Sen. Obama has been very careful not to be photographed with predominant black audiences during this campaign. He really does think he is more white than black, and has visibly courted every non black ethnic and religious group to date. He does not need to take the black vote for granted because he hasn’t convinced all of us to vote for him yet. He needs to prove that he is a legal U.S. citizen first before November, and quit talking down to other black men because his father left his mother. Barack has a complex and it is evident in his speechs.

Obama: Clarence Thomas Unfit for Supreme Court
Monday, August 18, 2008 2:41 PM
By: Jim Meyers
Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama declared that he would not have nominated Clarence Thomas for the Supreme Court because he was not a “strong enough jurist” for the job.

Appearing at a forum at pastor Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., on Saturday, Obama and Republican presidential rival John McCain were both asked which Supreme Court Justices they would not have nominated.

McCain said, “with all due respect” the four most liberal sitting Justices because of his different judicial philosophy.

Obama said: “I would not have nominated Clarence Thomas. I don’t think that he … was a strong enough jurist or legal thinker at the time for that elevation. Setting aside the fact that I profoundly disagree with his interpretation of a lot of the Constitution.”

He added that he also wouldn’t have nominated Antonin Scalia, and perhaps not John Roberts, “though he assured the audience that at least they were smart enough for the job,” The Wall Street Journal noted in an editorial on Monday.

The editorial continued: “So let’s see. By the time he was nominated, Clarence Thomas had worked in the Missouri Attorney General’s office, served as an Assistant Secretary of Education, run the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and sat for a year on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, the nation’s second most prominent court.”

Obama, on the other hand, “isn’t yet four years out of the Illinois state Senate, has never held a hearing of note [with] his U.S. Senate subcommittee, and had an unremarkable record as both a ‘community organizer’ and law school lecturer,” The Journal observed.

“Justice Thomas’s judicial credentials compare favorably to Mr. Obama’s presidential résumé by any measure.”

I don’t get excited over numbers. I tell people what they say and let them draw their own conclusions. Like you just did.

Perhaps it would be a good idea to give voters a basic civics test to determine their eligibilty to vote (an idea that I used to believe you would support, Abdul). Since Dems, and in particular Libs, depend on the ignorant, uneducated, and ill-informed to get elected, candidates like Obama wouldn’t have a prayer. Libs votes are driven by their feelings not their thoughts. That is why a charming and charismatic man with neither conviction nor character can be so popular simply by offering change and hope.

America proved by electing Bill Clinton twice that a man’s character no longer means anything as long as he makes us feel good. If Barack Obama is elected in November, then this once great nation has sunk to a new low.

By the way, Abdul, it is you who should not get too excited by your numbers. Most rational Americans are terrified by the prospect of an Obama presidency.

I’ve always thought we should vote by Congressional District. Whoever wins that District gets 1 EV. Whoever wins the state gets the two “Senate” EV’s. That weights every congressional district fairly evenly and gives the candidates reason to go to Des Moines, Iowa. It will be easier to pick up the “extra” 2 EV’s for Iowa than for California, for example.

Such a structure seems to fit our “bicameral system” the best as well.

Such a vote would make most of the nation “spectator states”. Candidates would campaign in the biggest cities, and forget about the rest of us. Why go to Des Moines, Iowa where you can talk to 5,000 people when you can to go Atlanta and talk to 5,000,000?

Not only that, but forget about issues that might be important to farmers or anyone in the rural area. The only issues that candidates would talk about and form positions on are the issues that would be important to those same city-dwellers.

No thanks.

Abdul is completely correct re: Indiana, however, if McCain doesn’t do something soon here, he could actually lose it. I don’t think it’s likely unless it’s a landslide for Obama, but certainly his recent ads here have been effective. McCain? Has anyone seen a McCain ad on local television or heard one on local radio here? I haven’t.

The polls did not say Peterson would win by a landslide. They had him ahead but it was within the margin of error. Secondly, more important than polls is organization. The Obama people have a hell of a ground game, particularly here in Indiana. I doubt they will the state, but it forces the McCain camp to spend time and energy in places that they shouldn’t have to, making it more difficult to compete in battleground areas.

Does he have our intrests in mind – our his?

Just a checky-check.