Obama the racist and Hillary the crook...

[1awake]

These seem to be the two themes I keep hearing on TV and in my neck of the woods. Over and over.. Hillary has done this, been tied to that, participated in something else, how many people have died who were around the Clintons... For Obama.. I've heard nothing but he's a racist, his preacher man is a racist, Obama secretly hates white people, Obama and his wife have a hidden agenda which doesn't include anyone not african american.. etc..


One expects attacks in a election run.. but is it me or are things getting worse every year we move forward. If I was still a republican, I'd have walked out of the party after the race baiting began. Not to be one sided.. for some of the Dem's have been busy as well on both sides. It's almost like I'm watching a very bad soap opera that has it's writers on strike.

Am I the only one who thinks things are getting worse in general?







sidenote- very off topic...

Had to share this because..well.. I was very shocked when this happened. I went out with a neighborhood friend on a date. I have known of her for years.. spoken to her on and off, and always thought she was a very nice person. Anyway.. we ended up back at my house and were sitting at one of my computers discussing things. Eventually, politics came up. She asked who I was leaning towards this election. I off handedly said Obama because I was busy working on something. Shortly there after I noticed the silence. I looked up and she was staring at me. I was confused so I simply said what. She said "your joking, right?". I said no, I like him so far the best though I also like Hillary. She then went off on such a cursing and screaming fit the likes of which I seldom see. I will replace the "N" word with the word shizzle for appropriateness. ahem...

she said something to the effect of... YOU ARE NOT VOTING FOR THE STUPID F-ING SHIZZLE! YOU MOTHER F-ING RACE TRAITOR, THATS WHAT YOU WILL BE! I'D DIE BEFORE VOTING FOR ANY SHIZZLE AND GOD HELP US IF THE SHIZZLES EVER DO GET POWER BECAUSE THE DAY OF THE WHITE MAN WILL BE OVER AND YOU ARE F-ING THROUGHING US UNDER THE BUS! SHIZZLE LOVER.. RACE TRAITOR!

.. It went on longer but.. well.. you get the idea. I'd like to say I made this up but I did not. I'm still taken aback from the outburst, and I guess it goes without saying.. the date sorta ended shortly there after. Some of you may have experienced this before, but I lead a very boring life. I work and come home and take care of my kids. This was the first date I have been on in.. sadly to say.. like a year. Just my luck lol.

[TML]

1. What TV station are you watching

I've had CNN, MSNBC, CNN Headline news, and CBS at different times today and every network had Obama and his pastor. No one discussed Hillary Clinton.

[1awake]

2. yes, but in general its attacks on both of them

and everything is geared negative against both of them.

[Breeze54]

4. It was her turn last week. Where were you?

:shrug:

[TML]

6. Working

I'm off today. LOL

[Breeze54]

3. Is that your last date her?

It would be mine.

I think some truths were spoken these last weeks and some people don't like hearing the truth.

[1awake]

5. it was my first and not regrettably.. my last. n/t

[AZBlue]

7. Wow. Sorry about that.

I was embarassed and appalled by the racism that was rampant here - but I luckily did not have a 1-on-1 run-in with it. Eeeeek!

[TML]

8. Holy bleep!

I just noticed the second part of your post and damn! Last year, I dated a Republican (ouch!) and I had a similar but more veiled experience. You could say it didn't last very long after that.

I know this is a dumb question, but was she a Democrat?

[1awake]

11. I don't know.. the conversation veered off track and never went back on track. n/t

[angie_love]

9. Wow you never know how ugly a person can get right?

This election is bringing out ugliness in people they've probably held inside for years. Its frightening.

[sorrybushisfromtexas]

13. I wore my vote for Obama t shirt

into Walmart here in Texas. A 11 year old pointed me out to her mom and the mom said that is just wrong that he would be for Obama. I was shocked.

I am white, by the way. It was a real downer, went to the Olive Garden, another 11 year old told me she loved my shirt.

That made my day, and put a smile on my face.

[angie_love]

14. Its just really sad. Oh well. I will wear my obama shirt all over boston and I look forward

to the reactions I will surely be getting!

[papau]

10. Obama's speech on race tomorrow may well put the Wright issue to bed - the Trib says

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-031708-obama-race-speech_18mar18,1,3729943.story

Obama readies speech on race

By Mike Dorning

Tribune correspondent

8:28 PM CDT, March 17, 2008

MONACA, Pa.

Sen. Barack Obama, confronting ongoing questions about inflammatory sermons delivered by his former pastor, announced Monday he will deliver a "major address" on race and politics in Philadelphia on Tuesday in an attempt to move beyond the controversy.<snip>

After performing well with white voters in early contests and winning over white voters in high-profile primaries in Wisconsin and Virginia, Obama has recently faltered with white voters, particularly the white working-class voters who are a core constituency of the Democratic Party.<snip>

In an interview with PBS's "NewsHour" on Monday, Obama suggested that Wright's tone in speaking of white America was partly a generational difference borne out of the bitter experiences of discrimination in an earlier era.

"When you look at somebody like a Rev. Wright who grew up in the '50s or '60s, his experience of race in this country is very different than mine," Obama said in the PBS interview.

"We benefit from the difficult battles that were place," Obama continued. "But I'm not sure that we benefit from continuing to perpetuate the anger and the bitterness that I think, at this point, serves to divide rather than bring us together."<snip>

[stellanoir]

12. Pssssssssssssssssssssst. . .

Blatant racism is not at all nice.

[1awake]

15. Psssst.. she never gave a hint of racism until that moment to me. n/t