Letters to the Editor
KateTex
Published Letters: 580 Editor's Choice: 4
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Well, well
[Read the article: Obama's speech on race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]All we had to do was throw the Clintons and grandma under the racist bus, but hey, it was worth it. What an orator, what a guy. I gather the subtext of this speech was pretty much: "I'm your big chance to prove you're not a racist." It's always, always, always about Obama, 24/7/365,isn't it? Sorry, some of us just aren't inspired and never will be, because this guy's one big clay foot and a hypocrite to boot.
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@Uncle
[Read the article: Obama's speech on race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You say: "I don't think less of him for revealing that his grandmother had her flaws, just like the rest of us."
Flaws? Obama has just tarred his grandmother, the woman who raised him, with the always handy, closet racist brush. How many more others no longer able to speak for themselves are on his hit list? This looks an awful lot like opportunism and naked ambition at its worst. And who's to say Obama was even telling the truth about his grandmother?
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@swiilldog
[Read the article: Obama's speech on race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You say: "You've got astroturf posters here comparing Obama to Hitler, for fuck's sake. Hitler."
You'd have to do a whole lot of selective reading on this site to escape the fact that this same pejorative - and worse - has been applied to Hillary Clinton. Not to mention the 'douche bag' variety of slurs, which have not only been applied to the candidate, but also to her supporters on salon.com. Unless your outrage cuts both ways, isn't it kind of meaningless?
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@Hutman - attribution
[Read the article: Obama's speech on race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'd just like to point out that you're the second poster today to have conflated my remarks with those of another poster. The second half of your post quoting the "comet vomit" remarks, with no attribution, leaves the impression that these remarks were mine. They weren't, and in fairness, you should have acknowledged this.
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Short answer: NO
[Read the article: Was Obama's speech enough?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Obama's speech contained nary a mention of the shameful SC video clip circulated on YouTube, in which the candidate openly portrayed the Clintons as whites using blacks as political fodder, thus making his supposedly post-racial campaign all about race. This isn't a matter of secondhand goods; this was the candidate himself doing exactly what he now publicly condemns in Jeremiah Wright. When does the media cover this aspect of the candidate?
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Is ANYONE on this thread
[Read the article: Was Obama's speech enough?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Going to address the Obama YouTube video clip in which he trashes the Clintons on racial grounds in front of a largely black audience in South Carolina? This clip exists. It is real. It wasn't produced by Limbaugh or Penn or the Heritage Foundation. You cannot write it off. Obama really did malign the Clintons in SC, expressly to capture the black vote. This clip may not jibe with today's hosannas from Obama supporters, but IT COUNTS. It goes straight to Obama's character and not in a positive way.
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@Hutman/baltimore - YouTube video link
[Read the article: Was Obama's speech enough?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is the video clip which shows Obama in SC. The "they" he refers to can be none other than the Clintons, perhaps acting in concert with all those white oppressors who would prefer to keep the black man/woman down. I've posted this link before and the only feedback I received was along the lines of "Bamboozle? Hoodwink? Okey doke? Those aren't code words." Uh huh. Okay.
Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y7OFLl3asg
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@Hutman
[Read the article: Was Obama's speech enough?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You say: "As for jumping on Obama's use of the words "bamboozle" or "hoodwink," who cares? Malcolm X used those words, but so did thousands of other black speakers."
Who cares? In what context did Malcolm X and Farrakhan, among others, use those words? To deliver what message to whom for what purpose? There is no escaping the conclusion that Obama used this terminology in SC to paint the Clintons as traditional oppressors of blacks in order to pull the black vote away from them and deliver it to himself. And thus began the great schism between the Clintons and black Americans, and the latest unraveling of the Democratic party. You can prevaricate unto eternity about this, but you can't change the reality of that video clip.
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@baltimore - wrong
[Read the article: Was Obama's speech enough?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This link will take you to a web entry dated Feb. 21, which contains an excerpt from a column in the Arkansas Gazette. The column states that Obama DID use the bamboozle routine in SC, and for exactly the purpose I stated:
http://yikes101.wordpress.com/2008/02/21/obama-trying-to-bamboozle-you/
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@baltimore
[Read the article: Was Obama's speech enough?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Trying to obfuscate things won't help. Though the linked page itself postdates SC, the quotation from the Arkansas Gazette clearly states that Obama was using the 'hoodwink' routine in SC during the run-up to the primary. Need more? Okay, this one is clearly dated two days before the SC primary, it directly quotes Michelle Obama as she uses the bamboozle business, and it is featured on a PRO-Obama site. If the link gets truncated, it should end with you/ :
http://barackfuture.com/2008/01/24/michelle-obama-dont-let-the-clintons-bamboozle-you/
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@baltimore - Speaking of great speeches
[Read the article: Was Obama's speech enough?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm sorry, but you are still obfuscating. I've posted two links which plainly back up the assertion that Obama (and as it turns out, his wife) were both using the hoodwink/bamboozle routine to turn the black vote against Clinton, beginning in SC. This is what they did. (As for the poster consulting the dictionary for the meaning of the referenced words, what you need is a dictionary of popular culture, not Webster's.)
Okay, this link will take you to a speech given by Bill Clinton on the occasion of the first Million Man March in the mid'90s. If these are the words of a racist, or the husband of a racist, or a woman who would employ a racist staff in any capacity, I'll gladly pour Worcestershire sauce on my keyboard and have it for dinner:
http://www.afn.org/~dks/race/clinton-e6.html