It's going to be a HUGE issue come September, October and ging into election day......
How you as an Obama supporter and thus to people you talk to a representative of his candidacy answer that question, will be as important as the question itself.
If you answer it defensively and questioning their motives (when all they want is to know the answer and have an answer they can say "ok, maybe it isn't an issue"....) they'll probably walk away with this question and how it was answered as a possible deciding factor.
There were some decent answers above, but they were clouded in attacks and bullshit that just made me want to press further.
If you truly read my posts and especially the one before this the answer to why I am asking the question becomes VERY clear.
I'm not trying to make it an issue, it's already that and will only become bigger. How it is answered and how the one asking it is treated will be the solution.
Again, calling or implying one is a racist, answering it with contempt, degrading, and so on...in a negative fashion... will only cement support for others, an assure a loss.
If however, the answer is well informed, respectfully answered and whatever fears allayed by the answers and how they were given.... may well lead that questioner to support Obama.
Again, I maybe wrong, I may not have a clue in any of this..... but, I just may.
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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"
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