Letters to the Editor
little lord baltimore
Published Letters: 189 Editor's Choice: 9
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Oh KateTex and your willful ignorance
[Read the article: Some free advice for Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Also, are you possibly the last person in the country to learn that Obama is getting nearly the entirety of the black this time around? Why is he taking the black vote away from the spouse of the First Black President? I refer readers to the South Carolina stratagem, so neatly illustrated by your message."
By "the black," I assume that you are referring to the black vote? And yes, Obama is receiving the lion's share of black votes. But there are black voters who are supporting Hillary. She retains the support of a large number of black super delegates and well as the support of a not-insignificant number of black women.
Your question, "why is he taking the black vote away from the spouse of the first black president?" is so loaded with assumptions and stereotypes that it deserves to be taken apart.
1) The votes were not Hillary's to begin with so Obama is not 'taking them away."
2) SImply because Hillary is the spouse of a president who was popular with black voters does not mean that she deserves their vote. She needed to present her case for why black voters should vote for her. She was trying to do this. For most people, Obama did it better.
3) Bill Clinton is not a person of African-American descent. You clearly misunderstand why Toni Morrison called Bill the "first black president." It was not mean as a compliment. When she gave him that label, she was describing how his behavior in the Monica Lewinsky scandal was familiar to a lot of black women; how in many African American communities a philandering, lying, refusing to accept responsibility for his mistakes, man and husband is a familiar and all too common archetype. Toni Morrison has since come out and strenuously endorsed Obama.
Finally, is Obama's South Carolina strategem the one where he told Bill Clinton to compare Obama's victory in SC to Jesse Jackson's? Is it the one where he asked Bob Johnson to hint at his past drug use? I know that you have very little use for facts when they do not support Hillary, but the facts are that Obama did not have widespread support among African Americans until A) he won in Iowa and many African Americans began to believe that he had white support and therefore could actually be a viable candidate. And B) Bill Clinton put his foot in his mouth, and Hillary invited Bob Johnson to introduce her and he completely embarrassed himself. In apologizing for his statements, Bob Johnson called Obama, "the perfect candidate."
Since perceiving that the black vote was not hers, Hillary has done nothing to try to win it. In fact, she has done everything she can to diminish the importance of the black vote, further alienating her from black voters.
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@Jack (not to pile it on, but . . . )
[Read the article: Some free advice for Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"I don't see how running a campaign that has remained this close against both an excellent candidate like Obama and a hostile press corps can be described as "terrible."
I thought that in December of last year, Hillary had all but crowned herself the nominee. She was ahead by 20 points in nearly every state and she was giving interviews saying, "it will be me." I think she's run a pretty terrible campaign as well. She's managed to completely blow her lead. She's blown through her funding once already. Now, even though she faces a near mathematical impossibility of winning the nomination fairly, she's crowing about how the momentum is behind her now.
It's not the conventional wisdom, but I also categorically disagree that she's faced a hostile press corps. Her campaign has been working both sides of this issue, claiming that the press is unfair to drum up support for her underdog position, while at the same time using the press to make baseless accusations that Obama = Rezko, and that Obama = inexperience. Just today, finally, in Ireland, a newspaper completely disproved her "I helped bring peace to Northern Ireland" claim. However, now no American newspaper has bothered taking her to task, or challenging her, for fear that they will be attacked for bias.