What If Obama Loses?

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  • Posted By: rmod @ 09/30/2008 5:09:05 PM

    Why does everyone seem blind to the double standard that is going on here? Blacks only see this election in terms of race. They proudly proclaim so, and talk about the importance of registering felons and people who have no knowledge of the political system. Now some are saying they will riot and protest if their candidate loses. Of course this will be due towhite racism. Forget the millions of whites who will ultimately vote for Obama. why do liberals continue to nurture black delusions and double standards about race? According to the media and most liberals, racism is ok if its disguised as black pride.

    • Posted By: sjpersonal @ 10/01/2008 11:25:17 AM

      Exactly who are saying these things, what blacks? Are these black people friends of yours, doubt it but I would really like to know who you have heard stating that we, black americans, will riot and kill white people? I added that last point because this is the whole ignornant nonsense that some whites like to spread, that all blacks are ignorant, uneducated, violent and uncivilized animals. These are your issues this nonsense is part of your world not mine and I know quite a few blacks.

      What people "LIKE YOU" choose not to acknowledge is that each and every race of people has its own stereotype sand those individuals that are an embarrassment to our communities. So before you criticize my home check out your own first!

      I will not bother acknowleding the other racist irrelevant pissants that agree with you as they are as are any and everyone who chooses to believe that because of my color I am less than you, beneath me!

      • Posted By: rmod @ 10/01/2008 12:34:30 PM

        You misuderstood my point completely. I only mentioned protests and riots, because the piece alluded to that. My comment was actually a condemnation of racism. There are many good reasons to vote or not to vote for Obama but race is not one of them. Blacks would overwhelmingly support the democrat running even if he were white. However, many black commentators are acting as if Obama loses it can only boil down to racism. Also blacks who know nothing about the political process are registering just to elect a black man regardless of his policies. There is racism in both communities. I think whites are just a bit tired of blacks being allowed to say blatantly racist things in public while we are tarred and feathered for the most innocuous comments which even dare to touch on race.

    • Posted By: Brian in Boston @ 10/01/2008 9:45:28 AM

      Thank you Thank you Thank you
      Finally a little light of truth shines into this dark abyss of ignorance and deceit.
      This double standard is like the proverbial 800 lb gorilla in the room. They choose to not see it.

    • Posted By: TruthForward @ 10/01/2008 8:03:50 AM

      I actually thought about this also. However, race did not help Alan Keyes, and Michael Steele: Those two will not get the black vote, even though they are not mixed.

      I'm just going to worry about my own votiing, and pick great candidates for president and vice president: Obama/Biden.

  • Posted By: braindrainedmccain @ 09/30/2008 7:25:07 PM



    injustonepost posted

    "In this white male dominated society if Mr Obama was "The American Black Story" he would not even be a contender. He is though a Real American Story."

    No truer words have ever been spoken!
    And if I might add a GREAT "American" Story

    May not win the Presidency If the White male dominated society has their way. Lets just hope America has the wisdom to not fall for the White Boys Diversion all over again.


    • Posted By: kervacs @ 09/30/2008 11:12:50 PM

      White Boy diversion? Your whole argument reduces to if we don't vote for Obama we are racists. Sticks and stones. Maybe you should divert some of your attention changing these statistics: 25% of young African males are either in prison or on probation or parole (and those are only the ones that got caught) and over 70% of all African American children are born out of wedlock. These are the stats of Visigoths, not victims. Good "community organizers" should be able to improve them. Obama's resume is as thin as his physique.

      • Posted By: injustonepost @ 10/01/2008 9:47:10 AM

        Your response is much in line with the extreme right wing talking point. If one was to consider what your issues are it would seem you have locked yourself into supporting the Diversion of which the post you responded to speaks of. I see no reason to post statistics without the history and references. Without them it renders your points usless and not well intended. Which would also cause one to suspect that is your intention.

  • Posted By: kkhan @ 10/01/2008 9:01:24 AM

    Why the big ''IF'' - who say he will be voted in as President anyway. I don't think the Americans are so stupid. Look at this for one moment, Biden has a great lot more political exposure & experience than Obama, yet he is not the presidential candidate. Why so? because he is not LIKEABLE, therefore not ELECTABLE, is this the manner in which the American President is really chosen, if so, it's unbelieveably disgusting.

  • Posted By: TruthForward @ 10/01/2008 7:52:29 AM

    If he looses...

    -Social Security will be given to the stock markets
    -Anyone who wants health care will be accused of being unamerican
    -Values will be just a cute button that you wear, no real meaning
    -The divorce rate will climb to 95%
    -Community organizing goes to 0 (zero)
    -The Great Depression will occur, however it will be blamed on the poor, and jokingly blamed on Obama because he did not win (yes that is irrational)
    -McCain will say, "You should have voted for Obama if you wanted a good economy, that's who I voted for."

  • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 10/01/2008 7:26:37 AM

    The top 1% of earners earns 22% of the income and pays 40% of the taxes. So, that leaves 60% of the taxes to be paid by 99% of the people. Please, tell me what is fair in this equation. How much more does Obama want them to do? And, when Obama says 95% of the American people will get a tax cut, he forgets to say that 40% pay NO tax. So, while some do get a tax cut, he'll be sending a new "welfare" check to those that never paid in the first place. That's socialism, folks!

  • Posted By: SMcGinnis @ 09/30/2008 12:18:56 PM

    Did McCain's experience get him elected as President in the past?? He is over 70 years old... wasn't he just as experienced 8 years ago when he didn't get the nomination from GW? It's hard to base my decision on experience when the government is being driven into the ground. How has 8 years "experience" helped Bush? Experience is what will not allow change to happen. We NEED someone from the outside to come in and create new ideas. We cannot continue doing the same ole thing and not expect the rest of the world to pass us by. It will be disasterous. For as advances as America is, how did AlQueda do so much damage - so easily? How hard do you think it would be for Iran, Russia, N. Korea and China to pass us by? We need to think more global and LEAD this PLANET, not just pad our pocketbooks. Watch out the rest of the world is onto us!

    • Posted By: ICYEYES800 @ 09/30/2008 10:51:07 PM

      NEWSFLASH......JOE BIDEN IS OVER SEVENTY YEARS OLD...AND IT'S SHOWING...TO MAKE MENTION OF MCCAIN'S AGE IS A HUGE PLUS FOR ME....WE CANNOT AFFORD TO ALLOW OSAMA THE TIME TO CUT HIS POLITICAL TEETH IN THE OVAL OFFICE...HE SKIPPED A FEW WRUNGS ON THE LADDER TO SUCCESS....AND MADE SOME PRETTY BAD ASSOCIATIONS.....

  • Posted By: msk91949 @ 09/30/2008 9:59:03 PM

    people call bush an idiot.. usually are the poor and undereducated..easily led liberal lambs.. sounds good when then hear it, but never implementable

  • Posted By: msk91949 @ 09/30/2008 9:57:53 PM

    i am so tired of the black whine ass. The great society was a joke and blacks are whine ass victims. what about the indians and chinese and even the mexicans that are blowing by the blacks in social status and accomplishments? maybe cause they value education, they dont do dope, they dont scew anything that walks and they dont blame the white folks..white people arent racist, they are just tired of you all using color as a excutes

  • Posted By: jordan c. fan @ 09/30/2008 7:21:38 AM

    Sons Proect Their Mothers

    Obama himself is already a loser. There is an old many millennium Asian belief that sons and daughters have cetain supernatural power that will keep their parents alive. Asians also believe unlucky children could cause their parents to die early. Even without the supernatural belief, a son's personality or habits may cause stress and affect the health of their parents. Obama's mother died at 33 years old, McCain's mother is now still living strong and healthy in her 90s to almost 100 years old. I guess that said a lot about the quality of those two candidates. Obama is certainly a pain in the neck as we can all easily see by observing his behavior. Obama is definitely lucky to other people or even himself. If people leave Obama to walk around long enough everyone on earth will die. No wonder Wall Street Dow Jones crashed 777 points with Obama around running for president. Our planet may even come to an end!

    • Posted By: Mommabearoffive @ 09/30/2008 9:39:01 PM

      There is medication for the paranoid dilusions/superstitions you are experiencing. I strongly suggest you see your doctor as soon as possible in order to be able to ACTUALLY see what is going on in this country. Obama is the only chance this country has for REAL CHANGE - electing McCain will be another huge mistake - just like mistake made when the majority of Americans re-elected the idiot in office now.

  • Posted By: Jaray24 @ 09/30/2008 6:42:09 PM

    And People wonder why there is always someone pulling race into things where it doesn't belong. I would have thought that Allison Samuels, the writer of this story, would have found a more meaningful story to cover, maybe how Obama will Socialize America and we will be paying 45-55% in income taxes to pay for the Governments spending.

    Don't vote or judge people by the way they look, look at their actions, words, and goals.

  • Posted By: injustonepost @ 09/30/2008 5:46:26 PM

    In this white male dominated society if Mr Obama was "The American Black Story" he would not even be a contender. He is though a Real American Story.

  • Posted By: ObamaBidenNOW @ 09/30/2008 5:30:25 PM

    In a few weeks we will make a choice that will decide our future. I follow a economist named bob proctor who has called the top and bottom of every market crash since the 70s correctly. He perfectly predicted the current real estate market meltdown ,and the picture he paints about what will happen in the next couple years Is terrifying. He thinks it will be worse then the great depression. Banks in the US are going under one after the other. Country wide the largest morgage bank in the world Bear Stearns and Lehman brothers , and Merrill Lynch which are 3 out of the top 5 wall street firms. And now Fanny and Freddy which hold 50 percent of the home loans in the United States. The goverment took them over because they are essentially bankrupt. If they didn't the entire financially system would virtually shut down, the stock market would crash And we would suffer beyond what any of us have seen before The future of these companies will fall into the hands of our next president
    Bush just like Mcain doesn't understand the economy.

