How Long Will It Take To Get An Obama Holiday?

[Sprayber]

Will they wait until he dies or will he have a holiday in his lifetime? Will they even wait until he is out of office?

[Kuciwalker]

[Naked Gents Rut]

A lot of schools canceled classes today, so this could be the first of many Obama holidays. How appropriate would that be? A holiday to celebrate Reverend Martin Luther King, followed by a holiday to worship the Messiah Rev. King came to prophesy.

[Ben Kenobi]

Didn't King foresee a time when a man would be judged not by the colour of his skin, but the content of his character?

96+ percent of blacks voted for Obama. 'Nuff said.

[Tuberski]

White people have gotten there it seems. Black people, understandably, have not, yet.

ACK!

[Imran Siddiqui]

He was born August 4. And we need a federal holiday in August, so get it done

But probably after he dies. Bad taste to do it before that.

[GePap]

Ah, nice to see the cynics come out. Didn't you guys hear? The ground has shifted beneath your sad little feet.

Also, I wouldn't mind my birthday (8/4) becoming a holiday.

[Arrian]

96+ percent of blacks voted for Obama. 'Nuff said.

A similar percentage voted for Kerry. Something like 90%, IIRC. But I'm sure you know this, and have chosen to ignore it because it screws up your narrative.

-Arrian

[Boris Godunov]

96+ percent of blacks voted for Obama. 'Nuff said.

92% of blacks voted for Gore. 93% voted for Kerry. Neither was black, as far as I am aware. That a Democrat would get 96% of the vote post-Katrina isn't exactly a shock.

Your attempt to paint black people as racist is telling, though.

[GePap]

What amazes me is that 4% of Black voters thought for some reason that it made sense for a black person to vote for today's Republican party.

[Ben Kenobi]

A similar percentage voted for Kerry. Something like 90%, IIRC. But I'm sure you know this, and have chosen to ignore it because it screws up your narrative.

MLK voted for the republicans, which I'm sure you won't ever quote either, because it screws up yours.

I sincerely doubt that you'd see a 40-60 split regardless of party for black folks. Are you telling me that if the republicans ran a black man against Kerry that it would be a 90 percent vote for Kerry? Do you believe that 40 percent of black folks would ever vote against a black person running for president?

[Imran Siddiqui]

If its, like, Alan Keyes, yep.

If it was Colin Powell, no.

[Ben Kenobi]

Your attempt to paint black people as racist is telling, though.

If you can't take the heat get out of the kitchen.

If they want to call white people racist for not voting for Obama, then black people voting for Obama are just as racist.

[Boris Godunov]

If you can't take the heat get out of the kitchen.

What "heat" is there for me in you being a racist douchebag?

If they want to call white people racist for not voting for Obama, then black people voting for Obama are just as racist.

Who here said white people not voting for Obama was necessarily due to racism?

You started the racial stuff in this thread. Holy ****, you're delving to new lows.

[Boris Godunov]

MLK voted for the republicans, which I'm sure you won't ever quote either, because it screws up yours.

Even if true, this was before Nixon and his courting of racists with the Southern Strategy. Continuing with your near-total ignorance of American politics and history, I guess you don't know that the Republican Party of 40-50 years ago isn't nearly the same party that is today.

I sincerely doubt that you'd see a 40-60 split regardless of party for black folks. Are you telling me that if the republicans ran a black man against Kerry that it would be a 90 percent vote for Kerry? Do you believe that 40 percent of black folks would ever vote against a black person running for president?

Black people have had opportunity to support black candidates in the past, yet they didn't in anywhere close these kinds of numbers. Hell, they didn't even support Obama in the primaries until he proved he could win by defeating Clinton in Iowa. If it were about skin color, Alan Keyes would be the Senator for Maryland.

So long as moron Republicans continue to blame everyone but themselves for why black people have voted against them by 90+% for decades, they won't ever do any better with them as a voting bloc.