If McCain wins election, race/class war threatened/promised?

[Trish]

If McCain wins, look for a full-fledged race and class war, fueled by a deflated and depressed country, soaring crime, homelessness - and hopelessness!
http://www.philly.com/dailynews/opinion/20080902_Fatimah_Ali__We_need_Obama__not_4_more_ye ars_of_George_Bush.html


Wow! Elect Obama or there's going to be a race/class war! Is the writer calling for a race/class war the way Limbaugh "called" for riots in Denver? I thought it was the Bush WH/Republicans that used fear to garner votes. Guess if that's true - they aren't the only ones!

[preservanation]

Rodney King and OJ come to mind.

[xLIBREx]

http://www.philly.com/dailynews/opinion/20080902_Fatimah_Ali__We_need_Obama__not_4_more_ye ars_of_George_Bush.html


Wow! Elect Obama or there's going to be a race/class war! Is the writer calling for a race/class war the way Lim tbaugh "called" for riots in Denver? I thought it was the Bush WH/Republicans that usedv fear to garner votes. Guess if that's true - they aren't the only ones!

I think we are more likely to see suicides. Did you see the fully grown adults at the Dem convention weeping and carrying on like 12 year old girls at a Jonas Brothers show?

I saw a cartoon of the three wise men arriving at the barn where baby Jesus was born and the caption said; "Oh, we were expecting Barack Obama." I think that sums things up quite nicely about the emotional and irrational state of mind of many Obamaniacs.

[ScareCrow]

Rodney King and OJ come to mind.

I hate to admit, but I was thinking the same thing. :embarrased:

There are a lot of idiots that will probably try to start riots if Obama doesn't win.

[preservanation]

P-Diddy Colms said (among other things) that "We aren't going to LET you win."
All of this sounds like threats...and implicit ones.
This intimidation might work on some checked pants Rockefeller Republicans and jelly-necked liberals but it won't work on the majority of Americans.
We don't put up with such obvious bulllshiiit.

[PatrickHenry]

I think that a long national nightmare is underway regardless of the next President.

There will likely be riots, suicides, financial squalor, economic prostration and other ills no one can conceive of just now...

Get ready for hard times, my friends.

[lily]

Odd........when I clicked on the link and read the well written article......this is what I read:

Fatimah Ali: We need Obama, not 4 more years of George Bush

By Fatimah Ali
Philadelphia Daily News

AMERICA is on the brink of a long, harsh and bitterly cold winter, with a
looming recession that the GOP won't even admit to.
The policies of the current White House have brutalized our economy, yet the
wealthiest think that everything is fine.

Rich Republicans just don't understand that millions are suffering. But many
of their working class do, and they're beginning to abandon their own party.

When lifelong Republican Barney Smith told the Democratic convention that
he'd vote for Barack Obama for president, he gave pause to even the most
conservative members of his party.

Smith, like many disgruntled working-class Republicans, is ready to turn his
back on his party because he's having such a hard time providing for his
family. Like others, Smith fell victim to the loss of 3.2 million American
jobs as factories closed or their work was outsourced to cheap labor markets
overseas.

Poet Langston Hughes once wrote, "Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die,
Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly, Hold fast to dreams, for if
dreams go, life is a barren field, frozen with snow."

Many wealthy folks live in a dream state and ignore people like Smith, whose
tale of personal woe preceded Obama's acceptance speech.

He opposes John McCain because, he says, America can't afford another four
years of failed GOP policies that have extended $200 billion in tax cuts to
big corporations but not to the nation's 100 million families.

Our national debt has soared from $5.6 trillion to $9.6 trillion under Bush.
The Republicans have overstayed their welcome and dragged us into a
nightmare that must end soon, or this nation may be headed for chaos.

Obama tugged on the nation's heartstrings when he challenged McCain's tough
talk and told the truth about the current policies.

Critics of the GOP believe that a four-year extension of the Bush
administration will be disastrous. People are struggling, and the privileged
are so out of touch they pretend it's OK that children go hungry.

Over the last eight years, we've lost 3.2 million jobs, and started a war
that's cost trillions. The lies and deceit that got us into Iraq in the
first place are just the tip of the iceberg and have ruined America's
reputation across the globe.

Meanwhile, our economy continues to crumble, while crime, homelessness and
poverty continue to soar.

Despite the fact that thousands of immigrants risk their safety to come here
because this country may offer them better opportunities, the truth is that
poverty lives right here in our own backyard.

Suffering is widespread as the gap between rich and poor widens. The Bush
administration doesn't get it and neither does McCain. He is so out of touch
that he hasn't a clue how many homes he owns, while the working class
struggles to hold on to one.

