Black Conservatives Voting For Hussein
{sigh} …
I’ve been sitting on this one for a couple days …
Why? … Well, because it sort of made me a bit heartsick.
The damn liberal mantra of , “If you don’t vote for Obama you’re a racist” … in reverse!
I’m black … I don’t agree a lick with anything the man espouses or believes in … But it’s been a long time coming so I might just have to, because I too am black, vote for him.
I’ll GIVE Hussein this … There IS something about him that seems to just drop normally high IQs down … quite a bit.
For ALL Hillary’s bitching and moaning and public teary eyes … and how she setback feminism by about 30 or more years … If these ‘black’ conservatives cast a vote for Hussein simply because he is some sort of collective symbol of black progress to them sets back ‘black equality’ by the same damn 30 or more years.
To me, conviction(s) are the foundation to all you build yourself on. If you throw your convictions out the window for a fleeting taste of a ‘dream’, you ain’t got nothing left …
And the saddest part is … I would have voted for any of these more qualified ‘black men’ before I’d ever vote for Hussein … Hell! Over McCain!!!
See??? … Heartsick …
Wire Story:
Black conservative talk show host Armstrong Williams has never voted for a Democrat for president. That could change this year with Barack Obama as the Democratic Party’s nominee.
“I don’t necessarily like his policies; I don’t like much that he advocates, but for the first time in my life, history thrusts me to really seriously think about it,” Williams said. “I can honestly say I have no idea who I’m going to pull that lever for in November. And to me, that’s incredible.”
Just as Obama has touched black Democratic voters, he has engendered conflicting emotions among black Republicans. They revel over the possibility of a black president but wrestle with the thought that the Illinois senator doesn’t sit beside them ideologically.
“Among black conservatives,” Williams said, “they tell me privately, it would be very hard to vote against him in November.”
Perhaps sensing the possibility of such a shift, Republican presidential candidate John McCain has made some efforts to lure black voters. He recently told Essence magazine that he would attend the NAACP’s annual convention next month, and he noted that he recently traveled to Selma, Ala., scene of seminal voting rights protests in the 1960s, and “talked about the need to include ‘forgotten Americans.’”
Still, the Arizona senator has a tall order in winning black votes, no doubt made taller by running against a black opponent. In 2004, blacks chose Democrat John Kerry over President Bush by an 88 percent to 11 percent margin, according to exit polls.
J.C. Watts, a former Oklahoma congressman who once was part of the GOP House leadership, said he’s thinking of voting for Obama. Watts said he’s still a Republican, but he criticizes his party for neglecting the black community. Black Republicans, he said, have to concede that while they might not agree with Democrats on issues, at least that party reaches out to them.
“And Obama highlights that even more,” Watts said, adding that he expects Obama to take on issues such as poverty and urban policy. “Republicans often seem indifferent to those things.”
Likewise, retired Gen. Colin Powell, who became the country’s first black secretary of state under President George W. Bush, said both candidates are qualified and that he will not necessarily vote for the Republican.
“I will vote for the individual I think that brings the best set of tools to the problems of 21st-century America and the 21st-century world regardless of party, regardless of anything else other than the most qualified candidate,” Powell said Thursday in Vancouver in comments reported by The Globe and Mail in Toronto.
Writer and actor Joseph C. Phillips got so excited about Obama earlier this year that he started calling himself an “Obamacan” — Obama Republican. Phillips, who appeared on “The Cosby Show” as Denise Huxtable’s husband, Navy Lt. Martin Kendall, said he has wavered since, but he is still thinking about voting for Obama.
“I am wondering if this is the time where we get over the hump, where an Obama victory will finally, at long last, move us beyond some of the old conversations about race,” Phillips said. “That possibly, just possibly, this great country can finally be forgiven for its original sin, or find some absolution.”
Yet Phillips, author of the book “He Talk Like a White Boy,” realizes the irony of voting for a candidate based on race to get beyond race.
“We have to not judge him based on his race, but on his desirability as a political candidate,” he said. “And based on that, I have a lot of disagreements with him on a lot of issues. I go back and forth.”
