I am sick of phrases like 'playing the race card' and 'playing the victim card'. Everyone and his dog uses them with a frequency that makes me want to throw dishes. I will use them here, though, for want of some new ones; mercifully, I can use them this one last time and then never again!
For months, Obama has been accused of playing the race card. I cringe every time he so much as uses the word 'black', knowing what's coming. If the poor man used that word to describe the clouds overhead, somebody's cat, or the ink in a fountain pen, he'd be charged. Either by the Hillary campaign and for purely selfish purposes, or by those who see the race card being played all the time and everywhere.
Hillary's been charged with playing the victim card, with equal frequency. (The sexism card, too, but never mind that now.) Each time she cries or even almost cries, each time she chides the press for its' bias against her, you hear things like, "There she goes again, poor, poor me, I'm a victim!" Over the top, some of it; Hillary is human and even if she does play cards now and again, it isn't shocking, given that she's going for the presidency.
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