Comments on: Obama braces for race-based ads http://presidential-race.net/obama-braces-for-race-based-ads/ A look at American Politics with a dose of skepticism, because we KNOW you are lying. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:43:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Dan Oblak http://presidential-race.net/obama-braces-for-race-based-ads/comment-page-1/#comment-2768 Dan Oblak Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:37:50 +0000 http://presidential-race.net/obama-braces-for-race-based-ads/#comment-2768 "The Texas Republican Party recently cut ties with a vendor whose political buttons at a party convention included one saying: 'If Obama is president ... will we still call it The White House?' Texas GOP spokesman Hans Klingler said, 'we will neither tolerate nor profit from bigotry.'" ----- That was, of course, in bad taste and completely inappropriate. But anyone who makes a remark like that is either intentionally, or out of ignorance, addressing only half of the question. The query no one has brought to bear -- and the one that should be truly impactful -- is this: <B>'If Obama is elected President... will <I>he</I> and his wife Michelle, still call it the White House?'</B> “The Texas Republican Party recently cut ties with a vendor whose political buttons at a party convention included one saying: ‘If Obama is president … will we still call it The White House?’ Texas GOP spokesman Hans Klingler said, ‘we will neither tolerate nor profit from bigotry.’”

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That was, of course, in bad taste and completely inappropriate. But anyone who makes a remark like that is either intentionally, or out of ignorance, addressing only half of the question.

The query no one has brought to bear — and the one that should be truly impactful — is this: ‘If Obama is elected President… will he and his wife Michelle, still call it the White House?’

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