    That not just my opinion its his own words. Not only does he not understand how to fix it
    He does not understand exactly what is broken. Its no surprise that he doesnt. The people that make up these
    securities use complex math models very few people understand.
    Bush and mccain both can take the credit for this mess since they helped deregulate the laws that were protecting us.


    Bush's economic advisor Phil Graham wrote the deregulation bill that allowed banks take risks with all of our future.
    Now Phil Graham is the head of mccains economic policy ,and mccain wants to make him the next secretary of the treasury.
    No one in this country can afford for that to happen. The last time bush met with his economic advisors was in march. He either didnt realize or didnt care that anything was wrong. Phil Graham had the guts to say we are in a mental recession after he helped create the worst economy in our lifetime.
    It will take the best and brightest minds in the world to get us out of this nightmare. As bad as bush has done mccain would be
    incredibly worse because things are in much worse shape. The next president will not inherit a surplus like bush did but a tanking economy and a 11,600,000,000,000 deficit. Most of Bush created and it will take decades to pay it back.
    If you do what you have always done then you will do get what you have always __________

    When it comes to policy bush and mccain are the same 90 percent of the time.
    So why are the polls even close then ?

    The chairman of mcains campaign recently said that people don't vote on issues

    they vote on a personality composite which means. He is trying to sell you personality instead of results.
    He believes people will vote against there own self interests.

    Lets teach him we are smarter then that .
    Hold them accountable now while it will still help
    Elect Obama Biden 2008

  • Posted By: Soldier's Mom @ 09/28/2008 10:31:08 PM

    First, Obama is going to win because to win in America, a Black man has to be twice as good as the White man, and Obama is twice as good.
    Second, Black folks could tolerate their candidate losing a fair election. They've endured worse.

    Assassination though would be a game-changer.

    Fortunately I have great confidence in the professional excellence of the Secret Service. Heck, they've kept GW Bush alive these 8 years as he sent our sons to a useless slaughter, perverted our institutions, and robbed us blind by crashing the economy.

    • Posted By: Braes @ 09/30/2008 4:17:26 PM

      If one of these GOP animals touches a hair on Barack's head, I am in with skin too.
      (White, Retired Military, Conservative Arkansan, Democrat.)

  • Posted By: SMcGinnis @ 09/30/2008 12:03:16 PM

    These comments are really freaking me out. I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE BABY BOOMERS TO DIE!

    • Posted By: mtgmother@comcast.net @ 09/30/2008 2:31:23 PM

      What mature, tolerant behavior. I hope that your parents don't read it and die... from embarrassment that you are so unbelievably childish. Have you reached puberity yet, or are you still under 10?

  • Posted By: Brian in Boston @ 09/30/2008 1:39:46 PM

    This is going to be a close election. And THAT scares the hell out of me. With the hyped-up frenzy surrounding this election and the fact that the Dems claim they were screwed out of the last two Presidencies... Let's just say that my travel plans don't include any urban areas on November 5th. My kids may be staying home from public school, too. Better safe than sorry. This could be the perfect storm of frustrated liberals taking it to the man. Any rioting or violence that may occur will be traced directly to the corrupt far left media and irresponsible "journalism". I also need to mention that I think Obama would make a fine President... in about eight years.

  • Posted By: josemarti @ 09/30/2008 1:08:13 PM

    Hey. Check out yesterday's Chicago Tribune and see what a "community organizer" did to one of Chicago's finest.

  • Posted By: humbird59 @ 09/30/2008 12:51:27 PM

    Obama's race?

    Has anyone determined exactly (or even close to) what Obama's race really is?

    He is half white? And from what I've read only 6% black. The rest is Arab? So how do blacks identify with him?

  • Posted By: voyager5 @ 09/30/2008 12:22:05 PM

    Fortunately not all blacks are stupid enough to vote for Obama. We do have a battle of two evils here, but McCain is the lesser of the two.

  • Posted By: SMcGinnis @ 09/30/2008 12:10:31 PM

    I think Obama will win this election and here is why... there is no way in hell I would consider voting for th McCain and the "trickle down" effect. How is that workin for ya America?? We have been playing the "trickle down" theory for 8 years and it doesn't work! I don't care if Barack Obama was purple, orange or brown. His skin color means nothing to me. He is young, energetic and OPEN to new ideas and governing techniques. America is coming into a new phase in history. If we do not step up and make some changes-smaller countries are ready to become the new world power and there will nothing we can do. There are over 15 countries (larger population, more advanced technology and open to new ideas) that are setting themselves up to take over our spot as a world leader and if we don't get our head out of the sand and elect someone younger that will bring new things to the table we will loose WW3. Do you think the Chinese care what color we are???

  • Posted By: pearsoncrz @ 09/30/2008 10:36:50 AM

    Did you see that Rezko is talking with prosecutors?

    http://www.newsweek.com/id/161581

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