Let’s be honest.  Black Americans would vote 94 to 1 for Mike Tyson if he ran for president.

At the very least, should Obama lose get ready to hear the phrase “America is not ready for a black President” repeated ad nauseum in the media.  This will be followed by “We still have a long way to go”, and then a plea for more racial set asides and preferences.

I’m being convinced each day to vote my tribe.  All politics is tribal.

what the hell?

i have never voted anything but republican in my life and this year i was going to vote for Barr to show my displeasure at the repubs....but after last nights speech i will give obama the benefit of the doubt.

i will not risk letting neocon fascist to continnue to make the united states of america a police state society all the while creating more enemies abroad by voting republican again.

i realize that there is one party in washington...war and war light..ill go with war lite this time around.

i cant wait to hear what americas pulpits will be spewing this year about the safety of israel and the danger of obama.
jesus would be so proud of his representatives in the pulpit calling for the murder of muslims whom he died for, unless of course he only died for the rest of humanity sans the muslims.

i want obama to be the nightmare that the neocons think he may turn out to be for their pet projects....the national security state and that other one.

Zachary Taylor had fewer qualifications for president than Obama:  other than conquering Mexico, he had no record at all.  In fact, his first vote ever was for himself for president!

John C. Fremont had fewer qualifications than Obama for president.  He had been an officer (though not a flag officer) in the military, and that is all.

One might argue that Abraham Lincoln, too, had less qualification for president than Obama, since one term in the House is less qualification than the majority of a term in the Senate.

It has been a while, however.

The Democrats are the party not only of “minorities” but also of victimization.  The only Democratic presidential candidate to receive a majority of the white vote since 1948 was Lyndon Johnson in 1964, running against Goldwater.  The liberals drool at the thought of electing a black president, because blacks symbolize victimhood for the liberals and because many white liberals have anemic (or even anti-white) racial instincts.  Qualification for the job is beside the point.  After all, Obama is strong on only three issues:  Hope, Change, and Transcendence.  I would guess over time more whites will migrate to the Republican Party as they feel increasingly beleaguered by the revolutionary demographic changes swamping the country.  But this probably won’t happen in large numbers until whites feel more threatened by a chronic deterioration in the economy.  That will happen, but there is no way of predicting when.  In the meantime, the Democrats will do everything possible to augment their armies of victims by promoting as much non-white immigration as possible.  And, sadly, Republican presidential candidates will sellout, at least for the time being, as they grovel for a plurality of the Hispanic vote and as they propitiate their business sponsors who target new supplies of cheap labor (to drive down wages).

This election year we have the two least qualified candidates based on their loyalties that have ever been nominated by either party.  That is what makes this year so horrible to endure.  Whichever one wins we lose.

I’d gladly vote for Colin Powell if he ran. Experience, balance, intelligence. Integrity.
I could care less about his race. But somehow that would make me a bigot. Not sure how.

Although I have enormous respect for Pat B., I am often appalled by his occasional descents into a narrow partisanship. It seems he cannot make up his mind on whether to be a statesman or a swift-boater. His intellectual career depends on being the former, his TV talking head career depends on being the latter. He complains that Michelle’s speech was “crafted by Obama hires,” but this is hypocritical coming from a former speechwriter, a man who hired himself out just for such tasks. Political (and other) speeches today are normally written with professional help.

It is quite true that democratic (small-d) politics tend to be tribal politics. But this is true wherever democracy is introduced. “Tribes” that had lived together in peace for centuries under empires or even dictatorships fall to genocidal warfare when they become “democratic.” This is true even in the United States, where our bloodiest war remains the one we fought against ourselves. These tribes are sometimes racial, sometimes religious, and sometimes economic. The corporate management and financial manipulation tribes are now dominant in our politics.

As for qualifications, this is of course a reasonable question, but the least qualified candidate was Pat’s 2000 candidate, George Bush. Before he became governor of Texas, he had not successfully held a single job, and his only “government” accomplishment was to get a huge tax subsidy for a second-rate baseball team, an act that made him suspiciously rich, selling a minor stake for major bucks.

