Letters to the Editor
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Anonymous:
It's weak that you can't put your name to your bleatings, especially when you choose to call someone a liar.
First and foremost, you cannot really talk about image ads without considering Hillary's "mom of america" stuff. As to the MLK remark, you should read Joan's blogs more often: She claims it originated on MSNBC with her colleagues in the media, not some mysterious Obama staffer or talking head. At the end of the day, it's up to black people to decide whether or not to be offended. So far the record on that score is crystal clear, so you're just wrong: she said something that was offensive. If you don't like people's reactions to your candidate, too bad, but that can't be called playing the race card.
Bill rolled it out first with his fairy tale talk (about his Iraq position, not his candidacy), which was demeaning and dismissive of Obama's positions. I respect Bill's opinions, but the way he delivered them was clearly intended to be derisive of Baracks experience.
He played it even more strongly in South Carolina, with the Jesse Jackson remark. There is no possible way to spin his remarks as anything short of an attempt to push Barack (and the black voters of SC) into a ghetto. It was shameful, and a clear racial ploy.
If you'd bothered to check facts, you'd realize that Michelle Obama was asked why his support was WEAK among black voters, who early on were not supporting Barack because there was a sense that he would wind up in the very box Bill shoved him into after SC. They presumed whites wouldn't back him, so they were backing The Devil We Know. Michelle was explaining the gap in his support among black voters that set them so far apart from whites and other groups. So, if anyone was playing the race card there, it was the questioner.
And by the way, please don't talk about Obama's diction, until you watch Aunt JaHillary in front of a black audience, where she puts on a phony southern black accent. Obama actually is a black man. Hillary's attempts to be folksy are painful to watch... she could only do worse in black face!
Where's the beef, Anonymous? Find an example that doesn't prove my point next time. Bottom line, you've scored no points because you lack a clue (and the guts to sign your name to your squeals).