I am working class, paycheck-to-paycheck, Maxwell House coffee-drinking "Liberal".

I voted for Obama for Senator. I voted for Obama for the Democratic presidential nominee. Ancient African-American saying: don't count nobody else's money.

See, the thing is, White, liberal Democrats have taken African-Americans for granted for the last 30 years. We were never "black voters", we were "the base". Court us in our churches, pass out turkeys and hams in the projects on the holidays, tell us the Republican boogie-man is going to put uys all back in slavery and kill us ("Vote or Die") but avoid us like the fuckin' black plague (no pun intended) when it's time to court "suburban (white) voters" for the general elections. once implanted in office, we're ignored, have draconian policies passed against our communities (Don't Ask. Don't Tell, draconian drug laws and welfare "reform") and we don't see much of ya until the next election, when you run your asses back up the pulpits of the black ministers that you've paid off. And this crap worked for awhile, until Hillary (unsuccessfully) channeled Harriet Tubman.

Dubya got 22% of the black vote in '04. The Republicans are well-poised to split OR completely take back the African-American majority - and not because of Obama, or the damn lies that so-called white liberal HRC supporters continue to tell on Michelle Obama, BUT because Democrats and white liberals have practived paternalistic racism against people of color - blacks in particular, for years - and (quote Malcom X) your chickens have come home to roost.

This "yellow-dog" Democrat had no plans to EVER vote for HRC (don't believe in political dynasites, and I don't owe her a job just because Bill stuck his dick down some other woman's mouth). Even when Obama was a puppy in the Illinois state senate. HRC is not a liberal, or even a moderate; she is an opportuisit centrist whol will use her sheep-like constituents' irrational fear of all things Republican and Conservative against them and throw you under the bus (as she and her old man did the first time around) to further her own personal and professional efforts.

So to Paul Krugman and all of you exasperated white "liberals": keep on with bullshit passive-aggressive race-baiting and lies against Obama, keep believing that you're "entitled" to "our base", and not only will you lose the white house for a very LONG time, you'll also lose the house and the senate.

Amazing how Krugman and HRC supporters thought that Obama was the cat's meow in '04, as long as they could him serving THEIR purposes.

We ain't your father's negroes.

June 27, 1989.

Where have you been? Also, while the crones from NOW were hobknobbing on K Street, and the Ericka Jong and Paul Krugman were knee-deep in self-promotion and snob-literary career building, Planned Parenthoods, private and public abortion and birth control centers were closing up shop, as on that fateful day in 1989, the high court ruled Roe v. Wade to be a states-rights issue.

Under the Clinton Administration, the high court continued to pass further restrictions on abortion, both accessibility and procedural.

So, there's nothing to care about. Also, HRC went on record last summer (2007) that it was her current belief that the act of abortion was "a tragedy".

So much for the Clinton "Experience" change.

As for Obama "can't win"? Neither can HRC. If she could, she'd have the nomination wrapped up six weeks ago. She's polarizing in her own party.

As for those of us who will not vote for her in the general election, most of us were not going to vote for her in the first place, as one upposter said, "if Obama had never been born.

Curtains for the Dems.

With all of the race-baiting and racial opportunism, including having her very vocal supporter at the NAACP invite Jeremiah Wright for a "flo' show" the other day, Hillary Clinton has made certain that John McCain will receive the largest African-American vote since Lincoln.

No, there is nothing that she can say to "heal" the party. The one thing the Democrats have played up with black voters since Reagan was how racist the Republicans are, how the Republicans use code words and "Willie Horton" campaign tactics against African Americans, and further racially polarize this country. So, McCain picks Condi Rice as his running mate, and "sexism/victim" trump card goes out the window, right behind the "Republicans hate Negroes" card that the Dems have relied on for a quarter century.

Now what's she going to use if she's the nominee? And what do you think the Republicans will use against her, and the Democrats running doe congressional seats?

Hillary is a polarizing figure by very nature, which is why the party has abandoned her. If she were clearly a uniter, and running on her own merit, and a decent human being, she would have wrapped up the nomination back in February.

Oh, and using Bill Ayers against Obama? Well, there goes the Progressive vote. They may not vote McCain, but they won't come out in droves for her.

I'm African-American. I've voted Democrat in every presidential campaign since '80.

I wouldn't vote for Clinton for Head Shit-Shoveler, let alone POTUS.