Barak Hussein Obama, and dares anyone to question his true ties under the banner of ‘racism’.Nurture this candidate in an atmosphere of anti-white American teaching and surround him with Islamic teachers.
Provide him with a bitter, racist, anti-white, anti-American wife, and supply him with Muslim middle east connections and Islamic monies.
Allow him to be clever enough to get away with his anti-white rhetoric and proclaim he will give $834 billion taxpayer dollars to the Muslim controlled United Nations for use in Africa .
Install your candidate in an atmosphere of deception because questioning him on any issue involving Africa or Islam would be seen as ‘bigoted racism’; two words too powerful to allow the citizenry to be informed of facts. Allow your candidate to employ several black racist Nation of Islam Louis Farrakhan followers as members of his Illinois Senatorial and campaign staffs.
Where is the bloodhound American ‘free press’ who doggedly overturned every stone in the Watergate case? Where are our nation’s reporters that have placed every Presidential candidate under the microscope of detailed scrutiny; the same press who pursue Bush’s ‘Skull and Bones’ club or ran other candidates off with persistent detective and research work?
Why haven’t ‘newsmen’ pursued the 65 blatant lies told lies told by this candidate during the Presidential primaries? Where are the stories about this candidate’s cousin and the Muslim butchery in Africa ? Since when did our national press corps become weak, timid, and silent? Why haven’t they regaled us with the long list of socialists and communists who have surrounded this ‘out of nowhere’ Democrat candidate or that his church re-printed the Hamas Manifesto in their bulletin, and that his ‘close pastor friend and mentor’ met with Middle East terrorist Moammar Gaddafi, (Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya) Why isn’t the American press telling us this candidate is supported by every Muslim organization in the world?
As an ultimate slap in the face, be blatant in the fact your candidate has ZERO interest in traditional American values and has the most liberal voting record in U.S. Senate history. Why has the American main stream media clammed-up on any negative reporting on Barak Hussein Obama? Why will they print Hillary Rodham Clinton’s name but never write his middle name? Is it not his name? Why, suddenly, is ANY information about this candidate not coming from main stream media, but from the blogosphere by citizens seeking facts and the truth? Why isn’t our media connecting the dots with Islam? Why do they focus on ‘those bad American soldiers’ while Islam slaughters non Muslims daily in 44 countries around the globe? Why does our media refer to Darfur as ‘ethnic cleansing’ instead of what it really is; Muslims killing non Muslims!
There is enough strange, anti-American activity surrounding Barak Hussein Obama to peek the curiosity of any reporter. WHERE IS OUR INVESTIGATIVE MEDIA!?
A formal plan for targeting America was devised three years after the Iranian revolution in 1982. The plan was summarized in a 1991 memorandum by Mohamed Akram, an operative of the global Muslim Brotherhood. ‘The process of settlement’ of Muslims in America , Akram explained, ‘is a civilization jihad process.’ This means that members of the Brotherhood must understand that their work in ‘America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.’
There is terrorism we can see, smell and fear, but there is a new kind of terror invading The United States in the form of Sharia law and finance. Condoning it is civilization suicide. Middle East Muslims are coming to America in record numbers and building hate infidel mosques, buying our corporations, suing us for our traditions, but they and the whole subject of Islam is white noise leaving uninformed Americans about who and what is really peaceful. Where is our investigative press? Any criticism of Islam or their intentions, even though Islamic leaders state their intentions daily around the globe, brings-forth a volley of ‘racist’ from the left-wing Democrat crowd.
Lies and deception behind a master plan – the ingredients for ‘The Manchurian Candidate’ or the placement of an anti-American President in our nation’s White House? Is it mere coincidence that an anti-capitalist run for President at the same time Islamic sharia finance and law is trying to make advancing strides into the United States ? Is it mere coincidence this same candidate wants to dis-arm our nuclear capability at a time when terrorist Muslim nations are expanding their nuclear weapons capability? Is it mere coincidence this candidate wants to reduce our military at a time of global jihad from Muslim nations?
Change for America ? What change? To become another ‘nation of Islam’?
‘It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God or the Bible.’ George Washington
COULD IT BE THE REASON OUR COUNTRY HAS NOT BEEN UNDER ATTACK SINCE 9-11 BECAUSE THE MUSLIMS HAVE AN AGENDA TO TAKE OVER OUR GOVERNMENT BY PLACING A MUSLIM IN THE PRESIDENCY. IT MAY COME TO PASS IF AMERICANS DON’T WAKE UP!!!!!!
Posted by: Dee | June 19, 2008, 12:07 pm 12:07 pm