--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why is Obama's skin color so important to you, do.rflex? > > Can't you judge a person solely on the basis of the content of their > character?
Who said it was important to 'me', Magoo? It's a *major* historic accomplishment that in the USA with it's ignorant racists and racist past that such an event can happen. > In my opinion, you reduce their humanity by putting such an emphasis > on race. Racist assholes are still abundant if you hadn't noticed, Magoo. Intersestingly, the right wing GOP Bush administration's approval rating among African Americans was not too long ago at 2%. No surprise there. A Polling Free-Fall Among Blacks By Dan Froomkin Washington Post, October 13, 2005 http://tinyurl.com/c59v5 In what may turn out to be one of the biggest free-falls in the history of presidential polling, President Bush's job-approval rating among African Americans has dropped to 2 percent, according to a new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll. The drop among blacks drove Bush's overall job approval ratings to an all-time low of 39 percent in this poll. By comparison, 45 percent of whites and 36 percent of Hispanics approve of the job Bush is doing. A few months after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll found Bush's approval rating among blacks at 51 percent. As recently as six months ago, it was at 19 percent....
