Letters to the Editor
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The Inept Idiocy of Trying to Blame Everything on Hillary
Just the latest example:
All the pundits had been talking about Hillary's support from white working class voters for months, even more so since Reverend Wright's "wrongs."
But now that Hillary also speaks to it in the press, suddenly she's "playing the race" card again? Suddenly what she said is somehow not "old news" but brazen, "how dare she say anything again?"
Please, can we have at least a remant, a semblance of fairness and/or intelligence?
Even those who falsely claim to be embracing a more enlightened view are most willingly allowing themselves to be half swallowed in some of the most ignorant darkness imaginable.
She was just saying what everyone else was talking about.
This is not personal Joe - I am speaking of many in the media especially, generally - but the coverage of this campaign has been so blindly biased, and some of the most inane analysis imaginable - especially those which have accused "playing the race card."
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The Inept Idiocy of Trying to Blame Everything on Hillary
Just the latest example:
All the pundits had been talking about Hillary's support from white working class voters for months, even more so since Reverend Wright's "wrongs."
But now that Hillary also speaks to it in the press, suddenly she's "playing the race" card again? Suddenly what she said is somehow not "old news" but brazen, "how dare she say anything again?"
Please, can we have a remnant, a semblance, of fairness and/or intelligence?
Even those who falsely claim to be embracing a more enlightened view are most willingly allowing themselves to be half-swallowed in some of the most ignorant darkness imaginable.
She was just saying what everyone else was talking about.
This is not personal Joe - I am speaking of many in the media especially, generally - the coverage of this campaign has been so blindly biased, and some of the most inane analysis imaginable - especially those which have accused of "playing the race card."
She can't talk about anything, without being accused of everything.
The Clintons are some of the best Democrats we have, and they know, as all Democratic political leadership always knows better than to play the race card.
The only mistake they made was thinking that this was a nomination contest, and that it was permissible to contest and contrast experience and qualifications to be President at this time. Apparently, no real contest is allowed, but each contestant get special treatment, either babied or demonized -in their own special way. Isn't that special?
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sigmund5
"wow..are you really that shallow, ignorant and racist? you aren't a Democrat. Tell me how again that Obama has used race? shit..I forgot there is no reasoning with you people."
You prove my point. If you re-read my original post, you will note that I did not say that Obama has used race, I specifically referred to his supporters. If the party is being divided along racial lines, people like you are certainly contributing to the split.
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Hillary blends Wallace with Nader to become Rove.
Hillary's Wallacian cynical use of racism combined with her Naderian obdurant sense of entitlement & self-righteousness has metatisized into the politics of Rove.
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No "subtext"
Subtext? What subtext? Clinton's equation of "hard working Americans" with "white Americans" is not the "ugly subtext." It is the text. We're so far removed from believing that any language ever means what it says, that we call even the surface meaning of a statement the "subtext." Compared with this kind of pseudo-academic analysis, fundamentalism looks pretty damned attractive.
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Never call anyone white because, it's against the rules
The new rules are that you can't describe a voting group if they are white. You can suggest your white grandmother is a racist on the order of a demagogic minister, but you cannot mention that a voting group is white. Who would have thunk that political correctness could metastacize into national discourse so thoroughly that running against a candidate who is white one day and black the next day means always having to say you're sorry? Obama has plainly been suggesting he has an African-American voting bloc that might not vote for HRC; Hillary cannot reply by describing her voting bloc. At least one long-time Democrat can reply by voting for McCain if the pc police prevail and confer the nomination on the loser of the big states that in any other year would have determined the nominee (and that would not the loser of those states).
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exactly correct
This column says it perfectly. I really do not believe the Clintons are racists....just, right now, they are crazy with grief over the fact that they have now lost. And it is true that the "obliterate" moment was a huge mistake. That she could repeat it makes it all the more shocking. I suspect it was a fundraising appeal to AIPAC people. So to save any face that these two have, they must continue in a seemly fashion and let every primary voter have his/her vote counted..but they should calm it down..ease up...even make nice to Obama and his supporters. (Read Bob Herbert's column in todays NY Times.)
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@lolcait
How'd that work out for Barack Dukakis in Ohio and Pennsylvania and Indiana? How's it going to work out in West Virginia and Kentucky? Spending that 5:1 on community organizing and getting huge, embarrassing defeats to Clinton in huge swing states out of it?
Great organization and management there. Do you really want them running this country?
Are you sure you're referring to ME? I've agreed with you 100% in everything I've seen you write yet.
To me, a long-time forty something Democrat, there's NO QUESTION this was largely a rightwing effort to push the left's buttons until they committeed suicide by tearing down their most viable candidate and nominating a Dukakis (aka Barrack Obama).
And no, I wouldn't trust Obama or Axelrod to buy gum for me. Not only is their a real integrity problem (race-baiting, using rightwing tactics, victim-baiting, corporate money, etc ad nauseum) but despite that, the best they could do was etch out the leftie vote and a frenzied black vote and win states there's no prayer of winning in a general.
As someone else said, in a sane world, if it wasn't for the always condoning white left and always-persecuted mentality of blacks, this primary would long have been over and ended by the candidate who was winning all the big Democratic leaning states.
Save for his own state of Illinois (and even there he got well under 50% of the hispanic vote) Barrack Obama hasn't won a single big Democratic state: in fact in most cases even outspending 3-5:1 he lost by double digit margins (and don't forget dinosaurs like the Kennedy's and Kerry and Oprah out there hoofing on stage with his road show).