Greetings from Ocracoke!! I’m amused to read that Obama volunteers have registered 700 new black voters in Macon, Georgia and that our cracker congressman can’t even show any appreciation lest he alienate his cracker base.
At the least, Obama’s voter drive will help Democratic candidates down the ballot, now and in the future. And [Steve] Hildebrand [Obama’s Deputy Campaign Manager] dismissed the prospect of a white counterreaction to an increase in black voters.
But Rep. Jim Marshall, a conservative Democrat whose district includes Macon, appears less confident. He has declined to endorse Obama, and his chief of staff, John Kirincich, was skittish about discussing the benefits that the candidate’s push to turn out more black voters would hold for Marshall, who barely won reelection in 2006 and faces another challenge.
Marshall “is not really interested in commenting on the presidential race. It’s not his ballgame,” Kirincich said. Pressed, he said: “We will accept more people voting for him from [wherever] they come.”
Glad to hear he will accept black votes. He won’t throw them back in the water. That’s great. Anytime someone tells you that racism is done and gone in this country, remember the spectacle of a white Georgian Democratic politician being afraid to admit that he needs black voters to win elections.