The Democrats desperately need many more voters like Smith to cross party
lines in order to secure the White House. Obama says electing him to the
nation's highest office will not only help restore America's moral standing
globally, but will lift the nation's low morale and improve our declining
economy.

He promises to cut taxes for 95 percent of American workers and ease the
burden for millions of families. And I believe him, although his critics say
he's out of touch with the working class and blast him for not having a
lineage that includes slavery.

But just because his ancestors never wore shackles, and he has paid off the
student loans from his elite education doesn't mean he doesn't have
compassion. Or that he doesn't understand the pain of those who live in dire
poverty, who've lost their homes, who want yet can't afford college, and who
lack health insurance.

His acceptance speech indicated that, unlike McCain, Obama gets it because
hard times aren't so far behind him that his memory's been erased.

If McCain wins, look for a full-fledged race and class war, fueled by a
deflated and depressed country, soaring crime, homelessness - and
hopelessness!

Plenty of Americans would rather stay in their dream state than to recognize
the poverty sweeping across the country, right here, right now.

Obama understands that people are suffering. Every week, prices go up at the
supermarket, and people are unable to feed their families. It already is
dark and stormy for millions, who can't even afford pencils, book bags and
lunch money for their children.

But when Obama wins the White House, we may just see a revolution that can
turn the tide and improve this nation for everyone, not just a select few.

And I expect him to keep his word.*

Not as shocking and fearful as:

If McCain wins, look for a full-fledged race and class war, fueled by a deflated and depressed country, soaring crime, homelessness - and hopelessness!

[BoogyMan]

Lily, you speak as if that veiled threat isn't actually a part of the conclusion of that article. That point is what the whole article was building toward.

[lily]

Are you kidding me? :lmao:


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[Trish]

The article lays out the problems the country is facing which she asserts can be blamed directly on Bush. She asserts that McCain is like Bush. She then lays out what Obama has promised - what changes he will make that will alleviate, fix, solve the problems of the Bush administration. She then states that if McCain is elected a full-fledged race and class war will ensue. She closes by slamming the intelligence of Americans who don't support Obama and reasserts why Obama is the superior candidate and should be elected.

So yeah...the message in a nutshell is Bush caused all America's problems, McCain is like Bush, Obama will fix things, but if you elect McCain instead, there's going to be a race/class war. So we'd all better elect Obama.

[NIOSA]

http://www.philly.com/dailynews/opinion/20080902_Fatimah_Ali__We_need_Obama__not_4_more_ye ars_of_George_Bush.html


Wow! Elect Obama or there's going to be a race/class war! Is the writer calling for a race/class war the way Limbaugh "called" for riots in Denver? I thought it was the Bush WH/Republicans that used fear to garner votes. Guess if that's true - they aren't the only ones!

I have said this from the beginning. I'm not blaming Obama for what his neanderthal supporters do, but, it'll come if he isn't elected.

[NIOSA]

I think we are more likely to see suicides. Did you see the fully grown adults at the Dem convention weeping and carrying on like 12 year old girls at a Jonas Brothers show?

I saw a cartoon of the three wise men arriving at the barn where baby Jesus was born and the caption said; "Oh, we were expecting Barack Obama." I think that sums things up quite nicely about the emotional and irrational state of mind of many Obamaniacs.

It was hard for me to see anything much. Oprahs diamiond stuuded (spelled out Obama) shades blinded me.

[Alonzo]

This is one of those things that's so absurd that ignoring it doesn't seem right. So I'm posting just to state that it's absurd and not worth my time to discuss the article itself.

[xLIBREx]

Is this P Douchie's "VOTE OBAMA OR DIE WHITEY" campaign? I think it will work just about as well at putting a Dem in the Whitehouse as last time.

[BoogyMan]

This is one of those things that's so absurd that ignoring it doesn't seem right. So I'm posting just to state that it's absurd and not worth my time to discuss the article itself.

So you didn't read down to this comment in the article?

If McCain wins, look for a full-fledged race and class war, fueled by a deflated and depressed country, soaring crime, homelessness - and
hopelessness!

[xLIBREx]

And if Obama wins, look for everyone but the outright Marxists to join forces in about three years to fight gov tyranny and reset the freedom cycle.

[Alonzo]

So you didn't read down to this comment in the article?

Both the article itself, and the OP making it appear like it's a credible article with an author worth anyones time is what is absurd.

[BoogyMan]

Both the article itself, and the OP making it appear like it's a credible article with an author worth anyones time is what is absurd.

I hope you are right, but I am hearing rhetoric like that more and more often these days.