Letters to the Editor
Stellaa
Published Letters: 186 Editor's Choice: 14
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Jackson=marginalization
[Read the article: Bill Clinton: The Chris Matthews of South Carolina]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]1) If you claim that Bill Clinton was not trying to marginalize Obama by bringing up Jesse Jackson, you are lying, either to yourself or to everyone who hears you.
When did association with Jessie Jackson become marginalization, only by people who demean the 60'and 70's. Only by people who have a binary view of the African/Americans, good ones and bad ones. For Peets sake the man was with MLK when Obama was in diapers. Puhleze.
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Say it with a straight face
[Read the article: Bill Clinton: The Chris Matthews of South Carolina]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Glenn I respect you and you are the first thing I read every day. But I would like you and Josh Marshall to walk up to an African American voter from South Carolina and with a straight face tell them that mentioning the Jackson win, makes Obama look black, so that is a bad thing for Obama.
First of all you are truly insulting Mr. Jackson and his struggles. You diminish all the people who voted for him. And you are telling black people, they cannot have Obama, he is transcended beyond your race, he is above that. He is now in a different league.
Please, take this sophistry and test it with a real person face to face and see how twisted it is.
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@propagandee
[Read the article: Bill Clinton: The Chris Matthews of South Carolina]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you cannot tell that saying BIllary is rude and crass then all your comments are of no value.
I will not say offensive cause that is so overplayed and has no meaning.
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@dclaw
[Read the article: Bill Clinton: The Chris Matthews of South Carolina]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The point is obviously not that black people "cannot have Obama, he is trascended" them, it's that Jesse Jackson objectively, factually, and indisputably did not have the same endorsements, widespread popular support, credibility, message, and galvinizing effect on the electorate that Obama does, and dismissing his win in South Carolina as nothing more than the product of identity politics is grossly unfair and an insidious attempt to marginalize a genuine movement.
Are you kidding? How is Jessie Jackson marginal to anyone but MSM, white people who bought the Republican culture meme and racists. Jessie Jackson is highly respected for good reason, he has the scars to prove it and by you repeating the Republican and Obama held notion that the battles of the 60's and 70's were an excess that should be eliminated is beyond contempt.
Hillary was right, the Republican tried to dissmantle all the gains and to erase all the struggles and so are you guys.
I am not black, but I know my place as a white person and not to claim that Jessie Jackson should be erased cause some white people don't like him and they may think Obama is black and get confused.
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AKA
[Read the article: Bill Clinton: The Chris Matthews of South Carolina]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is there a link to the complete Clinton question and answers? vs. the alleged clipped version?
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A glimpse into Obama's concern for the "community"
[Read the article: Our first black president?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Who said this about an African American community when asked how come the buildings of his patron, went into bankruptcy and ultimate failure?
A: Housing partnerships in which low-income-housing tax credits are syndicated frequently struggle financially. The reasons for the problems such partnerships struggle are complex but frequently include urban crime, demographic changes and social factors outside the control of any developer or owner. Senator Obama was not otherwise aware of financial and physical problems attributable to misconduct by Mr. Rezko
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/353786,CST-NWS-rezquestions23.article
Translation: It was not his fault, it was not the developer's fault, it was the fault of the tenants and the neighborhood (by the way it was the neighborhood he represented). Gee, I guess we know when it comes down to brass tacks which side he will take.
Low income housing tax credit projects fail because of the developer and the management Mr. Obama, not because of the communities they are designed to serve. Thousands of affordable units in the most complex neighborhoods are structured and operated to the benefit of the community. Sorry folks, I don't buy the concern for the people. Just another politician who will sell out his community for donations and power.
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Maxine
[Read the article: Who's Hillary Clinton's supersecret special mystery endorser?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yes, the voice of South Central. Go figure, all the Liberal blog "Clintons are racist" name calling of the Clintons and one of the Sponsors of the impeach Cheney, one of the people who stands up for the AA community and does not hide from it--how you gonna spin that one. The Clintons just got cleansed of the "racist" card. Meanwhile, Josh Marshall, from NYC and the other Mainstream Blogotropes does not get it.