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Originally Posted by taxwonk
It has nothing at all to do with Republicans. The issue is one of Obama's relationship with his own party. One of the oldest tenets of Chicago politics is "you dance with the one what brung you." It's not the Republicans that Obama caters to that discourage me, it's the white Democrats.
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I think we're thinking about two different things. I'm focused on how Romney and Palin and other Republicans use the label "Chicago politician" on the stump and at rallies. It's all part of the same "he's not from the heartland, he wasn't born here, his base is made up of welfare recipients, he's urban, he's not like us," commentary that is a roundabout way of saying, "he's the urban black man your mother warned you about."
I understand what it means when you, Coltrane and others from Chicago use it.
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Originally Posted by taxwonk
But I think, Thurgreed, that you have convinced me that this isn't going to change in my lifetime. And I can't fault Obama for disappointing me on the biggest fronts. I'll be supporting him for what he has achieved and praying for the day a black president doesn't need to apologize for the color of his skin.
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It's depressing. But in order for him to get anything done, he needs to put white people at ease. And that's made harder by the Limbaughs and others who are constantly try to turn him into that nightmare black man in the back of so many white people's minds. Can you imagine if Obama's actions after the Zimmerman incident had been what you wanted them to be? Forget getting re-elected. Could he have gotten anything done in office?
Anyway, let's drop it. I don't belong over here anyway.
TM
