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Originally Posted by A_PoMo
sharpton and jackson are not obama's surrogates by any stretch of the imagination. the only people who played the race card were the white cracker clintons. obama only responded, reluctantly, to their and their surrogate's charges. sharpton and jackson are the past and they know it. they just play to the old school crowd and get their amens and speaking fees and milk the cow until they're all dead. very few people below the age of forty take them seriously. obama conncects most effectively with an entirely different generation than sharpton and jackson, one that is less segregated and more open to racially inclusion than the older generations.
i'm a former ditto head.
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I agree with a lot of what you say here.
While I don't think Obama himself will play the race card I do believe he is presenting himself as something he is not. He wants to appear as mainstream and a "unifier" when his past as a liberal activist in Chicago proves otherwise.
You don't sit and listen to the garbage his pastor spewed for 20 years and not leave if you are "mainstream" and not a radical.
Did you hear his church last Sunday cheering on that crazy RC priest as he called Hillary a white supremicist? Is that a "mainstream" group of people for Obama to have aligned himself with for the past 20 years?
Obama hides his extreme left wing agenda behind great oratory that does inspire and catches the imagination of young people and shallow mush heads who don't look beneath the surface.
At the end of the day he not only is the most left leaning canidate since George McGovern to run for President but he is also the least experience.
It is mind blowing that either party would nominate a canidate with only two years experience in the Senate and a few years as a state legislator before that.