Reply #37: "Obama has tried very hard to avoid race..." this is hogwash. [View All]

[ginchinchili]

He plays it both ways. He's always talking about how historic his run is. What do you think he means by that?

I was watching CNN around the time of the South Carolina primary when this race flap was going on. They showed a clip of Obama talking to an audience of mostly African Americans. Blitzer and company pointed out that Obama was using certain cadences and inflections in his voice that are more common among African Americans and perhaps more effective. I heard what they were talking about, but it didn't bother me. I saw it as politics as usual. Hillary would talking differently if she, for example, was talking to a bunch of southern farmers. But what did bother me was when they blamed the Clintons for forcing Obama into doing that. Now that really took the cake. To see all the CNN talking heads nodding in agreement seemed, well, surreal, almost insane. It was then that I decided to wean myself away from this untoward, tangled mess we've gotten ourselves into by avoiding the news. It will be difficult for me to vote in this election, no matter who the nominees are.