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9/24/08 To the Editor, You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time but you can’t fool all the people all the time. In the September 23rd edition of The Record, columnist Dr. Alan Chartock suggests that some white New Yorkers will continue to vote against black candidates simply because of their skin color. I firmly believe that he is doing so in order to get voters of all races to vote for Obama simply because he is black and hoping that it will counterbalance his policy and voting record. This trick has been played before on the people of New York when Bill Clinton suggested that white voters were unwilling to vote for a black man for Mayor of NYC when David Dinkins ran. But Mayor Dinkins won his first campaign against Rudy Giuliani because he got the white vote. He was the first black Mayor of New York and that should have dispelled any more talk of our latent racism. I also believe he is injecting this racial red herring into the campaign at this time because Obama, and Democrats in general, are in trouble over their complicity in the mortgage meltdown. Many Americans remember when Democrats like Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton created banking regulations that enabled unqualified borrowing by their constituents and an increasing number of us are learning that Barrack Obama has received more campaign money from the big Democratically controlled lending institutions in recent years than any other Senator. I wonder what all those campaign contributions are going to buy for these banking rascals; possibly more mutually beneficial legislation or maybe a “get out of jail free” card? Alan Chartock is a master at convincing voters that the people and policies he supports are right and just, and that you should be just as smart as he is. But I for one am convinced that I am smarter.
David Crawmer
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