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
Oliver Willis calls it the first Democratic bigot eruption. If she wasn’t done with this race yet, she sure is now.
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sassy Says:May 8th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
My fellow Americana’s,my fellow Democrates!!
we need to do the right thing,we need to do what we wished the republicans would have done 4 years ago. we need to make sure with our votes that a bad,bad horrid man does not take the highest office in our land.
8 years ago the republicans voted for bush and we democrates were very sad,than 4 years ago we figured no way would we let that happen again,but alas bush won again. 8 years of pure hell for all to share.
but this time its not the republicans that have the horrible candidate! its us the democrates that have the horrid man that will destroy America.its is us the democrates that must do the right thing and vote for the best person running and that man is McCain.
the dnc has done everything it can to make sure we have no choice of a president.
we have never been huge Hillary supporters but she is better than obama,we would vote for her,barack we will never vote for.
do we like john McCain??? no not really!!!
do we respect john McCain??? yes we do!! he is a good man.
do we want john McCain as president?? no,but he is better than obama!!!
we are a small group of democrates called keepers that just do not think barack obama cares about our united states of America.
we keepers will vote in this election and if our choice is barack obama or john McCain,we will have no choice but to vote for john McCain.
barack obama will destory and divide our United States of America!!! We the people must stand united and stop him or divided we fall!!!
Chris Smith Says:May 8th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
Wow, someone fell out of the crazy tree…
The Hillary video is disappointing, but I found the argument her media surrogate had on her behalf to be even more disappointing.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=bM6GEx3ai88
Evidently, Hillary has chosen the path of dividing the party on racial lines, attempting to make Obama unelectable, and positioning herself for 2012. Yeah, Hillary!
Enough of the talk about Obama not winning the white vote, in most polls Hillary has totally lost the black vote and with these continuing statements, I doubt she’s not getting it back. What kind of Democrat can win a national election without the biggest voting block in the party?
Jon Splett Says:May 8th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
Uh, sorry my liberal guilt radar must be malfunctioning again…why am I suppose to find this offensive and racist? She acknowledged uneducated white people in fly over states would vote for her over a black guy and that’s racist? That’s common sense. Dumb white folk think Hillary is awesome and America is full of backwoods, mouth breathing yokels who vote. Acknowledging that isn’t about to incite a race war.
There’s PLENTY to legitimately bury Hillary on.
This isn’t it.
Chris Smith Says:May 8th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
I don’t think anyone here said she was racist, but it’s clear that she is using race as a means to divide the party.
indabuff Says:May 9th, 2008 at 12:49 am
Gosh…so everytime a politician or their strategists develop a plan to deal with voter blocks along racial lines in a primary, they are trying to divide the party along such lines?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/12/us/politics/12obama.html
Read the above…looks like Obama and company are basically guilty of the same and did it way before Mrs. Clinton…Mr. Willis is wrong…HO’s is the second Democratic bigot eruption this primary season.
I know a lot of folks are in a fogbama right now, but these types of stories are exactly the kind of political sensationalism we need to see less of during election season.
Buffalopundit Says:May 9th, 2008 at 9:22 am
@indabuff. I read the linked-to article. Then I re-read it.
What it revealed was a candidate who has tried to transcend racial divisions at every turn, but courted certain ethnicities who had doubts about him. I fail to see any of it as a “bigot eruption”.
On the other hand, one could very easily infer from Mrs. Clinton’s words that “working, hard-working Americans” was a synonym for white Americans to the exclusion of others. Looks to me as if she was trying desperately to stop herself from using the word “white” and substituted the words “working” and then “hard-working” before thinking, aw fuck it, “white”.
hank Says:May 9th, 2008 at 10:22 am
Since thank God I’m not a Democrat, HRC’s willingness to fight to an absolute bitter end has been quite entertaining.
And, I think some Chris and other known lefite bloggers around the country have it right. In this woman’s never ending bloodlust for political power, it appears (at least to this amused observer) that she’s willing to create a racial schism in the Party, and give the White House to the Republicans–NOT for the benefit of the Party, but to position herself for another run in 2012–and her campaign will begin the day after the General election this year–not unlike the Democrat Strategy in 2004.
4 more years of her face in your face every day telling you to re-instate the Clinton Dynasty. Egads!
Timothy Domst Says:May 9th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
My interpretation is that she said “hard-working” to soften the “who had not completed college” she knew she was going to say later. Everyone talks about “the black vote” all the time, but now this is a big deal? She couldn’t say “the NASCAR fan vote” so she had to make up something else. I think this issue is a whole lot of race-card-pulling.