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Obama and His Black Candidacy Shelby Steele on Obama and why I think Shelby is just wrong.by Christopher Espinal
(Conservative)
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Shelby Steele, a scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, has this to say about Barack Obama's candidacy. Quite frankly, Steele's entire interview with Peter Robinson only annoys me more than John McCain. Here you have Steele who digs so deep into Obama to find junk that doesn't exist. If race were a factor in Obama's candidacy, like Ms. Edwards once said, then that is not Obama's fault. Overall, Steele has a dog in his complaints: he is such a partisan conservative.
I think the message from Obama is uniting America. We are a racially intensified nation; why is it that such a political icon like Obama, who can bridge the separation between whites and blacks, is being attacked for a uniting message? According to Steele, Obama wants to take advantage of some radical element in blacks and some apologetic desire by whites. Or, is it also possible that Obama wants all Americans a part of the American story?
Steele, to me a failed detractor of Obama, doesn't address why we should accept the latter explanation as opposed to the former for the New JFK's rise. Steele also pushes another unfounded criticism. Conservative wisdom goes that Obama has a set of vague or nonexistent objectives to push America in a better trajectory. "Why should we trust a man with no detailed ideas," goes Obama's fed up opposition.
I believe it doesn't matter what politicians say regarding policy. Dealing with political hacks in office has more of an influence than what Politicians propose to the American community. On Tavis Smiley, Drew Carey made a fine point on politics (on the 3:19 mark). If you make a chart of what politicians say on the road and match it up with what they actually do, then just imagine the number of deviations from their "straight talk" on the trail to their actual "walk" in office.
I think it's much better for Obama to keep his cool then make surreal promises like those of John Edwards. I also believe that politicians who stubbornly lock their political ideologies in one box risk too much damage.
For the Democrats, I still believe that Obama is a fine candidate and isn't doing anything wrong!
Interesting Rebuttals:
Why do you hate John McCain despite the fact that he changes positions like Obama.
That's not what he does. He votes for expanding garbage that doesn't work like the Department of Education and FEMA. Thus, he lies when he calls himself a conservative Republican.
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Good article. Of course, divide and rule is the way of politicians. The effort to divide one group away from the candidate by getting them worried about another group supporting him is going to go on. I find Obama a little vague on details myself. But that is better than Jimmy Carter who between election day and inauguration day announced that his economic platform was wrong and Gerald Ford's was right.
Posted By: Christopher Espinal
Date: 2008-02-02 23:22:10
Thanks RTBohan....I just hate when someone finally has got something right about uniting America, and then someone, for partisan reasons, wants to destroy it. I'm "conservative" but I have an appreciation for honest people!
"Super Tuesday" - The herding technique Marxist Hillary Clinton is no different than Obama except for gender and race. They both support more and more taxation to feed the same, failed policies. As with Obama, Clinton supports the killing of unborn babies and is quite popular with the sexual deviant crowd who buy her favors with lots of cash. Again, I ask: How can any Christian who believes the Holy Bible is God's word, vote for Hillary Clinton when she condones and supports sexual deviants and the killing of unborn babies?........ http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd339.htm
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