Kerry: Obama Could Help US Relations with Muslim Nations ‘Because He’s a Black Man’

Well since FlipFlopper says so I guess we should believe it! but is not Obama himself a FlipFlopper! So the Flippers stick together! what a surprise!

What about US relations with Buddhist, Jewish, Hindu and other religious nations, Mr.Kerry? Would have another President for those foreign visits or do those countries not count?

I think our politicians are nuts. Lets let HRC and Obama speak for themselves. That way we can watch HRC shoot herself in the foot, and stop watching erveryone else shoot Obama in the foot.

Jya, Felicia and MattOhio, let us be kind to each other and avoid certain words. Obama is a black man, not a muslim, a moderate leader who can and will help the world understand America and America understand the world. That is what Kerry is saying and that is the reality. Obama represents the American Dream and that is the message he will be bringing around the world, the greatness and brightness of America. A tolerant America and American which can rise above old politics and division, an America which can lead the world out of respect and out of fear. OBAMA08

With Kerry’s, McCaskill’s and even Obama’s remarks in today’s news cycles, everything now appears to be fair game. Or are will still in the double standards game?

I thought Senator Kerry was in Cambodia.

Jay posted:
“WOW Kerry is a total idiot. What is this, open mouth and insert foot day for the Obama camp. Mr. Obama was raised by white grandparents in Hawaii and went to the best schools and Harvard. I wish I was oppressed and repressed as him.
Kerry needs to keep his mouth shut before more damage occurs”
I am in a public library and trying so hard not to laugh out loud. Kerry is my senator. I actually traveled to Florida on my dime for this guy in the last election. Yikes!!
Think of it this way, how else could he have lost to dubya??

When it rains left wing race baiting idiots, it pours left wing race baiting idiots.
Does Peyton Craighill want to wait for the next wave of polls to come out before shooting off his leftwing mouth?

This is some funny stuff. Kerry always does this. Hillary’s probally having a good laugh over this also today.

BKMC, all we’re saying is how convenient to inject race when it is to their advantage. By Kerry’s logic John McCain or Hillary Clinton will be good for our relations with Russia and other European nations. Shouldn’t it be more about one’s ability?

@ Chan…
I must ask you, what has Hillary done that is so terrible? What has her campaign done that is so wrong? What has she said or done to cause damage?
A canadian news station came out with the Obama’s NAFTA issue, the media has come out with Obama’s Rezko relationship, and Fox News bought the recordings of Rev. Wright from the church Obama has atteneded for the past 20 years.
So please, tell me why Hillary is responsible for Obama’s mistakes and the media picking up on them.

“He has the ability to help us bridge the divide of religious extremism,” Kerry said.
Oh, is that what Obama was doing for the last 20yrs? Obama listened to the hate spewed from the pulpit – and by his inaction, agreed with it. If he didn’t agree with it, why didn’t he try to “bridge the divide” in his own life circumstances?

Seeing the USA having a black president can maybe even give power to moderate Islam to be able to stand up against this radical misinterpretation of a legitimate religion?
Now is that really because he is black Kerry or is it that you really want to say maybe with Obama’s family links this may make moderate Islam a little more willing to go along with the US?
Which is it Kerry am sure the American people would love a little more insight into exactly what your theory on this is, all these revelations are getting very interesting now.

Yes the colour of one man’s skin will solve all of the worlds problems, eventhough his foreign policy experience consists of a stop over in London once.
John Kerry needs to lose his senate seat. The man is a disgrace. When are he and uncle Ted going to endorse Clinton since their state overwhelmingly voted for her??
Please someone defeat this man in the next election.

Can you people READ??? He is saying that Obama has a perspective that is relavent to muslim and African nations. Also, if you think for even ONE IOTA OF A MOMENT that Mr. Obama sailed thru without a HINT of degredation being raised by white grandparents and attending the best schools, you are obviously not black, brown or yellow living in America. WAKE UP.

so one of obama’s biggest supporters is coming right out and saying we should elect him BECAUSE HE’S BLACK!!! rotflmao.

@ Janet,
Hillary has 35 years of experience. Representing children in court, getting health care for 6 million children, playing a key role in attaining peace in Ireland, fighting for health care benefits for war veterans, fighting against Bush to take care of the NY fire fighters…the list goes on and on.
Do some research.

Kerry implied that Obama came to today’s position is because he is black!

