And I do respect your take, Moe. But I read that and saw a woman who is involving herself in a decision of great consequence for the nation – for our security, for our role in the world, for the lives of the innocent unborn, for the tax burdens we carry and our ability to prosper as a nation – and yet, if the reporter has characterized her fairly, she sees only skin color (that of Obama, that of the GOP), and gives no thought to the consequences of anything else. That’s a horrible commentary, to me, on the nature of Obama’s support.

As an attorney with a degree in political science who would gladly do whatever he can for the GOP, I feel her pain.

I volunteered and got nothing more than menial tasks (when they actually bothered to call; it took way too many attempts to get a response). I understand the tasks were necessary and I certainly I’m not suggesting I’m above those tasks, but our party needs some restructuring as well.

Our ground game in many states appears disorganized and in many ways has become broken. Very difficult for those outside the loop to get ourselves into that loop.

……and yes, there’s a “but”.

The woman has talent and is definitely dedicated. I sincerely “hope” she has the capacity to “change” when the literal merde encounters the ventilateur.

But……..She’s been brainwashed like every other ‘bot who swears up and down on all that is holy that The One is the savior, the Kwisatz Haderach if you will (from the Dune book series).

Something is simply not kosher with this whole election.

How can so many Americans allow themselves be part of tearing away their own freedom and rights?

Do they not see or care about what is right in front of them ?

On that note, I shall end my evening giving thanks to God for my family and our country making it through another day.

Cheers !

…can’t read it, the WaPo wants me to create an account. I wonder how come others were able to read it?

She’s a committed Democratic Party stalwart and volunteer. We have (thank heavens!) thousands of people like that on our side, too. I’m not really seeing what you saw, I don’t think.

Let’s be real though. Black Americans have been blindly supporting whomever the Democrats nominate for decades.

They would support Robert K.K.K. Byrd if he was the Democratic nominee for President.

The only difference this year will be turnout, and most of the states with high proportions of black voters are not swing states.

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“I want to make sure I’m represented,” she said.

Stewart’s strong sense of racial identity…

It’s about CHARACTER Ms. Stewart (hope her son secretly votes McCain, lol)!!! Not the color of ones skin. Did you get anything out of the “I have a Dream speech?” Sure, probably the “Cash a Check” part, but certainly not the “Content of One’s Character” part.

The Dem’s and MSM all blather on about RACIST behavior (when they can level it at Whites), but it is just plain OK and perhaps “cute” when CNN, and every other Liberal biased outlet, has some old black folks talking about how glad they are they’ve seen the day that a “Black man” is elected President and that isn’t SOLELY RACIST!?!?! With 95% of Blacks polling/voting Obama, it is just a coincidence, right?!?!

It’s about the content of ones Character perhaps you should go here/hear and remind yourself of it: MLK jr inspired

I guess content of ones character (like the politically corrected version of the very word Racism) is only applicable when it is White toward Black and never vica-versa and most definitely not Black-to-Black (an automatic pass).

Thankfully I have found a few of the Conservative “Black” folks in that minority 5% that I’ve called friends over the years. So PARDON ME if it gets me all riled up.

I look forward to Michael Steele, J.C.Watts, Lynn Swann (maybe), and other PROUD BLACK CONSERVATIVES serving in a McCain/Palin administration. Glad to be rid of Colin Powell!

I mean does this guy have any high-ranking female staffers. Out of all his top surrogotes the only women I can think of are Stephanie Cutter, Clare McCaskill, and Susan Rice. Not to mention this guy only pays his women staffers 82% of what his men staffers.

She is consumed with race. It’s sad. Her issue is that the other volunteers are white, not how she is being used.

It reminds me of the Obama commercial last night.

I felt for everyone of those people and if I believed in “magic wand” politics, I would wave it and make it all better.

Since there isn’t a wand, I just feel sorry for them.

I’m as skeptical of the Dem coolaid that seems to have taken over the minds of millions this year as anyone, but…

These anecdotal stories keep coming up, and I’m not sure they’re the right way for us to look at things. This is like the Obama speechwriter story voting for McCain–it’s a promising development, but ultimately it’s a single data point and I sort of feel like focusing on these sort of things give us false hope.

I don’t know how many people I’ve encouraged to get off their asses and volunteer, only to hear them say “oh, I’ve heard all the polls are wrong and McCain’s hugely ahead!” or “Obama’s old speechwriter is voting for McCain, how coudl he possibly win?”

