IT DOESNT MATTER IF YOU ARE EDUCATED IF YOUR UNABLE TO UTILIZE COMMON SENSE IN YOUR PERCEPTIONS OF EACH CANDIDATE. YOU REFERENCED QUOTES FROM CLINTON...If white women were effected by AIDS as black woman are in America this country would be more concerned." She said, "It is very unfortunate that black people are not treated the same as white people in the criminal justice system"...
YOU FAIL TO SAY THAT THE FIRST QUOTE WAS A PANDERING LINE IN FRONT OF A NAACP AUDIENCE( WHAT ELSE WOULD YOU EXPECT HER TO SAY!)..AT LEAST OBAMA STATED IN FROM OF A MAFORITY BLACK AUDIENCE THAT WE AS BLACK MEN HAVE TO OWN UP TO OUR OWN RESPONSIBILITIES (THAT TO ME ISNT PANDERING, ITS BEING REAL)..ABOUT HER CRIMINAL JUSTICE COMMENT..SHE ACTUAL HAD THE EAR(AND LET HER TELL IT) THE POWER OF THE PRESIDENT WHEN HER HUSBAND WAS IN OFFICE FOR 8 YRS...I THINK THAT WE ARE HAVING THE SAME CONVERSATION ABOUT INEQUALITY IN SENTENCING AS WE HAD PRIOR TO THEM BEING IN OFFICE FOR 8 YRS..AND BY THE WAY THE JENA 6 SITUATION IS A RIGHT/WRONG ISSUE...ANYBODY REGARDLESS OF COLOR CAN BE RAILROADED BY THE LEGAL PROCESS..THE SIGN OF A TRUE LEADER ISNT TO PANDER TO RACIAL DIVIDES IF THERE IS COMMON THREAD TO BRING US TOGETHER....

BARACK 08!

This is what Barack Obama is comparing himself to? God, I hope not.

[IL Governor Deval] Patrick, the nation’s only African-American governor, delivered a forceful argument for why he believes Mr. Obama should be elected president...

Here is a passage from Mr. Patrick’s remarks, delivered in the heart of Boston Common before a crowd of several thousand supporters:

"For once, I want a campaign that’s not about the candidate, but about us.

Not about a resumé, but about character. Not about connections or convenience, but about conviction. Not about smearing the competition, but about lifting us all up. Not about the right and the left, but about right and wrong. Not about yesterday, but about tomorrow.

I don’t care whether the next president has experience in the White House. I care whether he understands life in your house.

I don’t care whether the next president is the first black president or the first woman president or the first whatever, to tell you the truth. I care that the next president has moral courage, a political backbone, the humility to admit what he doesn’t know, and the wisdom to learn from others."

- Coach Haughotn (sp?)
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And Barack Hussein Obama will do it ?!Make blacks richer and better educated ?
By becoming the next Jesse Jackson no doubt !

Another tragi-comedy by Coach "Notten" Haughton

And monte, all the problems that you note about blacks in america have nothing to do with the president.

Bill Clinton did not make blacks any richer or better educated and neither will hillary. The notion that a president can somehow solve the problems in the black community is foolish. "for black people this will be another clinton presidency". THAT my friend is pandering.

Call me insensitive but i dont think the president should have a different policy toward blacks than toward anyone else.

What better for young black males than to know that they live in a nation where a black man can be president?
It's crazy that the same people who are crying about racial inequality are tearing down Barack Obama.

Monte, you make it obvious which candidate in this race is divisive. Listen to yourself talk.

We can reverse all the negatives that affect our people and we don't have to kiss no ones behind or pander to anyone to do so. We cannot afford to hand our votes over to a Jesse Jackson wannabe who panders and who is naive. We also can not sleep with the past. We already have Civil Rights we need effective leaders to enforce them. Most importantly, we need leadership that will address AIDS, the most important issue that effects our lives around the world. Bill Clinton stepped up to the plate. Don't join the right wing haters, egghead know-it-alls and demagogues. Please.

