Okay, now that I’ve seen it, I can certainly see how someone who didn’t know anything about Tiger Woods except what they see could construe that as a racist statement. However, Tiger himself has said that he is not black but a mix of many races. For that he was pilloried by black activists as a “traitor”. So the racial comparison only works on the most superficial skin tone level.

However, what I believe he was saying clearly is that Barack Obama has been treated by the media, much as Tiger Woods has been, as simply unbeatable. More often than not, stories about tournaments where Tiger competes have come down to “Who will finish second?” because it’s assumed that Tiger will win. Barack Obama has been treated exactly the same way by the MSM since he won the Iowa Caucuses and I think that’s the comparison that Bellavia was making.

Though it’s fair to note that a prominent Democrat also likened Obama to Tiger Woods in an explicitly racial way without protest.

You say that we have no business in Iraq. I say they clearly violated a cease-fire which gives up more than ample legal reason to be there. John McCain did not say that we would be in Iraq 100 years. That fib was debunked almost immediately after it came out. You’re welcome to find the evidence for that here, in his own words at the time he made the “hundred years” statement.

Belief is fine, man. Have all the beliefs you want. But at some point you will need fact to back it up or your life is going to be very, very frustrating.

Obama’s tradition isn’t that of Martin Luther King, Jr who believed with all his heart in one day bringing about a color-blind society. He’s been exactly the obvious, using his background gotten from Saul Alinksy to stoke old grievances and produce very little.

I’ll give you one example. One of Obama’s big victories as a community organizer was in helping folks who lived in a very poor complex called Altgeld Gardens (even though some residents dispute that he did very much at all). But when he left for the soothing academia of Harvard, those folks were still living in a slum, mired in poverty. How, exactly, did he help them to a better life?

In addition, Obama’s worked very closely with a group called ACORN which has most recently had several of its members convicted of election fraud. Did that help any poor people to a better life?

For all his talk, Obama’s produced next to nothing in terms of helping folks work their way out of their poverty or misery. MLK eschewed the sort of fame that Obama has sought for most of his adult life so that he could devote himself to what he saw as his life’s work – a society where a person would be judged on their merits and not their skin color. Barack Obama has a long, long way to go to live up to that example.

ms dallas – I don’t know about it, but I’ll look it up. Did that happen during the Republican Convention, because that’s the accusation you made.

what do you think about the statement that was made at the vets for freedom rally when the gentleman was introducing mccain and made the statement yall have Tiger Woods we have Mccain and Mccain walks up to the podium cheezing hard
do you think that was a racist statement?

And what of Obama’s old ways? What policies has he put forth that aren’t rehashed quasi-socialist claptrap from the 1960s or 1970s or Fabian utopianism that was bad before World War II?

It’s not enough for either candidate to say “Change!”. They have to have some track record for it. I disagree strongly with John McCain on many issues and have no been shy about saying so here. But at least he’s acted on the mantra.

As for your contention that I focused on Obama’s ability to speak, I was responding to the comment above on McCain’s speechmaking and his authenticity. Okay, so Obama makes folks believe. In what? Hope? Hope doesn’t do anything. Hope is passive. Change? Change to what? Change in what direction? He’s not even begun to answer those questions yet.

I got the same feeling Rod is descibing re the racism in the air at the rnc and I am a white female whom was undecided until a couple of days ago and definately last night I did not feel his sincerity at all I should not be able to tell you are reading from a telepromp every word to me it wasnt from the heart and thats what I felt from the dnc sincerity in everyone whom spoke.
for me it was the mood the smerks I was emabarrased as a white women