Racism alarms Obama's backers

[BEG]

I was waiting for these charges to come about, I knew they were coming.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24588813

Racism alarms Obama's backers
Candidate's foot soldiers encounter name-calling, vandalism, bomb threats
   

*snip*

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.

Meeting cruel reaction
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."
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[Wretched Excess]

I'm certainly not defending any of these miserable cretins, but why isn't it just as worthy of examination when Baroque Obama polls 92% of the african-american vote in state after state?

are african-americans voting for him because they like his health care plan? 

or when hillary polls 75% of the female vote?

[Uhhuh35]

I'm certainly not defending any of these miserable cretins, but why isn't it just as worthy of examination when Baroque Obama polls 92% of the african-american vote in state after state?
are african-americans voting for him because they like his health care plan?
or when hillary polls 75% of the female vote?

I've never understood why it's racist for whites to vote white when blacks vote black, women vote for women etc.
Interesting that Obama was posturing himself to be a "race neutral candidate", not a black candidate just a candidate, yet his operative play the race card.
I'll bet a few of these race charges are just planted stories by campaign operatives. We've seen it before by the race-grievance monger crowd.

[Rebel]

I wonder how many are concocted fairytales.

[Rebel]

I'm certainly not defending any of these miserable cretins, but why isn't it just as worthy of examination when Baroque Obama polls 92% of the african-american vote in state after state?

are african-americans voting for him because they like his health care plan? 

or when hillary polls 75% of the female vote?

Good point.

[Wretched Excess]

and why are they printing a story about a primary that took place almost a month ago?  could it be to
lay the groundwork to slime the good and honorable people of WVA as racist after hillary blows* out
Baroque Obama tonight?

*absolutely no pun intended.

[Wretched Excess]

this story just gets more and more annoying.  this tententious but of filth ran on page 1A on the
washington post this morning.

oh, and in case you forgot . . . .

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.

that's the money quote.  translated, "obama will do poorly in states full of poor white trash.  so much for WVA."

b*stards.

[Wretched Excess]

this thing is a slime job, even for the WaPo.  but it is probably a sign of where the MSM is taking the
story line of the general election.

this is going to be bad.  we will hear about every miserable racist comment, every broken window,
and every deranged lunatic.

[Rebel Yell]

But exit polls show he has struggled to attract white voters who didn't attend college and earn less than $50,000 a year.

That's me     And he does do poorly in my house.

Plus, I thought his callers would be calling Democrats in the primary.  If they're calling Republicans, that says alot about his management skills.

[BEG]

and why are they printing a story about a primary that took place almost a month ago?  could it be to
lay the groundwork to slime the good and honorable people of WVA as racist after hillary blows* out
Baroque Obama tonight?

*absolutely no pun intended.

That is exactly what I thought too.  I just heard Laura Ingraham suggest something similar.  

[Lord Undies]

Painting portraits of racism is no way to make the subjects of such portraits vote for Obama.  It will never work.  We have secret ballots.  I'd be inclined to vote against Obama just to make these supporters right.  But....

I have made a personal decision that as a white man I can never, from now on, support a candidate who isn't white.  I have decided I cannot support a female candidate of any color.  I, like everyone else (apparently), have an overwhelming need to be true to myself.   I will support only white men because they look like me. 

I have made these decisions because I cannot allow women who support only other women, and non-white people who support only other non-white, appear to be wrong in their decisions.  I would be making a mockery of their convictions if I did not follow their prescription.  It would be racist and sexist of me to project an image that I am too good and intelligent to participate in identity politics, which surely must be the right thing to do.

[Splashdown]

Heh. According to the MSM, then, the voters are racist, but Michelle Obama and Rev. Wright? They are just expressing their views? 

[Willow]

I have no doubt that MSNBC and the WaPo are playing the race card. i doubt very seriously that there is any truth to the story. Who exactly were the people they tried to call? Don't they have names to name? Surely they do, so why the innuendo?

[Chris_]

I wonder how many are concocted fairytales.

Seeing as how almost everybody in the US, even the "poor" people have cell phones and almost all cell phones have photo and camcorder capabilities, how is it there is no proof of these allegations?

Nobody in their right mind says things like "darkie" and the like.  Rven the truly biased have learned to keep it a very deep secret.  Most white people are afraid to even say the truth -- that if hussein was 100% white he wouldn't even be on the national radar.  No way would they say they would never vote for him.

I see lots of big bouncing balls.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Y'all know the phone calls were being placed to democrat primary voters, right?

[Chris_]

Y'all know the phone calls were being placed to democrat primary voters, right?

And we all know there are no racist democrats -- just sexist ones ;)

[Willow]

Like I said, there were names next to the phone numbers, let's see the names, oh, and party affiliation would be helpful too! Come on MSNBC let's see the list even!

[Lacarnut]

Whenever the mayor of Baton Rouge runs for re-election, I will probably vote for the first Democrat and the first black in my many years of voting. We had over 100k plus Katrina beauties here; the mayor warned them that he was not going to let New Orleans thugs take over the city. He caught some slack from black leaders but if he had been white, Jessie and Al would have been here protesting. City, Sherrif and State Police patrolled the downtown area with shotguns and there was little trouble.  

Obama is a racist liberal; his black skin does not turn me off. It's his policies and his lack of patriotism. Also, his wife is not worthy of First Lady status.