[Rhodes22-list] food for thought

[Steven Alm]

I think you're right, Herb, there will be protests if he loses and they'll
cry "Racism!" and they'll be at least partly right.  Maybe mostly right.
But if he wins, I'll be amazed if he makes it out of his four years alive.
And they say Palin's the one who's a heartbeat away.  I think Biden has an
equal shot (no pun intended) of being the next pres.

What a mess.  There's so much hatred being spewed forth.

Peace out

Slim

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Herb Parsons <hparsons at parsonsys.com>wrote:

> And, by the same token, there are way too many people that will "go
> nuts" if he's not elected. "Respected" political commentators have
> already threatened violence in the street if he's not elected. Why?
> Because, it would be because of racism, of course!
>
>
> Steven Alm wrote:
> > Did you see the footage of the McCain speech where he asks something to
> the
> > effect of, "Who is the real Barack Obama?"  and someone in the crowd very
> > audibly yells out, "Kill him!"  Probably a Klansman.
> >
> > This could possibly be a studio dub but I doubt it.  What I'm wondering
> is
> > why the secret service did nothing at this obvious threat.  I truly
> believe
> > that if he's elected there will be assassination attempts.  The other
> issues
> > aside, there are way too many people that will go nuts having a black
> > president.
> >
> > Slim
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Herb Parsons <hparsons at parsonsys.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >
> >> I would say that when 95% of voting blacks are expected to be voting for
> >> the black candidate, it would indeed be naive to believe that racism
> >> isn't rampant.
> >>
> >> Wonder what the world would say if we were "expecting" 95% of the whites
> >> to vote for the white candidate?
> >>
> >> Yes indeed, racism.
> >>
> >> TN Rhodey wrote:
> >>
> >>> Brad, Racism is a factor in this election and to think otherwise...well
> >>>
> >> you
> >>
> >>> must still be wearing your rose colored glasses.. Do you ever take them
> >>>
> >> off?
> >>
> >>> There will be blacks and whites that will vote for a candidate because
> of
> >>> color. No one is calling you a racist but to think that race will not
> >>>
> >> come
> >>
> >>> into play seems naive.
> >>>
> >>> Did you close?
> >>>
> >>> Wally
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Joe,
> >>>>
> >>>> Of course racism and bigotry exist in this country, no one is denying
> >>>> that.  I live and work in a predominantly black city (Memphis). Our
> >>>> former Congressman, Harold Ford, Sr., used to refer to us in the
> >>>> mostly white suburbs as "blue eyed-devils".  One of his sons (not
> >>>> Harold Ford, Jr. who I respect) said in the primaries this year that
> >>>> "we can't have a Jew representing a black district".
> >>>>
> >>>> The issue here is "are you a racist for asking questions about Barack
> >>>> Obama's character"?  To suggest that you are is ridiculous on the
> >>>> surface and dangerous.  I don't care what color crayon out of the box
> >>>> of 64 he is.  I'm not a racist so there's no reason to give the matter
> >>>> a second thought when choosing to ask questions.
> >>>>
> >>>> I expect the same fair treatment of Bobby Jindal in 2012.
> >>>>
> >>>> Brad
> >>>>
> >>>> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 7:44 AM, Joe Babb <joe.babb at comcast.net>
> wrote:
> >>>>  > Brad,
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> I rarely weigh in on the political debate on this forum.
> >>>>> But racism and bigotry are sadly too much alive in this country.
> >>>>> I know one staunchly republican couple who voted for Hillary in the
> >>>>> primary.  Why?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Because they were trying to prevent Obama from being the Democratic
> >>>>> candidate.  Why?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> They explained that they didn't want a black AND a muslim to have a
> >>>>> chance to be president.
> >>>>> Nuff said.
> >>>>> Joe
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