[It's n]ot any more sad than [was] your post on it. She doesn’t want or need your pity[,] you condescending [expletive deleted][;] she wants a future where people of color can realistically aspire to achieve true success. Why are you redneck [expletive deleted] so damn dumb?

I feel the same pride in Sarah Palin as the VP, being a woman and having seen how much that can effect your existence (and you’ve no idea how I mean that.) Despite all of my objections to a Barack Obama presidency, I will never complain of reverse racism when I see blacks supporting him, except when I hear accusations of racism from them or see fraud being carried out, for example.

It was very strange to hear this supporter talk about how she went to Princeton with Michelle and felt too uncomfortable begging Michelle’s white assistants to allow her to say hello or deliver a note. She bragged of the diversity of the convention crowd in Denver, too, then spoke scornfully of the Republicans. I presume she doesn’t speak to them, either, but feels Obama unites the nation. Weird.

She is a reliable Democratic voter who may or may not work for campaigns, but can be relied on in this one. And it is cynical of the Obamas that they have put in their time, made their speeches and established their street cred and take the black community for granted. But as much as I object to Obama and his vision of and for this country, I know he feels he is doing the right thing. It is just the wrong thing.

First the moving part… Her commitment is great. No matter whom she is supporting. And I can feel her pain. The way she is treated. Any campaign should be proud of such committed volunteers.

Now the frustrating part… She is highly educated. How can such a person not see through the radical Barack Obama? This guy does not believe in constitution. He wants courts to implement radical change. He wants to “fundamentally” change America in terms of foreign policy, economy and liberty(fairness doctrine). The same fundamentals which made America the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the history of mankind. As far as race is concerned nobody is saying there is no racial divide. This divide has been there since a long long time. Has America progressed in terms of race relations since 30 years? Absolutely. It might take another one or maybe two centuries to go away completely. But this is a 2 way street. 95% blacks voting for Barack is as racist as some percentage of whites(not sure abt percentage) not voting for him because of color of his skin.

I am sure this woman will do great in conservative club.

Of course we can’t wish her good luck.

Do not trust in princes,

In mortal man, in whom there is no salvation.

NASB

One way or another, this poor woman will be disappointed.

really….is that your take on this piece? Because mine was the opposite.

This woman goes around collecting grievances and slights. The kids dress down on Sunday and have pizza…that’s a slight on her and her dressed up friend.

She wants to give Michelle Obama a note but she imagines that the “white girls” will sneer at her so she doesn’t do it but quietly seethes about it.

The campaign people call her by her first name because that’s what you do in a campaign and she takes offense at that and bristles they should call her Mrs.

There’s a long social history of antagonism between blacks and asians because of the often peremptory style of asians (hey Donell, er I mean, Mrs Stewart, Asians are like that with white people too…it’s a different culture) So the guy (young, Asian,) gives a “quick and emotionless” briefing and she, of course, takes offense that he doesn’t greet her personally and so on and doesn’t respect her and yada yada.

Now, this is a volunteer, who has a fulltime job in the bureacracy handing out gummint cheese of some kind, so she’s not a staff worker on the campaign and she doesn’t have any political experience (Taking the kid’s tuition money and using it to pay your own way to the DNC in Denver doesn’t count as experience). So she’s doing the kind of part time work we all have done in campaigns — leafletting, calling people, registering people etc.

I’m at a loss to see why you think she is being abused by the campaign. This work is its own reward.

Don’t get me wrong — I think it is a great moment in our history long overdue frankly and I am thrilled to see so many people involved in the campaign. It’s my opinion that obama is not worthy of these people’s hard work, faith and sacrifice, but that’s a different story.

What you have here is someone who can’t get beyond a lifetime of real and imagined slights to enjoy the experience, she forces everyone around her to share her commitment.

Yes, it is a good experience for her son, but…here you have a nineteen-year old kid living off his mother having lost his football scholarship. Tough break, but did you ever hear of something called…let’s see…it’s that thing that you’re going to get after Barack is elected…oh yeah, a job. Or go in the army and learn to support yourself. I think that would be more useful than resentfully handing out leaflets.

