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  • Posted By: mikebinder @ 08/11/2008 12:31:10 PM

    It is all as you say Anna with the exception of the line you left out. Obama's line 'they are going to come after me with...' 'They are going to tell you..' That's what you left out and that's where Obama crossed the line and played the race card. He used the 'they' in a worse way yet. He incited and insinuated what was his not to insinuate .

    Mike

  • Posted By: The man who saw tommorow @ 08/11/2008 12:25:15 PM

    Good write-up. I am amazed that a white person could write this. Anna, It takes courage to to write this kind of article, and you have it in abundance!
    I am a white person too, and I totally agree with you!!

  • Posted By: blkconservative @ 08/11/2008 12:17:35 PM

    I guess we are to assume that if you have the skills for a job that your skin color does not count in America? I mean we don't need Affirmative Action. Do we? No, if I attended the best school in America and excelled above all of my peers, I should have no problem at all getting the same job as my white counterparts.

  • Posted By: vbarbarino @ 08/11/2008 12:16:39 PM

    Does anyone remember when Newsweek actually employed journalists? This reads like whiny editorial in a leftist college newspaper. Just to make things clear clear, when a candidate for President of the United States says, "There gonna try and scare you,... and they'll say, 'Did I mention he's black?'" That is injecting race in the worst way. He is basically saying, "well, they haven't said anything racist yet, but there thinking it, because they're Republican, you know, racists." It is just pathetic. Especially from someone who has achieved his lightening fast poitical rise due largely to his race. If Obama truly wants to show that he is a "change" from the typical politician, he should lay off of the race-baiting.

  • Posted By: MrSayIt @ 08/11/2008 12:16:16 PM

    Most of these comments are posted by complete morons. White America please reevaluate your responsibility to humanity. You cant keep causing conditions that dessimate whole races and then tell them to get over it. Lets go down the list.. Indians ( slaughtered) Korea (slaughtered) Iraq(slaughtered) Mexicans ( stole there land renamed it ,oh and dont forget -slaughtered) Japan ( nuclear slaughtered) Russia ( slaughtered using Afghan fighters) etc. I could keep going but Im hoping you self righteous victims possess pattern recognition. So most of these comments are spoken like true Ku Klux Klansmen (dumb ones at that) The comment about look at the stats.Dummy look at your own stats. If blacks should be watched more closely because of criminal statistics, then whites should be watched just as closely for genocide. I mean after all........... you get it!!!
    . And somehow this reaoning that blacks will complain and use excuses for a thousand years. HahHAha......Its been predicted in Aryan myth as well as in the current scientific community that the Aryan race will be genetically annihilated in less than 75 yrs. The world waits for this salvation. The WORLD communities are aware of how youve treated your fellow man. So you all should be scared, it is no wonder that Americans are so easily frightened and are so ready to "fight" against terror. You have been the terror to many civilizations. Oh and I am black ,and for the ignoramuses that say "Why dont you go back to Africa blah blah" Well its kinda hard .............thats already been stolen to....Hahah but I get it ,just get over it right???? The Gansta persona thats imitated in Hip-Hop stems from you alls history imitating the utter disregard for human life, women, private property, sovereignty, cultural diversity. So when you can go kill somebody to take control of their natural resources or because they "might be capable of inflicting harm" and lie to achieve this. My ignorant fellow Americans.......thats Gangsta!!!!

