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Title: Why Obama Will Win
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Published: Jul 25, 2008
Author: Jared Taylor
Post Date: 2008-07-28 16:04:27 by Tauzero
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Jared Taylor, Special to American Renaissance, July 25, 2008 It is time to get used to the idea that the next president of the United States will be black. Why will a nation we are so often assured is “racist” elect a black president? And will it make a difference? Ever since Hillary Clinton dropped out of the race, the polls have reported consistently that Barack Obama will beat John McCain. The media love to tell us that whites say they support the black candidate and then vote for the white, but there is no reason for whites to lie in this campaign. Mr. Obama will not get a majority of the white vote but he will get enough to beat Mr. McCain. Why will so many whites vote for Mr. Obama? First, some support his policies. They want to end the war in Iraq, and they want the standard liberal program of socialized medicine, higher taxes, more handouts, and more government. There has always been a substantial minority of whites who vote this way, and they have a clear favorite in Mr. Obama. Second, as many people have pointed out, an enormous number of whites think it is deeply virtuous to vote for a black—not for an out-and-out race man such as Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton, but for an unthreatening, well-scrubbed black who speaks standard English and promises to “bring us together.” Even if they live sharply segregated lives, whites thrill to the language of “coming together,” and they adore blacks who don’t act or sound black. For many whites, voting for Mr. Obama will be an act of high patriotism. Electing him will prove America is not “racist,” and many whites believe that rising above “racism” is America’s sacred calling. One must never underestimate the importance to whites of feeling virtuous. Most would rather lose a leg than be thought a “bigot,” and a vote for Obama is a painless way to burnish anti-racist credentials. Third, young whites will line up for Mr. Obama. They have been swallowing anti-white, multi-culti propaganda all their lives and have not knocked around enough to discover it is false. Some who know their parents will vote for Mr. McCain will make a special point of voting for Mr. Obama. Every new generation thinks it is cooler, hipper, and wiser than any generation that ever lived, and what could be cooler, hipper, or wiser than putting a black man in the White House? For many young whites, a vote for Mr. Obama will be a denial of every uncool, unhip, and especially every even faintly race-realist thing their parents ever said or did. Fourth, although the country seems to have a collective memory of no more than two weeks, Americans think everything is “historic.” Whenever someone breaks an obscure record in professional baseball we are told history was made. If you ask someone why he waited in line all night to buy the first Apple iPhone he will tell you it’s a “historic” product. Americans love anything that is “historic,” and for people who think a few more stolen bases are “history” right up there with the Battle of Lepanto, putting a black man in the White House will be the discovery of America, Pearl Harbor, and the Second Coming all rolled into one. Many whites will vote for Mr. Obama because they want to think they helped “make history.” The media, which has its own grim reasons for supporting Mr. Obama, is mesmerized by the same prospect. Editors salivate at the thought of writing headlines like “History is Made” the day after the election, and some will lose all self-control and add an exclamation mark. The emphasis, of course, will be on Mr. Obama as the first black president, implying more to come. The media, which always subtly boost the Democrat, will be even more blatantly partisan this time, downplaying every blunder Mr. Obama makes and highlighting Mr. McCain’s. Fifth, many whites will vote for Mr. Obama—or at least not vote for Mr. McCain—because the Republicans have nominated the most stunningly unattractive candidate in years. Old and pock-marked, Mr. McCain is thoroughly disliked in the Senate for arrogance that he cannot even hide from voters when he is not speaking from notes. He has dismayed Republicans by promoting amnesty for illegals, and dismayed everyone else by saying America should stay in Iraq for 100 years if it takes that long to “win.” Mr. Obama therefore has the enormous advantage of running against an opponent that not even Republicans like. Mr. Obama will also crush Mr. McCain in face-to-face debates. Mr. McCain cannot put an unscripted sentence together any better than George W. Bush can, and will come across as a thick-witted geezer. Mr. Obama, who is as glib as any politician, gives credence to H.L. Mencken’s definition of democracy as “rule by orators.” But what about America’s storied “racism”? Isn’t America brimming with people who can’t bear the thought of a black president? Americans have been numbed for decades by attractive television-blacks who read the news, forecast the weather, and tell us which brand of toothpaste to buy. Americans get a steady diet of heroic movie-blacks who outsmart and beat up white brutes, solve baffling technical problems, dispense