A rare sign of integirity from the McCain campaignFollow

Did he basically just say he would back off because he doesn't want to be the man holdin a brotha down?

Edited, May 21st 2008 2:14am by DarkKnightZero

mccain is a good man. we would be in a significantly better situation right now if he had won the republican nomination in 2000.

but the country has drifted too far to the right. and the backlash comming from the people is going to swing it to the left no matter who runs on the republican ticket. personally, i think in any situation other than comming off of the Bush addministraition, mccain would wipe the floor with both clinton and obama.

obama has raised...and spent over 200 million dollars since he started campaigning. just this month he rasied over 32 million dollars, and clinton was in the mid 20s. mccain raised a paltry 18 million compared to the over 50 million the dems handed out to their party. there has never been such a huge dissaproval rating for any president ever in ths history of this country as there is right now for bush. even republicans are fed up with republicans.

mccain is a better man than bush. signifiacantly better. but he is on the wrong side of the fence to be campaigning in the dust of this addministraition.

obama will win the nomination. and barring an assination, he will win in november. this political enviroment is the perfectstorm for a woman or black candidate to win the whitehouse. when he wins, he will owe his victory to bush. because in any other situation, i think mccain would wipe the floor with him.

that said,

obama IS the perfect person to erase the stigma of the "good ole boys' club the rest of the world has of this country. most of europe has moved past racism a long long time ago. obama would signal that finally, america has grown up. and mabe if the rest of the world can see we have moved past racism....for the most part.....mabe they will respond to our diplomacy better without the underlying feeling that the "good ole boys" across the table from them are looking down on them.

obama can take us places clinton and mccain never could. obama could catch us up to the rest of the world. he is the answer.

most of europe has moved past racism a long long time ago.

Aside from Paki's and Algerians, you mean, right?

Damn Scandinavians and their long good byes and their lutefisk.





Okay, only people from Minnesota will understand that joke.

Yah hey dere.

Obama has a solid lead in Colorado, a mild lead in New Mexico and trails in Nevada.He's doing well in the dairy states which is blue collar working whites. Has a strong lead in Pennsylvania. Essentially tied in Ohio and Michigan (1% difference). There's no reason to assume that, as a whole, "blue collar working whites" isn't a demographic he can take.*Shrug* Lemme know when it's not a rumor.

Now if Black would just go back to lobbying Congress for support for Idi Amin, or whoever.

That's pretty much the definition of "superficial", so yeah.

Honestly, the truly racist white people I have met have been overwhelmingly Democrats. Most Republicans I know don't care about race, it is more about the person as an individual rather than as a member of a group. That is why they are against things such as affirmative action, as an individual a white person may have had a harder life and been born poorer than lets say a middle class black man. After working so hard from a lower class he could lose the opportunity for a good job because he is white? Isn't that the sort of thing that we are suppose to be fighting against?

But what really bothers me is that the term racist is thrown around way too casually. John McCain has been called a racist because he could potentially be running against a black man. Anyone who votes for McCain now will be called a racist, even though they may be voting for him for the important political reasons.

What drives me most nuts though, is that black people such as Clarence Thomas get bashed by the NAACP and the Rev. Wright, because they don't follow the herd. They get called "Uncle Tom"s and sell-outs, since when is thinking for yourself rather than blindly following the group been a bad thing... oh, wait, it is when your free thought leads you to a different answer than the people who tell you to think for yourself want.

My final point, that you call this a "Rare sign of Integrity from the McCain camp" shows how little integrity you have yourself. McCain was a POW and suffered more than you have and more than either of the Dems ever had.