"Obama is leading but can we trust the polls?" Only if they show the black guy losing!

This is absolutely unbelievable. Throughout the winter and spring whenever a poll showed Hillary Clinton ahead, the media never questioned the validity of the polling but, instead hammered and hammered and hammered home the question, "Why isn't Obama connecting with voters?" When earlier polls showed McCain leading Obama or the two men in a dead heat, they asked ad nauseum, "Is this bad news for Obama?" and "Why isn't Obama beating McCain?"

But, lo and behold, now that the polls are showing Obama leading McCain - sometimes by double digits - suddenly, the polls are unreliable and the question is not "Is McCain in trouble?" or "What will it take for McCain to get back on track?" but it's "Can we really trust these polls?"

Actually, this isn't all THAT unbelievable. It is a common occurrence in this society when black folk come out ahead fair and square. Those who harbor either open or closeted bigotry just can't wrap their minds around the fact that a black person is actually doing better than a white person, so they come up with all sorts of justifications for why this is happening - none of which have anything to do with the superior performance of the black person.

We see this in the employment setting ("He was given special treatment"), we see it in education ("She's an affirmative action admission"), we see it in sports ("They're BUILT different!"). In other words, the assumption is that white folks are SUPPOSED to win and if a black person beats them, they must be cheating.

We even see it in our own take on world history. While slaveholders felt it necessary to erase as much of African culture as possible (since it's very hard to convince a man to be a slave if he knows he's the progeny of kings), they just couldn't do anything about Egypt since the evidence of the genius and foresight in that country was unassailable. So they just turned THOSE Africans into "Egyptions" and pretended that Egypt's not really part of Africa. They COULDN'T be African because we all know that Africa is the "dark continent" that had to be saved by westerners, so certainly the pyramids and sphinx and mummies, etc. can't be the product of THOSE people. So the answer was to just lop Egypt off of the continent and pretend it's in "the Middle East."

But the modern day deniers can't pretend that Obama's not really black (although some do try by pushing the "he's not black, he's biracial" argument), so they are stuck with trying to figure out how to diminish his accomplishments by pretending they really aren't accomplishments. Nevertheless, Obama is showing people that it quite possible - and in fact, quite common - for a black person to outdo a white person with sheer hard work, talent and intelligence. That's hard for some people to grasp, but I hope that the further we get into this campaign, more and more people will get accustomed to it. And maybe as we get into the late summer, early fall, we'll hear less, "He's ahead in the polls, but can we trust them?" and more "Damn, Obama leading in the polls because he is kicking ass and taking names and is one of the best we've ever seen!"

those in our society--and I speak specifically of those w/o computer/web access--who drink the MSM Kool-Aid every day and accept it as the gospel truth.

Bottom line: O's campaign needs to focus on this demographic.....

He was one of the few to give Shrub tough questions during press conferences. Now, he's spinning so hard for McLame on Race to the White House every night it's noticeable. Why, you ask? His entire paycheck from this show is dependant on a horse race. That's whay Obama leading by more than 5 points in any poll MUST be debunked. His paychecj depends on it.

America, every single day. I just pray that Obama pulls this out somehow, despite all the negativity.

But it's also the idea in their always trying to show Obama with a "problem." Every week he seems to have a new "problem" with some demographic. Once it was hispanics, then white working-class, then women, then Muslims. They're constantly trying to find a problem with him...which is why they play down the polls that show Obama ahead.

David Gregory is annoying as hell and looks like a troll or something else.

the Bloomberg/LA Times after the Newsweek poll.

They made a push to delegitimize these polls. The Corp. Media bit and took it hook, line and sinker. No shock there.

The other big meme the McCain camp and GOP is pushing is that Obama is just a typical politician - blah, blah, blah.

I hate the MSM.