"It'll be nice to see a bit of color in the white house"

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  • vedderfan
    vedderfan Posts: 7
    beachdweller wrote:
    Ed showed his support during his solo tour, while talking about how movie and music stars shouldn't publically participate in political pandering, a large Obama '08 poster was walked across the stage behind him :)

    it got a large round of applause at the three shows I went to.


    At the Berkeley show, there was a HUGE Obama poster. It's awesome and, as usual, Ed rocks and his politics inspire me.

    I don't think it has been said here, but it's worth saying ... that people are judged on the basis of race, whether any of you realize it or not. I know many people who voted for Obama during the primaries (myself included) because of his campaign of hope and thoughtful politics. His friends are radicals that I admire. That said, it is also true the having a person of color in the 'white house' is certainly one small part of creating a movement of change in this country and, arguably, the world. The only people who can be 'color blind' are generally those who benefit from the serious inequities among racial groups. So, Ed's comment ... not 100% sure of what he meant, but I take it to mean that it would be a radical and needed change to disrupt the longstanding trajectory of who enters the white house ... generally privileged white men.
  • fuck
    fuck Posts: 4,069
    Ed is not supporting Obama cause he's black, he's supporting Obama cause he's not McCain. Which, somehow, makes it so much better.

    I look up to Ed and everything, but on this particular topic, I'm sad to see him supporting someone like Obama and trying to justify it to himself by telling himself that "it's ok.. he'll be different..." when he clearly won't... It just makes Ed look like another leftist...
  • rebornFixer
    rebornFixer Posts: 4,901
    _outlaw wrote:
    Ed is not supporting Obama cause he's black, he's supporting Obama cause he's not McCain. Which, somehow, makes it so much better.

    I look up to Ed and everything, but on this particular topic, I'm sad to see him supporting someone like Obama and trying to justify it to himself by telling himself that "it's ok.. he'll be different..." when he clearly won't... It just makes Ed look like another leftist...

    Bingo. Kinda what I was thinking.
  • Hinny
    Hinny Posts: 1,610
    Maybe, just maybe, Ed wants McCain to pick Bobby Jindal as his running mate.
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  • my2hands
    my2hands Posts: 17,117
    fanch75 wrote:
    This election is going to be an embarrassment.

    Whoever supports Obama will have to overly-explain why they are not just voting for him b/c he's black.

    i wont have to explain shit
  • Collin
    Collin Posts: 4,931
    my2hands wrote:
    i wont have to explain shit

    Are you actually saying you're voting for him because he's black?


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  • _Crazy_Mary_
    _Crazy_Mary_ Posts: 1,299
    :rolleyes: ...thought we weren't supposed to see skin color... :confused:
    I really screwed that up. I really Schruted it.
  • El_Kabong
    El_Kabong Posts: 4,141
    vedderfan wrote:
    At the Berkeley show, there was a HUGE Obama poster. It's awesome and, as usual, Ed rocks and his politics inspire me.

    I don't think it has been said here, but it's worth saying ... that people are judged on the basis of race, whether any of you realize it or not. I know many people who voted for Obama during the primaries (myself included) because of his campaign of hope and thoughtful politics. His friends are radicals that I admire. That said, it is also true the having a person of color in the 'white house' is certainly one small part of creating a movement of change in this country and, arguably, the world. The only people who can be 'color blind' are generally those who benefit from the serious inequities among racial groups. So, Ed's comment ... not 100% sure of what he meant, but I take it to mean that it would be a radical and needed change to disrupt the longstanding trajectory of who enters the white house ... generally privileged white men.


    you better be careful, i've seen ppl make similar comments here and they were called racist biggots...but i guess you being an obama supporter they will look the other way....

    but what hopeful and thoughtful politics?

    -taking money and giving jobs to lobbyists then lying about it on national tv?
    -having troops in iraq still in 2013
    -maybe 25% renewable energy by 2025
    -shitty health care plan (which is the same as we have now, just you have an option to buy a plan from the government if you can't get one elsewhere)
    -a foreign policy like reagan and bush I.....
    standin above the crowd
    he had a voice that was strong and loud and
    i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
    eager to identify with
    someone above the crowd
    someone who seemed to feel the same
    someone prepared to lead the way
  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    i was just listening to this bootleg yesterday and today, and the entirely of words around this phrase...just gold. well done ed. :)
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  • rebornFixer
    rebornFixer Posts: 4,901
    _Crazy_Mary_ wrote:
    :rolleyes: ...thought we weren't supposed to see skin color... :confused:

    We are supposed to see it under SOME conditions ... For example, when spuriously associating Obama with a massive propensity to work change, or when acting as an apologist for Islamic fundamentalism ("Its 'cause they're BROWN ...") ... Didn't you get the memo?
    :)
  • slightofjeff
    slightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    kh65 wrote:
    That is the most racist and demeaning quote I have ever read.

    You don't read much, eh?
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  • meme
    meme Posts: 4,695
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    You really think that's the reason Ed supports him? :rolleyes:


    Of course it is, wasn't Ed a hard core Clarence Thomas supporter?
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  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    Even though he won't get my vote or the other party it's LOCK the BO will be the next President.

    Republicans in this country really don't won't The White House these next 4 years cause of the mess this country is in. They're looking at 2012 to bring back yet another BUSH....JEB and yet blame ALL that has gone wrong on Barak.

    Peace
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  • DriftingByTheStorm
    DriftingByTheStorm Posts: 8,684
    g under p wrote:
    Even though he won't get my vote or the other party it's LOCK the BO will be the next President.

    Republicans in this country really don't won't The White House these next 4 years cause of the mess this country is in. They're looking at 2012 to bring back yet another BUSH....JEB and yet blame ALL that has gone wrong on Barak.

    Peace

    Don't think that if a dirty bomb goes off, or some other stupid "terr'ist" hanky-panky that this country wont hessitate to jump on back to the "right side".

    :(
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  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    g under p wrote:
    Even though he won't get my vote or the other party it's LOCK the BO will be the next President.

    Republicans in this country really don't won't The White House these next 4 years cause of the mess this country is in. They're looking at 2012 to bring back yet another BUSH....JEB and yet blame ALL that has gone wrong on Barak.

    Peace


    hahaha...how sad, but probably true! :p
    seriously, they make a total DISASTER of things....get voted out, someone else comes in, deals with the mess, hopefully gets the country back on track...and then bam, they come back and mess up the sandbox again. :mad: just thinking pre/post clinton years. certainly not saying he was an 'ideal'....but i DO believe he did a lot for this country, and then yea...look where we are today. :(



    that said, was NO one in this forum at the DC show? and/or listened to the boot? it was fantastic to hear ed speak, even so briefly, with such HOPE. :)
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    Let's just breathe...


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