sage advice, and save the world. Even the current Miss USA is black. There are millions of whites who do not want to live with blacks or have much to do with them, but would a black president be much different from nearly eight years of black secretaries of state? The march of blackness may be vaguely worrying to whites but they think there is nothing they can do about it and that they shouldn’t even if they could. The final reason why whites will vote for Mr. Obama is that the Republicans do not have the backbone to attack him in the only way that would work. If they were serious, they would fill the airways with Jeremiah Wright prancing and raving, along with the message: “This is the man who married Mr. and Mrs. Obama, baptized their children, and whom Mr. Obama calls a ‘family member’.” They would buy radio ads quoting Michelle Obama’s thesis in which she says she will always be black first and American second. Mr. McCain has nothing like the stomach for a campaign like this. Many blacks probably think he has the stomach for considerably worse: 57 percent think Mr. Obama is in greater physical danger than any white politician, and many say they would have warned him not to run, for fear he would be killed. An assassination would certainly be a shattering event. There is no telling how many cities would go up in flames, and Third-World countries, which have followed the Obama nomination with unprecedented interest, would help make it the most widely reported killing in history. (I have just returned from a Muslim country in which everyone has heard of Mr. Obama and likes him, but most have never heard of John McCain.) Whatever gruesome fantasies blacks may be spinning, however, assassination has gone out of style in America, and white resistance—such as it is—is dependably nonviolent. Mr. Obama will be perfectly safe. In any case, Mr. Obama will win far more white votes than he will lose because he is black. Whites who don’t want a black president would not vote for a Democrat anyway. As for black voters, even nominal Republicans are said to be running for the doors, but strictly racial voting has always been fine for blacks. Not so for whites, of course. Just try telling your co-workers that you disagree with Mr. McCain but are voting for him because he is white. Racially conscious whites will be in a quandary in November. Even if Mr. McCain’s policies are worse than Mr. Obama’s should they vote for the white man—one with an adopted Bangladeshi daughter and who long ago betrayed white interests? Even after years of being softened up with black heroes and figureheads, a black in the White House is a powerful symbol of white dispossession. A mulatto president is an almost explicit endorsement of miscegenation. This is bitter medicine. Some whites have argued that a black president would undercut the charges of “racism” whites are forever facing, but they are dreaming. The entire government could look like a meeting of the Mystic Knights of the Sea, but as long as blacks are worse off than whites we will be blamed for it. Sensible whites cannot cheerfully vote for either man; I suspect most will stay home or vote for a minor candidate. Aside from the symbolic impact, which cannot be calculated, will President Obama be much different from a President Hillary Clinton? She would lard her cabinet with blacks and Hispanics, nominate ultra-liberal judges, push for amnesty, grovel before non-whites everywhere, and load up the “civil rights” division of the Justice Department with anti-white sharks. She would certainly make a bigger fool of herself over Hispanics and Asians (see “Turning Up the Pressure,” AR, May 2008). Our choice, therefore, could not be more disagreeable. On balance, we get to decide which is the more degrading spectacle: deluded white people giving their country away or clear-eyed blacks helping themselves to it. President Obama will, however, face special pressures. He can’t let the pushier brothers walk all over him, but he will have to throw them enough bones to keep them off his back. It will be a tricky balance. Mr. Obama’s first annual address to the NAACP will be a love feast, but every year after that it will be harder to explain why black unemployment, poverty, and incarceration rates haven’t changed at all. Even Mr. Obama’s star-struck white supporters will eventually wonder what happened to all that “change” he promised. There is not going to be change. The system is far too stuck in its self-serving ways for that. With the help of an enlarged Democratic majority in Congress, Mr. Obama may set up some wheezing, byzantine form of socialized medicine, but no one will be happy with it. If Mr. Obama inherits a sick economy, a weak dollar, expensive oil, and shrinking revenues, Americans will not at all like the change they get. On the bright side, with Mr. Obama we have a good chance of piquant First-Lady behavior. What will the White House be like with Michelle in charge? Will she want a new exterior paint job? How and whom will she entertain? Will the Big Man’s guest bedrooms—in the African tradition—be turned over to third cousins from Kenya and the South Side of Chicago? There is no telling with what improprieties large and small Mrs. Obama will entertain us as she makes up her mind whether she is an American. It will be an edifying presidency; and whites may be a little less deluded in 2012.
