What Will The Neighbors Think?

Why a loss for Obumer is a win for America!

If you don't vote for Obama then you are a racist. We must elect Obama to prove to the world that we are not racist. Obama is such a superior candidate that if he looses it can only be because he is black. Blah, blah. Weisberg thinks he can guilt us into electing Obama. I say that we should defeat Obama so soundly so that the Democratic Party will never even think of electing such a radical, inexperienced, anti-American, Reverend Wright tolerant, unrepentant terrorist befriending, empty suit BLACK or WHITE.

Neither Obama nor McCain know squat about economics. They read scripts written by their advisers. The present housing/mortgage crisis was clearly caused by Bush's hand-off/all regulation is evil policies. Whoever wins the presidency this will change. However that will not help the present situation. It is bad and probably will be worse, and Obama will not be able to do much about it, even if he wins, which is highly doubtful.

WHO GIVES A CRAP WHAT CANADA OR MEXICO THINKS ! OR THE REST OF THE WORLD FOR THAT MATTER THE ONLY THING IMPORTANT IS WHAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THINK ABOUT THE PRESIDENT I WOULD RATHER HAVE A TOUGH MEAN OLD MAN THAN A SUGARBRITCHES ANYDAY !! GO McCAIN P.S. I HEAR THAT McCAIN IS VETTING HILLARY THAT WOULD BE A SWEEP FOR McCAIN !!!

LET THE GAFFS BEGIN IT HAS STARTED ALREADY OBAMA INTRODUCED BIDEN AS THE NEXT PRESIDENT !! LMFAO ! THEN BIDEN CALL THE U.S.A. OBAMA AMERICA! LOL THE GAFF FACTORY IS IN BUSSINESS AND THE REPUBLICANS HAVE YET TO OPEN THE WAR CHEST OF SPEECHES FOR EITHER ONE OF THESE IDIOTS WHEN THEY DO IT WILL BE LIKE A BOMB DROPPED ON OBAMA AND THE GAFFY VICE PRESIDENT CONTENDER !!

Oh please! Maybe they will just say that the US doesn't want an admitted cocaine user to be President.

It???s the economy and energy that???s holding him back. He thinks we should send hundreds of billions oversea instead of drilling for our own energy. Carter AND Gore speaking at the convention, both with no credibility on energy? Windfall taxes on Oil companies, ALL failed polices of the past when purports to be about change. Sound like old failed liberal polices from the 70???s.

There is nothing RACIST about being against this mulatto muzzie..
WE DO NOT NEED A MUZZIE PRESIDENT.....PERIOD.

Martin_gray...please spare me the LIBERAL TEARS, the crying and whining....you idiots put up a mulatto muslim as your standard bearer, so you must put up with what you falsely label as RACISM and BIGOTRY..

We want Americans to head our government, not muslims.....put up a REAL BLACK, and not a mulatto muslim, and then you can spread your accusations of racism

I have never been so ashamed of my fellow citizens as I have been reading this blog. I'm not a Muslim or black but it breaks my heart to see such hatred and out right bigotry posted. Osamaobama Jr.---you are the perfect example why the entire world hates us and wants us taken down a peg. If you are a McCain supporter, just say so. Don't hide out on the net spouting lies and idiocy simply because you and people like you are cowards. I bet you arent brave enough to say that foolishness in public, are you? Only in the anonymity of the internet can someone talk like that without taking any responsiblity. That crap might fly at your KKK meeting when your face is covered by a stupid white bedsheets, but in the real world, that racist, offensive, hurtful, and downright ignorant language would have you beaten by a mob. This isn't 1960 backwater Mississippi and the first Amendment can only shield you for so long. Wise up.

Mr. Weisberg, I agree with you completely. I have already heard voters saying that they wouldn't vote for Obama because he's black. Of course, they're the same voters ,who in a poll released today, couldn't identify Senator Biden - a senator for 35 years and chair of the Senate Foreign Relations committee! Not to mention a former Presidential candidate and former chair of the Senate Judiciary committee. I'm incredulous that some Americans believe that health insurance, a sane foreign policy, an end to a war we got into based on lies that is mortgaging our children's futures, and intelligent energy policies are considered liberal.

As a wm/62 and both a life long Democrat and active supporter of the civil rights movement of the 60???s who once saw my father spit on for giving his bus seat to a black woman, I truly resent this despicable example of the new radical left???s propensity to promote and twist racial politics and further divide the country.

