I’ve heard that McCain now leads in the polls among white women, so the Palin ploy appears to be working.

It’s the boomers and their unresolved racial issues- my mother is so freaked by Obama’s race without ever admitting it- she just leans on the “I don’t know what he stands for/wants to do other than ‘change’” argument; my other friends are reporting their parents, we all grew up in pretty liberal households, are also finding weird things to nickpick over. I see it from the people who I work with (retail bookstore) who are boomer age. They’ve never voted for a Republican before but, “Obama puts the milk in before the cereal and that’s not a breakfast ritual I can stand for…”. I overhear it from customers, and I’m guessing their age but they seem boomerish. The boomers are going to fuck it all up…again.

I also realized, just now, that “I’m voting for Obama” is the new “I have a black friend…do you know him/her?”

pablo, I think McCain always had a slight lead with white women.  It’s all the other varieties of women, who overwhelming support Barack, that put him over with women.

I hear some Democratic politicians even go for seven-grain bread. Seven! It’s like a polygamous orgy of grains, and as a white Middle American, I sure can’t support that.

I don’t know what the Worried White Electorate is going to do when people of color outnumber them in this country. Expect to see some agitation for tightening the rules for citizenship as they try to limit the non-white majority’s political power.

Dooflow, I think this election is really separating the wheat from the chaff in terms of American racism, especially among “well-meaning” people who are otherwise liberal.  At this point I’ve just decided that any long-time democrat/liberal* I know who mysteriously just doesn’t seem to “trust” or “know” or “understand” Obama is racist.  Period.

* Among more moderate people or those who have been known to advocate “hold-your-nose” voting, of course—there’s nothing wrong with just being a straight-up leftist who doesn’t participate within the system or routinely votes third party.

I saw someone holding a sign at the RNC that said “Democrat for McCain!”
I said to my friend that he should have just written “Racist Democrat!”

I remember telling people on more conservative sites last spring that Obama would be a more difficult candidate to beat because any reason given for not voting for him would be cast as racism. Thanks for confirming the fact that, to Democrats, race is the ONLY reason to vote.

And I thought Walmart moms were the women in China whose children are employed in sweatshops!

Attacking someone as “rascist” is past its due date. If voting against Obama makes you a racist then I am a rascit. Big whoop. Who cares. I still don’t want a far leftist with no experience to be president.

The boomers are going to fuck it all up…again.

Yep.  They just can’t stand not being the center of attention.  Here we were going to be able to have Round 1,746,946 of Who Did What During Vietnam and Who’s A Dirty Fucking Hippie? when it was going to be McCain vs. Clinton and all of those damn kids came along and voted in the primary and ruined the whole thing.

No, really, I hate the fuckin’ Baby Boomers.  Not everyone born in that era—just the people who consciously think of themselves as “Baby Boomers” and romanticize the 1960s.  The people who inflicted The Big Chill on us.

Big Bad, I want someone who can spell “racist” as a commenter.

Well, s/he got one of the three repeats right.

Ok now that we’re past the typos, who the hell do you think made you so worried about committing the sin of racism? Do you think you were born in some idealistic gene state that made you impervious to any but the multi culti nirvana of the Democratc Party?

Guess again. You are the spawn of the boomers. You may hate them but they are your parents, grandparents, teachers and soccer coaches. You believe everything they have taught you to believe and you will never do anything that they disapprove of. (By the way, they love your tattoes, piercings, pluggings, game boys, play stations, and utopian politics. They did the same when they were your age. Sorry guys, nothing new. They did it before and better.)

There is no such thing as “racism.” It is an attribute that no longer has meaning.

who the hell do you think made you so worried about committing the sin of racism?

OK, fine.  I’ll admit it.  I try to keep this under wraps, but here we go.  I’m the secret love child of Malcolm X and, ummmm, some very famous woman who also hated white people*.

OK?  Are you happy now?  You’ve forced me to confront my deep seated terror of being accused of being racist!

On a serious note, I’m worried about “committing the sin of racism” because open bigotry towards others is generally considered an undesirable trait.  I thought that was pretty much universally acknowledged at this point?  Voting for a ticket which opposes every single one of your supposed political goals because you don’t want to vote for a black person is RACISM. 

You are the spawn of the boomers. You may hate them but they are your parents, grandparents, teachers and soccer coaches. You believe everything they have taught you to believe and you will never do anything that they disapprove of.

You’ve never actually spoken to humans raised in a nuclear family, have you?
*Though, to Malcolm’s credit, he probably didn’t literally hate all white people.

Funny, my parents are Boomers, and I’m pretty damn sure I’ve done things they disapprove of.

You are the spawn of the boomers.

Unless my dad has been lying on his driver’s license all these years, nope.  Not everyone here is in their 20s.

Thanks for confirming the fact that, to Democrats, race is the ONLY reason to vote.

As compared to your reason:  sheer stupidity.

Voting for a ticket which opposes every single one of your supposed political goals because you don’t want to vote for a black person is RACISM.

