Barack Obama: The race issue and the presidency

By: Milo A. Nickel

After watching the television tape on Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s display of hate for America and white people, to the delight of his cheering and hand clapping congregation, I was at once shocked and saddened.

I was not only shocked at the language he used but the stupid, outlandish and absurdly false claims he made. How he believed the people in his church, or more importantly, the people in America, were dumb enough to believe him beats me. Believe he did though, so much so that he had DVD discs made to sell to the public.

This is incredibility stupid and in my view will be detrimental to Obama’s run for the presidency. In the words of Abe Lincoln, You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

I was saddened because here is a black American, well educated, articulate, a great speaker and one who had a shot at becoming president at best or at worst a model for healing the divide between all races. He gave the persona of not being a race hustler like some we know but more in the mold of Bill Cosby and other prominent blacks who advocate that blacks stop blaming white people for their problems and that they look inward to build on their own strengths.

This is why Obama received so much wide spread support from so many white people who enthusiastically endorsed his candidacy and were working hard in his election bid. White people are tired of being blamed for problems that are not their fault and when they find out Barack talks out of both sides of his mouth about the race issues, they will drop him like a hot potato.

To be clear, I am not pandering to Obama. I don’t think I would have voted for him because I cannot support and vote for the most left wing liberal in the senate whose solutions are taxes and more taxes, a pull out of Iraq immediately, socialized medicine and a host of other left wing liberal solutions that in my judgment would forever change our country for the worse.

Still, I felt good about his overwhelming support from millions of white people across the board that proved the great majority are not bigots. Sorry I can’t say the same about Jeremiah who is both a racist and a bigot.

The liberal news media and most blacks interviewed on T.V. are telling T.V. viewers not to believe their lying eyes and that the Rev. Wright’s words were taken our of context. What hypocrites!

They are desperately trying to put a happy face on a sad story. It won’t work. You can’t fool all the people all the time.

Regrettably or fortuitously, the die is cast. Jeremiah and his ilk just shot Barack out of the president’s chair.

That’s my story and I am sticking to it.

(Milo A. Nickel is the former President and COO of Louisiana State Newspapers.)