According to Kerry’s logic:
To solve the tight relationship with China, we should elect a Chinese-American to be president!
To solve the crisis in Iraq, we should elect an Iraq-American to be president!
To solve the mid-east problem, we should elect an Arabian-American to be president!
How many presidents we want!
Kerry wants to regret he supported Obama, he just can not find a graceful way. So he has to be sticky to Obama.
What a bitter man!!

Kerry has no idea what he’s talking about. As a woman of color. I resent his statements. Obama did NOT come from a place of oppression and repression. He grew up in a privileged background raised by his white grandparents. – AND he had the audacity to throw his white grandmother under the bus in his speech!
Kerry’s one of the reasons why the Dems are self-destructing!

Well, if you bring up race as a positive thing, then it’s not playing the race card, right?

During the last month, one thing that has become very apparent to me is that the Democrats made horrible choices in 2004. Howard Dean luckily did not win the nomination. He is showing no leadership at all. Instead, through his no action of Florida and Michigan issues, proves where he aligns. Last night at dinner, speaking with friends, we all agreed it is a good thing he didn’t get the nomination. However, as John Kerry has been proven lately, he also was a terrible choice and luckily for the county, my vote did not win my state for Kerry.
Obama is in a mess now, that I feel he created, and no amount of spinning from his supporters on these blogs or his supporters when they speak to the media can undo. Obama didn’t want race to be an issue and yet injected it often when convenient. This week, he asked for a conversation. The conversation has started and unfortunately for him, his supporters are not speaking very well.

Thank you John Kerry for confirming that BO, is here b/c of his race and color.
I call this Foot and Mouth disease.
John Kerry is so out of touch with the world.

The high profile figures like Kerry who support Obama, I’m curious, Obama is even less experienced than you, why you don’t feel sh…. to be led by him? If you think Obama is better than Hillary or McCain, let me ask you, what did you accomplish for so many years (you are older and more experienced than Obama)?

“It’s interesting cause having a female President could do so much for women’s rights around the world. Any many of the same areas he mentioned women have little to zero human rights.”
SO TRUE! Well stated. Again, the 800 pound gorilla in the room goes unnoticed.

Obama is not my american dream. He is a liar and a fake. The people that knew him throughout his life has stated that Obama’s perception of his life is very different than what really was. He was raised very well off and went to private schools and his classmates from school are very surprised at his remarks. His school was very disversified and according to his friends he was popular and seemed really happy and they are shocked at his statements.

More ignorance from Kerry. Obama is a “symbol of empowerment” and as a black man will therefore be the super-diplomat???? How very simplistic and misinformed. For example, Obama wouldn’t even have an edge in any brokering in Kenya. Obama’s father was of the Luo tribe and the majority of the Kenyans are Kikuyu. I hear the Kikuyus are Hillary Clinton supporters.

I cannot see what was so bad about Kerry’s comments. They were not the same as Ferraro’s. He did say that the only reason Obama was in this position was because he is blk. He said that being black could be an asset in dealing with people in darker nations. He said that we will be showing that our country can live up to our promise. What Kerry said is not a new sentiment. Clinton said the same thing of herself. Of course she said that being a woman would make a difference in some dealings around the world. If we are all Americans both white and black (and other races), why can’t we have a leader of any race or gender?

Well, it is apparent Kerry didn’t read the hand book about talking to, for or about black people or even bragging on them. Having a woman as president might help the women of these Islamic governments more than a black man. You have black Arabs killing black men and women in Darfur. I doubt if Obama could do anything about that.
Right now, this president we have and VP Cheney along with McCain are saying that the deaths of our men and women will have been worth it when we win in Iraq. Winning to them is just being able to get out without anyone saying we are running which might be in 100 years. When we get out, we will have another extreme Islamic country where women will not have the right to dress except as ordered, no right to an education and where Christians will be killed for practicing their faith. If those three think that our men and women’s life was that cheap, then they need to live in Iraq with the government that are helping to form.
There is no way Obama being a black man can help unless he gets off his pedestial and realizes he has made many mistakes and stop trying to brush them away and cover them up. It is hard to cover up 20 years of participating in a life with hate and in a church that preaches hate for this Country and most of its people.

Obama would be idea in bridging the cultural gap widened over the recent past by the arrogance of our government leaders. He is our best hope of restoring the United States moral and ideological status in the world. Kerry is right on!

Kerry is nothing more than a upper white crust skull and bones member, trying to
“be like the commoners” Kerry is a liability and is damaging obama’s campaign.

