ugh. the more he speaks, the more he contradicts himself.

..."Typical black person" then she would be attacked over and over again for saying something to the equivalent of "Blacks; they all look alike."

I don't think there's such a thing as a "typical black person" and I don't think there's such a thing as a "typical white person."

Sen. Obama, I think, put his foot in his mouth.

That is wrong on so many levels

Obama is suggesting that this is how all white people think?  That no black people think like that?

There is nothing more painful to me ... than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery, then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved. -- the Reverend Jesse Jackson, as quoted in US News, 3/10/96

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/opinion/art icles/960318/archive_010008.htm

Obama on Tuesday:

Wright = My Grandmother

Obama Today:

My Grandmother = Typical White Person

Therefore:

Wright = Typical White Person

Is that the typical white person is NOT RACIST. How can you make that point without talking about the "typical white person?"

Anyways, the host and callers on the show clearly didn't interpret it the way you have.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/3/20/ 12150/4733/276/480767

Frankly, as a white person, I think he was and is being much generous to white people, but I suppose that is the politics of it.

You are so right I mean those aren't the attitudes of a typical white person in their 80s, why I remember when our country rose up as one to confront the challenge of racism in the 1950s, I mean it was awe-inspiring, I remember when George Wallace was thrown out of office for his views and not re-elected by a landslide, go team!

OMG!!  This is BAD!!!!

Some of you people make me physically ill.

I can't believe we came this close to nominating this walking disaster.

2 days ago he called his grandmother a bigot and today he calls her a typical white.

For the sake of his supporters, he should just stop giving interviews for a week and let the news fizzle out a little. He keeps feeding this monster of a scandal.

MyDailyDouchebags -

"not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity, but that she is a typical white person"

I read that as the typical white person doesn't harbor racial animosity.

You people are puking on a fellow Democrat. It is vile.

... then we know it must be true.

I agree with him.  My grandmother was so racist.  If she saw a black person, she would call them the N word.  I don't know if they heard her or now, but she was very embarrassing.

A friend of mine recently told me that a black minister came to his church for MLK day and gave the sermon.  He said, "white people do not have a monopoly on racism.  It's an equal opportunity disease."  And THAT is a message we all need to hear more often.

Maybe Obama has that disease too!

Does that mean she'd be headed for a similar fate?

I did not at first believe he actually said this, until I listened to it myself.  I was fairly offended by many things he said in his speech.  I am now repulsed by this man.  He cannot be and will not be the Democratic nominee.  Somebody please stop him before he says something worse!    

Funny that this isn;'t the way the white host of a sprotstalk radio show took it, nor his callers, I mean we know that Sportstalk listeners are huge on nuance so obviously they're less quick to judge than you (and yes this is sarcasm, serisouoly listen to sportstalk, its not super nuanced). If the listeners and the host didn't take it that way, I'm ogin to go out on a limb and guess that it wasn't meant that way-- because unlike you I'm not a hysterical nut who backs a America's favorite liar (seriously doesn't the fact that the majority of Americans don't trust Hillary mean anything to you? People don't vote for those they don't trust-- 1972, and 1996 are the only two times I can think of it bieng different and obth of those times the liar was the incumbent- and thus could point to a track record something neither of our canidates can do. Hell Post-Wright more people think Obama shares their values than does Hillary).

By the way i try to avoid all men of all races when i walk down the street .

.. lol

Just so we're clear here, you actually and sincerely believe that Michelle Obama does not love her country?

Here's the Obama campaign's response:

"Barack Obama said specifically that he didn't believe his grandmother harbored any racial animosity, but that her fears were understandable and typical of those often shared by her generation,"

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/phill ygossip/16851906.html

So "typical white person" is actually "typical of those often shared by her generation".

Uh huh.

It is at times like these that I have to remind myself that Clinton is not the sum total of those who support her, and that we need to defeat McCain no matter the consequences.  Attacking a fellow Democrat like this is sick.  Do some of you honestly believe that he is implying that all white people are racists, or are you merely making some sort of garbled electability argument?  Do you not have grandparents whose thinking about racial issues may not be up to speed?  

I really am at a loss for words here.  There are many ways that you could criticize Obama's candidacy, but this sort of smoke and mirrors is downright shameful.  You've become exactly the same type of people that you purportedly despise, the modern-day counterpart to the Republican smear merchants of the '90's.  

