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  • #16
    Agreed that for white voters I see it as a plus but not that big because most whites that weren't going to vote for him won't be affected by this.

    But for blacks I see it as a bad thing. I heard one black at work say that he heard the rev call Obama an Oreo. (so much for getting the story straight) This is not good, even though I can't see many blacks voting for McCain. But there are still quite a few blacks that worship the REV. Especially here in Chicago. (of course the chance of ILL going red is so long that even vegas wouldn't place odds on it)
    It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
    RIP Tony Bogey & Baron O

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    • #17
      Kerry got ~90% of the black vote. The idea that Obama could possibly have problems with that constituency is ludicrous.
      "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
      -Bokonon

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      • #18
        Rah: Oreo v. McCain. Advantage: Oreo.

        of course the chance of ILL going red is so long that even vegas wouldn't place odds on it
        Bingo. They may complain about it, but come on now.

        As for whites who weren't going to vote Obama anyway - ok, fine. But there are a lot of swing voters out there and most of 'em are white. It doesn't take all that much to swing an election (cough2000cough).

        -Arrian
        grog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!

        The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.

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        • #19
          PR stunt

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          • #20
            Jesse isn't that smart. But he is that bitter.
            It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
            RIP Tony Bogey & Baron O

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            • #21
              Originally posted by rah
              Agreed that for white voters I see it as a plus but not that big because most whites that weren't going to vote for him won't be affected by this.

              But for blacks I see it as a bad thing. I heard one black at work say that he heard the rev call Obama an Oreo. (so much for getting the story straight) This is not good, even though I can't see many blacks voting for McCain. But there are still quite a few blacks that worship the REV. Especially here in Chicago. (of course the chance of ILL going red is so long that even vegas wouldn't place odds on it)
              Point of information on the nuances of the lingo: What precisely is an Oreo?
              I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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              • #22
                Black on the outside, white on the inside.
                Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will, as it did Obi Wan's apprentice.

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                • #23
                  Similar in concept to a banana.
                  "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
                  Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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                  • #24
                    Re: Rev Jackson shows his class again

                    Originally posted by rah
                    Has there been a thread on this already. If not, I can't believe it.
                    I was pretty stunned there wasn't one last night, but I couldn't be arsed doing one myself...

                    Jesse's just jealous and that's all there is to it.

                    Also, I really don't see why it's been so over hyped - he was only saying he didn't agree with Barack...
                    Is it me, or is MOBIUS a horrible person?

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                    • #25
                      Re: Re: Rev Jackson shows his class again

                      Originally posted by Asher


                      I was under the impression that no one here gave a damn about Jesse Jackson.
                      The cake is NOT a lie. It's so delicious and moist.

                      The Weighted Companion Cube is cheating on you, that slut.

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                      • #26
                        Originally posted by Asher
                        Similar in concept to a banana.
                        So all this time, in all these polls, I've been voting for a back handed ethnic slur?

                        Awesome
                        John Brown did nothing wrong.

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                        • #27
                          Originally posted by Arrian


                          Rah - amongst white people, this will play well, I think. Jesse Jackson is, as you might know, not terribly well-liked in that particular demographic. Him ripping Obama (for essentially stating the obvious) is a positive. As for black people, the comments I've been seeing online about this are generally along the lines of "I appreciate what Jesse did and all, but gosh he's a bit of a relic at this point."

                          -Arrian
                          It's not like Obama could somehow not get 99% of the black vote, anyway. He doesn't have to actually please that demographic, he gets it automatically.

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                          • #28
                            Originally posted by Garth Vader
                            Black on the outside, white on the inside.
                            Well, his mother who birthed and raised him was white. I wonder how that will play.
                            I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                            • #29
                              The really sad part is how this points to the remaining bigotry still present in America.
                              I'm consitently stupid- Japher
                              I think that opinion in the United States is decidedly different from the rest of the world because we have a free press -- by free, I mean a virgorously presented right wing point of view on the air and available to all.- Ned

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                              • #30
                                Yeah, this does nothing but help Obama, especially because what Jackson was criticizing was Obama's call for black fathers to be more responsible. Now Obama looks -- to whites, but also to middle-class blacks and black women of all classes -- like someone willing to talk about hard truths rather than pander (and he needs that, because he's pandering right and left on other issues), and Jackson looks like a bitter has-been. Plus, he appears to whites like someone who thinks like them; he's playing the Bill Cosby card.

                                Huge win for Obama, and he didn't even have to do anything. He's got to be the luckiest politician ever.
                                "I have as much authority as the pope. I just don't have as many people who believe it." — George Carlin

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