Obama has lived his life with far more material assets than most Americans. The Preacher isn’t hurting for material things. I don’t think either have been as oppressed as Obama would like for us to believe. AND, even if they were, that is no reason for the REV. to be such a racist and to hate this Country where he has done so well. He has had it far better here than he would have in Africa. Both of them owe this Country as all of its citizens owe this Country our loyalty. Michelle owes more than what she evidently hasn’t been willing to give. How can Obama bring any other Country together or to get them to listen to us when he won’t be able to get this Country together. Due to his racist way and associations with people who hate this Country, he has split us apart.

As an African American president, Barack Obama would be a “symbol of empowerment for those who have been disenfranchised around the world”. But Kerry and Obama don’t want to see the votes counted in Fl and MI?????

Obama camp does it again. Flips then flops. They keep injecting race into the picture and it should be ok since they are using it because Obama is black. But someone else says it then its a racist remark and that person is racist. Can’t have it both ways Obama. Stick to your plan, stop changing every time you see it fit for your purpose. Talk about doing anything and everything to get elected.

Didn’t BOB Kerrey say something similar awhile back? But JOHN Kerry can say THIS and get away with it? Oh, that’s right…he’s supporting Obama so it’s ok. Well, Kerry is known to say stupid things (re: his comment about Mary Cheney), so I hope his disastrous words come back to sink Obama even further.

Do you guys remember when Kerry said:
” People in the army are not smart enough to go to College”
How can BO have this man on his campaign.

Another train wreck coming…
This is even more embarrassing than Obama’s “typical white granny” story. I’d love to see Axlerod’s face today!
Hillary 2008

HE IS NOT BLACK. WHITE PEOPLE DON’T PERCEIVE HIM AS BLACK AND BLACK PEOPLE DON’T IDENTIFY HIM AS BLACK EITHER.
TALK ABOUT PLAYING BOTH ENDS OF THE FIDDLE.
GET OFF THE RACE ISSUE. ONCE AGAIN, HE IS NOT BLACK

I guess the JFK legacy didn’t work for Kerry and Kennedy so they have to adapt. But saying Obama should be elected because he’s black doesn’t say much for qualifications. I guess 8 years of Bush has led to the dumbing down of the presidency and any candidate will do. Even Obama with his African-centric beliefs and racist church affiliations.

CNN has become the Obama channel
Yesterday AC cooper for one hour
today larry king for 1 hour.
Talk about free media now that he is in crisis mode.
Too late obama, you have surrounded yourself with Muppets and they have advised you very badly!
Stay out of public and let this cool off. People are associating you with Wright and going on TV to explain the race and all the other blunders you have made is going to add more fuel to the fire…

Kerry’s statement confirms it that there are no other points but the race card that should give him the chance to be the president.
I’m speechless these White Elitist from the East think they are above everyone and whatever they say is the LAW! I am FED up with Kerry!
OBAMA SHOULD STOP BLAIMING AND POINTING FINGERS AT HILLARY, BUSH & MCCAIN over the war!
People are sick and tired of that.
Start solving the problems instead of finger pointing.
Get rid of all the mediocre advisers especially AXELROD!!! this guy has taken your campaign down the toilet!

Obama
ITS TIME FOR A SHAKEUP IN YOUR STAFF
GET RID OF PEOPLE WHO ARE ADVISING YOU BADLY
GET RID OF KERRY, AND OTHER SURROGATE SENATORS WHO CAN’T SPEAK FOR YOU.
TIME FOR A SHAKE UP!!!! CLEAN OUT THE STAFF AND START AFRESH

Kerry should know better. As far as Muslim nations concerned, it is more a religion/culture issue, not a race issue.
Yes Obama “Could Help US Relations with Muslim Nations”, NOT ‘Because He’s a Black Man’, but because he has a pastor saying 9/11 is US own fault.

Susie writes:
“Obama did NOT come from a place of oppression and repression. He grew up in a privileged background raised by his white grandparents. – AND he had the audacity to throw his white grandmother under the bus in his speech!”

Russell-You do have a way with words. Wright? But why does Obama keep running over grandma? Perhaps would be a better target. Heck, where’s Kennedy? Wright. That could wreck the bus.

Whatever suits Obama at that time is what Obama will do.
Wright said ” Bill Clinton rode monica like he rode the blacks”
I wonder if Obama’s spiritual mentor told him to “ride the White vote”
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Oh that is good. you are so right
Wright On! play it Obama like a silver fox with your words.
now he is black.dissing he is white too.
when it suits them.
Like Halle Berry I am the first AFRICAN women to ever win. As her Irish mother looked on! when it works the cards are played Obama & Kerry go get a drink and sit this election OUT

After all Obama is an expert on “religious extremism”…

If you listen to Senator Kerry’s full comments he makes perfect sense. His suggestion is a very wise one. And, frankly, I see nothing wrong with the comments at all. Of course, when you take anything out of context and splice it together you can make it sound any way you like. Why someone would do this thought is beyond me. Senator Kerry has offered his support to Senator Obama, he is not a member of his campaign.
Could it be to get back at him for not supporting Senator Clinton? I have to wonder. I also have to wonder is there isn’t some collusion going on between the Clinton’s and the media to push all of this nonsense about Obama and now Kerry.