How the hell can she or any other halfwit here interpret this as anything wrong.

Here is the parallel for the mentally challenged. Obama said in his speech, "I can no more disown Reverend Wright as I can the black community. I can not disown Wright as I could my white grandmother, who said things that made me cringe."

Don't you see the point? He was saying that there is an automatic response among many blacks and whites to see things as stereotypes. Wright and many in the black community see the white power structure in stereotyped terms. Many older whites see blacks as nothing more than gangsters. Both are horribly wrong. That was Obama's point.

Butter?  Jam?

The real quote:

"She's extremely proud," he said. "The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she's a typical white person who -- if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know -- there's a reaction that's been bred into our experiences that don't go away, and that sometimes come out in the wrong way, and that's just the nature of race in our society. We have to break through it. And what makes me optimistic is you see each generation feeling a little less like that."

Via Ben Smith

Maybe, just maybe, we can all stop misrepresenting what the candidates say and have an actual discussion, rather than mock outrage of a single sound bite. But hey, that's just my two cents.

won't be voting for Obama if he keeps this up.  Time to MOVE ON from all this race talk and let's get back on issues.  It is just so destructive and unecessary for him to continue making these statements.

When you are in a hole, quit digging.

I don't like that he lumped all white people together like that.  I think he has some issue with white people.  Perhaps it was shaped by his experience growing up.  Halle Berry who is also inter-racial said that she experienced some problem growing up.

Obama seems to have problem accepting his white heritage and trusting white people.  His remark reflected the prejudice he has for the white people.  I don't trust that he is the best person to heal this nation.

Good God, what a hipocritical bunch of fanatics you Americans are.
You really really deserve presidents like Bush.

Everybody in the media and in the lunatic Hillary fringe is lying in ambush, weighing every syllable the man utters, hoping and praying, that at some point BHO will say something that can be interpretted as racist. And yahoo, at last he said something we can use to lynch him.

He simply said that his grandmother is no deranged extremist, no member of the KKK, a standard, run of the mill, average white woman. Despite the fact that she was not all of the abocve she told BHO that she was fearfull when meeting a black man on the street. That does not mean that all typical, run of the mill, average whites react the same way.

It's disgusting to read people, that call themselves progressives try to commit character assasination in such a shallow and stupid way, especcially because they do it just to improve the short term electoral chances of another progressive politician. Yuck.

and "typical white persons"

Maybe he meant conventional persons?

Are whites the only group of people who think about crossing the street when they see some sketchy looking strangers approaching?

Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, everyone has a survival instinct and if the situation calls for it, many of us can recall times when we thought about it also.

Wow. This just plays into the perception of -- why did he associate with Wright and sit in that church for 20 years -- does he harbor that same feelings as Wright? Obama's unity message is going down the toilet.

I guess his Pastor's sermons penetrated more than he likes to let on!

If the level of discourse throughout the U.S. is as petty and foolish as it is here, then Obama's gamble may not have paid off.  We Americans might not be adult enough to deal with this issue after all.

This post is absolutely comical, seeing how it's based on a misquote.  I listened to the clip, and Taylor Marsh did not get it right.  What he said was:

". . . a typical white person who, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know, there's a reaction in her that doesn't go away and it comes out in the wrong way."

He didn't say that the "typical white person" is scared of black men that pass them on the street.  The phrase "typical white person" was used as a contrast to a person who "harbors racial animosity," a point that the rest of the dialogue between Obama and the host reinforced.  

I'm sorry to burst the bubble here, but this game of "gotcha" that you guys are playing with Obama is inane and destructive.  

Finally, until someone can point to something other than two-minutes of out-of-context clips of Jeremiah Wright from 2003 and 2007, please stop asserting that Trinity, Wright, and the UCC are racist black-separatists.  It is just not true, and all of you know it.  

Okay. This is a chance for Clinton supporters to play more "gotcha politics" as Jesse Jackson describes it, or rise above this petty crap. These statements are in the same category as Bill's remarks about Jackson winning South Carolina or Hillary's remarks about MLK/LBJ. The Obama supporters decided to play the race card with those remarks to make political hay out of them, and Hillary supporters didn't like it. I agreed with the Clinton supporters then, and I believe that this statement by Obama is no more deserving of becoming an issue than were the statements by the Clintons. Give it a rest.