Yet the Hillary-hate continueth -- indeed, to judge from the (deleted) commentary I've been receiving, it has quadrupled. Here's a sampling from D.U.:
The last thing we need is the Bush/Clinton dynasties one lunatic's gunshot away from the WH
The Psycho Ex-Girlfriend of the Democratic Party
Just go away Hillary, let the adults have their turn.
Clinton and her supporters official adopt the Whites Only strategy...Oh really? Hillary appeals to Asians and Hispanics; Obama doesn't. 93% of blacks went for Obama -- but only after his crew continually repeated the "Clinton's-a-racist" big lie. Before that smear took hold, Hillary enjoyed great popularity with black voters. How can anyone say that Hillary has appealed to racial solidarity?
If you've never had the pleasure of visiting that supposed pro-Hillary site (which IMO is a rightwing front) be prepared for overt and rampant racism.This last comment refers to Hillaryis44, which I rarely visit and don't know much about. Do you see any racism?
...a lying sack of shrill...That was a definition of Hillary. Isn't that cute? A DUmmy calling someone else "shrill"...
Bill and Hillary will need to almost get down on their knees with contrition for the racial undertones that they employed in her campaign, they must confront the hurt and wounds they have caused to so many of our party's most loyal voters.They should apologize for being smeared by the prog-mob?
She's the worst thing that ever happened to the Democratic party. She wasn't qualified to be a Senator in the first place.And so on, and on. I haven't worked up enough nerve to visit the Daily Cheeto.
Obviously, HillaryHate will carry over for months to come. The fascistic progs will continue to denounce Main Enemies Bill and Hillary Clinton until the convention, and throughout the convention, and up until November, and well into 2009, and perhaps for decades to come. After all, Noam Chomsky spent much of the 1990s screeching about Main Enemy JFK.
That's the way to win, lads and lasses: Insult half the party.
At any rate, I beg Hillary to stay in this thing. She's the spare candidate.
Consider: Ata has already testified under oath that he saw Tony Rezko give a huge chunk of illegal cash to help Blagojevich pay off his house. We know that Barky -- that's Obama's new nickname: Barky -- needed Fat Tony's help to buy a mansion he couldn't afford. Prosecutors did not ask Ata about Barky. If someone does ask -- and if he says what I think he'll say -- non-prog Democrats will suddenly be very glad to know that Hillary is still around. (Hard-core progs won't be glad; zealots can rationalize anything.)
I would rather see Edwards holding the "spare candidate" position. Still, I'm glad to see someone in that place.
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My dear Joseph. Again, you have selected the choicest blatherings of the prog hate-machine. Almost too painful to look at, this latest collection. They really have gone 'round the bend.
The comparison of Clinton to a "psycho" ex-girlfriend caught my eye, too—that may be the most vile (and revealing) smear yet. I hate to do this, but, if Hillary is the psycho ex to Obama's flock, then what does that make Obama to those of us not drawn into to his shallow, self-aggrandizing spiel? The controlling manipulator who draws the Democratic Party into its clutches with promises of a better life while isolating it from friends and family? The hollow, powerless enabler who facilitates the capture of the DNC for even more disturbed abusers?
Seen this? Link was in a comment at the confluence.
http://rezkowatch.blogspot.com/2008/05/rezkowatch-factchecker-obama-and-plan.html
It *is* over.
Hillary made a huge, groan-inducing and very surprising gaffe. I trust you will hear about it, so I will not bother to link here.
As a tepid Hillary supporter and one who has vigorously defended her against the previous - bogus - charges of race-baiting, I find it impossible to defend her in the instant case.
Oh, are you referring to the statement where she said that whites who had not been to college voted for Hillary? I guess an accurate reading of demographics is now considered racist.
In other words, I'm a racist if I point out that Watts used to be a black neighborhood but now is a black/Hispanic mix.
Bullshit.
What's amazing is this: When Hillary said that she had greater appeal to "the working class" without a racial modifier, she was castigated for implying that black people did not work.
So, demographics which are plain to anyone now become inexpressible.
Meanwhile, Donna Brazile says...
"we don’t have to just rely on white blue-collar voters and Hispanics..”
...and THAT sentiment -- which might be considered racist, and which is certainly odd -- is permitted, because Brazile is black.
Why do I say "possibly racist, and certainly odd"? Because the Demcratic base never consisted of just those two groups. If she thinks otherwise, then her own racial animus has impaired her ability to recognize reality.
Then she tried to backtrack it, after Paul Begala correctly pointed out that you can't win a race with just "African Ameriacans and eggheads."