  • Posted By: wgt0312 @ 08/11/2008 12:13:01 PM

    This is the most rediculous article. To say that affimitive action and the " good old boys club" are the same is catigorically false. Here is the diiference. Affirmitive Action applies to all African Americans and other minorities. The good old boys club only applies to select members of the caucasian race. Not all whites belong to this elite level or have the connections to be able see any benefit from these institutions. However, if you are a minority you simply get the benefit based on the color of your skin. There sould be no quotas based on race or ethnicity. the best person for the job should be able to be hired. PERIOD. We are all Americans, we are all free to make our own choices, we are all able to suceed and we are all able to fail. There are hundreds of thousands to millions of Low Income - working class whites that have no access the the good old boy system you mention in the article. So, if a caucasian and a minority that come from similar economic background and hold similar qualification for the job applied, the minority has a distict advantage because of the color of their skin through affirmative action. This is simply race based hiring and it is wrong. As for Barack Obama and John McCain and the Job of President of the United States. John McCains credentials for beeing elected Predident far outweigh those of Barack Obama. The number of years is public life on a national level are no where close for Obama. His abiltiy to be an independant thinker is questionable. He has voted party line over 95% of the time and has never lead any bipartisan propsition into law. So who is really practicing race based job selection. The white voters who are split 50/50 between Obama and McCain or the 95+% of African Americans voting for Obama based on the color of his skin even though his experience and qualification for the job is in question? My take on the matter is just like in the real world, where the minority has the advantage based on the color of their skin through affirmative action. Barack Obama has the advantage based on the color of his skin in conjuction with the african American's obvious incination to vote skin color. I know there will be a few comments on how I am a racist and nothing could be farther from the truth. Racism, both ways is for people who feel thay cannot compete any other way. I am a competitor, I will compete for a job I want and I have no plroblem loosing that job to a person of any race as long as they have truely out performed me. However, to be more highly qualified and lose out becasue an employer is forced to meet a quota is blantantly a racist policy.

  • Posted By: SPORTLOCK09 @ 08/11/2008 12:06:12 PM

    Isnt it funny how we need Affirmative Action because people can't join the rest of America in the work force or earn grades in highschool required for grants and gov. aide. However, when they become successful they do not want Affirmative action to be looked at as how they got to where they are? Well, last time I checked, if you say you need it to succeed, then wouldn' it be the reason you succeeded? The hypocrisy is at an all time high around the US these days. Whats next? Obama didn't pull 94% of the black vote against a CLINTON democrat because he's black? LMAO

  • Posted By: Webspin @ 08/09/2008 5:22:15 PM

    Tough to be black in America??? I and 100's of thousands of whites were refused employment just 'cause we're white. Charities, governments, foundations and employers route billions to blacks every year. Miss led authors concoct 100's of stories and dozens of media outlets print them. If it's tough to be black it's hopeless to be white!

    • Posted By: macktn @ 08/10/2008 2:09:10 PM

      I've heard few people wish they were black so that they could enjoy our advantages. And where are these billions that have been funneled to black people--I must have missed my share.

      • Posted By: mistermcfrugal @ 08/11/2008 12:00:06 PM

        Maybe Mr. and Mrs. Obama got your share. They both got free rides to the best schools in the country. All this talk with the Mrs. about "college loans" is a lie. Her loans were for personal expenses. The schools and associated expenses can from racial preference programs.

    • Posted By: jabadramo @ 08/11/2008 11:40:39 AM

      No not 100's of thousand of whites refused jobs because you are white but because you are white men. Women, Asians, Latinos, Indians, and anyother race you can think of are benifactors fo affirmative action. Blacks have been passed up by many of these groups because whites like you realize that there quota must be met but think that blacks have some sort of atvantage. I know affirmative action doesn't work i have seen it in action.

    • Posted By: Cazador1972 @ 08/09/2008 5:55:56 PM

      Yeah sure, that's why 95% of CEOs and executives in this country are minorities, right? (Rolling eyes)

  • Posted By: m.nolan @ 08/11/2008 11:57:43 AM

    "The man" DID say, out on the campaign trail, that John McCain will try to make you afraid of me because I don't look like other presidents....that's what Barack said and now it's somehow McCain's fault? The LAST thing Obama should be doing is making sly, little references to his "otherness" yet he and his supporters have been doing that since last year. Sorry, Anna but your guy, a slick pol from the south side of Chicago is injecting race (along with his wife, his "spiritual mentor" and other black racists....that insane screed of Bob Herbert's last week was downright wacky....) more than any one else in this campaign. Once again you and your ilk are building a narrative that is in direct opposition to how the majority (please feel free to read "white") feels. You are not going to guilt the electorate into voting for an unprepared and increasingly, undesrving candidate by writing this kind of inane trash. You should be out reporting on John Edwards and who paid off his mistress, not keeping the "race-guilt" argument going. It will backfire. Also, did you see the polls that say 55% of Americans think media bias is a bigger problem in holding fair elections than big campaign donations? Why not write a "peice" on that sad fact.?

