I'm every bit as sensitive to racism as the next liberal who grew up in the suburbs and attended a Big-10 university. By which I mean, I've rarely seen it in person and pretty much never had it practiced upon my person. I am, however, aware that it exists in America. To argue otherwise would be the height of folly. It would be like claiming we never landed on the moon and citing as proof the fact that I wasn't there as an eyewitness. It would be analogous to insisting global warming was a Green Party scare tactic, evidenced by this past week's unusually cool temperatures in my hometown of New York City. It would be a non-starter.
"I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," she said in the interview, citing an article by The Associated Press.
It "found how Senator 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.
Oh, No she D'int!
Oh yeah. She did, but the funny part is that all she did her was repeat what the Press has been doing for months.
There is quite a fire-storm over Hillary's comments about "white Americans". I think my opinion is much different than many here. To put it simply:
"Like a fish out of water, she is flopping around. Don't poke at her. Don't get enraged. Don't take it personally. Simply wait it out and she will stop."
"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."
Glen Beck is on CNN Headline news at 9/8 central time. Prime time for manufacturing companies that have Televisions in their break rooms, hospitals and every other place you find TV's in public places. Glen Beckerhead plans to do a special on MONDAY NIGHT on how Rev Wright issue will dominate the primary on Tuesday. Please it is time to move on and we need to let CNN know that giving a whole damn hour in primetime to this issue is not something we want or will support.
Let CNN know that we are monitoring their race baiting tactics and we will not stand for it. Email them at CNN FEEDBACK and let them know wtf we think about this attempt to inject Rev Wright back into yet another news cycle hours before people go vote. It is race baiting at its worst. At its best it is identity politics trying to conflate Rev Wright with Obama.
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Dem Party Chairman Howard Dean was on Fox News with Chris Wallace. A partial transcript is here -
http://www.foxnews.com/...
I'm sure someone will follow with some video. But until then, some highlights:
• Chris Wallace asked Dean about the effect of Rev Wright on the campaign. Dean said he was not going to talk about Wright. He said he wanted to talk discuss issues, and immediately started talking about health care, the economy, and other items.
It'd be a great thing if we had an election where you had two people who love this country....
translation: Obama doesn't love this country. Remember, he's black AND he's got that scary black pastor! Who says crazy things that all black people believe! How could he say that we bombed Nagasaki and Hiroshima!
who were devoted to the interest of the country...
translation: He will only focus on BLACK stuff if you elect him, not the important things this country cares about.
and people could actually ask themselves who is right on these issues instead of all this other stuff...
translation: No more talking about racism. I'm sick of all these BLACK issues. The only people that care about racism are black people. Did I mention the things his pastor said??
which always seems to intrude on our politics.
translation: Don't forget, he's black. Don't be fooled!
Defining moments of history are elusive and fleeting. They come upon us rarely, seemingly by accident, tragedy, or at turning points of national identity that threaten the democratic republic. Barack Obama was presented with the weight of a national moment, a moment pivoting on the very differences that thread through him, and he began to sew.
The screaming noise machine pried open the can on black anger and gave the country an ugly look inside. They tried to pour someone else's words out of that can into Obama's mouth and tried to snuff out a movement by using his own loyalty and respect for a person who is flawed and yet was an important, formative presence in his life. The Green Mile tactic. Kill them with their love for each other.
In this diary, Kos claims that Ron Fournier called Obama an "uppity negro." Read it yourself -- he even put those words in quotes.
The problem is, Fournier never said that; in fact, the article has nothing to do with race, and doesn't even mention Obama's race a single time. Kos is simply race baiting here -- he injected the race card, not Fournier.
I am white, male, careening toward 50 . .. . the demographic at which, I imagine, the latest Clinton / Ferraro race-baiting strategy is targeted. I'd like you to know, Senator Clinton, that I'm having none of it. I'd also like you to know why. Not that you care.
There is plenty in my life to suggest that I'd be sympathetic to the idea that a black man has gotten an unfair leg up. Neither of my parents, the children of immigrants, went to college . . hell, my father didn't graduate from high school. I grew up among other Italian-Americans in a town almost completely white and Catholic, surrounded by the casual racism that arises from ignorance and ethnic isolation. I recall, as a little boy, attending mass in another town and seeing a black family in another pew. I'd never seen a black person in church, and asked my parents, in the car on the way home, if they were Catholic. I was five. And I was blessed . . .
A snarky perfect decription of the "dogwhistle" race baiting that has been the underlying force of the Clinton Campaign.
It has gotten to the point that my awareness of this going on is pushing me to the "can't believe my lying eyes" realm of tinfoilery.
CNN has been the one to push me over the edge in the subliminal race card I have been seeing. I notice things like a crime story featuring video of a black offender is immediately followed by a tease with accompanying picture of Barack Obama. The way that an "in depth story" about Barack's Grandmother in Kenya is followed by disgusting footage of Kenya's violent upheaval. These instances abound once you become aware of them.
I am deeply concerned about the spin being placed on the Mississippi vote. After listening to the network and press coverage, it seems that Obama’s abilities to win "white" voters in a host of states has been dismissed, and the calculated race baiting by Ferraro, and other Clinton campaign surrogates has now set up a "if you are white – you go Clinton, if you are black you are Obama" dynamic that is so far from the truth that it would be laughable if it weren’t so serious heading into PA.
Mississippi is the deepest of deep south states, where many black people still work as sharecroppers, KKK rallies are openly advertised in small towns, and there are still old school Dixiecrats (those who haven’t switched to the Repugs). No surprise at this point that Obama got the black vote.
This is a call out diary. Perhaps it's against the FAQ but I proceed undaunted.
Silence on racism is complicity. To remain silent in the face of blatant racism, sexism, anti semitism, etc. is to be complicit.
For that reason, I'm calling out the Hillary supporters in Kos and other Hillary supporters to denounce Geraldine Ferraro's blatant and explicit racism. And I am calling out the progressives who support Hillary Clinton to contact their candidate and express your outrage for stooping into the pigs wallow of race baiting.
Obama must refuse, reject, and denounce any idea of having Hillary Clinton as his running mate.
After all that she has done...the racism, race baiting, the fearmongering, stirring xenophobia, the smears, the lies and distortions....the McCain remarks.... She must be really delusional & crazy to believe that she would make a viable VP choice.
I just wanted to have my say about the whole brouhaha over whether Hillary Clinton's campaign darkened Obama's skin tones in a recent advertisement. Before it blows over.
Since Edwards dropped out, I've decided to support Obama. But I look at the stink that other Obama supporters are making over this, and I have to wonder: what could they possibly imagine this will do for Obama's benefit?
UCLA Law student and Rutgers University alum James O'Keefe calls up Planned Parenthood in Idaho and Ohio in order to engineer Rush Limbaugh a talking point to say that Planned Parenthood has a policy of 'insitutionalized racism'.
