Something struck me today about Obama - He treads where white politicians are afraid to go..

Even though it is hugely early, the other night new poll numbers were very favorable for Obama in Florida, Michigan and Ohio. This has got me thinking about a few things. For one, I find it so ironic that if Obama wins in November, it will be a huge blow to the conservative movement and how funny it is going to be that the conservative movement is going to be in turmoil over someone they have greatly feared and demonized over the past decades: a black man.

The next thing is something our white politicians in Washington should be ashamed of and with the exclusion of a handful of white politicians, Waxman and those like him, the progressive torch has been being carried the past seven years by mostly black politicians. BushCo has easily done more damage to this country and the US Constitution that ANY white politician should not have feared taking this asshole and his people on, and if they ended up on the losing end, well, they fought the right and just fight. But what they have chosen to do over these past few years is allow for black politicians to do their work for them, instead of working along side them.

Each day I see Obama in this race, I am amazed at his skills and political savvy, and not because he is a black man, but because he is a 46 year old person showing skills that far exceed his age and "experience." He has something that I think many my age have not seen in a long, long time and when this presidential election is over, I think we are all going to be amazed and might even miss a lot of it if we don't start appreciating the times we are now in.

beyond their own districts. Which leads one to wonder if the media ignores them because they're liberal or because they're black, or both.

credibility. But black liberals are treated worse. If you're black and you're a conservative, your career is made. Most of the black politicians from Colin Powell, to J.C. Watts and Mike Steele, to Armstrong Williams have all had successful careers because they are black conservatives.

Actually, given that African-Americans are almost never rightwing, maybe all those attempts to prove the intellectual superiority of one race over the other were valid after all. They just had it backwards.

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I'm White, so I can tell this joke.

and the hoodwinking and such.

Hard to fool us...which is why most Black folks were against going into Iraq, and most never did like Bush in any way, shape or form.

What Obama has done though, is bring a lot of Black Folks into the political arena....folks who won't back down. That's why he will win. Cause if anyone has experience at being front line soldiers, African-Americans have been tried and tested.

It's a beautiful thing.

You can say that again, Frenchie.

I still have photos of my parents participating in sit-ins. It seems somewhat surreal how the third rail (people organizing and demonstrating and taking risks) was able to destroy what was then the Jim Crow status quo.

If Democrats would have had the political courage leading up to the Iraq War (and support the resolution to count ALL of Florida's votes in the 2000 general election), this country wouldn't be in the pile of shit is in now. I can remember the members of the CBC on the floor of the House not getting ONE senator to sponsor that bill.

I'll never forget that scene in Fahrenheit 9\11
I deal with state politics a lot and I have noticed that I can always rely on the Black Caucus to show their strength and get behind what is right.

is that he believes it when he says "our time has come." I think he helps keep himself grounded with this sense of shared interest. It reduces the political self-interest examination.

His approach is different because his entire vantage point is different.

I posted in another thread that he is
- a man who may be president of the U.S. and is consciously, currently, genetically invested in the well being of people in Asia and in Africa.

Electing him president will most certainly change the world for the better.

just crap on you again and again --

You're buried under a pile of crap.

He knows you have to fling it back at these two-bit thugs harder and faster.

and a lot of integrity, and we need this guy as president.

Lets make sure he wins.

mark

to what black people knew about Bush all along