Comments on: Joe Biden, American racism, and optimism http://globalcomment.com/2008/joe-biden-american-racism-and-optimism/ where the world thinks out loud Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:43:38 +0000 hourly 1 By: Noli Irritare Leones » Blog Archive » Blogwatch http://globalcomment.com/2008/joe-biden-american-racism-and-optimism/comment-page-1/#comment-1254 Noli Irritare Leones » Blog Archive » Blogwatch Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:47:32 +0000 http://globalcomment.com/?p=383#comment-1254 [...] Joe Biden, American Racism, and Optimism. [...] [...] Joe Biden, American Racism, and Optimism. [...]

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]]> By: n5g7w http://globalcomment.com/2008/joe-biden-american-racism-and-optimism/comment-page-1/#comment-1248 n5g7w Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:40:20 +0000 http://globalcomment.com/?p=383#comment-1248 Speaking as a conservative Republican, I would simply like to observe that, with Biden as the Democratic VP nominee, Republicans don't stand a chance in November. As you noted, in purely electoral terms, the only obstacle to Obama's winning by a landslide would have been white racist resistance to voting for a black candidate. The nomination of Biden should sufficiently defuse white racist resistance, especially among older white voters of all socioeconomic classes who, I think, are mostly likely to be resistant to voting for a black candidate. In my opinion, Democrats should remain confident that the Republican record in both Congress and the White House over the past eight years has guaranteed that voters will want Republicans out of Washington no matter what. Biden's nomination, I think, will ease Obama over the last obstacle which is white racism. As for Biden's proposal to divide Iraq, that's necessarily tentative. The Obama administration will have to work with the present Iraqi government and presumably with regional powers, above all Turkey and possibly even Iran, to create any workable arrangement at all that will allow Coalition forces to leave. So the division of Iraq will be contingent on the consent of the people on the ground in Iraq and in the region. But Democrats have nothing to worry about in November, absent some unforeseeable change in events that favors Republicans, and at this point, that's unlikely. Speaking as a conservative Republican, I would simply like to observe that, with Biden as the Democratic VP nominee, Republicans don’t stand a chance in November. As you noted, in purely electoral terms, the only obstacle to Obama’s winning by a landslide would have been white racist resistance to voting for a black candidate. The nomination of Biden should sufficiently defuse white racist resistance, especially among older white voters of all socioeconomic classes who, I think, are mostly likely to be resistant to voting for a black candidate.

In my opinion, Democrats should remain confident that the Republican record in both Congress and the White House over the past eight years has guaranteed that voters will want Republicans out of Washington no matter what. Biden’s nomination, I think, will ease Obama over the last obstacle which is white racism.

As for Biden’s proposal to divide Iraq, that’s necessarily tentative. The Obama administration will have to work with the present Iraqi government and presumably with regional powers, above all Turkey and possibly even Iran, to create any workable arrangement at all that will allow Coalition forces to leave. So the division of Iraq will be contingent on the consent of the people on the ground in Iraq and in the region.

But Democrats have nothing to worry about in November, absent some unforeseeable change in events that favors Republicans, and at this point, that’s unlikely.

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