"I was one of the first Democrats who are going to those white working class neighborhoods, encouraging white Democrats not to forget their roots. I’ve drank more beers with Joe six packs, Jane six pack and everybody else than most white Democrats that you’re talking about.
In terms of Hispanics, you know, Paul, I know the math. I know Colorado, I know Nevada, I know New Mexico. So that’s not the issue. I’m saying that we need to not divide and polarize the Democratic Party as if the Democratic Party will rely simply on white, blue collar male. You insult every black, blue-collar Democrat by saying that.
So stop the divisions. Stop trying to split us into these groups, Paul, because you and I both know we’ve been in more campaigns. We know how Democrats win. And to simply suggest that Hillary’s coalition is better than Obama’s, Obama is better than Hillary. No. We have a big party, Paul."
None of this addressed Begala's point. It's verbal dancing.
It's also lying.
"I’m saying that we need to not divide and polarize the Democratic Party..."
YOUR candidate did that, Donna Brazile. Obama is directly responsible for the "Clintons a racist" smear. That was an historic error.
"Oh, are you referring to the statement where she said that whites who had not been to college voted for Hillary"
No I am not. I am referring to the statement cited in this link:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0508/Clintons_white_Americans.html
Yep, this is the race card, and there is no other way to interpret it.
Also, the website "Stop Obama" teems with racism. It's a very strange site, which is intermittently on and off the web. When they are off the web they claim that Obama-bots have hacked them. That is possible, but it could also be pity-party tactics. Anyway, one of their contributors, Juanita Gonzales, regularly publishes ugliness about Michelle Obama.
I can't give you a URL because they are off-line now. I should have made a screen shot of Gonzales' latest, which refers to Michelle Obama as an "ugly thing" and uses the "it" instead of "she" to refer to Mrs. O in the 3rd person.
Stop-Obama.org is back up. This is the nasty, yes, racist (not to mention disgustingly catty) item I was referring to:
http://www.stop-obama.org/?p=313#more-313
Whatever else one can say about Michelle Obama, ugly isn't one. She's quite striking.
Speaking of Edwards, I believe he could single-handedly put Hillary in if he wished to.
For my understanding is that he has over 200 delegates pledged to him, more than enough to allow HRC to overtake BHO.
If this is true, I haven't seen anyone discuss it. Perhaps it is thought too much a political suicide move that he would never do it? How about to become VP, or some important cabinet official?
...sofla
j, I'll thank you to read me before correcting me. That is precisely the quote to which I made reference earlier.
I see nothing wrong with it, for the reasons given earlier.
I have no idea who or what is behind the Stop-Obama web site. At the moment, I don't care.
You make no useful point when you use the fascist language of the ruling class.
"Oh really ['Clinton and her supporters official adopt the Whites Only strategy']? Hillary appeals to Asians and Hispanics; Obama doesn't. 93% of blacks went for Obama -- but only after his crew continually repeated the "Clinton's-a-racist" big lie.
You write "Whites", "Asians", "Hispanics", and "[B]lacks", and you don't think you're being unscientific and anti-scientific when you presume there are those 'groups', which you call 'races'? Are you running for something? Are you trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator or something stupider? Politicians can't be nuanced or even scientific - not in America, they can't - if they want to get elected. But what's your excuse? You sound and write like a lackey, and I wish I were the first to point it out. You make no useful point when you use the fascist language of the ruling class.
Identity politics tore apart the Democratic Party in 1964. Nixon gave the disaffected and frightened Democratic voters a resurrection as the Silent Majority. Reagan and the Moral Majority completed the destruction, as Democratic candidates divorced themselves from anything with the term 'liberal'. (Bad 'law' like Miranda, Prayer, and Roe v. Wade didn't help matters.)
Anyway, Hillary's last refuge is maternalism, and I understand. Beyond the birthing time of her motherhood, she hopes to adopt what used to be the Silent Majority in time for Mother's Day. You never can tell, the way Republicans have been casting their precious votes for her, what may yet happen. A woman can change her mind, and a mother always has enough in the house for when you never know who might show up, at any hour of the day or night. Instead of McCain, it could be HRC as the Republicans' candidate, and that party's new base can be the FDR/JFK/LBJ/MLK/HRC Democrats plus the Republicans (and others) who care mostly about their children and their parents. I don't know them or anything much about them, yet I love Hillary and Barry, but I can't stand McCain.
Aitch, you DARE to accuse Hillary of adopting a "whites only" strategy? She never did any such thing.
It is Obama and Obama alone who is responsible for injecting Identity politics into this contest.
Aitch, you are forever banned from these pages.
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