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#42. To: christine (#21)
I'm going to lose all self-control and say Well, it's true.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Well, if Bush can get him to visit he can probably set him straight on that nuke-u-ler.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Not for me. Not after what he said about Michael New. I lost any respect I ever had for him then. Alan Keyes is an internationalist who is a supporter of the continued involvement of the United States in the United Nations. He has even gone so far as to state that Michael New should have gone to prison for the stand he took in refusing to wear a UN uniform/ disobey his oath of office. Alan Keyes is an interventionist & a globalist who is a big supporter of continuing & expanding the war on terror — including neo-conservative foreign policy & encroachments on our liberties at home. He has even expressed support for a militaty draft. (which we all know will include our daughters this time.) Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
As a white man with a great tan, "whatchoo talkin' 'bout Willis"? Please explain. ;-)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
Not for me. Not after what he said about Michael New. I lost any respect I ever had for him then. AK = neocon grifter stalking horse perpetual candidate.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
What does "acceptance" mean to you?
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Some blacks have a very distinct speech pattern as do some whites. I'm assuming you agree.
When no one can understand you. Never in my life have I seen people too lazy to enunciate words. I watched a gas station clerk spend 5 minutes trying to find out what a black customer was saying. He finally figured out that that the customer wanted him to 'help a brother out' by giving him free ciggs. Oddly enough the answer was a very hate filled no. The real humor of it? The gas station clerk was an immigrant from Ethiopia who spoke almost flawless english.
"The more I see of life, the less I fear death." - Me. "If violence solved nothing, then weapons technology would have never advanced past crude clubs and rocks." - Me.
Alan Keyes is a black conservative Jesse Jackson. My time at LP made that very clear. Probably the only good LP ever did. They brought out info on how Simcox was just using the border fence to bilk people out of money. There was never any accounting for where that money went. What does that have to do with Keyes? He, through Declaration Alliance, were the ones controling all the donations. Think about it.
Alan Keyes has something else in common with Jesse Jackson, apart from being a con and full-time presidential candidate. Keyes supports slavery reparations. One of Krazy Keyes' ideas was to exempt all blacks from paying taxes because their ancestors were slaves. Which makes him ten times the race and poverty pimp as Obama or most liberal black politicians.
A very good description of him.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Keyes is a fairly well-educated con man. I think that is about the best you can say for him and be honest.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. He would have been a great anti-abortion, non-politicko proponent imo. He blew it for riches. ;-)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
I know people of all nationalities who don't take time to enunciate their words...Do me a favor and take a ride through my home state of Texas and you will hear the worst attempt at the English language ever known to man, spoken by Caucasians!!!
True, but the PTB don't try and legitimize it as they did with the silly ebonics argument.
Key word "SOME", I work in an administrative capacity and have to encounter many races, the one thing that separates peoples speech is their personal economic status not race!
Good question...it is the ability to appreciate or acknowledge likenesses or differences. Why?
My tan don't rub off honey...LOL! White Americans have not addressed the fact that this country was cultivated and is one of the richest because of the free slave labor from, Blacks, Native Americans, and all other non-Anglo immigrants. It continues to be run by racist families whom have run it since it was founded by Great Brittan. Exposing the past is the only "CURE"
I do agree!
class and education too?
