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Obama had a slight edge because a higher percentage of Africans came out to vote, but blacks are something like 18% of the population, and when you translate that to the overall voting population,
you're talking like maybe a 1% up-tick for dems. Not much.
Nope, there is no alternate Universe in which Obama could have lost the general election, black, white, red, purple, it doesn't matter. In fact the only dem I think that may have been able to lose that one had they gotten through the Primaries is maybe Edwards because his scandal would have come out during the election.
But even then McCain would have had to pick someone besides Palin to have won.
I'm pretty sure the race thing was a push. Likely the number of people who voted for just because he is black is about the same as the number who voted against just because he is black. A very small number in either instance I believe.
I was watching her on Glenn Beck yesterday and could not stop cracking up! Those two are like dumb rats chewing on a piece over-processed american cheese.
Goddamn create debate, I already wrote all this but CD logged me out for some reason while I was replying, so last try:
Okay, so maybe she's just bad on camera. I mean what person running for VP of the most powerful nation on Earth could be expected to answer a "gotcha" question like what are your foreign policy credentials? ._.
Maybe she's a closet genius or something... oh wait
Really? An 841 on her SAT's and she thinks she's qualified to lead anything? It's multiple choice for chrissake.
Face it Jake, she's a dumb dumb.
Sad really, almost pretty enough to sell her body for money, almost smart enough to flip burgers for a living. Luckily there's always politics to fall back on.
But I disagree anyway. I firmly believe she would mess up my burger, and while she could sell her body for money, she wouldn't be a high class hooker by any stretch. More like the kind you pick up in an alley for a quikee before work. That accent would kill the deal anyway in most cases.
I'm gonna think she can make a mean ass burger. She seems like she knows her way around meat.
And secondly... I think, a few babies back, she could have certainly been a damn fine hooker. She's sexy in a crazy way, and I kinda dig it. I might need to put a ball gag on her, but if I could, I'd nail Palin.
Religion is fine, but it can't be allowed to become a witch hunt. Sara Palin went to a church that believed in real witches.
Here they thought witches were such a threat that it merited special magical protection.
If one wants to believe in a magic daddy in the sky that is fine, there is nothing dangerous about that in and of itself.
But it is a short step, as history has shown, from believing witches are out to get you, to a person with too much power believing witches are out to get you and thus making it okay to do things like burn witches at the stake.
This type of behaviour needs to be called out at every opportunity for what it is.
There are people who think your religion (yes i dont know what it is, but there are people against every religion) is wrong and offensive. People have different beleifs and you should respect that. (by the way i do not support palin, you are right she is pretty stupid)
I'm an atheist, so it is impossible for anyone to think my "religion" is wrong and offensive for starters, they can only be mad I don't believe what they believe, which is basically what happens every single time it comes up.
I do not think any religion is offensive. I think all religions are wrong though. And I think that when people cross the line from pretty fantasies of some eternal life, to believing real live humans are witches,
I feel it's everyone's duty to expose them for psychotic, or else who knows, they get enough power maybe they'll decide it's okay to start burning witches again.
A different person pointed out that african americans are about 18% of the population and was about a 1% pick up for the Democrats. I doubt that it would change much.
People are making too big of a deal over the idea that Obama being black was a deciding factor in the election. He might have gotten about 97% of the black vote but what people are forgetting is Kerry ended up getting 89%, so it was the D next to his name that won him the black vote.
Well, Obama being a Democrat also had a lot to do with it. So a better question is if McCain were black AND a Democrat and Obama a white Republican, who would win? McCain, most definitely (this saying that their policies would not change at all, just the image).
people wanted a Democrat in office because they blamed Bush for everything and decided "dem Republicans be da problem, yos". The fact that Obama was black was just a major boost.
What everyone has to understand about politics is elections is that it's all bullshit. Voters are retarded and will go for the most flashy side. A young, black, Democrat. C'mon, that's like trying to see who will win, a wolf or an infant.
well, don't switch their policies as well, that's what I was stating.
Obama won because he was a black, young, Democrat. The black Democrat part was the most important. policies didn't mean shit; he's doing what Bush did, except less security.
If Obama was white he would not have been the democratic candidate. Hillary Clinton easily trumps a white Obama, and consequently she would have been the dem. cand. A black McCain would have won against Hillary Clinton.
(I do think the 08 election result is a consequence of media manipulation of a largely un-informed electorate who tend to vote for the person whom they think will win. And yes, I am not convinced Obama won the election because of the democratic platform. )
I can't wait until a black republican runs for president. The liberal media wont know what to do. Their job is to attack republicans. But then if they attacked a black republican, they would have to [by their own definition] call themselves racist.
Mccain because the white people in this country especially the democrats hate themselves. They hate the fact that they are white and white people enslaved the Africans. Even though the only reason the slave trade exsisted was because the west coast Africans traded them to white people and white people found it to their liking. In short white people hate white people.
White people have set it up so that black people hate black people. During slavery weren't light-skinned black people treated better in an attempt to seperate, and then conquer the black race. White people can be vindictive, they can seem sympathetic when it benefits them. In the first place who came to Africa intending to enslave people? It's just another case of people selling each other out for monetary reward.
Plus, Mccain is another dried up old white man trying to get into office, really how appealing is that?
