Here’s what The Washington Post’s Richard Cohen has to say about why Obama will lose the general election:
I acknowledge that some people can find nonracial reasons to vote against Obama — his youth, his inexperience, his uber-liberalism and, of course, his willingness to abide his minister’s admiration for a racist demagogue (Louis Farrakhan) until it was way, way too late. But for too many people, Obama is first and foremost a black man and is rejected for that reason alone. This is very sad.
And here’s Hugh Hewitt taking Cohen apart:
This is, of course, nonsense. Obama has won the nomination by running as a hard left, anti-victory tax raiser with a circle of radical advisors, mentors and friends. He will lose the general because he really is a hard-left, anti-victory tax raiser with a circle of radical advisors, mentors and friends.
Exactly. And that’s why Obama will lose the general election.
Again — I wouldn’t vote for Obama if he was white. Because he’d still be all those other things that Hewitt listed.
He claims he is black, but that doesn’t make him black. That label he has chosen, has served him well in gaining advantages in college, law school, a job, and political advancement. It doesn’t mean anything in the real sense about what most Americans feel or think about racial matters. He’s a flaming LLL, a devout Marxist, an easy mark for our enemies, and he has a donk label after his name. Those are the reasons I despise him, and could never consider him for CIC.
His using the Jim Crow Laws “one drop of negro blood” as the standard for his racial identity is pathetic.
Left by no2liberals on June 3rd, 2008 at 9:20 pm