Dude werent you on the college dems exec board last year??

Great article, but I guess it is ok to only report one side of the story. What about the Democrats usual stereotype of Republicans as Redneck, gun totting, trailer trash. Refering to most as Hillbilly’s and superstitous Religous zealots. So I guess it goes both ways. Only problem is it is only reported usually ONE WAY.

Did you watch the video? McCain was NOT booed for correcting the woman about Obama’s character. He WAS booed for insisting, later, to a different woman, that Obama would not be a dangerous president.

Your argument fell apart by the first paragraph. Acting as if illegalizing abortion is a Christian position is the kind of in-group ideology that is the base for racism, xenophobia etc. You aren’t pro-life because you’re Christian, you are pro-life because you are stupid. How can a Libertarian support denying the option to abort?

Vote Libertarian again, Gerald, and help put an end to the two-party monopoly.

Gerald,

The label of GOP as not “big govt” is false. It’s an issue of semantics. They, too, have always enjoyed big gov’t, but they dont like it allocated in dem’s new deal/welfare policies. As Grover Norquist mentioned: he would like to see gov’t shrink enough to drown it in a bathtub….but I interject that Grover would use the larger military or newly created Dept of Home Sec to order the hit.

As Barack Obama’s candidacy came under increasing scrutiny, his account of his religious upbringing deserved careful attention for what it tells us about the candidate’s integrity.

Obama’s having been born and raised a Muslim (then having left that faith to embrace the racist “liberation theology” of the hate-monger, Reverand Wright) clearly makes him unqualified to become president of the United States.

This all points to major deceit— fundamental misrepresentations about himself that has profound implications about Obama’s character and his suitability as president.

Moreover, since Obama once was a Muslim, he is now what Islamic law calls a murtadd (apostate), an ex-Muslim converted to another religion who must be executed. Were he elected president of the United States, his apostacy would have hugely negative implications for his relationship with the Muslim world.

The facts show that Obama was an irregularly practicing Muslim who occasionally prayed with his step-father in a mosque. Obama (for some years) had a Muslim upbringing under the auspices of his Indonesian step-father.

Therefore, what Leftists have been calling the “Obama-Muslim falsehood” is in fact confirmed by the facts as truthful and accurate.

Calling this a falsehood is in itself, falsehood on stilts.

Calling honest observers “bigots” (for merely observing Obama’s deceitfulness) is bigotry itself.

As a black Republican, Michael Steele is used to racist attacks. A Democrat blogger doctored a photo of Michael Steele, depicting him as a hideous minstrel. The caption underneath said, “I’s Simple Sambo and I’s running for the Big House.” Nice, huh? But hardly novel for Mike Steele.

When he ran for lieutenant governor in 2002, he was pelted with Oreo cookies. (Get it? Black on the outside, white on the inside.) The Democrat president of Maryland’s state senate, Thomas V. “Mike” Miller (white, as it happens) called him “the personification of an Uncle Tom.” The liberal Baltimore Sun, in an infamous editorial, said, “[Steele] brings little to the team but the color of his skin.”

We all know Mike’s experience is just one example among many. Black Americans who truly take pride in objectivity aren’t blinkered to the rancid racism that persecutes those brave minorities who dare to leave the Democrat plantation.

Physician, heal thyself.

Indeed, many observers identified Obama’s links to terrorism, well before the current Bill Ayers scrutiny. And mainstream media dutifully ignored those links, even as they scrambled through Alaskan landfills to satisfy Palin smear-mongering.

Obama’s Kenyan killing fields http://www.washtimes.com/news/2008/oct/12/obamas-kenya-ghosts/

About 50 parishioners were locked into the Assemblies of God church before it was set ablaze. They were mostly women and children. Those who tried to flee were hacked to death by machete-wielding members of a mob numbering 2,000.

The 2008 New Year Day atrocity in the Kenyan village Eldoret, about 185 miles northwest of Nairobi, had all the markings of the Rwanda genocide of a decade earlier.

By mid-February 2008, more than 1,500 Kenyans were killed. Many were slain by machete-armed attackers. More than 500,000 were displaced by the religious strife. Villages lay in ruin. Many of the atrocities were perpetrated by Muslims against Christians.