And to Calvin, what did Hillary say that would lead me to believe that she would make a better leader for black Americans than Obama? She said, "If white women were effected by AIDS as black woman are in America this country would be more concerned." She said, "It is very unfortunate that black people are not treated the same as white people in the criminal justice system". What did Obama say? He said, "Jena 6 is not a black white issue, it is a right wrong issue". He is dead wrong and his response on this issue, like everything else, demonstrates his naivete. Hillary was right. Black people can trust the Clintons way way more than they can trust Obama. Denial will get us nowhere, nor will pure hate. Hillary Clinton is the most experience candidate, the most qualified candidate and she's READY TO LEAD.

BARACK THE VOTE!!

And of course putting another Republican into office would be a death sentence, so my vote goes to Hillary.

Aligning yourself with Jesse Jackson is possibly the most monumental mistake you have made to date with your campaign. Many Americans have a somewhat if not totally negative view of Jesse Jackson and to “Take up the torch” of Mr. Jackson’s failed presidential bid of twenty years ago makes you sound so sad, desperate and out of touch. Your credibility cannot take many more hits like this.

your comments on this page are only hurting your own cause. They're firing up the MILLION or so Obama supporters around the country. They're also making Hillary look bad.
Posted By we love barack Oak Park, IL : October 24, 2007 11:53 am

a million or so out of 190 million eligible voters sounds about right...

your comments on this page are only hurting your own cause. They're firing up the million or so Obama supporters around the country. They're also making Hillary look bad.

Following int he steps of a lime-light-seeker-bully like Jackson is not my cup/of/tee......

It was Bill Clinton's administration. The US Sentencing Commission recommended EQUALIZING amounts, and Bill Clinton REJECTED the recommendation.

Now, he's being compared to a racist "wolf" wrapped in civil rights "sheep's clothing".

I used to think Obama was a smart man. But if he doesn't stop getting put in bad situations (especially being compared to Jesse Jackson of all people), Hillary is going to run away with the nomination.

He is an adulterer, liar, blackmailer of companies for profit, sells out his race for his gain, etc.

Obama could have chosen a much better example of one he wants to emulate.

Like Gov. Patrick just said, we need more than a name change in Washington. We need a policy change, and Obama will bring it.

I would try to look more at the big picture. But that is understandably difficult for some people to do.

Black Americans must go with Hillary Clinton because she has the plans that will move us forward. Our three most important issues for which we should seek change in are AIDS, Education, and Equal Treatment under the law, and Equal Opportunity. Any black American, who decides not to take these issues head on without the spiel and the pandering, does not deserve any consideration from black Americans, whatsoever and any Black Americans, after all the struggling we’ve been through to get our rights, who accepts a Booker T. Washington panderer like Obama over a W.E.B Dubois liberator like Hillary Clinton, is a fool and is throwing away his or her vote. Bill Clinton took the first step at helping black people by making us more aware of the perils before us, AIDS. When last I checked black people were dying. Our children think that being smart is gay (not that there is anything wrong with being gay). Our children can’t read or speak English properly. Our young black men are being institutionalized by prison. Hillary Clinton addressed the issues of black women’s health HEAD ON. Hillary Clinton addressed the issue of racial profiling HEAD ON. She did not pander, nor did she waver from her position. Hillary Clinton really cares about our life, freedom and happiness and she will not pander for our vote. She will not sell us pride and hope. Black Americans must also bear in mind that Obama can’t beat the Republicans. Hillary can. Black America must play it smart. Hillary Clinton is the most qualified, the most experienced candidate and she’s READY TO LEAD.

Why does Obama want to taint himself by stating that he has taken up the torch from Jesse Jackson?

Obama, you need to learn to "pick your political allies like you pick your fruit". Jesse is rotton and the odor of being a "poverty pimp" is oozing from his pores. You don't need the support from Jackson to win the nomination, in fact, the association could cost you. For the record, I am an African-American female.

Go ahead, right wingers. Smear him with your racist, childish taunts like "Barack Husein Osama." (Jim Bremer who posts this all the time.)

Democrats who vote in primaries are smart enough not to pay that crap any mind. Obama has also mobilized the youth vote, which is hungry for a REAL change.

He'll get the nomination, just watch.

OBAMA '08!