| The Masquerade Is Over |
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| by James Reza | Sun, Jun 8, 2008, 08:22 PM |
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"James, I’m afraid I’m going to vote for your boy this year," exclaimed my good Hispanic friend, Anita, a die-hard, yellow dog Democrat, who was and still is in the tank for Senator Hillary Clinton. "Why Anita?" I asked. "James, I have never voted for a Republican in my entire life, but I just can’t support my party’s presidential nominee, Senator Obama, so I’m going to vote for Senator McCain," she lamented. "I just can’t stomach this man’s shallow resume, his racist preacher and his unsavory criminal acquaintances," she concluded. Needless to say, I was somewhat surprised by my Democrat friend’s comments about Senator Obama. A life-long Democrat and devout Catholic, my friend Anita and I for many years have had cordial discussions about politics. When she’s questioned my allegiance to the Republican Party, I ask her why she supports Democrat candidates who are in most part pro abortion and support gay marriages, issues our Catholic Church clearly opposes. She just shrugs her shoulders and our political discussions end at that juncture. In 1979 Gov. John Connolly, a once Democrat who switched to the Republican Party decided to run for the presidency of the United States. I’ll never forget my boss, Carl Motheral, asking me who I was going to support in the Republican ticket. When I told him I was going to support Gov. Ronald Reagan, he thought I’d lost my mind. "James, that guy is an actor! He doesn’t know beans about running this country!" so said my boss. Little did my boss know that I loathed Gov. Connolly. Though I never was a great fan of Cesar Chavez, (a farm labor activist) I’ll never forget when Mr. Chavez led a group of farm laborers protesting their low wages and stopped at Floresville, Texas as they marched to Austin, where Gov. Connolly resided. When Gov. Connolly met with the farm marchers, mostly Hispanic, at his Floresville ranch, he told them that he never got a donation from them for his campaigns nor many votes either. In short, he told the farm laborers he didn’t need them. From that point forward, I had zero interest in Gov. Connolly. In other words Gov. Connolly, plus other racists Democrats too numerous to mention made me switch my political party affiliation. This year’s political presidential scramble in the Democrat Party between Senator Obama and Senator Clinton has really brought to the limelight the ugly face of racism. Don’t most of you find it interesting that more often than never Republicans are stained with the stigma of being racists? I often wondered why. I don’t think there is a Republican who has the credentials of say, Senator Robert Byrd, a Democrat, and a one-time member of the Klu Klux Klan. Nor can I remember seeing on TV as I did, a Republican Governor like Governor George Wallace, again a Democrat, blocking the entrance at the University of Alabama to a black student. Let’s face it, if a Republican politician had done something like these Democrat clowns have done, they would have been tarred and feathered by the media, Democrats and Republicans as well. Blacks would have called them, and rightly so, every name under the sun but a zebra. Yet, Senator Byrd has been reelected to the Senate many times. How blacks still vote for Senator Byrd mystifies me. Were I a black man, I wouldn’t give Senator Byrd the sweat of my brow if he were on fire and he would give me the incentive to switch political parties. I find it laughable that Senator Obama wants to unite America. Yeah right, and I’m sure he will use his religious friends, like the Rev. Michael Pfleger and Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. to start the healing process. Please, don’t make me laugh. These two supposed religious figures have divided blacks and whites as Moses did when he parted the Red Sea. I was somewhat taken aback when Senator Clinton’s supporters on the TV news said there would never support a black man to be our President. Folks, please, Democrats are not racists? Please give me a break! If you kept up with this years battle for the White House between the Democrat candidates, very little was said about issues that are hurting our country: high gas prices, illegal immigration, etc. It was mostly all about a black preacher lashing out at whites, the United States, a Catholic priest making fun of Senator Clinton and the Clintons (Bill and Hillary) insulting blacks. One of the most disturbing comments Senator Clinton made in my opinion, was when they asked her why she was hanging on though she didn’t have a chance to catch Senator Obama’s lead. Her answer: "Anything can happen, remember what happened to Senator Robert Kennedy." To those who don’t keep up with history, Senator Robert Kennedy was assassinated. Just today I received an email from a friend, who is white, Catholic, and a Democrat. It reads: "St. Peter is at the pearly Gates checking up on the people waiting to enter Heaven. He asks the next one in line, "So who are you, and what did you do on Earth?" The fellow says, "I’m Barack Obama, and I was the first black to be elected President of the United States." St. Peter says, "The U.S." A black President? You gotta be kidding me! When did this happen?" Obama says, "About twenty minutes ago." Folks, the masquerade is over, Democrats can no longer mask their ugly racist faces! Something this American Hispanic has been aware of for many, many, years.
