Obama Talks Race To Black Iowans

Washington Post:

It was a rare scene in Iowa: an audience that included a large percentage of minorities.

After a two-day swing through western Iowa, Sen. Barack Obama held a forum on urban issues at a Des Moines high school, packing the gymnasium with 500 Iowans of every variety. He fielded a series of questions that touched on race - not a common topic in this overwhelmingly white state, and one that Obama, by his own measure, views from a rare perspective.

In one exchange, the Illinois senator tackled the steep obstacles faced by inner city youth. He said he would dispatch nurses or social workers visit "at-risk parents," to "meet with them and talk to them about you've got to read to your child...Here's how you talk to your child. Don't tell them to shut up. Let them ask questions, that's what children do."

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Comments

[lezlib]

"I understand that there is a core group of Republican­s.....blah blah blah" Hey, Hill. There is also a core group of Democrats who will never vote for you!

[lovetheworld]

Barack Obama will be the next president. The polls, the momentum, and the agenda...h­e's got it.

And for Democrats to pretend that they will not coalesce around the nominee (with so much at stake) is disingenous at best.

[trailrunner9]

Barack O'Bama has 0 (zero) chance of winning a general election. As it stands now, the next president will be Rudolph Guliani. Democrats are so stupid, with all that is at stake.

[factotem]

Correction: you had the best chance of winning the primary (out of cultural inertia), but you had a slim chance of winning the actual presidency.
I would love to see her lose, or at least get shaken out of her revolting sense of entitlement.

Everything that comes out of her mouth is horseshit.

As for Obama, haven't we already seen what a naive politician with zero experience does to the presidency?

[Plowboy]

Hillary's claqim that she has the best chance of defeating a Republican is hilolarious. The recent Zogby poll shows her LOSING to any top Republican while other Democratic matched agaainst them woulf WIN. Like many another thing, I suppose Hillary's chances are in the eye of the beholder.

Note also that she is on the doward path as people get to see more of her, while exposure proves beneficial to other candidates. That should tell somebody something. Of course, if she is the Democratic nominee, then the Mordocks and the Neos and the same old stuff we suffer from now all win -- no matter how the election comes out.

[Countess]

Mrs. Clinton will turn the democratic party into the alternative GOP by adopting most of their policies.

[TWOSHORT]

White People running for office talk's too how many group's of minority[REP WON'T TALK TO BLACK GROUP'S]IS THAT A STORY?WHITE'S TALK ONLY TO WHITE'S WHY IS THIS A STORY[GEORGE ALLEN MACACA WELCOME TO THE REAL SOUTH]DON IMUS NAPPY HEADED HO'S!SO IF HE TALK'S TOO BLACK VOTER'S!WHITE'S WILL FEEL BETRAYED.

[Bush Pardons Cheney]

Would Oprah be working so hard in Iowa if Obama wasn't Black?

I call it Racist.

[duboisist]

--He said he would dispatch nurses or social workers visit "at-risk parents," to "meet with them and talk to them about you've got to read to your child...He­re's how you talk to your child. Don't tell them to shut up. Let them ask questions, that's what children do."--

Black people are not going to vote in large number for Obama.
I only have two questions left about him:

1. Does his distorted knowledge of black people come from watching 1970’s sitcoms or from reading neoconservatives like Patrick Moynihan and Irving Kristol?
2. Are the paternalistic things he says more racist or sexist?

[godlessclif]

I think Obama is the first candidate in history to actually have a logo. Parties have logos. But people???

[dryfactoidobotanoid]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odf0wLKDuhQ
Too Short, Gettin' It

You got a lot of dreams, but you can't get out
The first thing you need to do is set yourself some goals
Think positive, everything else is old
And work hard, never stop hustlin'
Cause they just love to see the black man struggling

[Ping]

"I come from a diverse background. I have people of every race in my family," Obama responded.

This the reason I identify with Obama.

[Qbear]

Obama talks race to Black Iowans....­both of them.

[dryfactoidobotanoid]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvO5kD4yr1Y
Mos Def / Bill Maher

"Listen, I'm Black in America, I'm under constant pressure."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD5WlQ54Sg0
TELL THE TRUTH - Mos Def - Immortal Technique - Eminem