Obama campaign: Wife never used the word 'Whitey'

Friday 13th June, 06:50 AM JST

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RomeoRamenII at 02:18 AM JST - 14th June

The republicans were waiting for the democratic candidate to be named so they could really start their hate machine.

Heh, before this is all over the DNC will have wished they had selected hillary instead. All her dirty laundry has been out hanging on the closeline now for nearly two decades.

RR
RomeoRamenII at 02:38 AM JST - 14th June

So, to recap:

obama has rogue staffers, a rogue pastor, rogue friends, rogue political supporters and a rogue wife. Either he has astonishingly bad judgement in choosing whom he associates with, or he is a rogue himself. Personally, I'll go with door number 2.

RR
DanManjt at 02:46 AM JST - 14th June

Republicans are sooooo desperate. They think its 2004 and their running against Kerry.
RomeoRamenII at 02:48 AM JST - 14th June

Obama bristled when he was asked about the “whitey” rumor ... saying it was nonsense that shouldn’t be repeated ... by a mainstream reporter.

Notice that when obama is confronted with uncomfortable questions from a non-approved Lord Soros media type, his first instinct is to say that the questioner is wrong for asking the question in the first place.

RR
WilliB at 02:50 AM JST - 14th June

Michelle is obsessed with race. Just read her thesis from Princeton, it is findable on the net. And all the very fine rethoric and weasel words, there is good old race politics. This is Jesse Jackson in fine clothes.
adaydream at 03:08 AM JST - 14th June

WilliB - you want to bad mouth Michelle and you don't want to provide the link, hmmmmm. I'm sure if RomeoRamenII had posted this, he'd have supplied the link and glossy pictures of her handing in her thesis.

Now if you're going to be a republican slimer, you need to take lessons from some of your fellow republican posters. < :-)
adaydream at 05:21 AM JST - 14th June

WilliB I just read Michelle Obama's thesis.

It is a thesis about race. It isn't a racist thesis.

You really need to have somebody explain the english language to you and what our words mean before you speak.

So my advise is for you to go out and read Michelle's thesis at

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8642.html

and if you have any problems reading it, give a holler. < :-)
isthistheend at 05:53 AM JST - 14th June

Cheers. And like I said, so glad we don't have any race problems on these shores. These are the days of "twist" the words till they support whatever one's own opinion is. A far cry from what the words mean, as adaydream aptly points out.
SezWho2 at 06:06 AM JST - 14th June

isthistheend,

Yes, the race issue.
DanManjt at 08:33 AM JST - 14th June

Anyways, there are going to be a lot more silly rumors like this thrown out by the RNC and its operatives. And they really won't affect the election either way.

The people who want to believe the rumors are true are going to believe them, and they are the same people who would never vote for Obama in the first place.
skipthesong at 10:23 AM JST - 14th June

silly rumors like this thrown out by the RNC and its operatives." If you think the Repubs got a monopoly on things like this, you are in for a very hard life.

The people who want to believe the rumors are true are going to believe them, and they are the same people who would never vote for Obama in the first place." Not true, McCain is not sitting high on a hog. For the first time in a long time, poor whites, whites who reside with blacks and get the brunt of all of the race problems in America on them are teetering towards Obama.
skipthesong at 11:27 AM JST - 14th June

I don't think the race issue is going to go away, but I sure wish it would." What I had hoped was that since Obama is both black and white (I don't really like saying half by the way - just my op), I was under the immpression he would be able to do something about it. He was raise in a mostly white community, un-like a lot of other biracial children. He had a very decent upbringing and was loved, even at at time when parents of children who went out of their race would be disowned.

However, I do feel people like myself, we are not white, we are not black, but a mixed up bowl of colors. If you want the race issue to go away, lately I don't think Obama is going to be the one to tackle the main issue, but perhaps Richardson or any decent running Hispanic would, since we basically the largest considered minority. I do believe with the percentage of black vote Obama has received he is going to have to vote for preferences, quotas, and race based admissions. This is where he is going to hurt with poor to mid class working white males. JMO
DanManjt at 01:27 AM JST - 15th June

If you think the Repubs got a monopoly on things like this, you are in for a very hard life.

Grow up. Republicans run a tighter negative campaign than the Dems.

For the first time in a long time, poor whites, whites who reside with blacks and get the brunt of all of the race problems in America on them are teetering towards Obama.

Oh really now... Well, I never wrote that it was working class whites who are the ones who want to believe the Slime Machines rumor mill. Nah, I didn't, cause that is not what I think.

(But you apprarently do. How elitist.)

I wrote: "The people who want to believe the rumors are true are going to believe them, and they are the same people who would never vote for Obama in the first place." You'd be wise to draw out who I think the people are who want to believe the rumors, rather than assuming, and assuming incorrectly.

I think Obama is trying to be the kind of politician who comes along every once in while and through character and savy tactics and political vision redraws the political landscape, which is ripe for a reallignment. FDR, Nixon and Reagan are such figures. FDR knitted together a grand coalition of Dixiecrats and Liberal Dems with the New Deal that lasted until Nixon broke it apart with the famous Southern Strategy. Reagan finished what Nixon started when brought many conservative Democrats over.

Obama, along with Dean, with "his new kind of politics" that will supposedly end the hyper partisanship of the past 15 years to a close is trying to build a broad center based coalition.

The people who will never vote for Obama are the racists and the Right, the former because because Obama is part black, and the latter because Obama is part- Liberal. Though there may be correlation between being a poor, Apalacian white and being racist, its only a correlation. And what I've seen of Obamas style of politics is he constantly works to get every vote he can for strategic and tactical reasons. Strategically, reaching out to as many voters as possible is consistent with his new kind of politics message, and while perhaps he may not win over many, he creates a much stronger message to those who buy into his message and those who are on the fence. Tactically, of course, the 50 state/new kind of politics strategy works very well because it forces his opponents to spend money defensively.
Eulji_Mundeok at 04:49 AM JST - 18th June

circulated on conservative Republican blogs for weeks and was repeated by radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh.

Well, sure, the various center-right blogs were "circulating" that the claim made by "conservative Republican(??)" blogger Larry Johnson was likely fake.

The right-wing blogger Michell Malkin has cited a few reasons why Mr. Larry Johnson is not trustworthy: http://sweetness-light.com/archive/why-does-anyone-believe-larry-c-johnson

http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NjgzYzQ1ZjA4YzdlNTJhYjBiZjM5YmRjMDU5NTYzMWY=
WhiteHawk at 05:15 AM JST - 18th June

DanManjt:

Grow up. Republicans run a tighter negative campaign than the Dems.

Really? Ask Michael Steele.

Every right-pundit I heard address the "whitey" rumor said they doubted its existence, and that it was a moot point anyway considering Obama's circle of friends, advisors, mentors, professors and the like.

As for Obama's call for critics to "lay off his wife", perhaps she should stop making public statements then. But as long as she publicly campaigns for him (or anyone else), she's fair game. Same goes for Chelsea Clinton.