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Politics : The Next President 2008 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (2870)	5/3/2008 1:34:04 PM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 3215

lol You are SUCH a dumbass....

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (2870)	5/3/2008 2:41:25 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3215

no but Rev Wright's friend Farrakan's friend Bid laden caused it.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (2870)	5/3/2008 4:18:25 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 3215

In this far Southern Indiana town of 6,500, for instance, Steve Erwin, a barber, pointed to two Bibles stacked on the counter beside his barber chair and, even as he snipped away at the head of hair before him, slid open a drawer to reveal the gun he keeps within reach. “And I’m not bitter, either,” Mr. Erwin said, mocking comments Senator Barack Obama made about small towns and wondering aloud whether people here, in a nearly all-white county seat where the mayor and the county Democratic Party chairwoman have backed Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, could fathom an Obama presidency.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (2870)	5/3/2008 4:23:04 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3215

As for Mr. Obama, some said they had no problem voting for a black candidate but feared that other people here, older people especially, might. “Even right here there are areas where people would not vote for him because of race,” said George M. Green, a 62-year-old truck driver. “I think it’s partly because he doesn’t have a U.S. background,” Mr. Green said, alluding the time Mr. Obama spent overseas. “But whatever it is, they won’t say it, but it’s there.” Indiana has a complicated racial history. In the 1920s, it was seen as a Ku Klux Klan stronghold. Then, in the 1950s and 1960s, its laws regarding the treatment of blacks were slow to change, said James H. Madison, a professor of history at Indiana University in Bloomington and the author of “A Lynching in the Heartland: Race and Memory in America,” which recounted the 1930 lynching of two black men in Marion. “Some of the cultural issues linger on,” Mr. Madison said. The state’s black residents, many of whom live in the Region and in Indianapolis, make up only about 9 percent of the state’s 6.3 million people, but their numbers have grown in recent years at a faster rate than the state’s overall growth. In the shadows of the steel mills, Gary, which is 84 percent black, has seen better days. Since the late 1960s, the loss of tens of thousands of steel jobs and white flight have transformed a place that once called itself the City of the Century. Older residents point sadly down Broadway, reminiscing about the downtown street that once was a bustling promenade of shops, now far quieter with some stores shuttered. Rudy Clay, the mayor of Gary, has been urging everyone he knows to vote for Mr. Obama, mainly, he said, because of Mr. Obama’s support for jobs programs, training centers and anti-poverty efforts. “His programs fit Gary to a T,” he said. “Plus, he doesn’t live but 20 minutes away.” When teachers in the Gary schools took students to vote, Mr. Clay and others drew criticism from a neighboring city, Hammond, which is 72 percent white. Mr. Clay said the teachers viewed the trips as an important civics lesson, not a chance to press for any candidate in particular. “I thought it was a great idea,” Mr. Clay said. Thomas M. McDermott Jr., the mayor of Hammond and a vocal supporter of Mrs. Clinton, said his concern about the trips was over the use of school money for buses and gas. Mr. McDermott said his office had received hundreds of calls since he voiced his concerns. Many callers accused him of being a racist, he said, adding that the episode had been painful. “Using taxpayer money to get the vote out, that’s just not right,” Mr. McDermott said. “That’s all I was trying to say.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (2870)	5/3/2008 5:20:33 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3215

Mr. Obama faces different issues, beginning with Mr. Wright, who suggested last week that the United States was attacked by terrorists because it had itself engaged in terrorism; Mr. Obama has now denounced his former pastor. He has been challenged, as well, about his relationship with a former radical from the 1960s; Mr. Obama says he simply served on the board of a foundation with the man. The questions may be taking a toll: The New York Times/CBS News Poll last week found 29 percent found him “very patriotic,” compared with 40 percent who felt that way about Mrs. Clinton, and 70 percent who felt that way about Mr. McCain, a former prisoner of war.