Kerry how about appointing Osama Bin Laden US president, he can unite whole Muslim worlds and if we give him US in platter he will never attack US or white again.
What a noble idea?
I just can’t believe Kerry ran for President and thank God we didn’t elected him.

Thank God kerry did not become president.
There are other black leaders of the world and do they have great relations with the muslim world. I think they have thier own problems like Darfur and such in thier country’s.
For one Obama is far left liberal that goes to a church that spews anti american rhetoric around and this is the leader we want mending relations with the muslim world. NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BKMC: I would trust Hillary Clinton to work hard each and every day she is in office relentlessly for our country. Obama is the one who cannot be trusted. He has already proven that with his associations with Rezko, Wright, Ayers, Sharpton, Farrakhan and many others.
Mr. Obama has neither the experience, integrity or judgment to become President of the United States

Obama graduated from the exclusive private Punahou High School in Hawaii. He attended Occidential College, a small private college in Los Angeles. He graduated from Columbia University, a private university in New York City. And, received his law degree from Harvard University, a private university. Both Columbia and Harvard are considered ivy league schools.
Obama grew up with an elitist background and HE knows what it is to be oppressed and repressed! Kerry wants Americans to believe this lie?

Edna writes:
“He graduated from Columbia University, a private university in New York City.”

what sen. kerry really wanted to say is that president obama will heal relations with muslim countries because his middle name is hussien and muslims feel that he was born as a muslim not because he is black.
what he fails to grasp is that muslims also hate the people who desert islam.
sen. keery your time has passed so better you keep your ideas to yourself.
bhagwan deol los angeles

Kerry is an idiot.
Thanks for swift-boating Obama …
BECAUSE HE’S BLACK.

Kerry lost my vote. He is up for reelection this year. I hope he loses big. What a bigot and he obviously thinks nothing of women. I guess he prefers black men to white women.
I live in Massachusetts and will try to get all my friends to vote against him this fall. What a loser.
Obama can not win. Kerry should be supporting Hillary so Dems can win the white house. But then Kerry lost the white house bid. What a loser.

I had emailed Kerry’s campaign a long time ago and asked him, “What will it take for you to just go away…..please go away?
The people told you that in the last election but here we are again.
Please, please just go away. It’s just like Cher whose goodbye tour lasted years. How can we miss you Senator Kerry if you won’t go away.
Goodbye. Please leave.

Sam:
Roland’s deal is the same as, Christina “Obama for President” Matthews on MSNBC. She and her sorority sister Olbermann were devastated over this latest scandal and have yet to recover.

Darn it – you mean I’m just a typical white person…?

OH BROTHER! Kerry is a real idiot for such an educated, rich politician.

I’m not sure what planet John Kerry is from. I regret voting for him.

For somebody who wanted to transcend race and move politics into a post-racial era, Mr. Obama seems to sense a great opportunity to use race to advance his candidacy. That much for the post-racial era.
After his speech, his surrogates seem to be stoking the American guilt by outwardly pointing us to the “blackness” of Mr. Obama. Awkward as he always is, Mr. Kerry is making us believe that the people in the Muslim world will respect America, while America gets roiled in more divisive racial politics, thanks to Ms. Ferraro, Pastor Wright, Mr. Obama and his surrogates, commentators, and the media.
Perhaps this strategy of using race to one’s advantage may work in the short run, but I do not know how long this will last.
At least now, some of us realize that the “Saint Obama veil” covering the ordinary and manipulative politician has dropped. Now, he joins the ranks of rest of the candidates. The difference in misrepresentation, manipulation, and deception is one of degree than of kind between the candidates now.
Not too bad, for the politics in America has maintained remarkably similar undertones for over a century.

*sigh*
Kerry is such an amateur. Oh, wait, wasn’t he the nominee in ’04? Man alive.

The first qualification to be commander in chief is you must be proud to be an American. Between Barack and Michelle Obama…there doesn’t seem to be much America has done that they are proud of. They can take themselves and their America hating preacher back to Illinois where they can all live happily ever after in the house that Rezko built.

