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Entry: "Transcending Race" is a Good Way to Get the Black Vote Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/transcending_race_can_get_you_the_black_vote#15864 Post contents: Race accounts for 90%+ of Obama's appeal to white liberals. There is nothing about his policies remarkable enough to explain the support his candidacy has generated. He makes nothing but grandiose promises about “hope” and “change” without detailing specifics. Obama is so attractive to progressives because he presents himself as the herald of the liberal rapture — the fantasy colorblind utopia — which we have been hearing about ad nauseum since the 1960s. If Obama does win the presidency, he is likely to be a tragic figure. He's a charlatan who will disappoint after riding to power on a wave of wildly inflated expectations. Black political power has been tried all over America in our inner cities. It has been tried in Haiti and throughout sub-Saharan Africa. Is that "change we can believe in"? Unfortunately, facts have never been allowed to stand in the way of millenarianism. Sent at: 2008 07 24