Unfit Presidential Candidates
Published by Pokerwolf on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at 7:09 AM.
After watching the reaction in the wake of the Wright/Obama relationship announcement, I'm wondering if the McCain campaign will also have to do some damage control. I feel that way because, apparently, a standard has been set based on the Wright/Obama relationship:
Any Presidential candidate that has racial prejudices shall not be deemed fit to run for the President of the United States.
That's the message that I've been hearing and reading for the past couple of days. If that's the case, then John McCain isn't fit to be a Presidential candidate:
John McCain said those words during the 2000 Presidential election campaign. There was a bit of a stir about the comment, but it didn't make too many waves. Many people chalked up his remarks to his time as a prisoner of war and the fact that he was tortured. Many people still forgive McCain for his remarks for that very reason. But, if McCain can be forgiven for his remarks, why are people so quick to denounce Wright?
Wright was born in 1941 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. That means he grew up during the time of Jim Crow laws, public lynchings, and other acts of racial discrimination toward his race. Yet, no one has stepped forward to point that out as a possible explanation for why Wright feels the way he does. Apparently, that doesn't matter.
If it doesn't matter why Wright feels the way he does about Whites, then why does it matter why McCain feels the way he does about the Vietnamese? All that should matter, based on the standard set by the Wright/Obama relationship, is that McCain is a racist.
So, what happens now? Obviously, racial prejudice doesn't mean much in the grand scheme of things except to possibly provide a scandalous headline. If it really mattered and racial prejudice was something that Presidential candidates had to worry about, then neither Obama or McCain would be running for President of the United States. The net result of the Wright/Obama situation may or may not influence what happens in the election. We'll have to see. The one person who could have capitalized on the announcement had a staff member babble about race before anyone else did, which hurt her more than anything else.
It will be interesting to see where the McCain campaign goes from here. At the moment, they're whistling innocently in the corner hoping that very few people know how to use the internet and perform searches on Google. It wouldn't surprise me if the mainstream media casually ignored McCain's comment from 2000, but it's important to note it due to the reaction that people are having to Obama and Wright.
Any Presidential candidate that has racial prejudices shall not be deemed fit to run for the President of the United States.
That's the message that I've been hearing and reading for the past couple of days. If that's the case, then John McCain isn't fit to be a Presidential candidate:
On his campaign bus recently, Sen. John McCain told reporters, "I hated the gooks. I will hate them as long as I live."
John McCain said those words during the 2000 Presidential election campaign. There was a bit of a stir about the comment, but it didn't make too many waves. Many people chalked up his remarks to his time as a prisoner of war and the fact that he was tortured. Many people still forgive McCain for his remarks for that very reason. But, if McCain can be forgiven for his remarks, why are people so quick to denounce Wright?
Wright was born in 1941 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. That means he grew up during the time of Jim Crow laws, public lynchings, and other acts of racial discrimination toward his race. Yet, no one has stepped forward to point that out as a possible explanation for why Wright feels the way he does. Apparently, that doesn't matter.
If it doesn't matter why Wright feels the way he does about Whites, then why does it matter why McCain feels the way he does about the Vietnamese? All that should matter, based on the standard set by the Wright/Obama relationship, is that McCain is a racist.
So, what happens now? Obviously, racial prejudice doesn't mean much in the grand scheme of things except to possibly provide a scandalous headline. If it really mattered and racial prejudice was something that Presidential candidates had to worry about, then neither Obama or McCain would be running for President of the United States. The net result of the Wright/Obama situation may or may not influence what happens in the election. We'll have to see. The one person who could have capitalized on the announcement had a staff member babble about race before anyone else did, which hurt her more than anything else.
It will be interesting to see where the McCain campaign goes from here. At the moment, they're whistling innocently in the corner hoping that very few people know how to use the internet and perform searches on Google. It wouldn't surprise me if the mainstream media casually ignored McCain's comment from 2000, but it's important to note it due to the reaction that people are having to Obama and Wright.