Do You Know What Freedom Really Means? Freedom4um.com
I'm just trying to determine what you meant by your comment. I would agree blacks have a long way to go in tolerance, and whites have a long way to go in appreciating and acknowledging differences. For example, most whites maintain, despite much evidence to the contrary, that blacks are no less intelligent and no more impulsive than whites.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Actually it is rich despite those things. Slave labor is inefficient. The North won its war against the South despite having worse soldiers, worse generals, and worse morale because of its industrial capacity. The country would be much better off had blacks never been brought here.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
You have to give credit to the Brits for their excellent system of education. In fact when I need technical help re: my cable or internet, I always pray that I get someone from India to help me instead of someone from the South.
And a most wonderful example of your theory is our own Harvard/Yale educated eloquent presideunce
great story :)
Do You Know What Freedom Really Means? Freedom4um.com
The past has been exposed. Blacks held slaves too. I have grievances against certain plutocrat families myself. Where would you like me to send your check? I will include for you a one way ticket back to the continent of Africa as well, deal? ;-)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
Neither does mine sweet meat! LOL
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
What is a hate filled no sound like? I think the guy might have just been angry, which doesn't imply hate.
God is always good!
No doubt the cream of the crop from Ethiopia. Most legal immigrants are the cream of the crop from their nations. It leads some Americans to believe that foreigners are just smarter than them.
God is always good!
Thanks for the acknowledgment...it is a step toward opening discussion on race relations in our country.
No... The natives of this land would have been better off if no Europeans came and so called "civilized" them. I also spoke of all non-Anglo people as well...you failed to acknowledge that in our response. "Say it loud....I am Black and I am Proud!"
Ditto babe...I will send in exchange 1 ticket straight to "HELL" because am much havoc as your ancestors reeked and have not atoned for you will surly meet them there. LMAO! Free blacks and Indians owned slaves, I know this and so does anyone who reads, the point is there is a deep seated hatred for people based on race and it needs to be addressed, for wounds to heal properly.
I'd like to give you some atonement. Come a little closer, I've got your atonement right here sugar pie-honey bun. ;-)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
I'm American and I'm proud. You're just another black with an axe to grind. ;-)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
well, this is fun, you two. ;)
Do You Know What Freedom Really Means? Freedom4um.com
I hope it doesn't take Ms. Black (w/axe to grind) another week to respond. ;-)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
I don't hate anyone. I do loathe Traitorous activity and Socialism, though. I have utter contempt for slothfulness and I despise the behaviors of people of any color when they make excuses for why they can't put down the crack pipe or the joint or the 40 ouncer long enough to be individually responsible for themselves and their off spring. There's more, but 'pearls before swine' comes to mind. ;-)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
If McCain did this then his "non Christian" backers would immediately demand investigations into shady campaign donations and his alleged treason while an honored guest of the People's Democratic Republic of Vietnam, and all future photos would be distorted grimaces that make him look old, crazy, cancer scarred and pasty faced. Lieberman would not allow that and he's almost certainly running the campaign for the betterment of Israel. This article presumes that the GOP is run by European Caucasian Protestant (make believe) heterosexuals who are free to say and think what they please. Why would any ostensibly savvy political commentator presume that?
Many of his readers so presume.
excellent piece. very well reasoned and entertainingly worded.
Jared Rocks!!!
#43. To: christine (#33)
at least obama can pronounce nuclear though.
Lord Acton
#44. To: RickyJ (#35)
Alan Keyes would be OK too.
Lord Acton
#45. To: Tauzero (#0)
Being a "Black" woman, reading this shows me we still have a long way to go in regards to race relations and acceptance in this country. By the way, "How do you sound Black?"
#46. To: texaslvr77 (#45)
Being a "Black" woman, reading this shows me we still have a long way to go in regards to race relations and acceptance in this country. By the way, "How do you sound Black?"
#47. To: James Deffenbach (#44)
Alan Keyes would be OK too.
#48. To: texaslvr77 (#45)
#49. To: texaslvr77 (#45)
By the way, "How do you sound Black?"
#50. To: texaslvr77 (#45)
By the way, "How do you sound Black?"
#51. To: James Deffenbach, RickyJ (#44)
Alan Keyes is an internationalist who is a supporter of the continued involvement of the United States in the United Nations.