Michael Steele, the Republican former lieutenant governor of Maryland who lost a Senate race there in 2006, said he is proud of Obama as a black man, but that “come November, I will do everything in my power to defeat him.” Electing Obama, he said, would not automatically solve the woes of the black community.
“I think people who try to put this sort of messianic mantle on Barack’s nomination are a little bit misguided,” he said.
John McWhorter, a self-described political moderate who is a senior fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute and a New York Sun columnist, said Obama’s Democratic Party victory “proves that while there still is some racism in the United States, there is not enough to matter in any serious manner. This is a watershed moment.”
“Obama is probably more to the left than I would prefer on a lot of issues,” he adds. “But this issue of getting past race for real is such a wedge issue for me. And he is so intelligent, and I think he would be a perfectly competent president, that I’m for him. I want him to get in because, in a way, it will put me out of a job.”
James T. Harris, a Milwaukee radio talk show host and public speaker, said he opposes Obama “with love in my heart.”
“We are of the same generation. He’s African American and I’m an American of African descent. We both have lovely wives and beautiful children,” Harris said. “Other than that, we’ve got nothing in common. I hope he loses every state.”
Moderate Republican Edward Brooke, who blazed his own trail in Massachusetts in 1966 as the first black popularly elected U.S. senator, said he is “extremely proud and confident and joyful” to see Obama ascend. Obama sent Brooke a signed copy of his book, inscribed, “Thank you for paving the way,” and Brooke sent his own signed book to Obama, calling the presumed Democratic nominee “a worthy bearer of the torch.”
Brooke, who now lives in Florida, won’t say which candidate will get his endorsement, but he does say that race won’t be a factor in his decision.
“This is the most important election in our history,” Brooke said. “And with the world in the condition that it is, I think we’ve got to get the best person we can get.”
Williams, the commentator, says his 82-year-old mother, who also hasn’t voted for a Democratic presidential candidate, has already made up her mind.
“She is so proud of Senator Barack Obama, and she has made it clear to all of us that she’s voting for him in November,” Williams relates. “That is historic. Every time I call her, she asks, ‘How’s Obama doing?’ They feel as if they are a part of this. Because she said, given the history of this country, she never thought she’d ever live to see this moment.”
(AP)
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I have held JC Watts in high reguard in the past… but he was in congress and could have stood out and lead… where is he now? He had the platform and could have been the first black president… but now it seems like an arm chair quarterback statement.
I know this… if Obama becomes the first black president… it will probably be the last one for a long long time… once bitten… twice shy
June 16th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
June 16th, 2008 at 4:38 pmAll this article says…. is that McCain must be an utter and complete disaster. It is amazing to see the long hand of the socialist and American hater George Soros.
June 16th, 2008 at 4:47 pmIf anything, the article perhaps exposes the vexing position some African-Americans are in with regards to Obama…at least if they look at the issues with some degree of intellectual honesty.
As Rush says, very correctly I might add, “Conservatism works every time it’s tried”.
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PS - Hell, 6/10 tenths of my family, (white,
June 16th, 2008 at 4:59 pmMick-Limey-Kraut) , are blithering idots when it comes to politics and of those six there are eight college degrees (no, not me), and they’re stuck in a bubble of false reality that’s just astounding to try and comprehend.
Joseph C. Phillips is quite a dissappointment for me in this article. He is a prominent “conservative” speaker for the Young American Foundation . . . such a disappointment that he waivers. A TRUE conservative could NEVER vote for Obama . . . color doesn’t trump conservatism and if it does, then you are not a conservative.
June 16th, 2008 at 5:05 pmThis is sad and also shows ignorance. I would gladly vote for any politician that I thought represented me regardless of color or sex. Yet some of these Republicans will vote for a Democrat based on color, even though most black Democrats will not vote for a Black Republican over a white Democrat. Such as Michael Steele or Lynn Swann.
June 16th, 2008 at 5:05 pm“THIS IS NOT THE J.C. WATTS I KNEW!”
