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The Elephant In The Voting Booth

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So, we can watch debates all night long. We can read position papers all over the place. We can listen to talk radio until our ears are ringing. We can sit around our dinner tables with our family and friends and listen to the political experts we never knew we knew. We can walk down a long, dark, endless corridor of “there’s.” There’s the door of economy. There’s the door of Israel. There’s the door of credit. There’s the door of Iran. There’s the door of energy. There’s there’s the door of Iraq. The list of “there’s” goes on and on and on. But like a door protected by horrible attack dogs, locked with a thick chain and lock is the last door. That’s the door of racism. Don’t ignore, don’t tell me it doesn’t apply. It does. When… read more

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McCain and Obama are so far apart on positions, how could race be a pivot point for anyone’s vote? Someone could be accused of making a race based decision only if he would have voted for Obama had he been white - but it is hard to conceive that person with those poltical views would then vote for McCain. Actually I think there will be many people who’ll vote *for* Obama just because he’s black. A nicer form of racism, but racism nevertheless. Have you really encountered people who’d flip between Obama and McCain like that? Kind of makes an argument against universal sufferage grin

Posted by Blaine on 10/06/08 at 07:36 PM

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