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Originally Posted by IsiliRunite
in my opinion...if one campaign has better ad writers supporting but not necessarily associated with, who write more sticky and contagious ads, that candidate will be successful in the end. the subject of those ad campaigns will boil down to race, I believe, because it is the most glaring and exploitable difference between the two candidates (exploitable via the two similar but different prejudices I've mentioned) and the election will be too close to avoid using these type of ad/rehtoric campaigns. fwiw
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just to add with what Sean said, I happen to believe the "most glaring and exploitable difference" between the two candidates would be age/generation. There's more that separates the two candidates' world view by generation than by race.
You see that with the media's glee towards McCain's computer illiteracy, singing beach boys songs, and comparing his ornery stuffy speaking skills with Obama's rock star performances. We're talking Mick Jaggar, not Rick James.
I guess you could counter argue that ageism does not carry the same taboo and that the media is allowed to make jokes about his wanting the whipper snappers off of his lawn, and not suggest Obama enjoys fried chicken and watermellon. So then I really can't disprove how much of racism is at play underneath the rhetoric.
But then the problem has become a burden of proof for you because it can't be proven any more than disproven, all hidden and unconscious as it all is.
So we might as well be talking about the thetan spirits and their affect on our voting behavior.
The only concrete manifestation of white guilt we've been able to reference is Affirmative Action, which is admittedly a liberal principle. But the confusion between what the liberals have wanted to do for ghetto black kids and who they want to elect as their leader, is what confused Gerraldine Ferraro, another old fuddy duddy, to cry "affirmative action" with respect to Obama's cometting success.
I know we aren't accepting any similarities between her thinking and yours, but for the lack of other evidence to support the white guilt hypothesis I'm afraid I have not choice. You're a ferarro lover.
