(2008-03-18) — Sen. Barack Obama, D-IL, in what was billed by his campaign as a “major speech on race” in Philadelphia today shocked the Democrat party by announcing he has abandoned his bid to become the nation’s first black president.
“After a lot of prayer and conversations with my wife and Pastor Jeremiah Wright,” said Sen. Obama, “I have decided that the United States is not ready for a black chief executive. So today, I’m launching a campaign to simply become President of the United States, without regard to race.”
The son of a black, African father and a white, Kansan mother, Sen. Obama said he will formally suspend his attempt to achieve “a Civil Rights milestone”, and will put all his efforts into “making sure Democrats have a nominee who can challenge John McCain man-to-man.”
A spokesman for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign said she would petition the Democrat National Committee to “nullify all of the primary votes cast for Sen. Obama because voters thought they were doing something historic, rather than simply choosing the most qualified candidate.”
“Think about it,” the unnamed Clinton staffer said, “if Geraldine Ferraro had suddenly announced in 1984 she was running for vice president as a man, the Mondale-Ferraro ticket would have lost in a landslide.”
13 responses so far ↓
1 camojack // Mar 18, 2008 at 8:05 am
And we’re off to the races!!!
2 boberinyetagain // Mar 18, 2008 at 8:15 am
Hillary isn’t black? I know Bill is.
biblical arrival…now there’s a wv to wrap your mind around
3 flacracker // Mar 18, 2008 at 8:33 am
You RACIST you!….
“I when to the church of hate for 20 years but didn’t inhale” BH Obama 2008
4 boberinyetagain // Mar 18, 2008 at 8:35 am
Hillary is more qualified to go “man-to-man” with McCain anyway. She just needs to talk that up a bit…
jr blonde…hopes one day to be a full fledged blonde prolly
5 seriocomic22 // Mar 18, 2008 at 8:51 am
The day before:
The War Room - 2008
The Meet
HILLARY: Way I see it, Barack, Billy Jeff here broke trail for your folks in the nineties. You know, ‘’First Black President’’ and all. You owe us.
BILL: True dat, man. Who’s your Daddy? Hillary here, why, she like your older sister. And you’re cuttin’ her, man. She was bangin ‘til you came along. It ain’t right, turnin’ on your own people.
BARACK: I don’t think….
HILLARY: We didn’t go looking for that tape of you working the teleprompter when Reverend Wright was God D****** America, Barack. We’ll do everything we can to keep it from seeing the light of day. But you have to work with us here.
BILL: Ya got game, man, but it ain’t your time. Ya gotta pump your brakes, bro.
BARACK: Now, wait a min….
JESSE JACKSON: They’ve conceived it and they’ve believed it, Barack. She’s the wife of the man from Hope. Keep hope alive. Drop out, brother.
HILLARY: Jesse is going to be Secretary of Reparations in my Cabinet, Barack. I could use you for the first opening on the Supreme Court.
BILL: But Honey, you promised….
HILLARY: Shuddup, Bill. The only court of last resort you’ll ever see is talkin’ to you.
6 RedPepper // Mar 18, 2008 at 9:09 am
Race and Politics , by Thomas Sowell.
Senator Barack Obama’s political success thus far has been a blow for equality. But equality has its down side.
Equality means that a black demagogue who has been exposed as a phony deserves exactly the same treatment as a white demagogue who has been exposed as a phony.
7 boberinyetagain // Mar 18, 2008 at 9:22 am
and another one bites the dust I suppose…
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The new governor of New York who assumed power after his predecessor stepped down in a sex scandal admitted to the New York Daily News that both he and his wife had extramarital affairs years ago.
Is there no one fit to govern in our fair land?
dogs payments…Michael Vick knows something about this subject
8 onlineanalyst // Mar 18, 2008 at 10:55 am
You got a good one in there, boberinyetagain, at #4.
WV: bargaining it No kidding.
Obama-messiah made a bad bargain when he cloaked his original message in unity when his shaping political philosophy was based on divisiveness and the soft bigotry of reparations in the name of tax-dollar redistribution.
9 danimal // Mar 18, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Nice speech. But The Black Value System of the Trinity United Church of Christ warrants scrutiny.
Think about the utter hypocricy in the examination of a presidential candidate’s church and its teachings. Talk about disaffected voters wanting a do-over because the ‘media’ has been sitting on this story for over a year while hammering away at Mitt Romney.
If they knew then what they know now…
10 danimal // Mar 18, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Maybe he could confirm the rumors that he’s a Muslim…
wv=author drinker
“An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.” - Ernest Hemingway
11 mindknumbed kid // Mar 18, 2008 at 7:05 pm
Either” religion” shows him to be a hateful sort of a guy that ought not be able to get elected to even his local PTA.
12 gafisher // Mar 18, 2008 at 8:44 pm
“if Geraldine Ferraro … suddenly announced in 2008 she was running for vice president as a man …”
… she’d win the Dem nomination by a landslide.
13 PanamaRed // Mar 18, 2008 at 11:35 pm
I’m speechless, so I’m going to try and figure out this WV thing. It’s obvious right wing (not you Mrs. RightWing) code aganist Brother Obama that I’m sending a letter to the Rev. Jackson, er, no, Sharpton, er, no, Falwell..uh uh, can somebody help me with this? Darn separation of Church and religion, somebody outta pass a law ’bout that.
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