It???s a given that just like religion, race is a factor in how people vote. That???s true for black???s and whites and all other ethnic groups as well. Something like 92% of polled black voters said they are supporting Obama either primarily or solely because he is black and acknowledged they had little or no understanding of his politics or experience. So if Obama wins, could it be said that he did so because of racial prejudice? Perhaps Weisberg has been so self-absorbed that he???s missed some of Obama???s own racial baggage: Black Liberation Theology and his relationship to his ???spiritual mentor???, the venom-spewing racist cleric Jeremiah Wright. Double standard, Jacob?

Obviously it???s inconceivable to this hack commentator that ???older white??? voters would pass on Obama for any other reason than his skin color. Well Jacob, here???s a concept you probably don???t want to consider but I suggest might be a little closer to fact. Many older white voters have enough experience (there???s that dreaded word again) to recognize that Barack Obama has none and has offered up very little substance to support his lofty promises of change. Inspiration and hope are wonderful but by themselves is not enough to sway thinking Americans especially those of us who are old enough to have lived through the Carter years and can see the similarities. Been there, done that and no thanks!

So Jacob, if you really want to explain away Obama???s lackluster poll numbers, you, like Obama, might want to focus on the real issues.

This article is outrageoius. No one should NOT vote for Obama because he is black. Likewise, no one should VOTE for Obama becuase he IS black. To insinualte that America would have missed the opportunity to put the owrst behind us because we have not elected a black person is outlandish. Put a qualified black in his spot, and he would probably easily get elected. This piece misses the entire point,a nd focuses on all the wrong things.

Absolutely nonsense to think we should vote for Barack Obama because there was slavery in America approximately 150 years ago. A white person with no more experience or credentials than Obama has would not even think about running for president of the USA. Geraldine Ferraro was 100 percent accurate when she said Obama would not being doing as well in the primary if he wasn't running as a black candidate. Everybody is sick of the race card being played to get Obama elected. Also, what happened to the U.S. law against paying for the crimes of your ancestors? Those of us alive today did not own any slaves, why should we pay for what happened at that time? Besides the slave market was ran from Liverpool, England. You don't see England electing a black leader because they operated the slave market. One other point, if I were a black person, I would consider myself extremely lucky to be living in America today instead of Africa regardless of how I got here. The only way to put racism behind us is to start treating everyone equal regardless of race, sex, age, religion, etc. I am going to vote for the person I think is the most qualified and the person I trust the most, and that will not be Barack Obama even though I am a democrat. Barack Obama is not a leader and I do not trust him to keep his word about anything he says, and I do not trust him to lead America in the right direction.

As a wm/62 and both a life long Democrat and active supporter of the civil rights movement of the 60???s who once saw my father spit on for giving his bus seat to a black woman, I truly resent this despicable example of the new radical left???s propensity to promote and twist racial politics and further divide the country.

It???s a given that just like religion, race is a factor in how people vote. That???s true for black???s and whites and all other ethnic groups as well. Something like 92% of polled black voters said they are supporting Obama either primarily or solely because he is black and acknowledged they had little or no understanding of his politics or experience. So if Obama wins, could it be said that he did so because of racial prejudice? Perhaps Weisberg has been so self-absorbed that he???s missed some of Obama???s own racial baggage: Black Liberation Theology and his relationship to his ???spiritual mentor???, the venom-spewing racist cleric Jeremiah Wright. Double standard, Jacob?

Obviously it???s inconceivable to this hack commentator that ???older white??? voters would pass on Obama for any other reason than his skin color. Well Jacob, here???s a concept you probably don???t want to consider but I suggest might be a little closer to fact. Many older white voters have enough experience (there???s that dreaded word again) to recognize that Barack Obama has none and has offered up very little substance to support his lofty promises of change. Inspiration and hope are wonderful but by themselves is not enough to sway thinking Americans especially those of us who are old enough to have lived through the Carter years and can see the similarities. Been there, done that and no thanks!

So Jacob, if you really want to explain away Obama???s lackluster poll numbers, you, like Obama, might want to focus on the real issues.

The neighbors are already laughing their asses off. We are the laughing stock of the world because of our arrogance, greed and militant expansionism. We are already in decline, have been since Nixon.

We refuse to provide basic healthcare for a significant portion of our population, can't manage a straight forward popular vote election, can't figure out how to educate our youth beyond the basics.

We have consistently betrayed beliefs we supposedly hold dear, such as separation of church and state, the separation of powers, freedom from search and seizure, and that all are created equal.

We are already in decline - not even the election of a man such as Obama will fix that. Should he win, the racial backlash will be vicious; should he lose, the racial backlash will be vicious.

Our experimentation with democracy is failing - perhaps the British will take us back?

Then again, why would they want to?