AP, Oct. 30, 2008
Republican presidential candidate John McCain says racism will play virtually no role when voters head to the polls next Tuesday because it will be trumped by the nation’s economic problems.
In a transcript of an interview taped for broadcast Wednesday night on CNN’s “Larry King Live,” McCain said people will vote “for the best of reasons, not the worst of reasons.” He said most people will vote based on who they want to lead the country.
Referring to people who might vote against Democrat Barack Obama because he is black, McCain added: “It would be a tiny, tiny, minority. Because people are hurting too much now. I mean, they’re worried about staying in their homes, keeping their jobs.”
The sharp economic downturn and calamity in the financial industry has become the campaign’s dominant issue.
McCain also repudiated a suggestion by conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh that Colin Powell’s endorsement of Obama was because both men are black. Powell is a Republican and served President Bush as secretary of state.
“I reject it,” he said of Limbaugh’s statement. “Look, there is racism in America. We all know that because we can’t stop working against it. But I am totally convinced that 99 and 44 one-hundredths percent of the American people are going to make a decision on who is best to lead this country.”
McCain’s comments came six days before Election Day. Polls show only small percentages of people saying the race of the candidates will be a factor in their vote, but analysts and political professionals will be watching the results for evidence of any role racial attitudes may play.
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You know he does. To say so, especially at this point in the election, would be foolish. Do you really think proclaiming that fact would help McCain win?
McCain Says Racism Will Barely Affect Election, Says only 0.56 percent of voters are “racist.”
Yes, there is certainly “racism in America”. That being said, why shouldn’t Whites vote (and otherwise organize)for our interests and our defence the way everyone else seems to be doing for theirs?
The presence of Preposterous figures like McCain and Obama for the next Presidency of the United States tells us that the government they will run represents nobody—least of all White Americans who built, operate,and grow this country—and are only good for turning what was left by the Corporate/Media/politial criminal elite of the past 50-odd years into a wretched third world slum! This will be done openly under Obama, and more covertly, as usual, under the Republicans.
Awareness of these problems will be intensified by the coming economic crisis. Both O and McC voted for the bailouts which are going to bankrupt White America. Since both parties not only fail to represent us, we must look to third parties—Libertarian, Constitution, or (perhaps) Independent Ralph Nader. All three are somewhat flawed, but they at least will allow us to rebuild from the wreckage inflicted by the New World Order of McCain/ Pailin and Obama/ Biden. A vote for one of the third parties will also send a message to the above elites that we White Americans are just not that STUPID and we won’t be fooled again!!
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER!!
Whites wont vote for Obama because he is a stereotypical
David K. Meller, I like your post but I wish to would add something that is always left out, KNOWLEDGE IS POWER—if it is put into ACTION. Otherwise it is as dead as the dusty books that contain it. The ACTION part, is what is missing in the lives of most Americans who truly want positive change for their culture. I don’t see it anywhere on the horizon. There’s no organizing, no feeling of urgency, not even much talk in public, aside from forums like this.
“McCain Says Racism Will Barely Affect Election”
Oh no? Well, that misguided fool should only hope and pray that it WOULD affect the election — otherwise, it looks like he’s toast.
No wonder they’re called the Stupid Party!
Dear Bobby- Knowledge is power IS being put into action today, in the only way that racially concious and concerned Whites can…by (re)learning our history, by finding—and enouraging—like minded people in fora and discussion groups like this one, by (where possible)exercising our rights to free speech, free press, and free assembly, under attack but still available for those who wish to use them.
When and where White activist groups—like New Century Foundation, like Council for Conservative Citizens, like American Nationalist Union, and others—are active, we participate and contibute. There are others who are not explicitly (and probably shouldn’t be)attached to our agenda—Libertarians, Paleoconservatives, and (some of)the “Religious Right—but they DO support our right to dissent, our freedom of association, and our right to protect our children from government assault through the Public School system and the dominant media. There is also Ron Paul’s Campaign For Liberty.
Bobby—and fellow White Nationalists generally—we didn’t get into this mess overnight, and we won’t recover overnight. We still face the task of finding EACH OTHER. We also can improve our ways of working together, perhaps even with sympathetic people who disagree with us and yet who will come to understand that Obama, “diversity” and “tolerance” are not panaceas, and that White racial conciousness and pride is not necessarily the evil they had been misled to believe. I think that an Obama Presidency can only be helpful here.
“Action” is not only running for political office, winning Supreme Court verdicts, or apppearing (favorably) on the prime time evening news. Action is starting from where you are, patiently building for the future, taking little steps today so that we can take larger ones tomorrow, and helping our fellow Whites do the same.
with best wishes, I remind us
