What Will The Neighbors Think?

So if I vote for McCain I'm a racist? This is why I hate liberals. You think a guilt trip is a campaign platform. "Vote for Obama! Prove you don't hate black people!" I don't like McCain or Obama as candidates for the most important job in the word - McCain is too experienced and Obama not experienced enough. But if the best reason you can come up with to vote for Obama is to assuage "white guilt" I'll vote for McCain by default. At least he doesn't have the AARP out there petitioning "Vote McCain! Prove you don't hate old people!"

No Mr Weisberg,
The exact opposite of racism. I and it appears many like me hold Obama to the same standards as everyone else black, white, green , purple , or blue. If any other candidate sat in a church such as trinity speaking of white theology and blaming all of their races problems on another race, they would have 0%, none, nil , nada, el *** chance of being elected president. So what is it? Do you really believe in equality or do you believe certain people should be held unaccountable for their actions and choices due to their race? Hope painting whites to be racist if they don't share your view on your candidate isn't the "BUMP" you mentioned Obama needed last week. Equality is holding EVERYONE to the same standards regardless of race. Or should equality come second to an opportunity to elect a man of color? Yup, it does sound like racism, but the wrong side pointing the fingers.

I love it when a Newsweek columnist posts a "race" article...the Obama supporters claim any and all objections to Obama is a consequence of racism, either overtly so or some subconscious desire to fear a black man in power.

If you had a shred of rationality you should know your never going to be able to brow beat or guilt people into voting for someone they don't want to vote for. Your setting yourselves up for a huge disappointment via Bradley Effect on the polls. If you honestly think McCain is tied because of racism, then you will have to accept the fact that some if not a lot of Obama's numbers are from Bradley Effect people, they say they will vote for Obama but when it comes time to vote will vote McCain....so the statistical tie right now is actually a McCain blowout!

"Race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now" -- Barack Obama

MARTIN_GRAY, why did the D.N.C. sell out Hilary???

Oh please.. if you are for Obama you might look for better arguments..
Our kids already are colorblind, it is the media that and of course the Obama camp that claims that everybody who is against him is a racist. Nice adaption of Bush-Rove's slogan that "if you are not with us you are against us" implying you are a terrorist . It worked for a while in both cases.

Actually, unless you believe the Fox network to speak only the gospel, Senator Obama is known to be a Christian. You cannot judge him by a father that he almost rarely saw.

This is not the time for racism or bigotry, it the time for us to finally mature as a nation and move forward in this century.

Biden brings "politics as usual to the Obama camp," including a 38 year old son (Hunter Biden), who just so happened to have earned $380,000 in the first six months of this year, according to federal records.

When old man Kennedy and the clan hit Denver you first time voters can respond with the Obama mantra of "change" and "yes we can!" Too funny!

I do not hate Obama and I am not a bigot. It makes me mad as hell to read that anyone who opposes Obama must be a racist, as the author of this article states, or a bigot, as some of the comments claim. Both of these are hogwash. Normal logically thinking informed people, democrats or republicans, can oppose Obama based on his record, or more precisely, the total lack of any credible record. Not to mention the fact that he never in his carrier won a campaign by honest means. This includes his primary campaign against Hillary Clinton. If Obama loses the election it will NOT BE because we old white folks are racists. He will lose the election because he totally failed so far to convince most of the Hillary supporters that he is willing to include them in his democratic party. He and his supporters seem to believe that by winning the nomination, mostly by cheating at many of the caucuses, is enough to gain the respect and vote of all democrats. He may just find out that this is not the case.
Having said this, I may still vote for him, because having McCain in the White House is worse than having a democratic pretender there. But, I wish we had chosen a better candidate, and we clearly had a much better choice: Hillary. I firmly believe that it is time to form a true Liberal Party, in the British tradition, where middle-of-the-road democrats and republicans could find a home. Let the right wing evangelicals control the republican party and the ultra left move-on/KOS/HuffPost folks control the democratic party. The majority is in the middle, but presently has no representation in our two party political system.

WHY IS IT A SURPRISE THAT ROUGHLY 30% OF HILLARY'S VOTERS IS GOING WITH McCAIN?

