Will Obamba's Race Drag Down the Democrat Party?

Question

According to Democrat State Senator. Robert Ford, (D) of South Carolina, “If Barack Obama were to win the nomination, he would drag down the rest of the Democratic Party because ’he's black.’"

Is it true that Democrats believe a black man would drag down the party, and do you think it was wise of Hillary to lavish praise on this senator and accept his support?

http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2007/02/obama_camp_take.html

Answer 1

No...I think that Americans are way past that by now.

Answer 2

He is a thoughtful highly-qualified candidate. Hillary is part of the problem, the DLc and the Big Demo Machinery that spends money to please the corporations. There is no way I am voting for her. There's nothing wrong with Obama, hell he TALKS STRAIGHT and I find that very inspiring.

There's some good info on HuffPo:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/02/21/hollywood-campaign-brawl_n_41758.html

As for the South, either they will come into the next century or stay in the Civil War era as far as I'm concerned.

Look at McCain! He just said that Roe v Wade should be promptly overturned! What a joke. What an anachronism!

Answer 3

I think the democrats are taking a major risk here. People are tired of Bush policy, and therefore republicans in general, so the democrats are almost guaranteed a victory. But having their two major candidates BOTH from minority groups could make it a very close race, because, sadly, many people will have trouble accepting either a black person or a woman in the nation's top office.

Whatever happened to the idea of John Edwards running for President?

Answer 4

I believe Obama will energize the party and being black is not an issue to the majority of Americans.

I know Republicans are already attacking him for being Muslim.

I think Hillary will be more of a detriment the Democrats.

Answer 5

What Ford said has more truth in it than people want to believe...If people were to tell the truth, most would not accept a black man for the presidency....

As for as Obaba being qualified for the Presidency ? Not hardly... He is no more qualified than I am...

Just because he is a well spoken pretty boy does not put him into that qualified catagory....

Obama's rise to popularity reminds me of when Julian Bond came upon the scene... Look what he turned out to be.....

Answer 6

I don't see how it would any more than when Al Sharpton, or Jessie Jackson ran. He speaks with intellegence and his political experience should be all that people should be concerned with. Is he the right person for the office of the president? That is what you should ask. I don't know yet, how about you? If Colin Powell ran for president, would his race drag down the Republican party?

Answer 7

Yes, I believe it will cause the democratic vote to swing toward the republicans because America is not ready for either a woman or black president.

Answer 8

Republicans in '08 because of Obama, and Hillary.

Answer 9

I am a Republican and I do not think so. I do not believe he is qualified but like Hillary even less. I think Rudy will win.

Answer 10

I think it was stupid of Hilary, but that's Hilary! Read on:

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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