No, the only one in the bunch who has his head screwed on straight is the boyfriend. He puts it like this:

“When I wake up on election day it will be tuesday. If Obama wins it will still be Tuesday. I don’t see how at the level people are working here, Obama’s election will change their lives…I think it is great, but I don’t see him becoming President changing my life that much.”

Exactly. Of course, he’s a Maryland State Trooper (thank you!) and he knows a bit about life.

In reading this story one thing I thought of was what happened to real journalism.

The lady for example is from Maryland and is quoted as bad mouthing Republicans for being alike. Why didn’t the reporter ask if she support Michael Steele? After all wouldn’t it be great if Maryland had a black senator.

The lady for example goes to PA to help Obama. Did he ask why she didn’t support Lynn Swann? Did he ask what did she think of Governor Rendell calling people racists.

Did the report ask what he thought of Obama saying that people are voting against him only because he’s black.

Did the reporter just once ask what policy or policies does she hope Obama supports?

Did the reporter ask if money was tight how much did you spend to go to Denver? Wouldn’t it be better to spent on your car?

And I think I disagree with some of the comments about how she thinks she’s being misused by the younger whites. She has a set of value like you shouldn’t eat pizza for a dinner with your feet on the table. The saddest part is that this lady apparently has some set of conservative values and we the republican party can’t appeal to her and other blacks.

Walter Hanson
Minneapolis, MN

I did as you said. I sought my “happy place” and read the linked article. I don’t get any sadness from this, though, because I’ve written-off the left.

Mrs. Stewart is nothing more than a bitter collection of perceived slights and grievances that arise from her ingrained racism. She occupies an alternate reality founded on the same class-struggle talking points that define Teleprompter Jesus. Speaking of whom, please re-read his Philadelphia speech from March and filter it through what we now know of his views of The Constitution and wealth redistribution. The underlying message of that speech is “different identity groups have many reasons to be at one-another’s throats, but let’s pull it together long enough to stick it to the rich.”

Anyone is free to disagree with that interpretation of the speech. Anyone is free to gloss over the racist motivations driving Mrs. Stewart to support That One. But one thing is undeniably true, and that is that Mrs. Stewart volunteers at cost to herself to canvass for the monster who voted twice as a state senator to defend infanticide.

“Stewart went to Denver for the convention and when she donated to Obama’s campaign $1,000 of the home-equity loan she took out to pay for Desmond’s tuition”

I’m sad for Desmond, whose tuition fund is depleted. Furthermore, what’s the legality of using $$ from a home-equity loan in such a manner?

The woman is obviously obsessed with race and believes that a BO presidency will somehow erase the slights she feels as an AA. It appears that she has bought into all the rhetoric that BO spews so well. That is the sad part.

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Ms Stewart sees a black candidate..period. That’s a shame. I admire her drive but her goal of electing an African-American as president is short-sighted. She wants so desperately to right the wrongs of the prejudice she has endured that she falls victim to the same human frailty of prejudice herself. She cannot see past skin color. I will never vote for BHO and that has nothing to do with skin color. He is polar opposite to my political beliefs. If McCain was Black and Obama was white I would still vote for McCain. I cannot understand the Colin Powells of the world who willingly sell-out their core values because of the skin pigmentation of a particular candidate. Is that not racist? I used to admire Powell but his flip-flop is very disappointing. If Ms Stewart really understood the issues and looked carefully at each candidate with a blindfold on, I believe she would make the intelligent choice. I am not an African-American and she is right in saying I will never know what it means to have an African-American as president. But I do pray for that day that MLK desribed where “a man is judged not by the color of his skin, but on the content of his character” And from what I have learned about BHO’s character, I could never give him the privilege of my vote.

As you can read from the article, this woman is totally wrapperd up in being black. Probably got into Princeton on preference and now has a government job from which she can not be fired. Unfortunately, there is a growing number of whites who see her as the person of privilege because they couldn’t get into an Ivy league school and the local government wasn’t hiring white people because of diversity quotas.

Futher, given Obama’s privileged treatment by the media from network anchors to Letterman/Leno, many whites see Obama’s candidacy as the ultimate black preference program.

Now, we may have a black President who, we who are sane know, is bound to fail in both his domestic and foreign policies. His failure will be seen as much, or even more, as a failure of the “affirmative action” that got him elected as it will be of his impossible policies.

For this, the perception of blacks actually being a privileged class will prevail and all blacks will suffer as his election and failed presidency will set back race relations in the Country for at least a generation.