It’s cute that you’re taking Big Bad Boomer at his/her word, The Opoponax.  He/she just called Obama a “far leftist.”  Since Obama’s policies are merely center-right and had long been considered simply good governance up until at least 1994, Big Bad Boomer is clearly a fire-breathing winger who would never have voted for the Democratic candidate whether male or female; white, black, or purple.

“who the hell do you think made you so worried about committing the sin of racism?”

OK, fine.  I’ll admit it.  I try to keep this under wraps, but here we go.  I’m the secret love child of Malcolm X and, ummmm, some very famous woman who also hated white people*.

      “That’s ok. I’ve been married to a wonderful man who happens to be a wonderful shade of deep brown for 20 years.”

OK?  Are you happy now?  You’ve forced me to confront my deep seated terror of being accused of being racist!

    “And?”

On a serious note, I’m worried about “committing the sin of racism” because open bigotry towards others is generally considered an undesirable trait.  I thought that was pretty much universally acknowledged at this point? 

      “Yes, of course that’s true but I can’t imagine that you’ve ever witnessed such an thing in the world that you live in.”

Voting for a ticket which opposes every single one of your supposed political goals because you don’t want to vote for a black person is RACISM.

      “Yes, but what if someone who has been actively involved in electoral politics for 30 years, who has read extensively in history, politics etc. etc. disagrees with this candidate, thinks he’s wrong on all issues, and thinks he’s not experienced enough for the position. If she votes against him (who happens to be biracial)  is she a racist? I would say not.”

You’ve never actually spoken to humans raised in a nuclear family, have you?
*Though, to Malcolm’s credit, he probably didn’t literally hate all white people.

      “I don’t know what you mean by this comment. I was raised in a nuclear family as have all of the people I have ever known. I have many brothers, sisters, cousins, parents, grandparents, grand aunts and uncles, grand nieces and nephews, first and second cousins, and some once removed. What’s the point?”

        “As to whether Malcolm X hated all white people my guess is that he did have an overarching hate for all white people. That’s not to say that he couldn’t tolerate or use those that came into his personal sphere, but there have been and still are lots of people who hate white people and Malcolm X was demonstrably one of them.”

Keep insulting those WalMart shoppers!

The only educational Demographics that Kerry won were “Post-Grad” and “Didn’t finish HS”... 

Which do you think is larger?

You’re not an “elitist”- because, By God, you simply are better than any fly-over, god-bothering, Applebee’s eating moose-shooter!

So, how many super awesome keychains do you win from the McCain campaign for turning up and trolling lefty blogs?

Big Bad Boomer, do you have any connection to reality? My parents are Silent Generation; my grandparents, Greatest Generation. I entered my teens realizing the upper levels of jobs would be taken by the Boomers, and Social Security either wouldn’t be around for me and my classmates, or would be vastly changed. I’ve spent my entire voting life knowing that my vote is drowned out by the Boomers. We Gen Xers have a genuine demographic complaint.

But on to actual relevant points: Obama is not extreme leftist. Progressives grouse that he is too conservative. And progressives aren’t *far* left; you’d need to talk to the anarchists and communists to get their perspective. Since you disagree with him on all the issues, etc, and consider him far left, YOU are clearly a reactionary (far right). PaleoCon, NeoCon, or TheoCon, we can’t be sure of. NeoCon, probably, or possibly MoneyCon. PaleoCons would tend to agree with him about bringing the troops home. TheoCons might appreciate his strong Christian feelings, although, then again, religious extremists often hate religious moderates.

No one was talking about Republicans or Libertarians-of-the-authoritarian-leanings being racist for opposing Obama. They’ll oppose anyone with a (D) after his name. People were saying *Democrats* have no good reason to oppose him. His experience is as good as (or better than) just about any politician his age (think Teddy Roosevelt, for instance), and he’s a good learner, too, ready to admit when he needs an adviser to better understand and deal with a subject. (Case in point, bringing in Elizabeth Edwards to help him on health care).

BBB, let me direct you to the thread up the page, where someone has just demonstrated that Obama is TO THE RIGHT OF RICHARD NIXON.

So now that we’ve done away with the *blatant* ignorance, let’s attack the *subtle* ignorance in your post:

If you have examined your candidate (Obama) and found that you
thinks [sic] he’s wrong on all issues,

Then surprise! You’re NOT A FUCKING DEMOCRAT, so no shit Sherlock, you’re probably not going to vote for **THE DEMOCRAT**. Which makes that entire argument inane to the point of almost killing me.

And yeah. the “Boomers” are not my parents. My parents were too old for all that Big Chill shit. (Yeah…not all of us here are in our 20s, like she said above.) They think you and your ilk are the biggest waste of space this side of GWB. (p.s., so do your parents! and the Greatest Generation should know.) So, everyone despises the Boomers except…the Boomers. Surprise, surprise…you’re just full of surprises, arentcha?

Big Bad Boomer is jumping on my Big Bad Bandwagon!