As champions for diversity, and liberal Democrats, we have wanted to get behind Obama, but we just can't. He comes across to us as smug and arrogant, and as his critics keep saying, we just don't see much substance. However we're not writing about this, but rather, in our confusion over why the African American community is getting behind him with such fervor. Over 90% of African Americans voting in the primaries are choosing Obama and it seems a bit ridiculous to us.
Raised by his white mother and white grandparents, with an absentee Kenyan father and a Malaysian step-father. He split his childhood and adolescence between Honolulu and Jakarta. His undergraduate tenure at a preppy liberal arts school (Occidental) and the Ivy League (Columbia) before topping off his education at Harvard Law. How is this representative of the African American experience? Add to this that Clinton's platform is more in-line with the needs of the majority of African Americans, and the only thing I can think of is that Obama's skin color looks the same.
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they both suck.
vote libertarian.
statistically speaking, black people don't vote...see David Chappelle stand up regarding voting...search chappelle on voting
Every time Obama looks in the mirror he knows he already has the African American vote...so why waste his time lying to "his people" about how hes going to help them and just lie to the white folk.
A bit reminiscent of Halle Berry's blubbering "African-American" Oscar acceptance speech as the camera panned to her mother, who raised her, without Dad, in an "all-white neighborhood," per Ms. Halle Berry herself. . .
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