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• • 19 Feb 08
  • 3:29 pm

  Obama is clearly not black when he describes himself the way he did in his books and on the Tavis Smiley show in interview a few months ago. In fact he is everything but black, but offers numerous reasons why he is the long shot President by far - in identifying himself as he did. Whether he has enough faith in himself or whether Americans have faith in him may have changed with results of the primaries since that show was taped - but still it offers Republicans an air-tight case of why Obama should not be elected - that they …

  Posted to How Black is Obama?

• • 21 Feb 08
  • 1:50 pm

  I think whites don't know much about racism at all, and are conditioned to think every black person is the same, with the same background. That is as much nonsense as if every white person was looked at in that manner. It is an unreasonable fantasy. Obama's use of racial struggles to hype his candidacy is deceptive given his background and will set back racial progress rather than move it forward in America because he is using it only to get elected. He is an opportunist of the first magnitude.

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• • 18 Feb 08
  • 9:45 am

  Class is always a topic in America, regardless of its taboo status in public discussion. No candidates have mentioned it, however, except Huckabee, and it was a welcome addition to political discussion as a reminder of how important it still is - when he said that there are many who "measure a candidate" by his or her image as the person they work with, not the person who laid them off. Those sentiments are missing in most of the campaigns at this point in February 2008, and do not look like they will be reappearing, but form the underlying current and …

  Posted to Stay Classy, Huckabee