Martin_Kaine's Blog

"It's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations,"  -Barack Obama-

You know what he just said? This is a preemptive critique of Pennsylvania democrats that are planning to vote for Hilary Clinton. He basically said " I won't be surprised if I lose in Pennsylvania, because the bitter bible thumping racist NRA members won't vote for me."

Not only is this yet another window into who he really is, it is just one more slap in the face to people who are getting really tired of being called a racist. This "vote for me or you are a racist" tactic is not only racist in and of itself, but I find it insulting.

He speaks of hope and change and presents himself as the source of that hope, and that we need that hope because America is such a terrible place. Well I say SCREW YOU SENATOR!!

Even in troubled times this is a great and generous nation and it is filled with people who are hopeful and optimistic. We are the most powerful nation that has ever existed and became so in an unbelievably short period of time, not because a bunch of bitter racists found the time to throw this country together, but because a group of people who shared a belief, who through the guidance of God and of what they knew to be just and true wrote the Declaration of Independance and The U.S. Constitution.

Then the people who believed these basic principles set out and they built this great nation. We are still building it and we are not bitter. We do not cling to religion because we are bitter, but because we love God and each other. We don't cling to guns because we are angry, but because it is our right to defend ourselves, our families, and our property.

When is enough going to be enough of this guy?

His 20 year "spiritual leader" preaches hatred for whites from the pulpit of all places? His wife has never been proud of her country before her husband's campaign? She says some of us need to give up some of our pie so others can have more?

Why can't we just make more pie?

Rev. Wright married Barrack and his wife. He baptized their children.

It has been my experience that if it quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, walks like a duck, acts like a duck, and hangs around with lots of other ducks, it is most likely a duck.

The mirror of this situation would be a white candidate whose 20 year pastor was a leader in the KKK. That candidate's career would be over the second that news went public.

Obama is still winning the democratic primary? Really?

The exposure of this blatent double standard is only going to foster resentment among a lot of white people who are tired of being told that they are racists.

If Mrs. Clinton screws Sen. Obama out of the democratic nomination at the convention many African American's are going to feel that the rich white man has stuck it to 'em again.

Either way it is really sad. I believe that most of us, black and white, have made great improvments in race relations and getting past the past.

I fear that Sen. Obama and pals may have just set us backward 15-20 years worth of progress in the pursuit of racial and cultural harmony.

I believe he should not only concede the presidential election, but should resign from the senate as well.