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written by Bob Reagan , June 08, 2008 The Republican Party under Abraham Lincoln’s leadership, freed the slaves. Lincoln met with abolitionist Frederick Douglass in the Executive Mansion (as the White House was called at that time), the first time a black person other than a servant is reported to have visited there. Republican President Theodore Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to dinner there. The Civil rights Act of 1964 would never have passed if the Senate Minority Leader, Republican Everett Dirksen had not been solidly behind it. It was the Democrats who almost successfully filibustered it. The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican until the day he died. (For more, see: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=16500#c1) The Republican Party was founded to oppose slavery. No Republican who was a serious candidate or elected official has ever espoused racial segregation as public policy. Republican economic policy has always been diametrically opposed to socialism, the ideological successor to slavery and segregation by race or caste. (Don’t believe this? Read Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm) Unfortunately, the GOP has not been as good at public relations as the party of slavery, segregation, and socialism, and of late it has had too many of its Congressmen acting like Democrats.
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written by Paul Barnes , June 09, 2008 So, how many black Republicans now serve in the U.S. Congress? If I remember correctly, the last was OU football star J. C. Watts. His father, a preacher, was quoted as saying, "A black man voting for a Republican is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders."
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written by ElHombre , June 09, 2008 So your Catholic friend wants to vote for McCain, a man who actively sought out the endorsement of Rev. 'The Catholic Church is a whore' Hagee? I'm missing something here. Incidentally, Mr. Reagan (and Mr. Reza, as well), the world has changed a great deal since the 1960s. Almost all of the racist Dems back then are, by now, Republicans. Jesse Helms, for example.
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written by Bob Reagan , June 09, 2008 Mr. Barnes: I believe you are correct about former Congressman Watts. I don't know about your quote, but I agree that the sentiment expressed therein is widespread. The question is: In view of history, why? Here in the U.S. we have rejected the idea that having certain skin color and ancestry determines individual ability and aspirations. Black people are thus no more inclined to a socialist-collectivist ideology than any other group of human beings. Part of the answer has to be that our government, which is run by collectivists, if not socialist sympathizers, has artificially maintained insular minority groups by insisting on identifying individuals by "race" or "ethnicity." That, of course, works in favor of a political faction that extolls collectivism over individualism. That can only perpetuate, not eradicate, racism.
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written by Dan Comstock , June 09, 2008 Mr. Reza, I find myself in the unusual position (for me) of defending Hillary Clinton. When she referred to the assassination of Robert Kennedy she was using it as a point of reference to show a parallel between herself and others continuing the campaign into June. The idea that "anything can happen" meant that her opponent might make a big mistake or she might capture a popular issue. She was not referring to the assassination itself. To those who still cling to the idea that Democrats have the best record regarding race relations, I believe that is not based upon any factual evidence at all. It is true that Barry Goldwater voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act but he was not against the goals of the Act. He did have a principled objection to some of its attributes which he believed compromised the Constitution. His personal record regarding civil rights was exemplary. I believe the main reason Republicans are maligned is because they do not believe in affirmative action. Democrats do not have to malign the Republican motives in order to disagree with them on this issue but it is tempting for them to do so.
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written by socialismisforlosers , June 10, 2008 Obama's racism has already been noted in his books. Has he changed? dont know but what I do know is that socialism is dooming this once great country
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written by Mike Shaw, Wichita , June 12, 2008 I read these comments above and I'm struck at the twisted logic and faulty thought processes of those who can't allow Obama to be fairly criticised. In watching my distant cousin Obama vs Hill-dog in this race, I have become aware that I am now a racist because I dare to think critically of his angry wife, his racist heretical preacher, and his association with the likes of Bill Ayers. I fear the Cabinet he would form. It will not look like America. I remember when my parents would tell me they knew what I was up to by who I was with. The same goes for Barack and Michelle. His mother was known in the family as a wild girl and later as a Marxist, and he has admitted in his book to being drawn to them in college. Now he needs a website to deny that he was ever a muslim. Indeed he was one while he attended a muslim school at a young age. He is not change, but more of the same from Washington. More lies, while our economy suffers and people overseas starve because we turn the food they would have gotten into fuel. Once again I will vote for the lesser of two evils, McCain this time, but I'm tired of it.
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written by Peter Stern , June 14, 2008 So, what is Sen. John McCain going to do to divide Americans further? Voting for "John-boy" is just another vote for the Bush administration's "platforms". McCain pleads that he can comprehend the working people's dilema. Ha-ha! How can he? His wealthy wife enables him to bypass that effort. John "the fence-sitter" McCain is NOT good material to be the president. No amount of rhetoric is going to change that.
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written by DH , June 23, 2008 In Response To Bob Reagan who wrote "No Republican who was a serious candidate or elected official has ever espoused racial segregation as public policy." How quickly they forget... Strom Thurmond must be rolling in his grave. Sure, Strom began his career as a Democrat but joined the Republican party in 1964 because he couldn't abide the Democrats' support for Civil Rights. He had the longest Senate filibuster on record opposing the Civil Rights Act. If you want to argue that he was a Democrat, you've also got to accept that he was a Republican TOO, and therefore proves your statement to be FALSE. Write comment
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