Letters to the Editor
Taliesan
Published Letters: 942 Editor's Choice: 19
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Watch the Hillbots squirm.
[Read the article: Was Hillary channeling George Wallace?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Lets be honest here, those of you who support Hillary and are arguing that the statement wasn't racist: The reason is because you either agree that black Americans aren't hard working, or you are trying to bend yourselves into pretzels to defend yourself on all the other statements where you accused Obama's campaign of playing the race card.
Hillary lost the black vote not simply through Obama suddenly looking viable - she lost is through running a campaign that marginalised every voting block that constitutes the Democratic "Safe" core. That is what this statement did, it marginalised every person who isn't an uneducated blue collar white person in America.
Obama's support, Obama's campaign and Obama himself didn't have the ability to shove those words in her mouth. If you contrast the two campaigns, you will find that when Obama has praised McCain, he has said Hillary would still be a better president. When an Obama supporter called Hillary a "Monster" she appologised and resigned.
Can one say the same thing of Hillary's campaign? No. Ferraro resigned saying that she fully believed in what she said. Hillary Clinton twice stated that McCain was the better candidate than Obama.
And now finally, Hillary has said something that goes beyond the pail. The press didn't do this to her. The Obama campaign didn't do this to her. She did this to her.
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AKA
[Read the article: Was Hillary channeling George Wallace?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I would like to know if you concur with manos assessment of me cause if you do, I will put you on my ignore list faster than you can say white racist!
You are basing your decision on who is best to run America on some of a given politicians followers, and not even all of that politicians given followers, but simply the ones you have encountered online.
You are no different to a sheep - you are not making your decision based on actually thinking about the candidates, you are rather basing it on which herd you would rather be with.
Now my opposition to Hillary is based on her. That a lot of Hillary supporters are hypocrites with a penchant for using Republican talking points only reinforces my view, it doesn't actually inform my view.
If Hillary had not voted for the Iraq war, if she had not drummed up hysteria around "Hot Coffee" and if she had run a campaign that didn't hurt the Democratic party I would have supported her whether her supporters were nice people or not because ultimately, I would not be voting for her supporters I would be voting for her.
Even so if she had won the primary I would have voted for her because ultimately, as angry as a lot of Hillary supporters have made me, they aren't the ones who would end up in that Oval Office - it would be Hillary Clinton and she is still better than McCain.
But you have decided your vote not based on the candidates, not based on policy and not even based on which of them you feel you could have a beer with - you have based it on what some of the one candidate's supporters have had to say to you.
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AKA Smith
[Read the article: Was Hillary channeling George Wallace?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]1: Other people see it differently, particularly considering those comments by Bill, Ferraro and recently, Hillary Clinton.
2: Or they simply criticised her on her choice of words.
3: Actually, Edwards was disadvantaged by having none of the party machinery behind him and very limited press coverage. When he came second in the first race of the season - Hillary was still the one to beat.
4: And Hillary's campaign allegedly released a photo of Obama in traditional Kenyan dress.
5: Go back and read Texas Girl's comment on this thread. Tell me again how particularly vicious and bigotted the Obama campaign has been.
6: Bad punning is a valid form of expression. Besides that, Hillary hasn't been particularly roughly treated in this cycle, most of the damage done was done by her to herself.
7: Agreed but...
8: You wonder why Obama supporters might just call you racist for that statement? When has being black ever helped an American presidential candidate? Are you seriously going to continue to pretend that all Obama has going for him is his race?
9: You mean the horrible injustice where America's people vote for the person they prefer, and argue passionately in favour of that candidate online? Terrible thing this Democracy innit?
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MusicRowDem
[Read the article: Was Hillary channeling George Wallace?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That she is saying she has the white blue collar vote is not where the racism comes in. If she had simply said she has white blue collar workers on her side there would be no controversy.
Where the controversy is here:
that found how Senator Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me
She just implied in a big way that if you are not a white blue collar worker who has not completed college - you aren't a "Hard working American."
That is where the claim of racism is coming in.
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AKA Smith
[Read the article: Was Hillary channeling George Wallace?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hillary supporters trying to play the victim didn't work back in January when you lot where calling Obama's supporters several variations of stupid sexists. Lets not even start on the "Traitor" cracks for women who favoured the male candidate.
It doesn't mesh with your idea that you have the "tough" candidate and frankly, all it does is make you look worse whenever a ShawnWM comes along.