Send In the Clowns
I think what we’re seeing here is a real racial divide. It was engineered, deliberately, by Obama’s campaign in order to separate African Americans from the Clintons. It has worked spectacularly well. Obama consistently wins urban and southern AA voters, by lopsided margins. It didn’t have to be this way. There was no reason for the African-American community to spurn Clinton. But in this America, in 2008, color is everything. It seems like the civil rights movement of the 60’s was just a dream. As long as you are the right color, you’re golden. Color masks a multitude of deficiencies- experience, knowledge base, earned coalitions, even interest. Obama has not reached out to the working class, to women, to the elderly, the loyal base of the Democratic party. But he has managed to exacerbate the fault line in the party when it comes to race. There’s no doubt about that now.
“I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on,” she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, 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 said.
There certainly is a pattern emerging.
If I was African American, how would I interpret this comment by Senator Clinton, which implies that if hard-working white people are voting for her then the opposite support Obama?
No, no reason to spurn Clinton at all. Entire groups of people actually prefer to be summarily dismissed and discounted by Presidential candidates. That’s why I support Clintoon: scoffing at my college education and inferring that I’m an elitist always brings out the best in me. Also, after 8 years of rule by those who pander to the uneducated, I’m ready for a few more years. Why not: thinking is hard!
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May 8th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
Oh, my.
Help me out here. Weren’t black voters sticking with Clinton until they saw that Obama could actually draw votes from white voters? And wasn’t it ex-President Clinton who tried to turn Obama into a 21st Century Jesse Jackson?
I’m confused about who exactly is doing the race-baiting here.
May 8th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
these people are nucking futs. If I wasn’t lazy I’d find which Kubler-Ross death stage they’re at. Anger, probably.
May 8th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
Maybe it’s just me, but the ‘in order to separate African-Americans from the Clintons’. I read that as ‘their votes are our property and how dare one of them get all uppity with massa and try to steal them’?
Or maybe I just don’t like Clinton’s willingness to say anything, no matter how ludicrous to get elected. I’ve had the discussion with a few Clinton supporters, and it seems to be like stupid people and the lottery- tell them it’s a losing proposition and they tell you why they need the lottery winnings, and it’s no sense in telling them that they’ll not only lose, they’re out the ticket cost..