Obama gets heckled by african americans at rally

[jameznyhc]

lol he better hope muslims dont join them ..hahaha

African American protestors holding a banner reading "What about the black community Obama?" heckled Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama in Florida on Friday.
Three men stood up as Obama was talking about the economy during a townhall meeting in St Petersburg in Florida, a key battleground state in Obama's duel with Republican John McCain in November's election.

"What about the black community?" the protestors chanted, prompting Obama's crowd of supporters to chant his slogan "Yes We Can" to drown them out.

"Excuse me, young man, this is going to be a question and answer session, so you can ask a question later," Obama told the protestors.

"Sit down. You'll have a chance to ask your questions, but you don't want to disrupt the whole meeting. Just be courteous," he said, before going back to his prepared remarks.

Obama garnered huge support among African American voters during his Democratic primary campaign against Hillary Clinton.

But last month, civil rights icon Jesse Jackson, in a lurid remark picked up by a live television microphone, accused Obama of "talking down to black people," reviving the debate about race in the 2008 campaign.

Obama, son of a white mother from Kansas and a Kenyan father, has made a concerted attempt to ensure that he is not perceived solely as a "black candidate" during his campaign, even though he is trying to become the first African American president.

On Thursday, the McCain campaign accused Obama of playing the "race card" himself after the Illinois senator said Republicans would try to highlight the fact that he did not look like other presidents featured on US dollar bills.


Copyright AFP 2008

[JustLikeHeaven]

lol he better hope muslims dont join them ..hahaha

African American protestors holding a banner reading "What about the black community Obama?" heckled Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama in Florida on Friday.
Three men stood up as Obama was talking about the economy during a townhall meeting in St Petersburg in Florida, a key battleground state in Obama's duel with Republican John McCain in November's election.

"What about the black community?" the protestors chanted, prompting Obama's crowd of supporters to chant his slogan "Yes We Can" to drown them out.

"Excuse me, young man, this is going to be a question and answer session, so you can ask a question later," Obama told the protestors.

"Sit down. You'll have a chance to ask your questions, but you don't want to disrupt the whole meeting. Just be courteous," he said, before going back to his prepared remarks.

Obama garnered huge support among African American voters during his Democratic primary campaign against Hillary Clinton.

But last month, civil rights icon Jesse Jackson, in a lurid remark picked up by a live television microphone, accused Obama of "talking down to black people," reviving the debate about race in the 2008 campaign.

Obama, son of a white mother from Kansas and a Kenyan father, has made a concerted attempt to ensure that he is not perceived solely as a "black candidate" during his campaign, even though he is trying to become the first African American president.

On Thursday, the McCain campaign accused Obama of playing the "race card" himself after the Illinois senator said Republicans would try to highlight the fact that he did not look like other presidents featured on US dollar bills.


Copyright AFP 2008

So when it's convenient to your argument u say he plays the race card - AND that blacks vote for him just bc he's black...and now all of a sudden he's ignoring them. LOL...too funnAY

[ShaE]

So when it's convenient to your argument u say he plays the race card - AND that blacks vote for him just bc he's black...and now all of a sudden he's ignoring them. LOL...too funnAY

kinda like how he said he was dismissive of muslims, but then criticized his observing their dress code and customs when traveling to muslim countries.

notice a pattern? lol

[Skylab]

On Thursday, the McCain campaign accused Obama of playing the "race card" himself after the Illinois senator said Republicans would try to highlight the fact that he did not look like other presidents featured on US dollar bills.

McCain is such a tool

[jameznyhc]

kinda like how he said he was dismissive of muslims, but then criticized his observing their dress code and customs when traveling to muslim countries.

notice a pattern? lol

you mean observing the dress code of oppressive enslavers?? lol like women habve a choice in those countries

[Suzie*Q]

Jesse Jackson will never be happy

[ShaE]

you mean observing the dress code of oppressive enslavers?? lol like women habve a choice in those countries

so now you've labeled all muslims that require women to dress as such as oppressive enslavers?

actually yes, some women do. believe it or not some women CHOOSE to observe that way. not all are under taliban like rule of death if they don't.

you're talking out both sides of your mouth. first he doesn't respect women in headscarves, then he's wrong for respecting customary dress abroad.

[jameznyhc]

so now you've labeled all muslims that require women to dress as such as oppressive enslavers?

actually yes, some women do. believe it or not some women CHOOSE to observe that way. not all are under taliban like rule of death if they don't.

you're talking out both sides of your mouth. first he doesn't respect women in headscarves, then he's wrong for respecting customary dress abroad.

