While campaigning touring in New Hampshire, Barack Obama said, "If you disagree with my politics, you might be a racist!"
Okay, he didn't come out and say it as baldly as that. Here's how he put it:
Are there some voters who would not vote for an African America candidate because of race? I'm sure there are. Those are the same voters who probably wouldn't vote for me because of my politics.
Now for those of you who don't like the source, here's a link to a paraphrase of the comment:
Obama said some people would never vote for a black candidate, but they probably wouldn't vote for him anyway because of his politics.
Now, since Obama is a liberal, then the people who don't like his politics must be conservative. And if the people who won't vote for him based on his politics are also, as he claims, the same people who won't vote for him based on his skin color, then he's quietly calling conservatives racists.
Nice.
I think I've learned all I need to know about Mr. Obama.
Posted by Rich at December 11, 2006 11:33 PM | TrackBackCube:
Why are you wasting your time explaining logic to a conservative?
Rich:
If one can generalize that all Muslims are terrorists, why can't we generalize that all conservatives are racists? BTW, stumbled upon you dumb blog googling for "christianists" from Savage Love.
Posted by: Yuri on December 14, 2006 3:39 AMHi yuri,
It looks like some previous comments vanished into the electronic fog, but the initial response, if I remember right, stated that I had it backwards, that what Obama said wasn't that all conservatives were racists, but that all racists were conservatives.
I then pointed out a few instances of traditionally liberal groups indulging their own racist tendencies.
I'm not sure what cube had to say; with any luck he'll come back and say it again. He may have been the first commenter.
Now as for you, your premise is flawed. First, I'm not a conservative, I'm a libertarian. Second, I do not consider all Muslims terrorists, nor do I believe that all terrorists are Muslim. That would be fairly silly considering the activity of the IRA up until the last decade or so. Or the Basque separatists in Spain. Or the Weathermen right here in the good old US of A.
You however you are welcome to continue displaying your general ignorance and prejudice by making generalizations like that if you so choose.
Just don't expect me to take you seriously.
Posted by: rich on December 14, 2006 1:33 PMRegardless of whether or not the assertion that all racists are conservatives is true, it's still incorrect and dishonest to sum up his statement as the converse (that all conservatives are racist).
Posted by: Chris Wage on December 23, 2006 7:10 PMChris, would you agree that the obverse, ie, that all racists are conservative, is supported by his statement?
If not, you just failed logic 101.
Posted by: rich on January 2, 2007 5:24 PM