Letters to the Editor
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Hillary Kicked Ass
Russert was his usual prick self on Meet The Press and Clinton handled him quite well.
When do we get to see Saint Obama sit through an hour of Timmy's grilling?
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this was all Hillary
Pure and simple. Do not play the David Broder middle of the road attitude.
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Shapiro yet again MIA and fails to impress or inform....
I was hoping from Walter a detailed account on why the issues of race and gender can hurt all the Democratic candidates as well as the country. Yet instead we got a useless backhanded personal attack on Bob Johnson.
Instead of offering up a reasoned discourse that perhaps a candid and long over due dialouge about race and gender may be the best development of this historical campaign Shapiro gives us second tier blogger content with no residual or talking points to take to work in the morning..
We deserve better pundits and reporting. I am frozen here in Michigan with the reality that no heat or intensity is flowing from the likes of Shapiro and others at Salon...
As I lectured to the other evening by Joan, please elevate the debate Walter..Pleaseeeeeeeee!!
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Clinton's are going to fracture the Democratic coalition
I can promise you that after this last couple of weeks, the Democratic Party is in danger of losing the current generation of younger black voters. This is the sort of campaigning that will stick in their minds for the rest of their lives.
Finally, I hope the irony isn't lost on the readers that it was Bob Johnson, the man most responsible for many of the truly disgusting stereotypes that Black America have to contend with, attacking Obama's character.
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Bob Johnson comments were as awful as Hillary's dismissal of MLK
This is no doubt why Shapiro may have beaten up on good ole Bobbie, he blew his assignment..
Johnson's tenure at BET continued the Hollywood and media practice of protraying negative images about Blacks . Johnson did nothing to stop the trend but to claim that he started it is insane.
Trashing Black folks with ugly images has always been a staple of the White and Jewish Hollywood monguls..
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Ohhh, ya
This is why I stopped paying attention to the news.
Thank for the reminder, I'm going to go do something productive, later guys...
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please... no more!
This primary campaign needs a referee and occasional vacation days.
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You mean, the Clinton Swiftboat Tactics Escalate to Reverse Smear Obama
Clintons' campaign tactics, right out of Carl, Dick and George playbook, have been pretty shocking of late.
We're talking events of a week and Clintons have the audacity to feed recent, uh, days-old, hours-old events to the Revise-History, Scorch-Earth, Didn't-Inhale Machine? And who's coming to dinner? Bob who?
So, last week, during the NH primary campaign when they were feeling pretty desperate with the polls and everything (you with me so far -- this is true, right? Happened? We all on the same page so far?), Bill appears at a campaign event and says Obama's story is a fairy tale. He can't make his wife taller, make her male, make her, well, Obama, Bill whines bitterly. Bill's very angry about this -- can't you see? You're missing something here -- read my lips, he whispers, "she's Female, come on!"
Then, shortly after Bill's remarks, Hillary herself says:
"Dr. King had been on the front lines. He had been leading a movement. But Dr. King understood, which is why he made it very clear, that there has to be a coming to terms of our country politically in order to make the changes that would last for generations beyond the iconic, extraordinary speeches that he gave. That's why he campaigned for Lyndon Johnson in 1964. That's why he was there when those great pieces of legislation were passed. Does he deserve the lion's share of the credit for moving our country and moving our political process? Yes, he does."
After Hillary basically says, "Hey Obama, don't give too much credit to what Dr. Martin Luther King dreamt of -- all this hope stuff is false. Yeah, let's not have "false hopes." I mean, MLB had to get Lyndon B. Johnson to do the real work, remember? Unlike what you think, that white man was really the one who got all the work done for your civil rights movement stuff."
Senator Obama in the meanwhile, stays quiet. All in the meanwhile, with all these headlines going back and forth, regarding what I outlined above, Senator Obama says nada.
The news sort of talk about these remarks by the Clintons. Sort of. There are other headline news. Clinton comes first in NH, and some people think it's because she almost cried, and she makes a speech and says, "Okay, I'll try and cry more often folks, should've listened to you a bit more carefully -- huh. THAT's what you wanted?"
Senator Obama still stays quiet. All in the meanwhile, with all these headlines going back and forth, regarding what I outlined above, Senator Obama says nada.
Then, uh uh, problems for the Clintons. Clyburn, the top ranking black politician, gets angry at the Clintons' remarks (and maybe he also got peeved at other vicious Clinton lies, e.g., Bill claiming he was against the war from the beginning when there's undisputed evidence of speeches he gave supporting Bush on Iraq war?). "You guys being racist here?" Clyburn wonders incredulously.
Senator Obama still stays quiet. All in the meanwhile, with all these headlines going back and forth, regarding what I outlined above, Senator Obama says nada.
So, the Clintons, who desperately need the black vote, then go on radio to Al Sharpton saying, "Hey, Obama is a great guy, he can win, no, no, no, he's no fairy tale."
Obama, in the meanwhile, still keeps quiet.
Hillary now goes on Meet the Press and says, "It's Obama's fault. He's been twisting my words, and oh my god, people, HE IS MAKING RACE AN ISSUE! AND I'M CRYING, SEE MY TEARS???"
So, Obama finally responds, "Uhm. You know, this is kinda fascinating to me. I mean, I didn't say a word? Did anyone hear me say anything about this?"
Nope, Senator. It's just the crazy Clintons again, and some crazy Americans believing the crap, as they do sometimes.
Sigh.
I think the facts really need to be set straight, loud and clear here about who's doing what, even with the headlines, since people seem so forgetful and easily confused.