I find it comical, the position that Hillary Clinton supporters find themselves in at this moment.
It goes like this…“I hope enough people are duped into thinking that Obama is a racist that my girl wins”
Hillary has finally graced us with her opinion on the Wright controversy. This is from the Pittsburg Tribune Review
“He would not have been my pastor,” Clinton said. “You don’t choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend.”
“You know, I spoke out against Don Imus (who was fired from his radio and television shows after making racially insensitive remarks), saying that hate speech was unacceptable in any setting, and I believe that,” Clinton said. “I just think you have to speak out against that. You certainly have to do that, if not explicitly, then implicitly by getting up and moving.”
Political pundits love to talk about politicians looking like “human beings”, well Hillary missed out on a major opportunity to look like a human being.
That is unless she truly believes that Obama shares the opinions of his pastor.
If not, why bring it up today? Why touch this stuff? How is this good for the Democrats? More importantly, how is this good for America?
Look Obama fucked up. I understand, the Clinton’s have never made friends with shady people for political gain, but at some point her people have to start thinking about November, right? Not doing so is like toppling Baghdad without a plan for the occupation.
Then, there are her comments on pledged delegates, from CNN
“And also remember that pledged delegates in most states are not pledged,” she told the editorial board of the Philadelphia Daily News Monday. “You know there is no requirement that anybody vote for anybody. They’re just like superdelegates.”
I can’t wait to hear someone stick up for that one. Please?
People have said that Obama is better off with Clinton right now then he would be against the GOP. This view ignores the fact that the Right is leading the march on this Wright stuff.
Check out these two segments from Sean Hannity’s March 8th show titled “The Real Barack Obama”.
The first portrays him as a terrorist linked to the radical SDS dropouts the Weather Underground.
The Second is about everyone’s favorite pastor.
This makes the swiftboat stuff look like child’s play and it is only from one night’s broadcast.
Now Democrats are being duped by the Clintons into thinking that this is “the Real Obama”. Cool.
If Hillary beats Obama because she has a better stance on Iraq, Economy, Healthcare, and Education then cool she is the better candidate and I will vote for her in November, but at some point her supporters have to admit that she is playing a dangerous game with this other crap.
This is not “blind Obama love” just common sense.
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March 25th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
welcome back to the reality based community Geoff. I’ve needed your help.
March 26th, 2008 at 10:52 am
Obama is a Moslem white hater!!! Hillary did fuck up in Pitt. And badly. But really, can you find me one Democrat who honestly wants Obama to painted as a racist? No sane left-leaning American is happy about this pastor controversy. Secondly, if Hillary dropped out, all the air time and print pages dedicated to the Dem deadlock will be moved 50-50 between McCain and whoever the Dems put up. Now is certainly NOT the best time for that to happen for Obama. Instead of isolated Hannity and Colmes spazz outs, Fox News would spend all day and night calling Obama a racist. Obama knows this and it’s why he hasn’t openly suggested Hillary drop out—rather he’s using surrogates to point out, “Hillary can’t win.”
March 26th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
If you think these are isolated spazz outs then not only have you not tuned into FNC, but you have ignored the entire television media. I think the television media is killing our democracy, but that is the same reason it is important. Obama has been getting crushed by the right wing commentators on each of the major news stations for nearly a month over thinly veiled questions of radical racial extremism. Racism is not cool and I just wish Hillary would do a better job of distancing herself from it, instead of throwing fuel on the fire. It is not what she has said but what she has failed to say. In the end I blame the tv media for turning this into an election about a bunch of crap that is not going to improve the lives of ordinary people who continue to vote against their intrests because of this type of coverage.