"You have delusions of adequacy."
#52. To: farmfriend, RickyJ (#51)
Alan Keyes is a black conservative Jesse Jackson.
#53. To: Rotara (#47)
AK = neocon grifter stalking horse perpetual candidate.
Lord Acton
#54. To: farmfriend (#51)
Lord Acton
#55. To: James Deffenbach (#53)
A very good description of him.
#56. To: Pissed Off Janitor (#50)
#57. To: texaslvr77 (#56)
#58. To: Jethro Tull (#49)
#59. To: Tauzero (#48)
#60. To: Rotara (#46)
#61. To: Jethro Tull (#57)
#62. To: texaslvr77 (#58)
the one thing that separates peoples speech is their personal economic status not race!
#63. To: texaslvr77 (#59)
Good question...it is the ability to appreciate or acknowledge likenesses or differences. Why?
#64. To: texaslvr77 (#60)
White Americans have not addressed the fact that this country was cultivated and is one of the richest because of the free slave labor from, Blacks, Native Americans, and all other non-Anglo immigrants.
#65. To: Pissed Off Janitor (#50)
The real humor of it? The gas station clerk was an immigrant from Ethiopia who spoke almost flawless english.
#66. To: texaslvr77 (#58)
the one thing that separates peoples speech is their personal economic status not race!
#67. To: Pissed Off Janitor (#50)
The real humor of it? The gas station clerk was an immigrant from Ethiopia who spoke almost flawless english.
#68. To: texaslvr77 (#60)
My tan don't rub off honey...LOL! White Americans have not addressed the fact that this country was cultivated and is one of the richest because of the free slave labor from, Blacks, Native Americans, and all other non-Anglo immigrants. It continues to be run by racist families whom have run it since it was founded by Great Brittan. Exposing the past is the only "CURE"
#69. To: texaslvr77 (#60)
My tan don't rub off honey...LOL!
#70. To: Pissed Off Janitor (#50)
Oddly enough the answer was a very hate filled no.
#71. To: Pissed Off Janitor (#50)
The gas station clerk was an immigrant from Ethiopia who spoke almost flawless english.
#72. To: Tauzero (#63)
#73. To: Tauzero (#64)
#74. To: Rotara (#68)
#75. To: texaslvr77 (#74)
Ditto babe...I will send in exchange 1 ticket straight to "HELL" because am much havoc as your ancestors reeked and have not atoned for you will surly meet them there. LMAO! Free blacks and Indians owned slaves, I know this and so does anyone who reads, the point is there is a deep seated hatred for people based on race and it needs to be addressed, for wounds to heal properly.
#76. To: texaslvr77 (#73)
No... The natives of this land would have been better off if no Europeans came and so called "civilized" them. I also spoke of all non-Anglo people as well...you failed to acknowledge that in our response. "Say it loud....I am Black and I am Proud!"
#77. To: texaslvr77, Rotara (#74)
#78. To: christine, texaslvr77 (#77)
well, this is fun, you two. ;)
#79. To: texaslvr77 (#74)
(Edited)
there is a deep seated hatred for people based on race and it needs to be addressed, for wounds to heal properly
#80. To: Tauzero, Jethro Tull, christine (#0)
If they were serious, they would fill the airways with Jeremiah Wright prancing and raving, along with the message: “This is the man who married Mr. and Mrs. Obama, baptized their children, and whom Mr. Obama calls a ‘family member’.” They would buy radio ads quoting Michelle Obama’s thesis in which she says she will always be black first and American second. Mr. McCain has nothing like the stomach for a campaign like this.
#81. To: HOUNDDAWG (#80)
| The answer is still "no". |
#82. To: texaslvr77 (#74)
But, but, but, when your ancestors were being sold off by African chiefs, my ancestors were scratching the earth looking for a potato to complement their six-pack. Therefore, I feel no guilt :P
Ditto babe...I will send in exchange 1 ticket straight to "HELL" because am much havoc as your ancestors reeked and have not atoned for you will surly meet them there.
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