Well, that’s not absolutely true. He was also a Democrat. It was a combination of those two things that got him the vote.
There’s no way that such a radically liberal socialist would ever had gotten the vote if he hadn’t been black. Let’s face it, being black encompasses so many different levels of “change.”
His being black means that he automatically receives the black vote, regardless of policy, experience, or other qualifications. We can thank Howard Stern for proof of this when he sent fake reporters into the Harlem slums to interview random blacks on the street. Those people didn’t care about anything that he stood for; they didn’t know who his running mate was! All they knew was that Obama was black, and McCain wasn’t. They were the stereotypical “one-issue voters.” And the issue was race.
Furthermore, there were many whites who believed that electing a black would be striking a victory for civil rights. “It’s the black’s turn.” These were the ones who voted the politically correct way, regardless of Obama’s stance on many issues.
Now, honestly, there were many people who were already voting Democrat. Lot’s of people were fed up with the Republican administration, and didn’t want another four years of George W. Bush. There were possibly even Republicans who felt this way and voted Democrat regardless of candidate. It this way it wasn’t simply his race, but also his party (but not necessarily his particular platform) that won him the vote.
We have to admit that there must have been some incredibly powerful factors that could make people ignore such glaring flaws to Obama’s background as: his father (or lack thereof); Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the radical, racist, anti-American Black Supremacist (anyone still remember “Not God bless America, God damn America!”?); and Bill Ayer, a terrorist whose book Obama almost certainly plagiarized. Yes, something had to trump all of these deficiencies. And we can’t imagine that it was his socialist platform. It was simply the idea of a black President. That, and the fact that he wasn’t John McCain, got Barrack Hussein Obama bin Laden elected.
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