Kerry is still stupid.

cappamore, you are correct that kerry is better than bush. but that’s not much of a standard. however, i made the stupid mistake of voting for kerry in the primaries. we could have had someone so much better.

Perhaps Obama could address the issue of slavery with those Muslim countries that still practice it.

cappamore, no prob. i stand corrected for my 2004 primary vote. i do hope smarter folks than i vote both kerry and kennedy out when they run for reelection to the senate.

Kerry sounds like Geraldine Ferraro.

*sry…jrenders…you too Irma…;o)

You guys that think that the world will love America because of a black president live in the land of Oz. I compare it to the false notion of Europe respecting the USA. I have been to Europe many time for many years and even in the Clinton era I was shocked how much the establishment, press and many people despites America (or perhaps envy America). So thinking that as soon as Bush is out Muslims and European will love us, that is a quite naive thought. As long as we maintain the position of leaders of the world and #1 power, we will not be loved nor liked. Human nature is that we all try to bring down, embarrassed, or defeat anyone who is in first place. Open your eyes and believe!

Another moron heard from. The Democratic Party is on the verge of imploding. It’s appropriate for this time of year, because they literally can screw up the Easter Parade. They managed to make a cakewalk into a three ring circus. I, for one, am sick of it. After 63 years as a Democrat, I’m finally disgusted enough to change my affiliation. I will register as an Independent from here on out and in protest will vote for John McCain in November. At least I know where he came from.

My husband is a pastor. People in our church know the content of his character after sitting under his ministry for years. They know his ideals, his values and what he stands for. Obama has been under Jeremiah Wright’s ministry for 20 years. There is no way he did NOT know the true content of his character. The only reason he has come out now and renounced what Wright has said about whites, Jews and America is because it is politically expedient for him to do so. John Kerry (and now Bill Richardson) are ignorant fools to back this man who has absolutely NO experience to be president. Sure he’s young, charismatic and can whip a crowd into an almost religious frenzy, but those are not qualifications for President.

Pastor’s Wife said it well. Character and integrity are the issues and we are starting to see who has it and who doesn’t. Wright, Obama, Kennedy, Kerry, Richardson and so many others are proving that their character, their integrety and their judgement are in question.
What tune is being played on that Obama bandwagon? Do I hear “Death to America”? Should we re-write the “Star Spangled Banner” so that there is no mention of being proud, no gallantry and of course no land of the free.

wow…..since when does race or gender qualify anyone to hold public office? Honestly, reading these comments, I am flabbergasted. Our country is screwed, no matter who gets into office-look at who’s voting!!!

Was Kerry speaking as a “Typical White Person?”
Odd that the only qualification ‘lurch’ can come up with is that Obama is Black.

Susan gets the gold star!
What Kerry and the other liberal politikos don’t understand is that Obama, since his conversion to Christianity, would be considered “Apostate” in the Muslim/Islamist world. Not someone who they would invite home to dinner.

Kerry is a “typical white man” commenting on a “typical black man” in the manner of a “typical politician.”

Of course, like always, the Obama camp playing the race card. Senator Kerry, I voted for you. I may only be a “typical white person” to you, Obama and his supporters, but I am Democrat. If he wins this nomination, my vote goes to anybody but Obama.

that is the most racist thing I have ever heard. I am offended by Senator Kerry’s racism and call on him to resign. I am a black women who will never support Senator Obama because he is not good for his Country. To say he will make a good president because he is black is not only ridiculas but also racist. I wonder if Senator Kerry will be willing to go to jail when Obama proves to be the traitor to this country that he is. I think perhaps that should be the case all those Super dels and the crooks in the DNC should all be arrested for treason. I will never vote against the interests in this country. I hope my fellow Americans of all races join me in renouncing Senator Obama and his racism and sexism. I hope that Obama never becomes President because he will be worst then George Bush.
PARTY
UNITY
MY
ASS

I’m so tired of this whole race obsession and game that the Democratic party plays. They continue to accuse others of racisms when in the last 6 months it has shown that they are really the bigoted ones. I am so upset with the Democratic party, having been a registered Democrat for 20 years I am going to register independent this year and vote for either McCain or a 3rd party candidate.

Well, America has spoken….I feel they will be sorry.When we are so low that we have to elect a darn black,who want God took off everything, and please remember this name. We need all the prayers that true deicated Americans will pray. OBarma comments about change…he doesn’t even know he will face someone alot greater than Him. He will answer to God, just like I will.God has blessed America to death. I am sure he is sad this m0rning with you people wh boted for the jerk.