What If Obama Loses?

All I hear is "OBAMA IS BLACK AND US BLACK FOLKS WANT HIM ELECTED!" Seems to me that if black folks want to be counted as equal in this fine country, they ought to spend time educating themselves on issues and Obama's character rather than simply voting on his skin color. I can tell you that America is sick to death of hearing about "BLACK RIGHTS" and all the demands and screaming and yelling about race. If black people truly want to be counted as equal, then GET AN EDUCATION, keep yourself off wlefare, get a job, and stop gangs and teen pregnancy! Get a clue - you'll NEVER have equal rights until you learn to do the right thing in life and stop demanding that everything be handed to you on a platter!

This article underscores precisely why Obama's candidacy would be problematical even if he were qualified to hold the Office.Geraldine Ferraro was exactly right, a white candidate with his meager accomplishments would not have been seriously considered in the first place and his media shills are now preparing the ground so that if he loses, it will be because of the racist public.It is obvious now that until the black community matures,the nomination of black candidates will be an extremely problematical proposition

IN MY OPINION: I SAY IT THIS WAY IN ORDER TO QUALIFY MY FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND OF THE PRESS. IF SENATOR OBAMA BEAT SENATOR CLINTON, A SUPER LADY, A MILLION TIMES BETTER AND MORE QUALIFIED THAN THAT LADY FROM THE SMALLEST STATE IN THE UNION (POP), THEN HE WILL BEAT McCAIN HANDS DOWN. WHY? I BELIEVE THAT THE REPUBLICANS HAVE TAKEN FROM THE POOR TO GIVE TO THE RICH UNDER THE EXTREMELY DISLIKED BUSH ADMINISTRATION. AND I BELIEVE THAT THE RIP OFF WENT AS FAR AS INCLUDING THEIR OWN PARTY MEMBERS: A WHOLE LOT FROM THE MIDDLE CLASS! THIS IS WHAT I CALL GREED WHICH LEADS TO SELF-DEFEAT. THEY LOST INSIGHT INTO THE DAMAGE AND TO WHOM THEY WERE CAUSEING IT. IN MY OPINION, SENATOR McCAIN WAS IN THERE WITH THEM: HE DOES NOT WANT TO TAX THEM! WHY? THEY ARE HIS FRIENDS! McCAIN CLAIMS TO BE A MAVERICK, I BELIEVE THAT IS COW. HE IS LYING. REMEMBER THE OLD DEVIL ADAGE: ONE DEVIL WILL NOT CAST ANOTHER DEVIL FROM THE SAME HOUSE. IN OTHER WORDS, McCAIN WILL NOT TURN AGAINST HIS BUDDIES, EVEN THOUGHT HE TALKS AS IF WILL. ALL HE HAS TO DO IS TO LEAD THE VOTERS TO THINK THAT HE WILL. AFTER THE ELECTION, THE FOX WILL NOT FOLLOW THROUGH.

BEWARE: DO THE MATH- 8 + 4 = 12 HELL NO! 12 NO! HELL NO! 12!
VOTE DEMOCRAT: OBAMA/BIDEN, THE BEST CHOICE, THE ONLY CHOICE.
WHEN THE DEMOCRATS WIN, THE PEOPLE WIN!

I find it humorous that the wingnuts in this posting continously refer to Black crime. Last time I checked, we were all about to be mugged for $700 Billion by a bunch of white guys.