The violence was led by supporters of Raila Odinga, the opposition leader who lost the Dec. 27, 2007, presidential election by more than 230,000 votes. Odinga supporters began the genocide hours after the final election results were announced Dec. 30. Mr. Odinga was a member of Parliament representing an area in western Kenya, heavily populated by the Luo tribe, and the birthplace of Barack Obama’s father.

Mr. Odinga had the backing of Kenya’s Muslim community heading into the election. For months he denied any ties to Muslim leaders, but fell silent when Sheik Abdullahi Abdi, chairman of the National Muslim Leaders Forum, appeared on Kenya television displaying a memorandum of understanding signed on Aug. 29, 2007, by Mr. Odinga and the Muslim leader. Mr. Odinga then denied his denials.

The details of the MOU were shocking. In return for Muslim backing, Mr. Odinga promised to impose a number of measures favored by Muslims if he were elected president. Among these were recognition of “Islam as the only true religion,” Islamic leaders would have an “oversight role to monitor activities of ALL other religions [emphasis in original],” installation of Shariah courts in every jurisdiction, a ban on Christian preaching, replacement of the police commissioner who “allowed himself to be used by heathens and Zionists,” adoption of a women’s dress code, and bans on alcohol and pork.

This was not Mr. Odinga’s first brush with notoriety. Like his father, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, the main opposition leader in the 1960s and 1970s, Raila Odinga is a Marxist He graduated from East Germany’s Magdeburg University in 1970 on a scholarship provided by the East German government. He named his oldest son after Fidel Castro.

Raila Odinga was implicated in the bloody coup attempt in 1982 against then-President Daniel Arap Moi, a close ally of the United States. Kenya has been one of the most stable democracies in Africa since the 1960s. The ethnic cleansing earlier this year was the worst violence in Kenya since that 1982 coup attempt.

Mr. Odinga spent eight years in prison. At the time, he denied guilt but later detailed he was a coup leader in his 2006 biography. Statue of limitations precluded further prosecution when the biography appeared.

Initially, Mr. Odinga was not the favored opposition candidate to stand in the 2007 election against President Mwai Kibaki, who was seeking his second term. However, he received a tremendous boost when Sen. Barack Obama arrived in Kenya in August 2006 to campaign on his behalf. Mr. Obama denies that supporting Mr. Odinga was the intention of his trip, but his actions and local media reports tell otherwise.

Mr. Odinga and Mr. Obama were nearly inseparable throughout Mr. Obama’s six-day stay. The two traveled together throughout Kenya and Mr. Obama spoke on behalf of Mr. Odinga at numerous rallies. In contrast, Mr. Obama had only criticism for Kibaki. He lashed out against the Kenyan government shortly after meeting with the president on Aug. 25. “The [Kenyan] people have to suffer over corruption perpetrated by government officials,” Mr. Obama announced.

“Kenyans are now yearning for change,” he declared. The intent of Mr. Obama’s remarks and actions was transparent to Kenyans - he was firmly behind Mr. Odinga.

Mr. Odinga and Mr. Obama had met several times before the 2006 trip. Reports indicate Mr. Odinga visited Mr. Obama during trips to the U.S. in 2004, 2005 and 2006. Mr. Obama sent his foreign policy adviser Mark Lippert to Kenya in early 2006 to coordinate his summer visit. Mr. Obama’s August trip coincided with strategizing by Orange Democratic Movement leaders to defeat Mr. Kibaki in the upcoming elections. Mr. Odinga represented the ODM ticket in the presidential race.

Mr. Odinga and Mr. Obama’s father were both from the Luo community, the second-largest tribe in Kenya, but their ties run much deeper. Mr. Odinga told a stunned BBC Radio interviewer the reason why he and Mr. Obama were staying in near daily telephone contact was because they were cousins. In a Jan. 8, 2008, interview, Mr. Odinga said Mr. Obama had called him twice the day before while campaigning in the New Hampshire primary before adding, “Barack Obama’s father is my maternal uncle.”

