Letters to the Editor
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Rocky57
I can say good things about Hillary too.
This race has been, from the start, a sensationalist's dream. Any criticism of either candidate is suddenly written off as being racist or sexist, whether it is or not, and any response to that is labeled as being playing the race or gender card whether it really is or not.
This latest statement by Hillary is undeniably racist. It is the latest in a trend of increasingly borderline statements - from the start where Hillary expressed a view on LBJ that was largely overdramatised, to when Bill's Jesse Jackson moment, to Ferraro trying to paint Obama as the affirmative action candidate to this one, where Hillary finally jumped the line.
The next step is probably going to be the Clintons dressing in white hoods. When that gets criticised it will be called playing the race card too.
There hasn't been the same degree of escalation with Obama, in part to be honest because he is winning, and it would lose him votes rather then winning him some. Obama is no saint.
Now I can't pretend that this side of the fight is blameless because we are not. A lot of the anger was generated by constantly being called various variations of stupid cultists - which left us thinking that the average Hillary supporter was in fact a stupid cultist.
And thus we started to shout back.
The young shouted back at the old "Screw you, you guys are the ones whose SUV's gave us global warming, you guys are the ones who want to leave us with the debt, you guys are the ones who landed us in two wars you expect US to fight. Some responsibility!" and the black vote shouted at the blue collar white vote "Well if you don't want us to vote for you, we can give you your wish honky!" and things descended into a vicious cycle.
Obviously, a Hillary supporter will say that the Obama supporters started this flame war so don't take my word on this as gospel.
But that said, when one side goes to the other side with this whole "You naaasssty DemocRAT" it tends to annoy me just a wee bit. There has been an awful lot of divisiveness in this election.