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What might be Barack Obama's biggest liability in the general election?
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    I see most people think race will be Obama’s biggest liability, but I hardly think being half white will be that big an issue with the black voters :-)

    If race IS a problem it will likely be due to Wright’s anti-white influence on him for over two decades. The Rev. didn’t do him any favors.

    I believe lack of experience is his greatest problem, but that was not presented in the above list. Inexperience is not necessarily synonymous with youth. His website shows a lack of practicality or realistic views on the nation’s financial problems and solutions. He is not alone here‚ as none of the candidates has any real idea of what the average American is facing or how to deal with it.

    United States Posted by whattheheck on May 12, 2008 at 6:50 PM

    oh, geeze, the gop/clinton/msm ‘experience’ meme again. please turn off yer tee vee. wasn’t dubya an experienced governor of some backwater state?

    “due to Wright’s anti-white influence on him for over two decades.” gee, i’m surprised the corporate got-cha media hasn’t reported all the bad blood between obama and his mother’s family.

    “The Rev. didn’t do him any favors.” i’ve read this several times and it makes less sense each time. you mean his race-baiting a future president? i doubt most amerikans know anything of his sermons beyond the ‘alleluia’ closer the msm looped fer ya. what about the msm silence on mccain’s evangelical nutjob endorsers?

    i’ll tell what so-called-democrats are saying right now in west virginia because they were baited by clinton: “i’m not prejudiced, but i’d rather vote for a ‘real american’. i’m voting for john mccain.” another said: ‘i don’t know. i’ve heard he a muslim.”

    no, i chose race because that’s what it is. he’s a muslim (mole?) or he’s not a real amerikan.

    ‘lack of experience’ or ‘no real solutions to real problems’ is just high sounding rationalization for again voting against your own best interest and imaginary ‘free market’ answers to problems caused by unregulated capitalism, er, i mean the free market ...

    Japan Posted by hourglass on May 13, 2008 at 12:37 AM

    I put that down as:  “I disagree.”

    Right?

    United States Posted by whattheheck on May 18, 2008 at 3:41 PM
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