I have been elected to political office five times. Every politician knows instinctively that the way to gain power in a democracy is to create an “us” vs. “them” mentality. This creates a loyal core of voters and workers who will always work under the fear that “they” will get power over “our” group. Complaining about tribal democratic politics is like complaining that water is wet. It’s just the nature of water to be wet and democratic politics to be divisive.

Despite this, I still believe there is a chance that Obama takes the public interest seriously enough to try to build broader coalitions of our various “tribes.” This may be naive; he may turn out to be another Carter, wholly earnest and completely ineffective. But I have looked at McCain’s resume, and he scares me.

Sarah Palin! This is awful I might even vote for this ticket.

Republicans are also a party of victimization. Listening to Hilary supporters, especially the white elites, whine and cry about how unfair she was treated by nasty mean male chauvinist pigs shows showed they are Olympic Gold medal level cry babies.

Steven Colbert had the line I like the most watching Democrat delegates stream out of the convention hall to their inevitable defeat.

The Republicans have racism, ignorance, control of the media, and the in-Justice Department still running politically motivated prosecutions. They are still purging voting rolls.

I remember The Simspon’s episode where Apu was taking his citizenship test. Asked to state the cause of the War Between the states he began to enumerate the multiple causes. The clerk said just say slavery. Slavery it is. Welcome to America.

The system is broken and to pin it on race alone undercuts the real issues that need to be fixed.

Get ready for the riots if he loses...it’ll make LA or Detroit, or for that matter Krystallnacht look like party time.

Pat’s awesome on foreign policy but he misses the point here. Insuniating that blacks
always vote for a black candidate has no historical validity. There never has been a
black presidential candidate! However, blacks have voted Democratic 90% of the time.

So, if they support Barack, a democratic candidate, by 94%, does that immediately
signify race-based voting? They were going to vote Dem anyway.

Is Pat trying to get the ‘white’ folks to vote Repub, for race reasons?

American understanding of race (color really) is childish, to say the least.
It even affects their intellectuals, sadly.

Love Pat’s book on WWII, tho. Lets see how long he is allowed to speak his mind openly.

“If Obama wins, the country could be in real trouble. And if he loses, the country could be in real trouble.”

We’re already in real trouble as far as I’m concerned.

Bush II wasn’t particularly qualified either and certainly didn’t deserve to win- twice.

@ Samuel Burke:
Obama won’t be a nightmare to the neo-cons. He can give a good speech that sounds like it. But his actions are different: bow to AIPAC, select Joe “I’m a Zionist” Biden as VP, etc. The neo-cons have two horses in this race: McCain and Obama. Regardless of who loses- they always win. A vote for Barr is a vote against the AIPAC-owned 2 party mafia under which we suffer right now.

Yes, if Obama loses, we’ll get the “American’s are racist” line for a week or so. And to some extent they would be right. I mean seriously, is anyone going to claim that suddenly there are no racists left in this country and that no one is voting against Obama because he is black? Or that white folk don’t think of all Latins as their garderns? It will all be similar to the shock of the liberals when Bush won the second time and the lines were “Americans are stupid and need to be re-educated.”
Of course if Obama were more like a gangster-rapper, then he would win by a huge margin because no one loves gangster-rappers more than while people.

Pat needs to get his priorities straight. Yes, racial politics are a disaster for this country but even more so the neo-con foreign policy of US-armed Israeli hegemony and the internal politics of tyranny. Obama’s victory would spell trouble for America. A McCain victory would spell annihilation.