President Kibaki requested a meeting of all opposition leaders in early January in an effort to quell the violence. All agreed to attend except Mr. Odinga. A month later, Mr. Kibaki offered Mr. Odinga the role of prime minister, the de facto No. 2 in the Kenyan government, in return for an end to the attacks. Mr. Odinga was sworn in on April 17, 2008.

Mr. Obama’s judgment is seriously called into question when he backs an official with troubling ties to Muslim extremists and whose supporters practice ethnic cleansing and genocide. It was Islamic extremists in Kenya who bombed the U.S. Embassy in 1998, killing more than 200 and injuring thousands. None of this has dissuaded Mr. Obama from maintaining disturbing loyalties.

Is there space for a black man? Have you looked at Bush’s cabinet? The Supreme Court?

Wow! One of the best you have written! Yes, that is exactly what is going on. People need to wake up, America is diverse there are more than just white people living here. You have African Americans, Africans, Asia, Hispanic, Arabs, gays, jews, and people whose faiths are as different as night and day. If people can’t get use to it, then they need to get out of the way. Change is coming! Obama 08!

What does abortion have to do with the McCain’s terrifying campaign rallies? In the context of your column, nothing.

This time, I think you’ve tried too hard to “dabble in the middle and see both sides for what they are” and failed miserably.

Excellent article.

I’ve come to expect better from you, Gerald. Surely you can’t believe that just because there are some people who happen to support Sen. McCain that happen to be racist or less-than-intelligent that we’re all that way? And do you really think that everyone who considers himself a Democrat is automatically more tolerant just because they vote for the guy with the (D)? If you do, I’m really, very sorry that I overestimated your intelligence.

The Republican Party is truly the “big-tent” party. We are welcoming of everyone—regardless of skin color or religion or, yes, even sexual orientation. By saying there’s no room in the Republican Party for someone who isn’t a white, Christian, male, you’re just as bad as the woman at the McCain rally who referred to Sen. Obama as an Arab.

You should vote for someone based on the content of his character and the policies that he’ll enact if elected, Gerald. Not by the color of his skin or where he goes to church or his age or any of the other small details of one’s personal life.

And finally, for your viewing pleasure: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxhYampIl7A

“SARAH PALIN IS A C^NT”

That vile sentiment was plastered across Obama’s own website. http://ace.mu.nu/archives/275472.php

Now, before folks whine that Obamessiah can’t control every disciple… perhaps not, and yet McCain and Palin are expected to, eh? I can guarantee you that if McCain had “Obama is a [insert vileness]” on his official website, we’d hear a little something about it.

Physician, heal thyself.

I will give Gerald Cox the benefit of doubt and not challenge his political alignment, but I must state that he does come off very much like what Rush Limbaugh calls ‘seminar callers’.

There are people Mr. Limbaugh sees as people trained to sound as middle of the road and non-partisan as possible, but then cite DNC talking points verbatim. The attempt is to give the talking point validity by making it seems as though it came from a non-partisan person.

Now, what is it that makes it seem as though Mr. Cox is less than ingenuous? Name his claims that the hate is a one way road.

I guess US Secretary of State isn’t really much of a job, eh?

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs?

And just what was the best job that Clinton could find for a black person?

Weren’t the Democtats the party of segegation forever?

As long as blacks stay on the Democrat plantation, they will be coddled to and will receive the occasional handouts to keep them docile and obedient.

There are a very small minority of black people who have realized that the Republican party, the party of Abraham Lincoln, is the party that is truly color blind, and that will judge a man by his accomplishments, not his race. The Democrat party, on the other hand, the party of the KKK and George Wallace and segregationists, only wants to hear from blacks if they bow to their masters and vote as told.

In the end, it’s up to you.

Best Regards,

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“…but his supporters� contempt for the race of his opponent and the heritage inherent in his name, as well as how McCain and Palin seem to be clinging to this dark side of America as their last vestige of hope for winning, makes it awfully hard to support their ticket.”

