As you may well know by now, the Democrats had their televised CNN/YouTube Debate last night and I have to say that though I am in support of Barack Obama, I was not impressed by his performance last night. He fluffed and waffled when answering certain questionS -the one that comes to mind is his response to the question whether he is black enough. He said something along the lines of “absolutely confident that we’re going to be able to move forward on the challenges that we face as a country”. You what???!!!!
Anyway there is time to recover and all is not lost.
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I didn't watch the debate. By the way, I thought you didn't watch 24-hr news channels anymore. Do I detect hypocrisy (and don't give me, "I watched it online so it's different" - the dissemination is the same and from the same source so it's no different from watching a Paris Hilton special on 'AC360' or watching it online)?
Anyway, I think what he was doing with that particular question was, he didn't want to focus on race. As I've said to you in person and also in response to one of your posts, this issue of race is often ridiculous if one is not talking about specific issues such as economic disparity due to racism and so on. People always talk about "Blackness" or "talking White" and so on. It's dumb. In a presidential debate, it's really dumb.
One newscaster (George Stephanopoulos) even asked him once, if he thought his 'coolness' had something to do with his race. Obama was polite and began his response with, "That's an interesting question..." I don't remember what he said but I know he was thinking, "Here we go again..."
What does being 'Black enough' have to do with being qualified to run the country? Nobody's ever been asked if they were 'White enough' (which actually would have been a more pertinent question if we're to talk about race since Caucasians are still the majority). Let the masses ponder such banalities on their own; don't bring presidential candidates of the world's most powerful country on a globally televised programme and ask such nonsense.
Off-tangent race discussions are just silly...
http://raceproject.org/2007/05/week-in-race-with-obama-stephanopoulos.html
http://raceproject.org/2007/05/week-in-race-with-obama-stephanopoulos.html
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