An awful lot of Blacks voted for Hillary, in fact this really made me fear she would
win for quite a while, in my opinion the only thing worse than another four years
of Bush would be four years of Hillary. I don’t think the Blacks would take this loss
as a race thing, though I am sure certain blacks will be making as many speeches as
possible encouraging them too..the same ones that always do, that just love to play
the race card for everything and refuse to stop deviding us because they make no money
if we all get along.
I hope Barral doesn’t win, nothing to do with race, lots to do with lies and inexperience
I also , pray McCain doesn’t win. I am waiting to see who Ron Paul picks for a running
mate, and yes I hope it is Dennis, they would be a good balance. I believe in Dennis’
plans and in him as a man. I believe he is the only one who will bring criminal charges
against Bush and gang and also pardon all of our troops that have been court marshalled
for doing the right thing and refusing to tortue and murder and give them their back pay
and their rank, in doing this he will speak for America, sinally saying what we believe
which is that we do not stand behind this war that was created by Bushes lies. I’m not
sure Ron Paol will follow through with this without him, but I hope he will.
We MUST make history this year but not in electing a inexperienced , flip flopping
lobbist owned Black but by electing an unowned, except by the people independent with
experence and a VP who has been an awesome watch dog and fighter no matter what the risk t
to his life and who has only taken money from the people because those words
“A government for the People, by the People” truly mean everything to him.
I personaly have never been a Dem, Rep, or Indie...I vote by who I believe is best, if
I don’t believe in anyone, I dont choose the lesser of two evils. I can’t stoop that
low. I just hope Ron does the right thing or like the last two years I won’t be voting.

Jack Rich wrote:
“Obama’s victory would spell trouble for America. A McCain victory would spell annihilation.”

That pretty much perfectly sums up how I feel about the election. Saint Obama is not going to be the Second Coming of Bipartisan Sweetness and Light, but McCain would prove even more ruinously extravagant, reckless, aggressive, clueless and stubborn than the Shrub.

”The psychic investment in Barack’s candidacy is immense.”

That about says it all.

What does race have to do with it? I have always said that I would vote for Shirley Hemphill for president if she had concrete ideas about how to balance the budget, cure the trade defecit, and stand up to Israeli influence. Sadly neither candidate this year has any ideas for the above.

“Get ready for the riots if he loses...it’ll make LA or Detroit, or for that matter Krystallnacht look like party time.”

They usually riot over some trumped up “police brutality” crap; Obama might get them riled up by losing but the actual (and inevitable) riot won’t come until a white cop shoots a black thug.

NO APOLOGIES, NO PRESIDENCY

A pattern of behavior by and around US Senator Obama has emerged that excuses him for his racist stereotypical remarks and further excuses him for failing to disown such remarks by those closest to him. It’s the opposite of the Great Macaca Scandal that helped to shoot down US Senator George Allen’s campaign when he ran for governor of Virginia in 2006 and used “macaca” to describe an Indo-American campaign spy for Allen’s opponent. Allen was pilloried for this label which was a word used in North African Jewish circles to describe North African indigenous workers. Undoubtedly, it was Allen’s mother who taught him to use “macaca” in the same way that the MOSSAD uses it to describe those it views with loathing. It was Victor Ostrovsky who, in a public speech, defined macaca as used by this demographic and for this purpose.

Obama’s Race Card: Bash Diverse White Americans

Obama played the race card all along, pretending in a 2004 speech that “acting white” was a serious slander (his word). What bad, bad people these diverse white Americans are. No apology.

Obama mocked and degraded the rural dwellers of Pennsylvania during the primary campaign for the Democratic Party nomination for the presidency at least implicitly on a racial basis. No apology.

Obama insulted and denigrated every one of the diverse white American peoples when he characterized his own grandmother as a “typical white person.” Innocent people have lost jobs using “typical Asian” or “typical black person” or “typical Mexican.” No apology.

No apologies, no presidency.

Great stuff, all above. ... Since I threw out my t.v. I missed it all the other stuff.

I’m tellin’ya throw out your t.v.’s. It’s like a stone being lifted off the top of the skull.  Be the exception to the rule which proves it! - Throw out your t.v.’s.

