The Irony of the Obama Victory
November 5, 2008Exit polling showed the mere fact Barack Obama was black played a huge role in his victory. Byron York reports:
“The exit polls suggest that race was a factor in a lot of voters’ decisions — and that, on balance, it worked to Barack Obama’s advantage. In Ohio, for example, six percent of voters said that race was the most important factor in their decision. Among them, Obama won 59-40. Another 13 percent said race was an important factor in their vote, and Obama won among them, 52-46. So nearly one in five voters said race was an important part of their decision, and more of them voted for Obama than McCain.”
Millions of black and white voters choose Barack Obama simply because he was a black man. This goes against everything Martin Luther King dreamed.
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
America did not judge the content of Obama’s character, because if they did, they would have found a man who voted against saving a babies life after a failed abortion attempt. They would have found a man who sat in a church and listened to his hate filled pastor and mentor spew vile rhetoric. They would found man who started his career in the home of an american terrorist, who bombed the pentagon and wished he could have done more.
I’m sure Martin Luther King looked down from heaven with saddness when Barack Obama was elected. It may seem like we’ve come so far as a nation, but really we just did the the complete reverse of Dr. King’s dream.
That also means that millions of black and white voters chose John McCain simply because he’s a white man, right? If skin colour is the only important factor it’s racism either way.
And, imho, judging the candidates’ characters based on one single topic – abortion – is a bit narrow minded as well.
I never thought of it like that, that is true. I voted for Obama because I’m a democrat, but I do think its true he probably would not have been elected had he not been black.
I’ll take him any way I can get him!
So on this basis Al Sharpton won in 2004? You sound like some dullard who couldn’t get into college and blames it on ‘quotas’. It couldn’t actually be that the black guy happened to be the best candidate?
You first sentence makes no sense.
The ‘black guy’ who only had a couple years of senate experience was not the best candidate.
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All I can say is: For the first time in my adult life I am embarrassed to be an American!!!!!! Sound familiar!
Huh?
Irony, indeed!
Obama only got elected because he’s black? Whoever thought we would see the day! LOL.
That must be why I voted for Obama. Sure, I though it was because of his obvious “intellectual vigor”, his temperate, stabilizing demeanor, his measured plans for the future, the wisdom he uses in consulting experts in every field, his ability to motivate millions of people to come together and his desire for a unified america, among other things, but clearly it was just because I have jungle fever.
To paraphrase Fr. Frank Pavone: It is tragically ironic that the victorious candidate who represents the triumph over the oppression of his race turns out to be the one who is most in favor of oppressing the most weak and vulnerable among us – the unborn.