Nineteen ninety-two was a crucial election year in Illinois. Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton was hoping to carry a swing state that President George H.W. Bush had won by a scant 2 percentage points four years earlier, and Illinois’ Cook County Recorder of Deeds Carol Moseley Braun was attempting to become the nation’s first African-American female senator. Close observers believed that… return to article
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Reader Comments (2)Page 1 of 1 pages“Combined with his ability to inspire new voters”
Is this inspiring?(Stanley Crouch, columnist) Feb 2, 08
When black Americans refer to Obama as ‘one of us,’ I do not know what they are talking about.”(Ms. Dickerson)Feb 2, 08
I’ve got nothing but love for the brother, but we don’t have anything in common,” said Ms. Dickerson, who wrote recently about Mr. Obama in Salon, the online magazine. “His father was African. His mother was a white woman. He grew up with white grandparents.“Now, I’m willing to adopt him,” Ms. Dickerson continued. “He married black. He acts black. But there’s a lot of distance between black Africans and African-Americans.”
(Obama, “Town Meeting” / Spike Lee’s 1992 “Malcolm X,” )
“They’re trying to bamboozle you. It’s the same old okie-doke. Y’all know about okie doke, right? ... They try to bamboozle you. Hoodwink ya. Try to hoodwink ya. Alright, I’m having too much fun here. ... “ - Barack Obamadog whistle politics
or inspiring voters whatever you want to call it....
Posted by oam6000 on Jun 11, 2008 at 11:35 PM Obama is going to expand the vote alright. You are going to see white voters in droves who have never voted before going to the polls to vote AGAINST this unqualified, hate filled racist and his bitter anti-American, anti-white wife!
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