Seriously, I think we owe JC the benefit of the doubt on this one, I bet he will come around as Obama marches off the left-hand side of the earth this summer. Otherwise he will just go down as as yet another [black] RINO…
June 16th, 2008 at 5:08 pmThat’s not conservative. It’s just BLACK!
My dad had a restaurant in KC for years and he lived in the ghetto which grew around him over the course of many years. He was well liked and respected there, never any trouble of any sort.
One of his many sidelines was a brisk traffic in “stolen” meat. This product was actually purchased at wholesale through the restaurant and was 100% legit except his neighbors were told it was “HOT”. He charged slightly more than retail for the product and was never short for customers, they whispering with a wink and grin, “Hey man ya got any more dat hot meat?”
Those folks lusted for that meat not for it’s intrinsic value but for it’s status as an illegal, “stolen”, forbidden substance. Culture? Nature? Nurture?
June 16th, 2008 at 6:24 pmThese folks need to think just a minute: if the tables were turned, and it were one of those conservative Black men running as a Republican, would the liberal Blacks be saying the same thing? Think about the experience of the candidate for Lt Gov of Maryland, Michael Steele. Were the Democrats saying that about him? NO! They pilloried him as an Uncle Tom and a traitor to their race.
Mr. Watts and other Black Conservatives, WAKE UP and smell reality! Why do something that the other side would never do for you? Don’t give your vote to your own enemy. It isn’t worth it.
June 16th, 2008 at 7:16 pmif he gets elected and as expected tries to be buddies with our enemies there will be hell to pay. mark my words
June 16th, 2008 at 8:38 pmYou guys will have to trust me on this one. I know J.C. (kind of) personally from college. He is neither as bright as everyone would like to make him, nor is he a true conservative. He was never in the mold of Justice Thomas, Jesse Peterson or Thomas Sewell. He made in Oklahoma politics the same way Steve Largent (a true conservative but a little facetious) made it in politics - an in-state football star.
J.C. came into Oklahoma politics during the term limit boon. He promised to serve three terms; he served four. The best congressman in this state far and away is Tom Coburn; Jim Inhofe isn’t bad either.
J.C. was a wonderful quarterback but a very average intellect. He joined the “conservative” bandwagon when it was cool back in ‘93. He road Newt’s coattails to publicity.
J.C. has been and always will be an opportunist. And with men like J.C., race trumps everything.
June 16th, 2008 at 8:50 pmYo ZEKE thats a great story and exemplify s my experience with “their culture” as well it didn’t matter how wrong a decision was, if it meant sticking with the black clan, they were all in.
June 16th, 2008 at 11:22 pmguess thats what makes them brothers. I love it when you find a real individual that stands out with integrity and forsakes the brotherhood of the ignorant, I’ve known a few and they are special.
Weak men shirk when the pressure is on or when they sit atop principals they hardly believe in. Reminds me of the dude who built his house on rock vs the one (these guys) who built it on sand.
June 16th, 2008 at 11:52 pmit huh huh still just huh huh blows me huh huh away that so huh huh huh many people fell huh head over heels. they seem to think that if he is elcted all the problems just go away
June 17th, 2008 at 3:28 amStupid, blind, giveaway artist,untrustworthy, islamic sympathizer, jew hater, racist, marxist, liar, unqualified,
June 17th, 2008 at 6:30 amI can go on about Hussein, but why. Don’t vote for Obama.
You can not be a *conservative* and vote for Hussein. It is impossible. If people are voting for him just because he’s black (well, 1/2 black), that’s ridiculous and shows no intellectual process. What they are saying then is that there is an inert something about the skin color that makes a person do the think and do the things they do. That’s weird, just weird.
June 17th, 2008 at 6:35 am“A TRUE conservative could NEVER vote for Obama”
A TRUE conservative could never vote for McCain, either.
June 17th, 2008 at 10:26 amI tend to think of these Black Conservatives that say they will vote for Omama as basically unprincipled and frauds. Just go and don’t let the door hit your azz.
June 17th, 2008 at 10:35 amWelcome back to the plantation, the Masser will put you to work soon as he gets here!