I am particularly concerned about the time when a McCain supporter told McCain that she does not trust Obama because he is an Arab. To that McCain refuted that Obama isn’t and that he is a decent, family man.
What struck me is not so much the insensitivity of the question but McCain’s answers. McCain seemingly suggested that Arabs aren’t decent family men.
Colin Powell recently gave Obama his endorsement. Powell remarked the accusations of Obama being a Muslim.:
Powell: I’m also troubled by, not what Sen. McCain says, but what members of the party say, and it is permitted to be said such things as: “Well, you know that Mr. Obama is a Muslim.” Well, the correct answer is: he is not a Muslim. He’s a Christian. He’s always been a Christian.
But the really right answer is: What if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer is: No, that’s not America. Is there something wrong with some 7-year-old Muslim-American kid believing he or she can be President?
Yet I have heard senior members of my own party drop the suggestion: he’s a Muslim, and he might be associated with terrorists. This is not the way we should be doing it in America.
He’s right. So what if Obama is a muslim? Does it make the president less American? Whatever happened to liberty? Wasn’t it stated in the Bill of Rights that all men are entitled to exercise religion of their choice?
That’s what she said. Okay, The Office jokes asides, Sarah Palin decides to quote Madeleine Albright upon seeing it on the Starbucks coffee cup – “Place In Hell Reserved For Women Who Don’t Support Other Women”.
Firstly, it was a misquotation, she can’t read her cup well. But the cup says “There’s a place in Hell reserved for women who don’t help other women.”
The crowd cheered while Palin predicted the media going to turn this around. They probably are going to, probably did. But thing is, Madeleine Albright responded.
Albright responded to Palin’s remarks in a statement to the Huffington Post on Sunday. “Though I am flattered that Governor Palin has chosen to cite me as a source of wisdom, what I said had nothing to do with politics. This is yet another example of McCain and Palin distorting the truth, and all the more reason to remember that this campaign is not about gender, it is about which candidate has an agenda that will improve the lives of all Americans, including women. The truth is, if you care about the status of women in our society and in our troubled economy, the best choice by far is Obama-Biden.” [via Huffington Post]
It’s official already. Obama has 2,156 delegates today. He needs to have 2,118. He officially wins the delegate race to become the Democratic nominee to go against John McCain.
Obama: I will be the Democratic nominee
In what he called a “defining moment for our nation,” Sen. Barack Obama on Tuesday became the first African-American to head the ticket of a major political party.
“Tonight we mark the end of one historic journey with the beginning of another — a journey that will bring a new and better day to America,” he said.
“Tonight, I can stand before you and say that I will be the Democratic nominee for president of the United States.” (Source: CNN)
