“I think it’s a given that many if not most of Obama’s followers are motivated primarily by race”

I do not agree. either way, both of us are making assumptions based upon the way we view the world, our bias. I would like to see your records and facts regarding this – unless, you are just making a biased assumption.

your conservative bias tells you that there is no way anyone thinking rationally could believe Obama to be ready to be president.

my liberal bias tells me that there is no way McCain is any longer capable, or Palin competent, to make the changes necessary in DC.

the difference being, that I recognize not everyone fits into my stereotypical worldview. I know a lot of racists that are republican, but I don’t necessarily believe ALL racists are republican.

I can see that there are people with their hearts in the right place, fully intelligent enough to comprehend the situation, but simply have a different way of interpreting the information than me – that doesn’t make them racist, stupid, or any number of names I’ve been called simply for not agreeing with the republican dogma.

whereas you would attribute your negative rhetoric to any person that does not share your views. that simply is not true, let alone “right”

Sorry man, you’re just flat out wrong. race simply isn’t the first thing on everyone’s mind. maybe that influences your decision – but not everyone elses.

it is simply ignorant to assume that everyone thinks the way you do, or that everyone cares more about race than the FUTURE OF OUR COUNTRY.

you obviously do, and that’s fine for you – but don’t associate that view with everyone you talk to – because it won’t be theirs.
I support Barack Obama because I believe what he says, and I believe that he can make a difference. Conversely, I do not support John McCain because I do NOT think he is capable of making the changes needed.

By your logic, I assume the only reason you are voting for McCain is because he’s white? you don’t want to to dissapoint your race? or is it palin – because she’s a woman – you don’t want to be considered sexist.

either way, you’re a joke.

Obama’s complete lack of qualifications? He has what I consider to be the most important prerequisite to being President: He’s really f-ing smart.

Yeah, until his teleprompter goes out, or he doesn’t have a scripted answer written for him… then we see his true genius at work. Heck, even when he DOES have scripted answers written for him, here’s seven unrepeated minutes from a 15 minute Obama press conference.

Or perhaps you means the same “f-ing smart” guy who thinks he has visited 57 of the 60 states?
Who complains that Iraq is keeping us from sending Arab interpreters to Afghanistan where they don’t speak Arabic?
Who thinks Hugo Chavez came to power after Bush?
Who thinks Kennedy’s talks with Khrushchev got him to pull missles out of Cuba when he actually put them IN Cuba as a result of talking to Kennedy?
Who thinks an asthma attack isn’t an emergent situation and should be treated with a breathylizer?
Who thinks he was speaking to fallen heroes on memorial day?
Who thinks his uncle liberated Auschwitz?
Who thinks 10,000 people died in a tornado in Kansas last year?
Who thinks he was conceived at the Selma march 4 years before it happened?
Who cant tell the difference between Sioux City, Iowa, and Sioux Falls, South Dakota, even when he’s in Sioux Falls?
Who introduced Biden as the next President (that ones probably just a Freudian slip since we know Barack won’t be running his own administration)
The guy who goes to a racist anti-American church for 20 years and doesn’t know it?
The guy who picked someone who’s been wrong on every foreign policy issue (not to mention domestic) in the past 36 years?

and I’ve barely scratched the surface

In addition to his education, he managed to survive the minefield the left sets up for anyone that deigns to deviate from lefty dogma.

Someone ought to make a list of decent people savaged by the left. We can start with Joe the Plumber and little Trig Palin.

Whereas the right likes Palin because she has the right ideas.

Lyndon Johnson graduated from SW Texas State Teacher’s College. Jimmy Carter graduated from the Naval Academy as did John McCain. GW Bush has degrees from Yale and Harvard.

Robert Mugabe has several degrees (including from the Univ of London).

The point being that one’s alma mater is no guarantor of success/failure and no indicator of good/evil.

As Dan pointed out, it’s not how smart you are; it’s how you execute.

My own observation is that there’s little correlation between intelligence and education. I know some damn smart people with high school educations and I know some real idiots with advanced degrees.

A smart person can learn; a person’s judgement determines what use they will make of their learning.

Bill Ayer’s may be “smart” (he managed to become rich and comfortable in the country he hates) but he’s a loathsome human being – I wouldn’t let him lick my shoes.

There are a lot of people in Congress with advanced degrees (usually JDs) – see what a good job they’ve been doing!

Sarah Palin does understand and respect the base. When she addresses issues of concern to real Americans, she doesn’t come across as condescending or pandering like the elitist McCain does.

Funny how he missed those “details”, isn’t it? Why is it that you won’t hold Obama accountable for his lack of interest in details and his attempt to “go with his gut”?

Answer: Because Obama is black, and therefore, you refuse to hold him to any standards. You simply assume he is intelligent because of his skin color and refuse to criticize him or critique him because you are convinced that doing so is “racist”.

“Not someone who gets all bogged-down in the details”

exactly the problem. McPalin just like bush has contempt for intelligence, and breeds ignorance. You’re all too wrong about not needing intelligence in a POTUS.

[Where's your evidence that she has contempt for intelligence? Point to her actual word or actions. --Dan]

you need someone willing to look at the details – not someone who “goes with their gut” in opposition to all facts and research.

You got your good ole boy, it was Bush, he destroyed our country. go figure.

Clinton was the best president we have had in recent times, and obama will be a better one. Bush ran us into the ground, Clinton did not.

@ V the K , I simply have to disagree.

My own impression is that Obama is possessed of a very mediocre intellect, and benefited from an academic milieu in which conformity to liberal dogma was rewarded and melanin a much valued commodity.

If you demand “experts”, that’s what a Cabinet is for.

What’s needed in the Oval Office is someone who can synthesize the “big picture”, and act. Not someone who gets all bogged-down in the details and loses track of the priorities of the moment. Just as successful, innovative businesses are built by the “C”-students…and driven into ground by the “straight A”-students with the MBA; the same is true with governance.

All Gods save me from the “experts”….

Meanwhile, I am amused by your attempt to use Jindal to justify your racist beliefs, but the simple fact of the matter is that Democrat liberals like yourself endorse and support racial attacks on conservatives and Republicans like Jindal and Michael Steele, just like you’ve endorsed sexist and misogynist attacks on Palin while screaming that any criticism of Obama is “racist”.

Exactly!

Furthermore, attempting to invoke degrees from Columbia and Harvard as proof of Obama’s intelligence mean nothing when you and the Democrat Party have spent the past eight years arguing that Bush’s degrees from Yale and Harvard mean nothing.

Claire Danes (i think) went to Yale too. She was helped out because she is an actress. The Ivy League schools do take people of privileged background sometimes because of their names and who they are. That’s a matter of fact. So it is very impressive when someone like Obama or Jindal can come from an ordinary background, attend those schools and (most importantly) excel at those schools. That sets them apart from Bush.