  • Posted By: HolyRoller @ 08/10/2008 3:18:55 PM

    My fellowbloggers....Are ya'll following the HOTTEST HUSSEIN QUESTION?????????

    The question of Hussein's Certificate Of Live Birth (COLB)........if not you are behind on your Fact Checking. Seems quite a few people have opinions. Look at the results of a Google..................

    ................Results 1 - 10 of about 482,000 for obama birth certificate........................482,000.........that is a BUNCH of opinions. I know most of ya'll are.....TOO LAZY or TOO SCARED....to look yourself.....so HolyRoller will give a helping hand. Here is a very recent "Israeli Insider" report.....................

    Claim: Obama's "birth certificate" forged with sister Maya's original
    By Israel Insider staff August 5, 2008

    Independent analysts, working separately, claim to have discovered that the original Hawaiian Certificate of Live Birth used in the fabrication of the Barack Obama "birth certificate" belongs to the Presidential candidate's younger half-sister, Maya.

    Examining the high resolution image originally posted by the "Daily Kos" left-wing blog and subsequently claimed as authentic by the campaign, and posted in lower resolution on the campaign official "Fight the Smears" website, at least two analysts have been able to independently discern the name "Maya Kassandra Soetoro" from artifacts left behind in the process of forging a new fake document for Barack from an image of Maya's original document. Additional confirmatory information, such as her birthday and the nationality of her father have also been resurrected. A full report documenting all details is to be published in the coming days. Israel Insider has not yet seen proof that would validate the claim.

    The dramatic claim comes just a day after a forensic specialist, posting on the Texas Darlin blog under the name Techdude (his real name is known to Israel Insider), announced the discovery of the identity of the original owner of the COLB document used in the forgery but would initially only indicate that it was a woman born in the 1970's. However, he provided enough clues to enable another graphic specialist (screen name KG) to independently reproduce the incriminating evidence. (Techdude had said that he wanted to give the guilty parties time to confess to the forgery, but also to allow independent confirmation of his discovery. He even offered to pay for a trip to Vegas to the first person to discover the name and detail the method by which it was discovered.

    Ya'll need to keep your eyes open. Is this why Barry is in Hawaii??? Wonder when the Nation Enquirer is gonna break this???

    NOBAMA!!!

    • Posted By: Qeni @ 08/11/2008 11:57:05 AM

      Let's hear it for Holy Roller! You have an amazing aptitude for trivia, trivial pursuits, and entertaining rubbish. Most people have 1000% more intuition than you do. I recommend going to your local bookstore and picking up any self help book, or better yet, one on developing even a tiny bit of a sixth sense. Believe me, you could stand to get away from your Bible studies for a few minutes. Most of the people who voted for Bush did so because they thought he was a good Christian, and look what happened. RELIGION KILLS BRAIN CELLS.

  • Posted By: joe85 @ 08/10/2008 7:25:39 AM

    Okay john Mccain is the next president.the adulterer who cheated on his first wife and dumped her for his rich trophy wife,the baffalo beauty Qween!!!.
    he thinks he owns this country.maybe he does.But he doesn't own us.Just as he tears that hapless barack, we can tear him on the the internet, something he family connections can't control!!!.
    Who wants the last in his class as his or her president???.

    • Posted By: SPORTLOCK09 @ 08/11/2008 11:51:54 AM

      Obama cheated with a man!!!! LOL

  • Posted By: mistermcfrugal @ 08/11/2008 11:49:29 AM

    One other comment. We're supposed to believe that the so-called President Obama is "post-racial" yet he wants to reserve the right to play the race card when his polling dips. But doesn't the left realize that column like Quindlen's here, packed with lies and insults to common sense people, serve to only inflame racial considerations. If I was an Obama adviser, I'd tell shills like Quindlen to take another tack. Obama will lose if the public as a whole sees him as the "black" guy who will scream "Racism!" if he is criticized or if he encounters the kind of problems that normal politicians confront--like losing.

