Letters to the Editor
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@ sesanders
I agree, no one really will know what the voters do. Thats why we have the primaries. If we knew, the DNC could just pick a candidate.
That being said, I think it is just plain ridiculous for the losing candidate in a race point out how weak her opponent is. Logically following that leads us to the conclusion that she is even weaker.
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It’s ultimately all about HRC and HER entitlement…
(I’m late to this thread; but here’s what I posted on the earlier Mike Madden thread, “I am in this Race”. It seems just as appropriate to post here):
I don’t buy in to the demands and appeals for HRC to drop out of the race.
However, all who want to see a unified approach to saving this nation from a third term for the Chimp-In-Chief in the guise of Johnny McSame should take note of what is now happening as HRC presses on after claiming to support party unity after the Tuesday elections.
In the USA Today interview Wednesday, Clinton cited an Associated Press article "that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me." "There's a pattern emerging here,"
She’s absolutely right. There is a pattern emerging here.
It’s now clear that Hillary’s only extant strategy is an appeal to white racism as her salvation. In that interview, the age-old practice of code-word deployment was reintroduced by a ”Democrat” as her tactical manifestation of that strategy. The fact that this disgusting ploy will doom the Democratic party if SHE succeeds is irrelevant, as she bravely and desperately soldiers on in pursuit of personal ambition and entitlement.
I’m sure there is some AP article, conveniently not specifically identified, to which she could refer any who would dare challenge her artfully constructed and carefully parsed appeal to racism. I challenge anyone to find the AP article that actually uses such words in that way. If the actual article is found and she is confronted on her use of coded appeals, you could then count on a defense constructed around the “what the meaning of is, is” procedure.
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@zaleriana
"And Barry "needs to prove" his chances with the "white working class" (whoever exactly they are)"
I agree, but this isn't the whole story. Obama needs to prove that he can get the votes of a significant number of all non-black voter's. His performance amont Latino's, an important contituency, has been dismal. The reality is that among every group but black voter's Obama does not win enough support to win the general election. It is likely that some, or even many, of these people will vote for Obama in the fall, but will they be enough to win the election?
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Uncle Fester - Numbers don't lie!
Here are some figures from CNN from statements by Hillary and before you discount them because Hillary offered them, the figures were common knowledge on election night.
"Exit polls from Tuesday's primaries in Indiana and North Carolina show Clinton won about 60 percent of the white vote in both states. That percentage is down from the Ohio primary on March 4, in which Clinton won upwards of 65 percent of the white vote. Meanwhile, Clinton garnered 63 percent of the white vote in Pennsylvania on April 22."
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REVISED Roxlaw
OBAMA attempted to explain why some folks would not vote for him and it erupted into "bittergate". Hillary blatantly appeals to whites, while dismissing Blacks, and so far, not much outrage from the MSM.
Well her comments are unacceptable and desperate. She is proving, all on her own, why she is a loser and that loosing is exactly what SHOULD be happening to her in this case.
Therefore, I look forward to hearing much more, and much more outrage from the MSM on Hillary's "onlywhiteisrightgate".
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@ sesanders
Those are interesting figures. But you know what? Obama won 49% of THE vote in Indiana, and 56% of THE vote in North Carolina. He currently also has the lead in pledged delegates and the popular vote.
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sesanders Those are Clinton's numbers, plus jebldmm
Clinton is not equivalent to McCain. So I'm not sure how you can say that people who voted for Clinton now will vote for McCain in November.
Just like you can't say people who voted for Obama now will vote for McCain in November. Otherwise, neither of them could get elected!
jebldmm:The reality is that among every group but black voter's Obama does not win enough support to win the general election.
Obama is doing ok among Jewish voters vis McCain (61/32)
http://www.gallup.com/poll/107059/Obama-Beats-McCain-Among-Jewish-Voters.aspx
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what is there to say?
I'm astounded at Hillary Clinton's self-depiction of herself as the candidate/champion of the white working class, and her overt insinuation that Barack Obama doesn't stand a chance in winning that category for the Democrats in the general election- because he's, well...
I've pretty much ignored previous statements and turns of phrase by all of the Democratic candidates and their supporters, up to now (while stating my disdain for those who have taken such an active role in mischaracterizing them, blowing them out of proportion, repeating them ad nauseum, and then, furrowing their brows over the supposed impact...) They've pretty much sounded like trivial lapses of metaphoric precision or petty inelegances of word choice, and nothing more.
But this is over the line. I'm not sure who's being smeared worse, Barack Obama or the category of working-class white folks.
Whatever happened to building one's base, one voter at a time?
Come to think of it, Barack Obama seems to be the first front-running Democratic Party presidential candidate in ages to attempt that sort of outreach.
Meanwhile...
That Hilary comment doesn't even make sense as cynical, rational, cold-blooded calculation. It's the voice of pique- desperate pique, at that. It's also absurdly wrong, in my view- a gross misreading of the electorate. Very few working class white people presently leaning Democratic in this election would make or break their decision over the choice of Obama as the nominee.
Conversely, given comments like this one, Hillary is presently skating on a lot thinner ice her own self in terms of her base across the board, if she somehow finesses the Democratic nomination.
And she's deluding herself if she thinks she's going to woo the Limbaughists away from McCain. Anyone listening to Limbaugh and his ilk is a lost cause, until they snap out of their trance and get a moment of clarity. The platform promise of a better health plan for the low-income uninsured, etc. (from Hillary Clinton, of all people) is not going to provide that praxis.
Yeah, I know, I know- Ann Coulter is already on the record as avowing that she'll support Hillary Clinton over John McCain in a general election...
as if.