On one hand we have The First Black President and Hillary, on the other hand, we have Al Sharpton and the Reverend Jackson. What a cast of characters. Let's go.
Team Hill-Bill has bumbled and fumbled around with the issue enough to, at least, show voters how false they are. Hillary actually tried to elevate Lyndon Johnson's role (and her would-be role, by association, as a white leader) in the Civil Rights Act over that of Martin Luther King! Does she really think that type of sentiment is likely to endear her campaign to black voters? Okay, we also have the "spadework" comment, which you can think of as innocent if you prefer. I happen to think that the first family in politics is too calculating to make a mistake like that. I understand the attacks, that's part of the election game, but why use the race angle? Because politically, Hillary and other Democrats can't have large scale black success, like an Obama presidency may spark. They receive such a huge portion of the black vote because of entitlements. The left tells the poor, a category that so many blacks fall into, "Oh, you've been trod upon...here, take this free, government money. Now go out and a vote for me so I can continue to bring you this free, government money." If Obama wins...that message is shot. It's hard to tell a black man that he is trod upon when another black man is the most powerful man in the world.
http://www.thestate.com/presidential-politics/story/282561.html
Next, we have ole Sharpy-Sharp and the Rev. What a couple of gems. When Obama didn't act/react to the Jena Six ordeal in the manner of an uninformed mob (like Sharpton and Jackson did), what did Jesse have to say about that? He said that Obama was "acting white!" Sharpton, arguably the most visible figure on racial issues, is yet to endorse Obama's candidacy. He has made great efforts to not be seen in support of Barrack Obama. Why? Why the attacks and cold neutrality towards Obama from his own side of the political aisle?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,297332,00.html
Is it because Obama has a white mother, and therefore, he can't really be black? Maybe it's because his father is Muslim. Could it be that Obama has no personal connection to American slavery? Maybe they're jealous of Obama's immediate ties to Africa.
Is it possible that the Clintons (like most Democrats) and Sharpton and Jackson don't want to see a black man as the President? Here we have this articulate, to quote Joe Biden, "clean," and successful black man who actually enunciates the spoken word and, guess what? He may be the next President of the United States. Why on earth would the left (to include Hill-Bill, Sharpy, and the Rev.) want to see a black man reach the very top of the highest social ladders? It does them no good. Their base will no longer have a reason to listen to them, their message will be categorically cast into irrelevancy. How can you tell a young street kid that the world is holding him down because of his black skin color when a black man lives in the White House? Sharpy Sharp and the Rev. will have to retire! They won't be able to excuse the welfare family who still lives in the free F.E.M.A. cottage and continues to soak up hundreds of thousands of dollars in "disaster aid" three years after the fact when a black man lives in the White House.
I really think that Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and all black people who cry "victim" all day long, the anti-Bill Cosby crowd, don't want to see Obama in the White House because their excuses and reasons for their lifestyle will have vanished. What reason will there be to idolize gangsters, drug dealers, and abusers of women when a black man is the President? There will actually be a decent, honorable black man to be a role model for black youth...and that just ain't fun. Dangerous is fun. Ignorance is fun. Responsibility is tough.
Obama will probably become the Democrat nominee, and that's fine. Whether or not he is elected, I believe, will be based on policies and principles; not skin color. Which is the way it should be, the American way. I won't vote for him because of his liberal ideas. I do, however, think that he and his successes are great for America. Maybe we are on the verge of leaving the race issue in the past. I will say, though, that his fake southern accent needs work!
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