Keating Economics
Posted on October 6th, 2008 by Tariq Nelson
Palin - trying to change the subject - has been saying that Obama was “palling around” with terrorists (when he was only 8?). The Obama campaign has responded in kind to Palin’s smears with “Keating Economics”
Filed under: Politics
This Bill Ayers tack the McCain/Palin campaign is starting to worry me a little about how the black community will react if Obama ends up losing.
Obama has a fairly compelling life story, his mother raised him on food stamps, eventually got into Harvard, president of Harvard law review (first black one if I’m not mistaken) etc etc. As that Pastor Bryant video shows, he’s jumped higher, run faster etc, just to be where he is, and the Republican party puts up a 2 bit white trash lady from the edges of America.
What message will it send to black America if a guy with fairly solid achievements ends up losing to such a ticket?
I’m not defending Obama, we’ve yet to see whether he will be able to back his words with action, but if Americans really believe that Palin is supposedly that much better, I don’t know what to think. This resort to smear tactics in the 11th hour, trying to link Obama with terrorists sounds like a euphemism for pointing out he’s a black man. And I don’t know how he can react without coming off as the angry/uppity black man.
@K-Dude, I don’t think her pathetic attacks on Obama having anything to do with race per se. Rather I think it is an attempt to raise the old terrorism card which the Republicans used so successfully in 2002 and 2004. When people here the name Obama associated with a “terrorist” they are going to automatically think of Osama and 9/11, or so they hope. What was really pathetic was Sarah Palin came out early today raising the whole Jeremiah Wright issue, especially considering her association with a Kenyan witch doctor… err I mean “pastor”.
Glenn Greenwald has a very good piece on the implosion of McCain and Palin: http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/10/06/microcosm/index.html
Whether Sarah would have used/not used smear tactics against Obama, if people use this unfounded excuse not to vote for him, then their minds were made up far before they knew about it.
For example(s). When Hillary Clinton was running in the primaries, they Democratic party we were “unified”. Then when Obama was winning, that was when the problems began. During the DNC some of her supporters refused to vote for Obama, and even tried to blackmail him if they wouldn’t do an “honorary” vote for her or not consider her for VP( although I also thought he should have done the same). Now some of her supporters want to defect to the Republican party or said that are just not voting.
What is so hard about voting for a man who are in the same party as you? Why would you want to put a man and woman in the office who is not of your political party and who seem like they are all over the place? The reason seems pretty obvious. These were all excuses just to keep them from possibly putting a Black guy in the Whitehouse.
Far as Religion , it’s the same thing. When Keith Ellison became a Congressman, it was said that there were hundreds of letters from people all over the country who wanted him recalled because of his Muslim faith. Even with Mitch Romney, a Republican of the Christian faith, was criticized because he was a Mormon, which lead to the partial demise of his campaign.
Sarah and John can put Obama down until he’s blue in the face, but at the end of the day, it’s all up to the voters, especially up to us Democratic voters. We already know what to expect from the Republican party, but if it is said that McCain’s possible win came as a partial result of the Democratic ” defection of so-called Hillary supporters, then we’ll all know the total truth of how race and Religion play in politics and our country.