Im talking about the mid east yes those countries enforce sharia law.. women can not choose to wear wehat they want ,, theres no human or women rights.. in SA, Palestine, Egypt.. even the more pro western moderate countries women have no choice

[jameznyhc]

McCain is such a tool

Race card? What about the 'racist card'?
Monday, August 04, 2008
By Ruth Ann Dailey, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
We voters keep getting reminders that the Republicans are going to "play the race card." Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton regularly warned us of such nefarious GOP plans, often while helpfully providing an example of the ugly stereotypes or cultural references available for use.

And although Sen. Barack Obama's campaign chastised Mrs. Clinton last August for being obsessed "with what she calls the Republican attack machine," Mr. Obama himself has regularly invoked the soon-coming onslaught.

At a fund raiser in June, Mr. Obama predicted, "They're going to try to make you afraid of me: 'He's young and inexperienced and he's got a funny name. ... Oh, and did I mention he's black?'"

Last week, Mr. Obama again warned of the GOP's impending insidious attack: "The only strategy they've got in this election is to try to scare you about me -- 'He doesn't look like all the presidents on the dollar bills.'" All those presidents, of course, being white.

But Sen. John McCain, his allies and the Republican Party as a whole -- despite its disarray and beleaguered mood -- have acted in unity thus far in refusing to utter the words that the Democrats keep trying to shove into their mouths.

So what's going on here? Something pretty despicable, actually. By constantly (and hopefully) claiming the Republicans will play "the race card," the Democrats are playing "the racist card."

It's absolutely necessary to distinguish between the two in this election cycle -- thanks entirely, up until now, to Democratic leaders' regular, and so-far false, accusations. Their strategy is essentially a prolonged smear tactic, propagating the Democrats' historically silly claim to be the party of racial equality.

And it refutes Mr. Obama's earlier, constant promises to transcend the "old stuff [that] just divides us."

Both parties have plenty to be ashamed of in their racial histories, though you wouldn't know it from the popular narrative. Democratic operatives were the first to "play the race card," spreading (possibly true) rumors back in 1920 that Republican candidate Warren G. Harding had black ancestors. He won anyway.

The popular narrative on race, dispensed by baby-boomer-dominated media, begins conveniently in 1964, when Lyndon Johnson, until very recently a committed segregationist, signed the Civil Rights Act. The other half of the narrative's centerpiece is Richard Nixon's "Southern strategy," which shamefully exploited white segregationists' fears even as an aggressive federal government alarmed many pro-civil rights conservatives.

This highly selective and unhistorical narrative obviously favors one party over the other and prevents the discussion of substantive issues that both candidates say they want. So if Mr. Obama is going to transcend the "old stuff" that just divides us, maybe he should start by declining to imply that his partisan opponents are racists just waiting to pounce.

Besides the general consensus that Mr. McCain is a man of character who will not play the race card, he doesn't have to. He can play the Messiah card, the inexperience card and the leftist card.

He played all three, in fact, last week. His campaign's spoof of Mr. Obama's well-cultivated image as "The One" was spot-on. Its tone only falters in its final sentence, as it raises the issue of inexperience and asks, "But is he ready to lead?"

And Mr. McCain continued to push his advantage on energy policy -- the most high-profile issue by which he can display the philosophical distance between his moderate positions and Mr. Obama's far-left voting record. (Americans for Democratic Action gives him 100 percent, to Sen. Ted Kennedy's 95.)

Mr. Obama can play the hand he's been dealt: Mr. McCain's age, his pro-Iraq War position and a stumbling economy. But racism?

When Mr. McCain's campaign accused his opponent of injecting racism into the contest with his "presidents on the dollar bills" remark, Mr. Obama at first scoffed at the suggestion.

But by Friday, chief strategist David Axelrod said his boss was in fact guilty as charged, acknowledging on "Good Morning America" that Mr. Obama's dollar-bill remark referred in part to his race. At a Saturday news conference in Florida, the candidate said the same thing himself, repeating the defense offered by Mr. Axelrod: the remark's main point was that "I don't come out of central casting when it comes to presidential races." Oddly, he told reporters, "None of you thought I was making a racially incendiary remark, or playing the race card." (The Associated Press did not report how the press corps responded to his assumption of their collective absolution.)

Though the Republicans have won this round, it would be good for the whole country if both candidates live up to their rhetoric -- Mr. McCain by balancing satire and a clear conscience in his ads, Mr. Obama by refraining from implying that his opponents are racists without evidence to support the charge.

Ruth Ann Dailey can be

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08217/901661-152.stm