To pipelin/american soldier and others. You have clarified why Obama should be president. McCains
experience that you speak of is rooted in special interest and lobbyists. He has been a strong backer of
deregulation and basically voted with the republican administration that has now put our country in the
worse position since the Great Depression. We are weak financially and have lost our ability to manufacture.
It has all gone overseas. Our auto plants are really assembly plants for products made everywhere else.
As for blacks being fearful that someone who represents them NOT being elected. It is valid. What if all the
people in your city governmet were black or hispanic and made their chioces based on their race and
background? Would you have the life you have? If your black and see someone who can finally at least
understand your history then of course you want them to win. As for the halh black comments, Obama is a
guy who spent a lot of time on the south side of Chicago and was raised by his grandma. There is no
privilege there. No multimillion houses or silver spoon back ground. He only has one house and one car.
He isn't tied to big oil or big money. McCain voted against decent medical care and education funding for
veterans. He voted for every tax break for large corporations that came along. He was very strong for going
into Iraq. Iraq has become the drain people were warned of. We have a great military but, they are just about out of equipment because of this war. Look around at what the republicans have done for the last 25 years.
No regulation of anything that protects your homes, your food or getting an education. We are laughed at
overseas because we claim to be so moral but torture people. We talk about soveriegn nations like
Georgia but give people our invasion of one as an example.. Wake up!! You are voting against your own self
interest. I am voting for Obama because he is intelligent and makes good decisions. He can speak about
and do things that need to get done to bring our country back from the downward spiral started by The Clintons
and the Bush administration. I also grew up in the western Chicago suburbs and realize the inner city of
Chicago where he became a leader is one of the toughest places to get ahead. But they made a difference.
They helped regular people pull themselves up. John McCain and specially George Bush have helped the rich
because they are rich. I am 58 and had been a lifelong republican until 2004. I feel every bit as desperate
as the black people of our country. As should the hispanics, native americans, asians and everyone else
who has to actually work for a living and support a family. We need to go in a different direction completely.
The corporate lobbyists have picked this country clean and now the investment bankers are finishing the job
with this bailout. McCains staff is made up of lobbyists. What do you think he will do if elected?

If he loses I'll go to work the next day and life will still go on. Why is this an issue?

Someone by the name of the avenger posted a comment stating. that if african americans can't accept it if obama loses they should go back to africa. there are still raciest people in american..

Obama is inspirational. This year the turnout for new votes is unprecedented! Imagine how much change he can make world-wide when elected!

Get out there and convince two others to vote! This is not a time to sit on the sidelines!

Obama 08 for the Change we need

I know a fair number of black people, and I don't know ANY who will admit that they are voting for Obama. All of those with whom I have discussed him, consider him to be an embarassment, and someone who will set race relations in this country back many years. It is not his personality. He seems likeable. I think so too. The problems are his policies. He views government as an agent of change for the better, and real people know this is a farce. You don't have to be white or black to understand that government cannot fix social problems, and only makes them worse. Liberal dogma is his undoing.

I can't say it enough. This is NOT about race! This is about the future of America in the midst of an onslaught of attacks from dictators around the world. Nothing would please them better than to have an American President who can't think for himself. They will hold him accountable when he speaks. Unlike the voting public who grants him a pass as long as he says "Let's be clear, what I said was......(insert bullshit advisor revised position here)".
Not to be an alarmist, but having a wishy-washy, position-changing President who can't think without a teleprompter is not what we need right now. The President will not be giving inspirational speeches to people in stadiums on a regular basis. He will be involved in high-level, closed-door meetings that will determine our future position in the world.
Personally, I don't want to be intimidated in any way by the likes of Russia, Venezuela, N. Korea, Iran, etc. Obama is intimidated by NRA commercials in Ohio and Penns. And his supporters in Minnesota (I think it's Minnesota) are ready to arrest and sue ANYONE who libels him...what happened to free speech???
Not Presidential at all.

Mr American-Soldier
You stated that you are half vietnamese I wonder what the other half is. I agree that Mccain served in the Army and was a prisoner of war but does that automatically make him a leader. This is a great nation and if we are to keep it that way we should get rid of the status quo. Its time to diversify and try something new.

Obama was raised by his white mother - other than being abandoned by his black father - he really has nothing in common with the average black man and the challenges a real black person faces in America.

Obama will lose on his socialist past and embracing Biden as his VP, making the ticket entirely left wing, entirely liberal.
Obama will lose on his radicle past---which he denies with words... but history makes it clear his companion, Bill Ayers, is a terrorist and the goal was to bring all the violence around the whole world onto the streets of the USA under the call, "Bring The War Home."
For those who don't know, the weathermen were NOT a black organization, but a bunch of dumb rich white kids trying to allign with black causes...and shape them to their own ideas of...of...of...CHANGE!
History records the weathermen broke a black civil rights activist out of prison...but also Timothy leary... and for money! $$$$$$
Obama and biden are NOT a Robin Hood and his Merry Men out to equalize and assure fairness! But just the $ame old $ocialism and Americans $uck First campaign we've heard from the left wing for decades!