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Donna's avatar

I fear he is much worse than you have even portrayed. He won people over with his calm and measured demeanour. We have one like him in the UK - Starmer. He’s nowhere near as polished as Obama; he’s grey, dull and monotone. Starmer doesn’t have the flair or the charisma, but what he does have is that he will promise the earth and deliver nothing, whilst quietly creaming the system for himself.

But I was really shocked when Obama instructed black men to vote for Harris. It was a cheap shot and I was struck by the racism. How dare he tell black men they no longer have a free vote. Worst thing he could have done. No one should be voted into office because of the colour of their skin. And black men know that!! He misjudged them.

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Elizabeth's avatar

Years ago I attended a women's meeting sponsored by NOW. I thought it was about helping women gain skills for the workplace. It turned out it was all about trashing men. I left as I didn't want any part of an organization that was all about blaming and no self directed improvement. When it was reported that Obama attended a Church where the minister bashed the white system, that was a clincher for me. It may seem like a small irrelevant act but as the saying goes how you do the smallest thing often reveals how you will do bigger things. That a man who was raised by his white grandparents would listen to such rhetoric repeatedly was so disrespectful My child is mixed race and it is very painful when he spouts 'white privilege' especially as a 100 years ago his ancestors were in dire poverty.

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