I think CNN is helping to create this issue; not merely be a �conduit� for it, as I heard Don Lemon describe it to James T. Harris, who�s been taking heat for the statement he made at a McCain rally. Each anecdotal report, each �expert� with an agenda to push, creates a self-fulfilling perception of �America won�t vote for a black man�. Forget the thousands of McCain-Palin supporters who are at a McCain rally voting against a Marxist/socialist/liberal/Democrat while voting for the candidate who best represents their political identity. Zero-in, instead, upon the woman calling Senator Obama an Arab, and sensationalize it into an indictment of the McCain campaign and the Republican Party as racists and hate-mongers. CNN and MSM are the ones fanning the flames, cheerleading the sensationalism, creating the false narrative by pushing a skewed �if it bleeds racism, it leads� perception.

Where were they for the last 8 years to denounce the hateful rhetoric toward President Bush, which goes far beyond shouting �traitor� and �terrorist�? President Bush�s life is more in danger of assassination attempts than is Senator Obama�s.

Since this has been receiving so much headline news, I wouldn�t be surprised if Obama supporters actually show up to McCain-Palin rallies and pretend to be racist supporters of the McCain campaign to draw media fire. Call me conspiratorial, but it�s certainly not outside the realm of possibilities, given how low Democrats will go to win an election.

Senator Obama has gotten as far as he has, because America has moved beyond race, and is ready to accept a president, regardless of race or gender, and has been ready for some time (just look at all the American of ethnicity, in positions of leadership throughout our society). If he does not win the presidency, it won�t be on account of his transracial identity. It will be on account of the fact that he is the least qualified of the two candidates; Americans will reject Senator Obama because he is the wrong man, for the wrong position, at the wrong time. And so long as he is a far left, liberal, socialist, Marxist Democrat, he will always be the wrong man, applying for the wrong position, at the wrong time.

The U.S. presidency is above Senator Obama�s pay grade.

(http://www.floppingaces.net/2008/10/12/cnn-and-the-reverse-bradley-effect/)

The Republican party has no vacancy for lots of people, not just blacks. The most disturbing “no vacancy” is the contempt for intellectual thought.

Gerald, if abortion was outlawed, then all the rest of our problems as a nation would be solved, right? Of course not, so separate church from state in your mind and vote for the party that will best guarantee you peace and prosperity. “Pro-life” is interesting branding, but is really only “anti-choice.” As a Christian, no one is forcing a man-bortion upon you.

Your article is insulting. You are stereotyping Republicans in the exact same way you accuse them of stereotyping. I am a Republican. My reasons for supporting John McCain are nothing but positive. Yes, there are a lot of bigots voting for him. They would vote for him even if Obama was white—Democrats aren’t their thing. But that has nothing to do with intelligent voters like myself, and I do not condone their opinions. However, there a lot of bigot Democrats as well. I do phone banking for the RPW and I have heard from many a Democrat saying they aren’t voting for Obama because he’s black. So go ahead and speak out about bigotry. It should be done. But do not lay it on the shoulders of people like myself, of which there are many, despite your generalized assumptions.
I usually appreciate your opinion articles, but lately you have been falling prey to bad journalism—making assumptions and accusations based on few that accuse many. That is not fair, and as someone who probably has the fight against black stereotypes and prejudice close to their heart, you should be weary of making such statements.

What utter, ill-conceived garbage. If you truly believe that nonsense you need to widen your scope of experience and associates. If you wish to conclude that because a few people say things at an open, unedited forum that it makes republicans and the party racist then admit that it’s because you want to make that leap.

Shall I infer that democrats are Communists because Castro and Chavez want Obama to win? Or shall I infer that he’s anti-israel because Palestinians prefer him to win? Admit it: you’re just looking for an excuse to support Obama and this is convenient.

If Obama has kept an Arabic-sounding name during a time when America’s at war with terrorists, that’s his crescent to bear. If he consorted with Odinga, Dorn, and Ayers, that’s his problem not ours. If you wish to disassociate yourself from Michael Steele, Thomas Sowell, Condoleeza Rice, Colin Powell, and numerous other black Republicans, just go and do it. But your column is disingenuous at best. It feeds on stereotypes and is short on truth.

The best response to the “smear” that “Obama is a Muslim” really is, “SO WHAT?” There are Muslim Americans, Buddhist Americans, Christian Americans, Atheist Americans… etc etc.

It’s just veiled racism anyway.

