Letters to the Editor
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there is a website dedicated to the topic
It's been said and being said and analyzed ad nausem on
www.stop-obama.org
This must be the definitive source for the subject!
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I've never seen anyone make less of race than Barack Obama
This New Republic opinionator is at best a liar, at at the very least an exaggerator. Obama has run his campaign free in total and utter avoidance of divisive dogma.
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@ manos99
Or, a Clinton supporter lashing out at who he feels is responsible for his preferred candidate not getting the nomination, i.e. the media and the other candidate...
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I hear that...
they're printing opinion pieces in the New Republic on recycled pages made up of horseshit.
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Damn, you can really smell it!
The stench of desperation being put off by the most rabid Hillary supporters as they try to extract their candidate from history's dustbin.
Looks, guys, Hillary was a fine candidate, but the electorate looks poised to determine that Obama is better. Rather than make fools out of yourselves in your futile last-ditch effort, why not make peace with the inevitable and start thinking about how to defeat Bush III (formerly known as John McCain)?
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Hellbent, and just get a whiff of that scent...
..If it looks like horseshit, and if it smells like horseshit, then it's probably horseshit.
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tired
i am so sick and tired of hearing about this subject i think that it starting to make me sick. you know what, if he is playing the race card then hillary is playing the hell out of the gender card. this whole thing about her having experience because her husband was in the white house is crazy. and she has been working the women vote overtime. so i do not care about the whole race card if you support hillary say you do but do not get angry about her losing record. her losing has nothing to do with race it just seems she is very untrustworthy. she switches moods and tells too many lies.
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Keep on shucking and jiving, Wilentz.
I think both sides were too sensitive to racist and sexist attacks a few months ago. The difference is that Obama's campaign mostly corrected that, while Clinton's only got worse and worse - primarily because she wasn't being listened to and so kept talking about it more and more loudly. The Obama campaign, more wisely, dropped the subject until the recent turban photo (which I think they reponded to with too much anger, as Obama did to the Farrakhan question last night).
I do sympathize with her campaign, because I believe it is much, much easier to get in sexist digs than it is to get in racist ones, and come off still looking reasonable or even innocent. But I think the repeated attempts to make a case about systemic sexism - even though I have agreed with many of the arguments! - have hurt Clinton rather than helped her. Also, I do not think the sexist digs have come primarily from the Obama campaign itself. I feel that she has been fighting the media, which is practically hopeless, instead of staying on message.
Even though I would love to see her as president, watching how she deals with attacks compared with Obama has led me to feel more excited about Obama than I do about her - which means he is more likely to get my vote next Tuesday in Vermont (yes, we're voting too!). She keeps talking about what a great fighter she is, and she is absolutely right. But I don't think she has chosen her battles very well.
This latest opinion from one of her supporters illustrates the case. The campaign has consistently tried to appeal for a redress of grievances instead of just moving on and getting back to its own message. I think Obama's campaign did the latter more successfully, starting in late January/early February, and he has been the frontrunner ever since. You can argue all sorts of reasons why that is. Or you can get back to the business of spreading your message. And Clinton's meta-campaign has done a great deal of the former, to the detriment of actually campaigning. It makes me sad, but I hope many female candidates will throw their hats into the ring in the next four, eight, sixteen, and sixty-four years. Every year! Wouldn't that be great? I hope they do. Thanks, Hillary, for being the first. It is really hard to take that heat, and I admire her for it. She is still one of my heroes.
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Well...
he did tell voters in South Carolina that the Hillary people were "trying to bamboozle you. Hoodwink ya. Try to hoodwink you. Haha." He went on to say that "it's the same old okey doke." As we all know, that's racially coded language.
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Obama will play any card (and Karl Rove's dealing them to him)
Finally, we get pinched and wake from the dream that took us through the looking glass and into the upside down world of Barack Obama. In the same manner we found him pulling his support for the Russ Feingold troop withdrawal bill today and talking like a Republican, we're also informed by this article about what went down with the racism controversy, which began with Clinton's comeback win in New Hampshire. First, Obama surrogates claimed that the reason the polls got it wrong there was because the state's white racist voters had recanted their public support for Obama in the privacy of the polling booth. Then came Clinton's LBJ speech and the 4-page memo sent out by an Obama advisor urging surrogates to claim she was disrespecting Dr. King. That escalated into a full court press by the corporate-owned press, stirring up the African American community and leading to charges that both Clintons had played the race card.
Naturally, as is his m.o., Obama said neither he nor anyone on his staff had done anything to incite this fury, even though it snagged 90 percent of African Americans into his vote column. He said he was "baffled" at Clinton's accusation that he had. Then the memo turned up on the internet. While Clinton accused him recently of "taking a page right out of the Karl Rove playbook" in sending out a hit piece on universal health care, she greatly understates the case. Obama IS the Karl Rove playbook. Since his rigged senate election in 2004, in which his G.O.P. challenger was replaced with an unknown African American bible thumper, Obama has been backed by the Rove team throughout this election. That support will end when Clinton's knocked out of the race, and to use another fairy tale, Obama's carriage will turn into a pumpkin. As for those who cherished his "message of hope", we'll all be whining about another four years of neoconservative rule. For more on all this, see the article I've posted at thecityedition.com or click on my screen name.