Should Barack Obama be able to play to black culture-

or stereotypes, whichever way you see it- without being criticized for it?

I'm your girl!

I don't bake cookies!

Last I checked, he is black. Why is it that he's "playing to black culture?"

Color me confused here.

Not like "pretend."

Still confused.

(And I'm not a Barack supporter.)

You should know, though, that there are different approaches to courting people, as a politician. "Playing to" people is what politicians do.

Are you finished?

How does Obama "play to black culture?" Can you give some examples?

John Edwards always turns on and off his accent depending on the audience. Up in New Hampshire Edwards shut it down completely.

Edwards plays red neck culture, too.

:wtf: Are you for real? What does that even mean? Care too clarify that?

:rofl:

This is the US of A. There is no free lunch.

pfft

We should be thankful that "big dawg's" shameless Southern Strategy ... talking code to revive the Ghost of Lee Atwater's type dirty tricks did NOT *play.*

Obama has been *genuine* (not *playing* anyone but himself) but HRC's surrogates thought they could bring the white male mindset back to the days of "Jim Crowe." Thank God that such deplorable tactics are in the process of blowing up in their faces.

I've lost all respect for both Clintons. And yes, I steadfastly DEFENDED him through that horrific impeachment process. Now, I wonder if Bill Clinton wasn't so damn arrogant, if we would be saying "President Gore" right now? :shrug:

...only if he doesn't act too black, know what I mean, nudge, nudge, wink, wink?

Some things in this country really haven't changed in fifty years. The only way many whites will ever accept a black man is if he acts white. God forbid anyone besides black comedians should ever acknowledge cultural differences.

The way things have played out so far in this campaign has reminded me of a lot of things I'd tried to forget. I don't think I like us much. As a species, I mean...

and write....something else.

Or it's now or never..so vote for my husband?

if they *didn't*, that would be a bigger problem.

...and look where its gotten our black citizens. Or try to walk in someone else's shoes if one can.

The point here is that people want to be heard and "feel" like their representatives value who they are, understand their needs, and will represent them in such a way that their quality of life will improve. Who better than "one like them." Except when you are betrayed by "one like you." For example, Michelle Malkin, first generation Filipino and anchor baby, born to Filipino parents who "In 2004, she wrote In Defense of Internment: The Case for 'Racial Profiling' in World War II and the War on Terror, defending Japanese American internment by the United States Government during World War II and relating this theme to the contemporary War on Terrorism, taking some heat from Asian American civil rights organizations who had been uniformly opposed to this historical policy." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Malkin) And, Linda Chavez whom Bush nominated for Labor Secretary withdrew her nomination when "...after questions arose over an illegal immigrant who stayed with her and provided household help in the early 1990s. Chavez blamed what she said were the "search-and-destroy" politics of Washington." (http://transcripts.cnn.com/2001/
ALLPOLITICS/stories/01/09/bush.wrap/)