  • Posted By: paulte @ 08/11/2008 11:48:57 AM

    Race works both ways. Granted for the most part (except for affirmative action) it has been a big old negative for all black people. And that like life is not fair but that is the way it is. It's one thing to try and make things fairer for black people but not at the expense of white or Asian people.

    In this election cycle race is actually working to the benefit of Obama as Geraldine Ferraro aptly pointed out. Obama talks a good game, I'll grant him that much but his political philosophy stinks on ice. He has been rated the most liberal member of the Senate and for good reason. He had exactly two years of experience in the US Senate before he declared for President. Would a white person with his political philosophy and experience have been able to get the nomination? The answer is no; just ask Hillary!

    Obama is nothing but a completely self centered opportunist. The only thing he believes in is himself. He is the quintessential affirmative action candidate. Affirmative action may be running out of steam in America but it has been resuscitated in this Presidential campaign! Then you have the liberal mainstream media as his cheering squad and off he goes in the media doctored polls. The problem is that his lead in the polls shrinks to nothing when not just registered but likely voters are queried.

    Go, McCain go!

  • Posted By: blkconservative @ 08/11/2008 11:45:01 AM

    Actually NoQuarter and Larry Johnson have been proved wrong. Which goes back to either an attempt by conservative leaning people to hate or to destroy anyone that does not think like them... or it's because a black man has accomplished something that quite frankly most blacks do not think is possible. HI confirmed that the documented birth of Obama is real. Done deal, no need to argue about it. You will believe what you want, but I have seen both sides of the story and I'm going, "This is some silly stuff."

    Why can't you just say that his policy is bad. Why can't you just go down the line and pick it a part and say it's bad for the country. I can accept that. I have problems with his policy on several issues. No let's find out if his birth is a lie. Let's see what we can find out about him that has nothing to do with being president.

    Bush was a bad drinker, party animal, and dogded the war of his prime. But he is what's good for the country? Please. And that very RACIST use of a name is really sad. Very sad. And you wonder why so many people hate republicans. It's not policy that is hated, it's the true elitist way they treat people who don't look like them or think like them.

    And this is coming from a conservative politically minded guy, who pastors a church having gone to a conservative seminary. I'm so conservative that conservatives have remarked on it. And I AM BLACK. But all I see out of conservatives is hate that looks a lot like racism.... so so so so so sad.

  • Posted By: dmf883 @ 08/11/2008 10:57:13 AM

    Wow, with articles like this, it's no wonder that subscribership with Newsweek is declining rapidly, and advertisers are spending their money in other magazines. What a shoddy piece of "editorializing". The "Caucasian Card". The only candidate bringing race into the conversation is.......Barack Obama. The more people like Ms. Quindlan try to explain away, the worse he and they look. Poor article, very weak.

    • Posted By: SPORTLOCK09 @ 08/11/2008 11:44:20 AM

      Well actually, Mrs. Quindlan is married to a jobless black man and she's merely listing the reasons he gave her that he cannot gain employment. Man it's hard being a white man in America

  • Posted By: Qeni @ 08/11/2008 11:40:14 AM

    Funny that one highly enlightening article could produce so much hateful rhetoric. All you pessimists, remember that every single human emotion is based on love or fear. Look into a mirror, and ask yourself, "Am I going to spend my future living in my past?" Don't worry, your inner-human will eventually understand what this means if you presently cannot. Obama is the best choice for our country.

  • Posted By: mistermcfrugal @ 08/11/2008 11:33:46 AM

    This writer has worked for the New York Times too long to realize that a huge proportion of the public would disagree with almost every single thing she wrote. I guess we're supposed to believe that it is impossible for blacks to play the race card. Lady, that's going to be a hard sell! People know that you're just a liberal shill for President Obama. Normal people who have seen the race card played countless times in their lives know it when they see it. That is the reason for the so called "Bradley Effect." White people don't want to lost their jobs just because they think Obama is unqualified. No one wants the race card played against them! Indeed, if one were a little cynical, one could easily guess that this whole piece was written by Quidlen to "prove" that she is not a racist. Sad!

