Voting for a democratic president is voting for a democratic president. Voting for a Republican sentator is voting for a Republican senator. "Splitting the vote" doesn't work on an individual level, it has to be a concerted collective effort
i think you are confused about your own argument, you said that voting for somebody is an endorsement of the person and their party, so my point is if somebody votes a democratic president and a republican senator, which party are they endorsing?
im just pointing out why your definition of a vote as an endorsement doesn't make any sense, a vote is not an endorsement because there are multiple factors and reasons why somebody would vote for somebody while not endorsing their views or endorsing the party
therefore my vote for obama is not necessarily an endorsement of the democratic party or an endorsement of his views
"Splitting the vote" doesn't work on an individual level, it has to be a concerted collective effort
its a free country, you can vote however the fuk you want to vote
And voting for someone, no matter what "strategic auspice" you hide it under, is an endorsement. You might not cosign everything a candidate is about but at the same time they are not so bad you wouldn't throw away a vote for them. That is an endorsement at the most basic level. Because there can be a candidate (and in many cases are- 2008 GOP ticket for example) who is so bad splitting the vote is not worth risking putting them in office, even if you don't agree with their competitor 100%
im not a mind reader, so i cant tell what a voter is thinking by looking at their vote, but apparently you can, more power to you
but under a private voting system its completely possible to vote for somebody and not endorse their views and their party, im not sure why you have a hard time comprehending that
Again, people's views change over time... if you don't progress or change in your thinking over time you are an idiot
im happy for you that you are progressing
Just because Obama is black doesn't mean he is good for black people (and he isn't). You definitely don't make that argument with modern hip hop. And this contradicts your idea of "splitting the vote". By this logic if there are no black people on the GOP ticket why vote for them?
this is where you train goes off the track
whether obama is good or bad for black people is a matter of opinion, if you think obama is bad for black people that is fine, that is your OPINION
but you can't use your OPINION to say I am contradicting myself, i think obama is good for black people, so aside from acknowledging a difference of opinion im not sure how you can prove anything or what it is you are trying to say, your opinion is not evidence that im contradicting myself
if you want to have an argument about whether obama is good or bad for black people we can have that argument, but you accused me of contradicting myself and of endorsing the democratic party
your views of obama are your opinion, whether i contradicted myself or endorsed the democratic party are FACTS or NON FACTS, you cannot use your opinion to prove or disprove facts
i said i voted for obama because he is black, i have no idea what that has to do with hip hop or splitting votes
So if the liberal agenda is not the black agenda, and Obama's agenda is the liberal agenda, and as you have said many times before the liberal agenda is BAD for black people (by marginalizing us through AA and welfare) HOW IS OBAMA GOOD FOR BLACK PEOPLE????
the main way obama is good for black people is the cultural and psychological impact of having a black president, that trumps ideology and policy IMO
All you care about is theory and platitudes because none of the ideas you propose bear fruit in the real world. Just because a candidate is black doesn't mean he will be good for black people. David Dinkins wasn't good for black people. Mariam Berry wasn't good for black people. Obama isn't good for black people. There aren't any black elected officials who have actually made good on your "theory" that black officials will lead to black economic power. In fact, you have often argued the opposite with examples
under my "theory" black people barely have the basics or the foundation that are needed to develop into an economic and political power, we only recently have had access to some individual freedom, we have a little bit of economic freedom and have a long way to go to improve the culture, dinkins and marion barry are black leaders that i would criticize, i think they confuse civil rights with an actual economic plan, they dont represent what i was saying
i never thought that 4 or 8 years of obama will lead to black economic power, i think 4 or 8 years will lay the foundation for black economic power, i think Obama is more akin to the civil rights movement of the 60's that laid the foundation for Obama, IMO Obama is Phase II, Phase III people are being born right now in the Obama era, I think they will have better perspective and more knowledge in the same way we today have a better perspective than black people from the 50's
and also economic power starts at the grassroots, that is why i think addressing culture is vital, i think culture determines economics, i dont think its the other way around, which is why i critique the dinkins and barrys
And lol @ talking about individual & economic freedom under Obama. Under his presidency we have seen the death of the 4th, 5th and 6th amendments in major major ways. Obama doesn't even communicate with black people, let alone black elected officials, and his presence in black inner cities is pretty much non existent beyond the occasional bootstraps speech. So he's not really helping black culture either. Theoretically, an educated black man who came up through community outreach in Chicago would make for a great president for black people. But where are the results? Here is where you excuse Obama's non-performance by blaming "black culture". Your whole way of thinking is a joke
well first im not aware of obama doing anything unconstitutional
second i think obama has done a good job in addressing inner cities and black problems