Southern Discomfort

Don't you know that General William Tecumsah Sherman was a closet Indian? His middle name is Tecumsah for pete's sake! You know you can't trust those with "shady" middle names, now can ya? :)
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Nowforthe truth (rather arrogant name), get a job. Your time at the computer is a bit telling...

I've even heard Democratic Senator Robert Byrd say he was votinng Obama, we all know that aint happening.

I agree with TN Girl that this is a difficult election because I get so frustrated with people who pay lip service that they have no problem with a black man for president, but they can come up with the most lame excuse of why they can't bring themselves to vote for Obama. How can anyone look at these two candidates and believe that John McCain is going to bring change? The only change he will bring is to make things even worse than they have been under 8 years of Bush. I am from Ohio, and I can see the "Bubba" voters in full effect, just like down south. I am so appalled that this country has not come any further than this. I am a teacher in a small rural district in the northeastern part of the state and I hear the same kind of talk from my students as the 12-year old boy in the article. It just makes me so sad. I don't think I can take another disappointment of living another 4 years with a republican in the white house.

I agree with TN Girl that this is a difficult election because I get so frustrated with people who pay lip service that they have no problem with a black man for president, but they can come up with the most lame excuse of why they can't bring themselves to vote for Obama. How can anyone look at these two candidates and believe that John McCain is going to bring change? The only change he will bring is to make things even worse than they have been under 8 years of Bush. I am from Ohio, and I can see the "Bubba" voters in full effect, just like down south. I am so appalled that this country has not come any further than this. I am a teacher in a small rural district in the northeastern part of the state and I hear the same kind of talk from my students as the 12-year old boy in the article. It just makes me so sad. I don't think I can take another disappointment of living another 4 years with a republican in the white house.

i'm convinced that this is why Obama can't seem to pull away from McCain. Even with all the problem in the economy, a misguided war, and disgraces like Katrina, there are Americans who see color in their hearts. Its not an overt kind of bigotry, that is too embarrassing. Instead, there is the latent remains of the "dixiecrat" mentality where people will say they aren't racist, but then whisper about "those people" in their white suburban christian neighborhood. Sad doesn't even begin to describe my meloncholy at such ignorance and social anomie.

I started to write something. But this is so sad; the ignorance is so bliss; why bother. Everyone should, no matter who is elected, petition the new administration and accomplish what the Civil war failed to do. Bust up this false union and divide the region up between the races and never interact again. That's fair, Right? I'm tired of fighting against stonewall minded individuals who can spew hate and still believe they are on God's side. No different than the people I've faced in this war, who hate ALL Americans because we are ALL Americans. 9-11 taught us nothing

Ill tell you what, bill4bigjohn hit this one straight on the head. We NEED a strong President. We NEED the kinda president that will jump right into a war, with good reason or not. We need one who thinks the world is out to end us. We NEED one who will shoot first and ask questions later. Look at the current president. More of this and our foreign policy will be even STRONGER. Wait, whats sarcasm?

Yeah bill4bigjohn is right on with his comment. We NEED a strong leader. We NEED a leader just like Bush. One who will jump into a war backed by false information, a shoot from the hips kinda guy. We NEED a president who will shoot first and ask questions later. This sort of leader is one who has really bolstered our foreign relations. We NEED another Bush. Kudos to y ou bill4bigjohn.

Obama is so weak Putin will have him cleaning his house on the weekends. I do not see that strong leader in BHO that we need. We need a strong President that will protect us and Obama just don't have it.

If what Gov Palen has is "Character" then I must have missed that day in school. Perhpas you mean she is a "character" - that I would agree with. Forget all the stuff about her sister and the trooper and the per diems and the cronyism and lying about the bridge to no where. Taking books out of librarys without reading them and teaching creationism in science class will take this country back to the dark ages. Look at wall street - look at the Iraq debacle - looks at a collapsing infrastructure. We need leadership not ideolgy that takes us back two centruies. Otherwise we all better learn to speak Arabic or Mandarin.

yes, if was Biden, president, and Obama, vice president, I maybe voting Democratic. But no, I am voting Republican.

Excellent article! I am an independent, and may have voted for Biden, if he were the nominee. However, I just do not trust Senator Obama (oh, he's a racist!). I don't have any "white guilt", as many seem to have. Senator McCain has character, as does Governor Palin. I often don't agree with many of their stances, but, at least, I know what they stand for! Thank you.

This is one big JOKE!! One other thing that bothers me is that McCain/Palin always criticizes Obama because he doesn't "stand up against his party." Why should he? The Democrats support universal health care, raising the minimum wage, rebuilding our infrastructure, bigger tax breaks for middle and lower income citizens, alternate energy tax credits, equal pay for equal work. All things Obama supports. Palin & McCain belong to the Republican Party, which no longer knows how to govern. Everybody needs to stand up to them. And really, McCain and Palin should be ashamed they only stood up to their party once or twice. The Republicans have blocked all the programs mentioned above. This is and others are nothing more than "made-up" argument and the press should call them out on it. But I doubt it!!!!

This is one big JOKE!! One other thing that bothers me is that McCain/Palin always criticizes Obama because he doesn't "stand up against his party." Why should he? The Democrats support universal health care, raising the minimum wage, rebuilding our infrastructure, bigger tax breaks for middle and lower income citizens, alternate energy tax credits, equal pay for equal work. All things Obama supports. Palin & McCain belong to the Republican Party, which no longer knows how to govern. Everybody needs to stand up to them. And really, McCain and Palin should be ashamed they only stood up to their party once or twice. The Republicans have blocked all the programs mentioned above. This is and others are nothing more than "made-up" argument and the press should call them out on it. But I doubt it!!!!

I'm white, grew up in Watts and spent years in the south as a kid. There is one simple problem here; the average white person has to come to grips with the reality of there being many blacks who are a lot smarter than them or anyone they know. Obama is smarter than me or anyone in my family (including the racists) and so what? I will proudly vote for him.

I live in TN. The very region he's talking about and if you don't see what he sees, if you live here, then you aren't looking. I've found myself as a lonely 50 yr old white woman in a sea of racists my whole life. I had black friends who couldn't come to my house because their parents were afraid they would bring the crosses to my yard. I see my life long friends believing in all the crap the right wing is putting out on Barack to scare them off. I only pray the rest of the country is more open minded than my neighbors.

As a TN girl, I read this story as I live it. I can't tell you how hard this election has been for me. I love Barack and can't understand my friends being so afraid of him. I am 50, not 20. I lived the same life they did, why do I see it so differently? My dad used to tell me that their blood was the same color as mine and that I could invite my black friends home for bday parties. They wouldn't come, afraid of the crosses they felt would appear if they did. I loved them as family, I still do. I guess I just thought everyone would have gotten over the racism by now, but they haven't. Out of all my friends, and they are all dems, except two, only two will vote for the greatest hope for this countries salvation since Kennedy. I'm so sad and afraid because I don't know if the rest of the country is any wiser. I pray they are. Three years ago I had 5 surgeries in 4 months, lost everything. My husband is an engineer. The counties around here have 10% unemployment. I just can't understand being afraid of a man with a sole like his. He was raised as a white man by white people, seems that would make the racists feel better.