Comments on: How the Media has Labeled Barack Obama the “Black Candidate”

By: lin

lin — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:39:24 +0000

Let’s not forget the Rush Limbaugh factor. Limbaugh has been urging Republicans to cross over and vote for Hillary in order to “bloody” Obama and to keep the Democratic race going and to hurt the party and give McCain a boost. Chris Matthews reported that exit polls showed that 24% of Hillary’s Mississippi votes came from white Republicans. This means that Hillary’s numbers are lower than stated, and that the Republicans are more afraid of Obama as an opponent than Hillary. I have to agree with them, as I will not vote for Hillary should she be the nominee, and I have been a life-long Democrat.

By: akrob

akrob — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:03:44 +0000

This commentary is dead on. Obama won Iowa, Wisconsin, Wyoming, etc, where blacks voters are few but the media highlights only states where black votes were high. They fail to mention that Hillary also got most of the white votes in Mississippi, for intance. The media led by CNN is throwing spanners in the wheels of the Democratic primaries. Like someone said, if Obama were a white man he would have clenched the nomination by now. Obama has tried to be calm warding off negative attacks, rumors and smears. The situation is gradually destroying the party. Above all I see a weak leadership in the DNC. In the end it is not the Democratic party that would have lost, if the GOP wins, but the people yearning for change

By: hwebb54

hwebb54 — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:53:47 +0000

I just want to say that the Mississippi election tonight shows who is more racist, Black voters. All over the Country Obama has got 80 to 90 percent of the black vote and no one says anything about how the black voters are forgeting what Bill Clinton did for the African American community and the media took his comments about Jesse Jackson and made them into something that it wasnt. Even Jesse Jackson said that it wasn’t racist to point out that he had won by winning the black vote in South Carolina. I say that if the Black voters are going to be racist and just vote for Obama for being black then its only fair that the white voters take as much pride in their first white woman nominee and go 90-10 for Hillary. This is so disheartening to see how the black vote has abandoned the Clinton’s and showed the real racism in the Black community.