Obama cites race remark, may block nominee...

[carpe diem]

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) may block President Bush's nominee for a top State Department position because she may have made racially charged comments in 1987.

Obama, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, raised his concerns at the Thursday confirmation hearing of Henrietta Holsman Fore, currently director of the U.S. Mint. President Bush has nominated her to be undersecretary of state for management.

Obama was concerned about Fore because of a 1987 newspaper article regarding comments she made about African Americans and Hispanics in a speech she made while a Wellesley College trustee.

The 1987 New York Times article paraphrased her as saying "blacks preferred pushing drugs to working in a factory" and reported she "also said she had found Hispanic workers to be lazy."

http://www.suntimes.com/output/sweet/cst-nws-obama10.html

[Ravenseye]

1. Oh Come ON!

Comments like that are exactly the reason she was nominated! Why do you hate our president? Why do you hate our country? Why don't you hate black people?

:sarcasm:

[slor]

3. LOL ! n/t

[wndycty]

2. Wait a minute, I have been told Obama is a sell out.

:kick:

[welshTerrier2]

7. he is a sell out on his Middle East views

i said exactly that in the following thread (please note that my comments on Senator Obama were made in reference to one specific issue):

source: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3786247#3786668

my friend, this "they" you're referring to sadly includes many of "us" ... the Democratic Party's platform itself has hawkish language about not tolerating Iran's nuclear program and requiring "mandatory" inspections ... i recently heard Obama talk about Iran's "meddling" in Iraq (unlike the US of course) ...

we are being sold down the river by our own elected Congressmen ... before we point fingers ONLY at the imperialist neo-cons, let's understand that our own team has been fully complicit with them ...

show me leading Democrats in the Senate who have warned Americans about the pending disaster should we broaden the "war" beyond Iraq ... either Democrats are complicit in bush's imperialist schemes or they are political opportunists who think the best strategy is to show no leadership whatsoever and just go along with bush ... either way, i'm afraid we have a pretty sorry crop of Democrats in the Senate, at least as far as foreign policy goes ...

bush and the neo-cons are as evil as they come and their pro-corporate hegemony in the Middle East is a national and international disgrace; but just how good can we feel about the Democrats in the Senate in reaction to all this right-wing evil??? Democrats may not have the votes to change the direction but they would have the attention of the American people if they spoke out on the issues and cautioned against more militarism in the Middle East ... but "they" just aren't going to do that ... and therein lies the rub ...

and for Obama's exact quote and more analysis of the Democratic Party's position, also see this thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=1843072#1843252

[ClintonTyree]

4. What factories?

:shrug: If there WERE factory jobs perhaps people would seek them instead of making money selling drugs.
As for Hispanics being lazy? I'd like to see her in the fields picking America's crops like those "lazy" Hispanics do to support their families.
Another ignorant, entitled, Republican elitist talking about things she has NO knowledge of. Why am I not surprised bush wants to elevate her position?

[comsymp]

5. "New York Times article paraphrased her as saying..."

The NYT... paraphrased her...

After the "paraphrasing" we've seen by the MSM, I'd really like to see her actual quote before going to the barricades on this one.

[Lone_Wolf]

6. I wonder if this is one reason why Dean made his remark about the RNC?

:evilgrin:

The racial and religious leanings of *'s judicial nominees are about to undergo extra scrutiny.