This should not be a surprise. Exit polls taken after numerous democratic primaries showed 10%-to-20% of those voting for Hillary, said they would never vote for a Black man as POTUS. These are not my words. These are the responses given to exit pollers as they queried voters exiting the polls. It is only logical that if 15% of her voters freely acknowledged Obama's race as the reason they voted for Hillary, then you can safely assume a matching 15% felt the same but did not publicly admit it. In addition, 10%-to-30% of Hillary's voters were primarily GOP crossover voters and Reagan Democrats, that acknowledge to polling people that they were planning to vote GOP in November no matter what.

With these two facts unhidden and publicly available, why is it a surprise that nearly 30% of Hillary's voters are supporting McCain? Duh?

With 20%-to-30% of Hillary's voters acknowledging during the primary they never planned to vote Democratic in November's General Elections, is it not disingenuous for Hillary to claim she has 18-million cracks in the ceiling. Really? With 20%-to-30% never planning to vote for Hillary in November? Is it really 18-million "sincere Hillary supporters", or is 18-million minus 3.6-million crossover voters causing havoc in the democratic primary?

Racist?

Whites who wont vote for Obama due to race 5%

Blacks who wouldn't vote for Hilary Clinton for god knows why 95%

Racist? Sorry mister editor, but the numbers reflect a different story.

Could someone give me an example of even one new idea that McCain has proposed? No, all his solutions are the same ones that have been offered in the last eight years. As a country we can't afford to continue on this failed path.

Wake up, we live in a global community, we need a man with a global vision. Barack Obama offers that hope. John McCain does not.

If McCain is elected, the shame I will feel for my country is beyond measuring. The impeachable group running our country now will have won again. Those of us who have everything to lose will continue to lose and our country will continue to decline in jobs, resources, and status in the world.

Over the past 15 years, it is amazing the venom spewed at Hillary Clinton by Republicans but it appears the only force in America stronger than sexism is racism. To hear Republicans suck up to Hillary supporters is astonishing. The fact that some Hillary voters would fall for it is revolting. Obama and Hillary have minimal differences on most issues. How could supporters of one choose McCain over the other?

And so, to prove that we are not a racist nation, we're all supposed to lie down and vote for a guy who is not fit to hold the most important job in the world.... That he's gotten as far as he has on the little he has going for him is a testament in itself. Stop trying to paint the white population as racist and clinging to the past. It's a disgrace, but it's pretty much what one expects from your publication.

Jacob Weisberg, the author of this article, misses a very large point: Barak Hussein Obama is only qusai-American. Both his natural father and his step-father were Moslems. Obama lived in Indonesia where he attended a Wahabi Moslem school and his religion was listed as Moslem[Muslim]. He also lived for a time as a child in Hawaii - not a place where a boy with essentially foreign origins would be likely to absorb American values. Literally, one-half of his family, his natural father's family, are Moslem and live today in Africa. A half-brother of Obama's was interviewed on TV recently. He lives in a tin shack and was obviously given some new clothes to wear for the interview. Obama has associated for many years with people who hate the USA. His wife admitted publically that only now for the "first time in her life" was she proud of the USA. She said this only after Obama was running for president. Obama is not a real American. He is a quasi-American - apparently born on our soil, but not of our soil.

Thank you for having the courage to discuss an issue that most want to hide from. I have older relatives who self-identify as Democrats and who have railed against Bush and company for the last eight years; but suddenly find that they can't support the Democratic candidate. I am certain that the honest among you will admit that you know people just like them. When challenged, they fish around for an excuse - inexperience, Rev. Wright, etc. but were heard to claim during the primaries that they wouldn't vote for no woman or no n-------.. Since the days of Kennedy and LBJ, it has been made clear that the Democratic party was not the place for racists and many, particularly in the south, gravitated to a new safe haven - the republican party. Many working class economic democrats, like my poor misguided relatives and SOME Midwestern and Appalachian Hillary supporters , seemingly never got the memo. It is tragic that America is still too racist to make the right call. And for those of you who have had difficulty interpreting this clearly written article - NO, the author is not saying that EVERYONE who will vote against Obama is a racist - there are those who hold traditional republican views and have an HONEST disagreement with Senator Obama on issues such as foreign policy, health care, women's rights,etc. What he is saying is that that in this, the land of the free and the home of the brave, all too many so-called Americans are so afraid of our past and our future that they will let a mean-spirited anti-american racial bias decide their vote. And yet, we continue to hope.....