Fill the void by keeping a dvd player and watch rented or purchased movies, mostly
foreign. And read books. For ‘news’, actually I call it ‘olds’ - hold your noses and listen to NPR - National Public Radio. It’s Establishment issue just like commercial. However at least it’s radio and also without assinine commercial breaks.

Do this in memory of yourselves. Remember you?! You will. It’s ok, you’re “better” now.

George W. Bush had no understanding whatever, of the history and cultures of the Middle East, when he was elected.  Even now, he seems to have next to no comprehension of the underlying dynamics at work in that region.

John McCain understood the Middle East 25 years ago, but he clearly has suffered a reduction in his mental abilities since then, so as to lose that capacity.

Hey, John Medaille: Pat’s 2000 candidate was...Pat.  It does appear that the democrats might find a way to lose the WH again, but it’s early yet.  Let’s see how things look in October.  Remember, a lot of folks who will vote Obama don’t answer the phone (for polls).  Creditors, you know.

However, on election night the wise man will be careful not drive through, much less walk near, his local...um...ghetto.  The natives might be restless.

Beau, yes, I should have said 2004. Just move the hypocrisy four years forward. And worse. After four years, we got to see how bad it was. There may have been excuse for a “conservative” to support Bush in 2000; there was none in 2004.

Joe Pye Weed ( a grand plant that Eupatorium) asserts that we have a politics of Victimhood and this sums up the sordid state of affairs quite well. The electorate is like a late stage drunk, rolling about the gutter and alternately weeping or screaming invectives at passers by prior to an ultimate challenge to all: “You think You’re bad, well just you watch as I kick my OWN ass”.

One generally never thinks it can get no worse in retrospect. This kind of optimism is reserved for those dark moments right before the grizzly bear gnawing on your skull gets a second wind. If Mr. Obama wins , his bleary acolytes will be forced to confront the reality that their government really does not care what nit wit is President. Ditto for the opposing Gregor Samsa Immitator. After all, the Giant Not-Quite Artful Scam called Washington will continue its continental scale home invasion perforce,and when the electorate awakens to this blazingly obvious and long-standing condition, the awful gnashing sound will be hilarious. Pin Heads raging about in a fit of pique is , hands down one of the funniest things one can witness.

Perhaps singing a few old time spirituals will salve the wounded sentiments.

The potential for riots if he wins _or_ loses is something no law abiding citizen should be unprepared for.

BANA

@John Medaille
Whatever you may think about George Bush’s competency as President he had two terms as Governor of Texas under his belt prior to becoming President. That makes him far more qualified than Obama. He may have been unqualified to be Governor of Texas but that is not the point Pat was making.

Question: Why does everyone refer to the messiah as a black man? They could refer to him as a white man. He is half white after all. Answer: Being black is what gets him votes!

“Fill the void by keeping a dvd player and watch rented or purchased movies, mostly
foreign. And read books. For ‘news’, actually I call it ‘olds’ - hold your noses and listen to NPR - National Public Radio. It’s Establishment issue just like commercial. However at least it’s radio and also without assinine commercial breaks.

Do this in memory of yourselves. Remember you?! You will. It’s ok, you’re “better” now. “

In other words, everyone should endeavor to me more like you.  Got it.

The potential for riots if he wins _or_ loses is something no law abiding citizen should be unprepared for.

BANA FTW.

The monolithic black support for Obama over Clinton could cause a long term rift in the coalition of discontents that is the DNC base. 

Hillary’s base must feel entirely used and betrayed.  The Palin pick could bring a good number of the Fems over to support her for some time to come, now and in future elections. 

The Black Community should have waited, been supportive of the Dems heir apparent.  Bided their time until they had a truly qualified Jackie Robinson to draft.

I, too, would vote for Mike Tyson rather than McCain.
Of course, I would vote for Mike Tyson rather than Barack Obama.  Yes, I am white. Yes, I would really prefer Ron Paul.

I’d vote for a lump of coal before I voted for McCain or Obama.