Letters to the Editor
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He's not the kind of leader to?....
Obama, a multi-racial figure, was hoosegowed into the political low rent area of race with an incessant if muted drumbeat about "fairy tales," drug addiction and selling, pictures of Somali tribal gear and sly evocations of Jesse Jackson to make him the "race candidate." Though the Wright thing was always going to be hanging out there, it acquired traction because of the groundwork laid by the Clinton campaign. Obama, to that point, hadn't discussed race since, given the particular bent of a large part of a certain electorate, it wasn't to his advantage. Hillary made sure that he couldn't avoid it.
Oh, yeah...then, there's this:
"New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson said today that the people around Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton practice "gutter" politics and that they feel entitled to the presidency, a day after an informal adviser to her campaign compared Richardson to Judas for endorsing Sen. Barack Obama..."
Richardson Scorns Clinton Aides, Defends Clinton, By Zachary A. Goldfarb http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-talk/2008/03/richardson_scorns_clinton_aide.html?hpid=topnews
What many here have been saying all along, Joan [and Richardson was, in pinning this on Clinton aides, being charitable to his old benefactors]...I doubt if African-Americans would be backing Al Sharpton or Alan Keyes in die-hard, overwhelming numbers, given the track record of those two. And, that should be ditto for many women of a certain demographic who are all wrought up about Hillary Clinton, possibly one of the worst possible female candidates offered up by the Republic. Throw in her exaggeration of her foreign policy experience--even Sinbad had to riff on her about that one--and now we know she was, to say the least, puffing about her Bosnian experience, and her blatant lack of respect for Obama, a fellow democrat, as a viable presidential candidate and, I believe, as a person, and you've got a particularly unworthy Democratic standard bearer.