Do you think Barak Obama is a "clean" Black man?

Question

Democrat Senator Joe Biden said Barak Obama. "is the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,”

Do you agree with the Demorat Senator, or do you think that there have been other "African-Americans who are articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy" in this country before Obama?

Do you view Bidens comments as racist?

Are all liberals closet racists?

http://www.observer.com/20070205/20070205_Jason_Horowitz_pageone_newsstory1.html

Answer 1

definitely racist. I love these Democrat phonys that rant and rave about "diversity" as they drive to their lily white suburbs.

Answer 2

Certainly Biden was trying to compliment Obama, but he should have chosen his words more carefully.

Many African-Americans are articulate, bright, clean and nice-looking. Many other people are those things as well; those characteristics are certainly not confined to a single ethnicity, gender or religion. The point Biden should have made is that Obama is charismatic, polished, and brilliant among all people, not as a contrast to some stereotype of his race.

So, while I don't think Biden (and definitely not all liberals--who's generalizing now?) is a racist, I don't think a lot of Americans really know how to talk about race inoffensively. They're either too PC or too brash, don't think before they speak or are too afraid of being offensive to say anything at all!

While we're all entitled to our opinions, I for one am proud of Obama as an American and I think his candidacy will open up discussion on race issues in this country that too often get ignored or glossed over with lip service from politicians and little substantive action.

Answer 3

Colin Powell is an articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy, though Biden was probably talking about Democrats. I'd have to look at the context under which he was saying it to determine whether or not the comment was racist. It looks like a realistic evaluation of current presidential candidates. I don't think all liberals are closet racists. Saying ALL liberals or conservatives are anything is a pretty blanket generalization. However, I do think that someone who says that someone with a name like Biden or Obama sounds like a terrorist is a blatant racist and ignorant to boot.

Answer 4

Well... I think Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was rather articulate, bright, clean, and nice-looking. And he was very successful, too, besides the whole assassination thing.

There are plenty of bright and talented black people out there, but I think Biden may have meant that Obama is the first great one since Dr. King who encourages not only blacks to bring themselves up, but for people of all races to do it. He's all-inclusive.

But that statement by itself, without me trying to read into it - yeah, it's pretty racist. He probably barely knows any black people and doesn't realize how rude that sounded.

And, no, liberals aren't closet racists. At least, that's not part of the ideology. Just the opposite, in fact. I can't speak for everyone, but liberals are all about uplifting the minorities and spreading some of the wealth down from big corporations to the middle class. And about equal rights for minorities. Those views are anything but racist.

Answer 5

Well.... Try to always remember that everything always seems loyal, sincere, perfect and intelligent AT the beginning. Everything looks perfect at the beginning. After he got elected... he would remove his mask and show the 'real' beast inside him..... as everybody did before.

I think Hillary C would be not that bad even she is not the perfect one but considerably appropriate for that position.... I simply don't understand why people are so shallow and narrow and not able to see the real things beyond the border, beneath the surface. Why people are so superficial, only get impressed and amazed by someone's charm, loyalty, sincerity and intelligence only without looking what's behind 'his' curtain. Who is he? He just popped up to the surface in a sudden movement without ever being heard or known well before. AND suprisingly most Americans will vote for him. This phenomena is truly amazing. Americans will vote for something that are new and charming even they really don't know anything about him. They will vote blindly for Obama which definitely has a strong and firm Muslim background as his primal way of thinking and solving problems for everything.... without really really knowing the 'beast' within...... His background is Islam. His basic foundation is Islam. I am not degrading Islam as religion, not at all. Maybe this is the best way to make America become a biggest Muslim country. Then if so, so be it.
Always like this.... Also already happened many times in Bush periods. When Americans would be able to see things in a profound and thoughtful way? Americans always not being able to see things beneath the surface. I could do the same, all I have to do to win Americans' sympathy is just simply be nice, loyal, sincere and kind to everybody then you'll be accepted no matter what is inside my heart if I plan to shatter the reputation of USA worse after I got elected. :)

Obama to be honest I have to say that he seems so phony and fake.... He even has such a huge huge lack of experiences in politics. His loyalty, sincerity, and intelligence seem so superficial and made up only for making him win the election. Not true his inner loyalty, sincerity, and intelligence shine out from him. But he made it up like a wolf in a sheep clothing. Be aware of this tricky mischievous way to get something. Do not get impressed and amazed by someone's loyalty, sincerity, perfection and intelligence in the beginning especially when he wants to achieve something. Of course he shows all his bests in the beginning to win his ambitions. But after, would he stay and remain the same kind, loyal, sincere and intelligent as he promotes himself by now? I doubt it.... Be very careful.

Answer 6

Its unhappy to hearken to a Clinton supporter say issues so negatively approximately Barack Obama. i think of it sounds racist, even although actual she is basically declaring the certainty. Obama is "black". Is he inadequate?? As a candidate i think of he might nicely be inadequate. , and with out Clinton he might okay lose to McCain.

Answer 7

Good job, Wingshoot!
Americans have over a yr b4 elections to check out thoroughly the candidates and not go by the ones with million dollar fundings donated by ?

Answer 8

What's My Line—The Obama Game Show - Bill Wilson - By Bill Wilson, KIN Senior Analyst -


WASH—Jan 15—KIN-- He was born of a Muslim father and an atheist mother, who in his own words was "a lonely witness for secular humanism, a soldier for New Deal, Peace Corps, and position paper liberalism." She divorced when he was two years old and remarried another Muslim living in Indonesia, where the young man was educated in Catholic and Muslim schools in one of the most radical Islamic countries in the world. Though his father and stepfather were both Muslim, he tries to mitigate their religion by saying that by the time his mother married them, they had become atheists. After he was ten years old, he mostly was raised by his atheist grandparents.

The New York Daily News reports that he changed his life in his junior year of college at Columbia: he said he stopped doing drugs, ran three miles a day, and "He went to socialist conferences at Cooper Union and African cultural fairs in Brooklyn and started lecturing his relatives..." After graduating Columbia and then Harvard, he began working in Chicago supporting social programs. He recruited a local United Church of Christ Church on a government-sponsored community outreach. Around 1988, he joined the church because, he says, "that religious commitment did not require me to suspend critical thinking, disengage from the battle for social justice, or otherwise retreat from the world that I knew and loved."

The United Church of Christ is not to be confused with the "Church of Christ." The United Church of Christ, however, supports homosexual marriage, abortion, environmental justice, globalism, the International Criminal Court, the Palestinian movement and believes that Israel is illegally occupying the covenant land. The UCC seems to conveniently justify and legitimize his beliefs that social progressivism is equal to Christ and he writes in his memoirs that his own salvation was not an "epiphany." He reasoned after his daughter asked about life after death, "I wasn't sure what happens when we die, any more than I was sure where the soul resides or what existed before the Big Bang."

His name is Barak Hussein Obama. And he is running for President. He is courting evangelical Christians from the pulpit at Rick Warren's Saddleback church and by using public proclamations reported in the news media. Some Christians are saying he is a Democrat that evangelical Christians can support. Many have suggested that his Islamic and atheist upbringing combined with his social progressive membership in the United Church of Christ make him an outstanding presidential candidate. Others believe he may be a threat to the national security. Will the real Obama please stand up? Jesus said in Matthew 7:15, "Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves."
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Answer 9

yes, just look at jesse jackson, an al sharpton.

Answer 10

take those names BIDEN and OBAMA
you nearly have osama biden LADEN
BOTH MIGHT BE TERRORISTS