  • Posted By: Larryenderby @ 08/11/2008 11:30:29 AM

    As a right-of-center Independent voter, and paradoxically a support of Affirmative Action, I am somewhat disturbed by Ms.Quindlan???s purposeful attempt to convey the idea that Obama did not gain admission to Harvard Law School through an Affirmative Action program. Obama was admitted to both Columbia and Harvard, through Affirmative action programs, and Michelle Obama was admitted to Princeton and Harvard through Affirmative Action as well. Both Mr. and Mrs. Obama???s tuitions in Columbia, Princeton, and Harvard were paid in full by a combination of government and institutional grants, and not by the Obama???s. The college loans they refer to often were for expenses, and not for tuition. These facts, which Ms Quindlan, is certainly aware of, would certainly prove that Affirmative Action can and does produce remarkable results as it did with respect to the Obama???s. But clearly Ms Quindlan has determined that celebrating this achievement may somehow slow down the advancement of her ultimate political agenda which is the election of Obama to the White House

  • Posted By: TMTMTM @ 08/10/2008 8:58:38 AM

    This reporter simply lets Obama get away with the innuendo that he "didn't check the box for race" in an application either to Harvard Law or for the Harvard Law Review. What ever happened to checking the facts? Obama has refused to release his college transcripts, LSAT scores, or anything that might call his academic record into question. Did it not occur to Newsweek to ask Obama why he's hiding this information?

    • Posted By: jabadramo @ 08/11/2008 11:28:22 AM

      Obama has touted his graduating magna *** laude from Havard that is information the is easy to confirm. You do not graduate magna *** laude if you are not in the top of your class.

  • Posted By: HolyRoller @ 08/11/2008 1:52:33 AM

    From NoQuarterUsa.net...Larry Johnson........

    Obama's Impending Pearl Harbor »
    By Larry Johnson
    Email: larry_johnson@earthlink.net
    Site: http://NoQuarterUSA.net

    After a very productive time (working, not playing) in Hawaii, I believe that the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor is an apt metaphor for what awaits Barack Obama if he becomes the Democrat's official nominee. Michelle's "whitey" tape and the controversy over his birth certificate are the least of his concerns. Opponents of Obama and some proponents of McCain have acquired information that will rapidly erase any memory of the audacity and perfidy of John Edwards.

    The surprise attack by the Japanese should not have caught the US fleet at Pearl Harbor unawares. There were advanced warnings that people in key positions ignored or shrugged off as unimportant. Well, guess what boys and girls? Similar warnings are now in the hands of the Democratic leadership and they are choosing to ignore the flashing red lights that signal danger ahead.

    Just today, courtesy of the Rocky Mountain News, we confirmed that Barack aka Barry Soetoro Obama was a citizen of Kenya since 1963. Barack has yet to stipulate when he renounced or relinquished that citizenship. That will be a distracting issue in the upcoming campaign. Americans don't want to elect a Kenyan as President. It is that simple.

    But then there is the Indonesian problem and his Hawaiian birth certificate. Read the rest @NoQuarterUsa.net

    NOBAMA!!!

    • Posted By: jabadramo @ 08/11/2008 11:08:31 AM

      If you believe this kind of stuff you need to repeat primary school education. It is a well known fact that you have to be a natural born citizen of the US to be President. There is not question of Obama's birth ceritficate that is a proven lie. If Kenya wanted to issue his citizenship there is nothing illegal about that the US is one of the few countries in the world to allow dual citizenship.

      • Posted By: HolyRoller @ 08/11/2008 11:26:54 AM

        sorry jabba.....according to NoQuarter and Larry Johnson (check his credentials...you might pee on yourself) the posted C.O.L.B.'s were falsified. Analysis was confirmed by TWO separate technicians, and full disclosures will be available this week. Why were they faked??? That is the $10,000,000 question. Bet we will hear a lot of excuses though. The bigger issue will be...show us the real one. What are you hiding, Hussein???

        .......................NoQuarterUsa.net..........................check it out. You will not go blind.

        NOBAMA!!!

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