Racism-By-Proxy Of The Day: Americans Shouldn't Vote For Obama Because....

[BlooInBloo]

*EUROPEANS* might not accept him!

:rofl:

One wonders why they have to travel so far to find their bigots?

http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/9664.html

Republicans have started wracking their brains for clever ways to say, without appearing racist, that Obama’s skin color is a reason not to vote for him. Not so long ago we had Tony Blankley saying that not voting for someone because of their skin color wasn’t bigotry or racism, it was “demographic consciousness.” Now the loathsome Anne Applebaum, a distinguished member of the WaPo editorial board, hits it out of the park with this column where she argues that people shouldn’t vote for Obama because some foreigners are racist.

“Will Americans vote for a black man?” I’ve been asked this question by foreigners of various origins a dozen — or maybe three dozen — times since the U.S. presidential campaign began for real in January. … Which means that it is time to turn this rather offensive question around: Will foreigners accept a black American president? I realize that this, too, may seem like a rather offensive question.

Well, yes it is an offensive question, Anne. And a completely dumb-assed one too, since it seems to suggest that if Obama is elected, the Elysée Palace and the Kremlin will overlook the fact that he’s the leader of one of the world’s great superpowers and instead start worrying about whether he’ll steal the silverware if he’s invited to a state dinner.

But that’s not stopping Anne from asking the question, and the reason she’s calling it offensive is to make you think that she’s so not racist. Anne is, of course, simply taking a page out of the concern troll book and pasting it all over the OpEd pages of the Post.

[Zenmaster]

1. Obama would be a huge asset, internationally.

I don't know if its an offensive question, but its certainly a ridiculous one.

Europe, along with the rest of the world, has had their eye on this presidential race and most are more enthuisiastic about Obama become America's next president than not. Europe is much more tolerant than us, in general, and Obama is seen as more of a Citizen of the World than he is a figure that wants America to be an isolationist country.

Obama is a huge plus for us on the international scene, in terms of how the rest of the world will percieve us, compared to how we are currently percieved.

[tulsakatz]

2. that's ridiculous.........

there are black people in europe too!!

[monmouth]

3. Wouldn't you think Anne would have checked out the front pages of

all those european papers when Obama got the presumptive nomination? Gawd these people are such hypocrites...

[izquierdista]

4. He's get a much better reception

Than Dubya the Radioactive. :puke:

[jobycom]

5. Good question to ask

That way we can get it out in the open and show how gawdawful stupid the question is. Better to shine a light on cockroaches than to ignore the quiet little noises of their furtive contaminations in the dark.

[PolNewf]

6. There are polls out there

for Canada and much of Europe. Obama is heavily favored, it isn't even close.

Due to his popularity I expect Obama will have some initial intenational political capital.

[PatGund]

8. Due to the fact he's not GW Bush.....

He's going to have some initial intenational political capital.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

7. Obama is massively more popular than McCain in Europe

If anyone with stronger google-fu than me can find it, there was a Telegraph (a right-wing paper, but one with higher editorial standards than some) poll on the subject a while back.

[AspenRose]

9. It's killing them

It's absolutely KILLING the racists that after having a WHITE president who has screwed up and embarrassed the hell out of this country, we actually have a candidate of color who is well-liked and well-respected around the world.

Charlie Rangel was right. Bush killed the myth of white supremacy once and for all.

To think there are some people out there who would vote for an obviously incompetent and Bush-compliant guy like McCain, against their better interests, over someone because of his color....if McCain wins, our country deserves what it gets.

[BlooInBloo]

10. Well-said.

[AspenRose]

14. It's so ridiculous

Did Colin Powell have racial problems in Europe? Has Condi Rice had racial problems in Europe?

Honestly, any problems Europeans may have had with those two had to do with policy and who their boss was/is, rather than how much melanin they possess in their skin.

[BlooInBloo]

15. Sure, but that's not the point. The point is to move the racism-by-proxy up a level...

From the *personal* level of "I'm not racist, but West VA people are, so we shouldn't vote for him" to the *national* level of "people in the US aren't racist but those Europeans are, so we shouldn't vote for him".

It follows the change from primary election (personal, county, state level) to general election (national level). The same tactic, just at an even grander level.

[AspenRose]

19. You're good peeps, B in B

I know you're right. You're astute; you weren't born yesterday. And I wish I had your ability to laugh at these idiots, but it just isn't funny anymore. We have serious, serious problems. Things are too f*cked up and there is just too much at stake for people to be wringing their hands in fake concern and contorting themselves like a grotesque version of Cirque de Soleil over something as superficial as the color of the potential future leader of the free world.

I can't laugh at them anymore. They piss me off too much.


:rant:

:hi:

[genna]

11. My favorite conservative talk around: Full blooded Americans don't like anything less.

I guess Obama is a half blood...

Other Americans, African Americans, aren't full blooded in the same American way.


I'm for throwing code speak out the door.

[BlooInBloo]

13. I would guess that "half-breed" is the term they're more likely to use.

[genna]

12. I'd also like to confront these bigots to their face too.

They're not bad people AT THE SAME TIME that they don't speak for a brand new future either.

No offense of course---They should rot on the vine they sprung from. Their children and my children are from a different root.

[ContinentalOp]

16. So let me get this straight

Republicans are worried about what FURRINERS think of our president?

[AspenRose]

17. Republicans need to make up their minds

These same republicans who scream and yell every time Europeans (and Canadians, and Australians) have a poll showing they'd prefer a democrat in the White House are NOW so "concerned" Barack Obama won't be accepted.

They need to make up their damn minds. :mad:

[Barack_America]

18. It certainly suggests what kind of crowd she runs with...

Considering, as a whole, Europe is crazy about Obama.