Sarah Palin is Being Accused of Racism for her Comments About Barack Obama
This is why John McCain is afraid to attack Barack Obama on his associations with people of questionable character, to put it nicely. Sarah Palin did it and now she is being called a racist. Sarah Palin had the gall to go out in public and talk about Barack Obama’s ties to radical anti-American people, and convicted criminals that gave him a sweetheart land deal, and now she has to face the music that Barack Obama should be facing.
Palin’s words avoid repulsing voters with overt racism. But is there another subtext for creating the false image of a black presidential nominee “palling around” with terrorists while assuring a predominantly white audience that he doesn’t see their America?
Whether intended or not by the McCain campaign, portraying Obama as “not like us” is another potential appeal to racism. It suggests that the Hawaiian-born Christian is, at heart, un-American.
Most troubling, however, is how allowing racism to creep into the discussion serves McCain’s purpose so well. As the fallout from Wright’s sermons showed earlier this year, forcing Obama to abandon issues to talk about race leads to unresolved arguments about America’s promise to treat all people equally.
Her comments had nothing to do with race and everything to do with the people that Barack Obama
associates with. But Barack Obama is hiding his past, and he is making it an untouchable subject by having his all too willing accomplices in the media cry racism every time that someone questions his associations.
You may not want to talk about Obama’s past, it’s an ugly past, but it is his past, and it deserves discussion. Instead of being upset at Sarah Palin for mentioning his past, instead of calling her a racist, you should be upset with Barack Obama for hanging around with the likes of Jeremiah Wright and Tony Rezko, and you should be upset with Obama for funding William Ayers’ radical teachings. There would be no issue if Obama hadn’t decided that these were good, uplifting people to “pal around with” in the first place.
It is all too easy for Barack Obama to hide behind the race card rather than face the truth about who he has associated with. He has spent the primary season and the general election cycle setting up this racist scenario knowing that eventually his past would be an issue. Instead of taking responsibility for his past actions he blames others for daring to question him. Maybe Barack Obama should look in the mirror.
Has he ever heard of the term guilt by association, or the saying that a person is judged by the company he keeps? Evidently not. He wants to blame others for noticing what he has done rather than himself for doing it.
Political correctness has made Barack Obama beyond reproach because of the color of his skin, so while Barack Obama has some questions that need to be answered we are not allowed to ask the questions.
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I don’t buy Palin’s remarks being racist. However, I do think that they are trying to tie him to terrorists and to question his patriotism. If so, that is as disgusting.
Shouldn’t McCain be held accountable for his associations with Keating and Hagee? McCain had an active involvement in keeping regulators from looking in Keating’s books and McCain actively sought an endorsement from Hagee (until his anti-catholic statements were unearthed).
Seriously, why is McCain getting a pass on these questionable associations while he gets to attack Obama on his? Oh that’s right, he was a POW.
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I read that Obama is going to release a commercial about McCain’s involvement in the Keaing 5 today.
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The democratic special prosecutor in the Keating hearings recommended that both McCain and Glenn be totally exonerated and dismissed from the hearings. Never happened though, because McCain was the only Republican in the group.
McCain has apologized for any involvement whatsoever.
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If I can add one more thing, Palin isn’t being a racist when she confronts Obama over his past. It has nothing to do with race, it has everything to do with character and political viewpoints. Accusing her of racism is Obama’s main line of defense. Anytime anyone questions anything about his life, he cries “rascist!” If fact, he has been the only one to raise the “race” question during the campaign, and he has done it several times.
Palin, being a Republican, has a high aversion to Socialism. That is why she is questioning Obama’s relationships with his socialist friends.
When Obama says that Ayers committed those terrible things when Obama was 8 years old, he doesn’t disavow the Ayers who said on 9-11 that he didn’t regret the bombing and thought they hadn’t done enough of it. This unrepentant Ayers is the one Obama worked with in several projects.
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We knew this was going to happen. Obama, because of his former associations, wouldn’t be qualified to be in the FBI. I’m sure he would say that is racist, too. I’m also sure that Sarah will be able to answer back to these accusations with no problem at all. Whatever she does say, I think what it will mean is: stop cryin’ and get on with the real stuff.
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The point I would like to make is that we know who McCain is; but does anyone know who Obama is, considering most people haven’t heard of him until now.
As far as I am concerned he has a very shady background. He associates himself with people of questionable backgrounds more so than any politician that I have heard about.
To sit in a church for twenty years and never heard what the Rev. had to say. What was he doing…..daydreaming?
Him and his followers make up more excuses and lies than anyone I know. When he is confronted with questions about his association with these people he never gives a straight answer, and then avoids the matter.
What most Obama followers/supporters don’t understand is…..it’s about charactor.
Anybody who was old enough to remember the 80’s and McCain’s involvement with the Keating 5, knows that he was exonerated from that and has come out and took responsibility for his actions. We have yet to hear anything about Obama’s associations. What has been said is when he came out in a speech and called the country a racist, but admitted in another speech that he never looked at the video’s of the Rev. before he made the first speech. I don’t call that good judgement!
So who is Obama?
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He’s a man with dignity. I think that Palin wants something to happen to Obama. She heard the man yell out “kill him” at her Tues rally in Fla. Why didn’t she denounce that? simply because she would love for him not to be around. We contacted secret service on her for that as well, so Sarah has to be careful what she says, and how she says it. She’s the one having hate rallies trying to forget about the disasterous interview with Katie Curic. Let’s remember that her husband was apart of a successionist group until 2002.
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Desperation, excuses, anything except talking about the people he associated himself (Obama) with. Blame the other side that’s it, hey why not considering you people have nothing to go on.
Let’s also remember that Obama voted on Dick Cheney’s energy bill. The one that was made behind closed doors and in secret. When that bill went through that’s when the gas prices went up!
The only reason he voted for it was because of the earmarks and pork that was in it.
I suggest you go look it up on the Senate website and see who did vote for it. I will tell you right now off the top of my head who didn’t; Senator Clinton, Kennedy, Kerry and most of the proment democrats. Some of the Republicans didn’t either!
When all else fail let’s play the race card or accuse the opponent of something else. But avoid what the real issue is, Obama Sucks!
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