Letters to the Editor
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Racist Hillary Supporters
No all white people who support Hillary are racist.
But most of them are.
Clinton not only plays "race cards" in every electoral venue she enters, but she has also virtually promised to nuke Tehran.
Clinton's supporters, who mostly oppose the war in Iraq, don't have a problem with her hawkish rhetoric. They dismiss it as "not serious," though do not afford McCain this lenience. They look away from Clinton's radical votes on Iraq and Iran, avoid the ways in which she resembles both McCain and Bush.
For Clintonistas, though, Obama is an "unelectable" "radical" because of his black preacher. His position on both Iraq and Iran line up squarely with the majority of Americans polled. Which likely means his positions square with about 50% of Clintonistas. Yet they fear him, hate him, vilify him.
Why, I wonder?
Could it be that the Clintonista poo-poohing of their candidates determination to bomb brown people in Iraq and Iran reveals some sort of latent racism? Could this latent racism be the source of their inability to notice the "radical" Obama offers ideas and proposals which are in agreement with a majority of their party?
Joan Walsh provides the perfect example of the Clintonista. You can see the struggle in her own words (and her pained face in her ill-advised video appearances). She knows that Obama is closer to 100% agreement with her own anything that matters. But she can't get over his blackness - his "radical" preacher, his "unelectability." She knows Hillary has lied, connived, and resorted to the very same tactics which Joan Walsh and other Clintonistas opposed when used against their candidate in the past.
Joan is willing to forgive Hillary for this radical shift, this change in tone; she is even willing to overlook the fact that, in the wake of the campaign adviser fiasco, the "change in tactics" ballyhooed by Clinton and her team is an admission of previous "negative" campaigning. She happily explains away Clinton's dishonest remarks from a prepared speech.
But Joan can't get past Obama's black preacher. (And now that the GOP has an attack ad on this matter, expect a pained column from Joan next week about how this demonstrates the "problem with Obama." Expect her to say that the "radical preacher" doesn't bother her, but what about all those other Americans who it will bother. Like so many liberal racists, Joan uses her imagined opinions of other Americans to justify her own prejudices.
Sad for Joan Walsh that she lacks the inner insight to realize this about herself and set about becoming a rational person who is not driven by secret prejudices, someone who is capable of self-examination and improvement.
Sad for America that so many Democrats seem to have the same blindness.