What If Obama Loses?

I recently visited the Newseum in Wash., DC, and relived the 9/11 NY terrorist attack through actual footage of that fateful day. You can't watch this film and not come away feeling horror and anger. Every American felt the effects of this attack on our country....and every one of us came together afterwards in sorrow and healing. It still angers me how we went after the wrong people who did this, starting unnecessary wars along the way and letting already rich greedy people run wild blinding us with lies. We were kept on high alert and too deep in a bad war that had no exit plan, while the politics that got us there continued with our blessings. Now we???re faced with the same dilemma but have new crises before us???the economy. The same people we trusted to lead this country, but who in fact just made us look the other way with lies, are again asking us to trust their leadership using the same tired rhetoric. Experience, they tell us, is the key to resolving all of this county???s ills???but isn???t this the same political experience that directly got us in these crises in the first place. We can't afford to continue to be blind and dumb and let those who do not really have our best interests at heart do as they please in running this country. The problems we are facing in this country affects every one...it not about race, gender or anything else. We Americans need to open our eyes and help get the crises under controlled and resolved by making sure the right person is in position to lead us. We don't need more of the same ideals that got us in this mess....we don't need Bush or McCain and more lies.

Newsweek should talk more about the fact that, although black people have voted for white presidential candidates since-f o r e v e r-, there are white Americans who are still racists and cannot bring themselves to vote for a black man, even if it means they will leave their beloved party of democrats. It's obscene!

Have we angerly protested in the past because our candidates lost?...NO! We stand with our heads high and figure out how to work within the system. Of course i will be upset if my candidate loses, but not because he is black. I will be upset if Barack Obama loses because he is THE BEST PERSON for the job. He is who we need at this time to inspire us to greatness...all of us, including white, brown, red, black. He is who we need to bridge the gaps that exist between black, brown and white, between the haves and the have nots, between the "red" and "blue" states. We need a UNITED STATES of AMERICA and Obama is best equipped to lead us there.

Instead of planning to attend ralleys and protest in case he doesn't win, how about planning how you are going to get to a voting station on election day? We black people can ralley and organize things like the million man march when we want to, yet during the primaries Barack lost a district in Texas because he had a smaller black turnout than John Kerry did in 2004! So, stop planning protests and how you're going to "demand justice" and make sure you are registered and know how and when to vote!!!!!

I think that voting on the basis of race is not right. Also, there seems to be a system of threats if he loses. What is this? Is this what Obama wants? If not, why does he not speak out about it. Of course, there was the campaign ads in the southwest about Hispanics should vote Obama because McCain thinks like Rush Limbaugh. Also, we see in this article about ex-cons and the likes voting because he is black? Are we looking at a society that wants law and order to run rampant? It shows in this article also that if Obama loses it is shady and stolen. Is this proposing that there be riots and chaos if the election does not go his way? Think people.

White people are talking about blacks just voting for the color of the skin. Very funny when they never voted for white people. If Obama was a republican he wouldn't get the black vote. Strange woman will be voting for a woman just because she is a woman. And let's not forget that half of the Hispanics have black blood in them yet they are considered not black. That is politics and racism plain and simple. If Obama losses it would not be so bad. He would not be to blame for all the mistakes made in America the last 450 years. One thing is for certain we won't have to hear about black this and black that, the next election. there will be just two white people running and will be back to blacks don't matter and racism doesn't exist.

Being a 37 year old black man, it is very encouraging to potentially having a black man as President of The United States. I was raised to see people as people, but there are others out there that hate one another, because of the color of ones skin. I feel that if Obama is elected President it will potentially allow the older white population see that blacks have evolved and that we are as educated as they are. The new generation I feel love one another and can live together as evidence by the increase in inter-racial marriages. My biggest fear is for Obama's safety once he is elected President. I know everyone has flaws, but Obama seems to be a great role model to the younger generation. He will be a great leader for this country!

This is a must watch.

Republicans and Democrats alike please watch this for more truth on the Freddie and Fannie situation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs

I'm still trying to figure out how an arab father and white mother can produce a black son... obviously Obama is getting a massive amount of support for being black alone, which he isn't. Yes, his father was from Africa, but was an Arab (do some research), how nieve are people?- his name is Barack Hussein Obama - those are Arab names, not African. It doesn't matter to me what race he is or even if he's purple, but I don't think it's right to get support for something that isn't true about yourself.

Americans, beware. Are you really thinking of electing a do nothing Obama
will give you a bright future?

All These happened during Obama's senator year in Illinois.

In Chicago Tribune, Saturday July 7-26-2008, there

is article titled " Illinois is 43rd in black male graduates".

"fewer than half black male students across the

country are graduating from high school, and the number

is even lower in Illinois and Chicago, according to national

study. ......graduation rates from the 2005-06 school year

and found that Illinois ranked 43rd out 50 states for the

number of black male students gradating that year. In the

city that year, only 37% of the `102,185 black students

graduated...... ".

In Chicago Tribune 12-16-07, there is special report

about Illinois' poor: "Our Hidden Poor". There are about

1.5 million people in Illinois--- 12 % of the the state

population live below the poverty line.

Sen. Obama was a community organizer in a tiny black community
for 20 years in south of Chicago before he was elected as senator. I would
like

you to ask him what he did to increase black male high

school graduation rate and decrease the poverty during

his Illinois senator year? How can American people trust

him when he did not change anything in his community

and Americans, beware. Are you really thinking of electing a do nothing Obama
will give you a bright future?

All These happened during Obama's senator year in Illinois.

In Chicago Tribune, Saturday July 7-26-2008, there

is article titled " Illinois is 43rd in black male graduates".

"fewer than half black male students across the

country are graduating from high school, and the number

is even lower in Illinois and Chicago, according to national

study. ......graduation rates from the 2005-06 school year

and found that Illinois ranked 43rd out 50 states for the

number of black male students gradating that year. In the

city that year, only 37% of the `102,185 black students

graduated...... ".

In Chicago Tribune 12-16-07, there is special report

about Illinois' poor: "Our Hidden Poor". There are about

1.5 million people in Illinois--- 12 % of the the state

population live below the poverty line.

Sen. Obama was a community organizer in a tiny black community
for 20 years in south of Chicago before he was elected as senator. I would
like

you to ask him what he did to increase black male high

school graduation rate and decrease the poverty during

his Illinois senator year? How can American people trust

him when he did not change anything in his community

and his state.

his state.

That's great Snoop Dog, just what we need. Get all the gang members, ex-cons and everyone else you can to go vote for your boy. And you think he might LOSE due to racism?, what do you call this? I fear a terrorist strike in the states within 2 years if Obama wins because he is clueless on security. But that's ok, he'll sit down and talk with the bad guys' leaders to try to prevent another. Set limits on all house and Senate people too so we can get jokers like Biden, Kennedy and the crew out of Washington!

I was unsure of who I was going to vote for until I saw the Presidential debate on Friday night. I was very impressed with Barack Obama and I was disgusted with John Mccain. Barack Obama seemed much more professional and articulate and able to respond to questions with sensible and thought out answers. John Mccain always seemed to be going for the personal attacks and tried concentrate on Obama's lack of experience and pork barrel spending. Obama seemed to offer solutions and Mccain seemed to just offer mostly criticism of Obama. I will be voting for Obama because he is the better of the two candidates and offers better solutions to Americans problems.