Obama, is he an "affirmative action" candidate?

Question

Katie S.

I want everyone to look at your answer, it is SO TRUE, how can anyone not say he is the affirmative action candidate.

Answer 1

Most jobs ask for years of experience. But other jobs offer on the job training.

Answer 2

Yes, indeed. You tell me how else a lying racist bigot gets to be a Presidential Candidate?  

If oh bummer was a bitter, typical taxpayer he woulda been run outta town months ago.

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Answer 3

Your mama is an affirmative action candidate.

In fact all women and all peoples considered as "minority" are affirmative action candidates. So, unless you are ready for you mother, sister, aunties, grandmothers jobs to be threatened by abolishing AA, by all means, go for it.  

Answer 4

For sure but I'm not sure if that is a bad thing. Hey ... one of these elections, a Black man had to get elected to the highest office.

Answer 5

Only if we're allowed to call Sarah Palin the Holier Than Thou candidate.

Answer 6

I understand that at this point, it's still hard for you whites to imagine a black person in the United States having any kind of power or political clout given that you've had your collective "**** covered" boot heals on our collective necks for so long (even though you've sat through 8 years of Rice, Powell, numerous people of color in executive positions in DC, decades of Marshall and Thomas on the supreme court)...but I know this is all a learning experience for you and you should be glad that it's happening now, at the dawn of the 21st century.

Answer 7

Y E S ! ! !

From another user - -

IF ... JUNIOR U.S. Senator OBAMA was a WHITE man WITH the SAME LACK of Qualifications, HE would have been - L A U G H E D - out of the Nomination process ... in the BEGINNING !!!!

I agree completely !

KS1982

Answer 8

no he is not he had more votes then anyone so he is the nominee, thats how it works  

Answer 9

No.

Answer 10

Bush was an affirmative action candidate and people voted for him twice.  He did not earn his way into Yale.  He got there because his rich father went there and part of Yale's affirmative action policy is giving special consideration to people who are legacy.  That same legacy is also what got Dubya all the way to the White House.

Answer 11

No, not in its traditional sense.  Here's an excerpt from a June 30th  MSNBC article:

Obama, who asks voters neither to support nor oppose him on the basis of his race, has dealt gently with affirmative action. He says his two young daughters have enjoyed great advantages and therefore should not receive special consideration because of their race.

"On the other hand," he said in an April debate, "if there's a young white person who has been working hard, struggling, and has overcome great odds, that's something that should be taken into account" by people such as college admission officers.

"So I still believe in affirmative action as a means of overcoming both historic and potentially current discrimination," Obama said. "But I think that it can't be a quota system and it can't be something that is simply applied without looking at the whole person, whether that person is black, or white, or Hispanic, male or female."

Answer 12

Oboma is the offermative action poster boy. I am deeply saddend by this, and equaly as afraid that he will bring back sumthin that was admitted to being byest adn unfair.

Answer 13

About as much as Palin is.

Draw your own conclusions.

Answer 14

Yes he is, as well, as his wife, Michelle.

Answer 15

Not nearly as much as Saint Sarah is.