I pray to the great god “Hindu” that people learn proper grammar…

Gutsy move by the BH to run this piece. Likely reactions:

1) Flood of racist comments on the Board, with arguments about the Dems being the party of Slavery and Jim Crow, even though the GOP is always complaining about bringing up slavery or Jim Crow if it does not fit into this one talking point. 2) Gerald will probably get at least one or two racist emails, calling him all types of things. 3) LTE from the College GOP, using a subtle message that will be similar to points 1 and 2 just more newspaper friendly. They will fail to mention the dying economy or their recent string of lynch mob-y rallies across the nation, and talk about Bill Ayers somehow.

Any bets?

Here’s your Palin Derangement Syndrome quote of the night, which will be ignored by the NYTimes, left-wing blogs, MSNBC, and every other media outlet continuing to force the “Angry Right-Wing Mob” narrative down our throats.

“Outside on Broad Street, waiting for Palin to leave, one man was heard saying: “Let’s stone her, old school.’” http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/newsupdate/20081012Palinhearsplentyofboos.html

The Republican party is notorious for being close-minded and pathetic. They hate on whatever is allowed to be hated on at the time…. in the 60s it was blacks, the 70s it was communists (AKA anyone whose government differs from ours), in the 80s it was women, in the 90s it was gays, in the 00s it was Muslims. We just need to get used to the bigotry and move on with our lives.

I truly LOL though when they attempt to claim that they are Christian.

If Jesus were alive today, what party would he be registered to? Granted, he would oppose abortion, but that’s about the only thing that the Repubs have. JC would certainly be against capital punishment, against war, against tax cuts for the wealthy, against slashing social welfare programs, and against Christians mandating their believes on everyone (seeing as he wasn’t a Christian).

Not only that, but Jesus walked around in rags, sandals, had long ass hair, and had visions. Sounds like a stoner to me.

So it is proven; Jesus Christ was in fact the world’s first hippie. If JC were to come down from heaven and walk the earth (Like Sarah Palin believes will happen in her lifetime), he would most certainly head over to his polling station, and vote Democrat in the election.

Game…. Blouses.

I can’t defend the racist morons sporting hateful pins or shouting slurs however….

Is it not racist that approximately 95% of the African American population is voting for Obama and extremely hateful to any black person who is not?

I thought you were on college dems board last year. how are you not a democrat.

John McCain corrected the woman? In his response, he contrasted being an Arab with being a “decent family man and citizen” ��as if those two are mutually exclusive. And considering that he certainly agrees with the idea that Obama cannot be trusted to be president, I doubt that McCain was responding just to the “trust” issue that she brings up before her Arab comment.

It’s a shame that McCain would let slip such a retrograde belief. Arab Americans voted decisively for George W. Bush over Al Gore in 2000, but McCain doesn’t seem to be looking for a repeat this time around.

Anger filled few left voting for McCain? If you want to see anger, try walking down the street on this campus simply wearing a McCain pin. You will hear some of the nastiest insults from complete strangers. Pretty sad really.

A Libertarian pro-lifer? Now I’ve heard of everything.

hey 6:13, pretty much the world’s most famous libertarian of the moment, Ron Paul, is pro-life

Yeah Jesus was jewish, and believes that Christ has not yet come…wait a minute…

“Is it not racist that approximately 95% of the African American population is voting for Obama and extremely hateful to any black person who is not?”

Word.

Gerald, you have mad balls to say something like this.

As expected, the bigoted responses only proved your point further.

I love when people assume that black people are voting for Obama because he is black…. As if there are no other relationships between many African Americans and Barack Obama.

I really loved when McCain refuted that biznitch who said Barack was an Arab and said “No, he is a decent man”, as if one can’t be Arab and decent. Just hilarious.

to the guy spouting off assumptions about Jesus and the way he looked and would vote;there is no documentation of what Jesus looked like. actually, orthodox Jews who were carpenters (as Jesus was) wore their hair short. Also, since Jesus was God the creator, I doubt that He would condone murder in the womb being supported by anyone, much less a whole political party. Stop making assumptions based on what you don,t really know. There is no negative side to being for life. Choice is God- given, everybody has that. Life is always the best choice.