This is another example of the liberal tendency to see the world in terms of groups (e.g., poor, minorities, aged), whereas as conservatives tend to think of individuals. Liberals measure success in terms of groups, while conservative look to individual success or failure. Take welfare, for example. Conservatives decried it because it made too many recipients wards of the state and never encouraged them to better themselves. Liberals measured welfare's success by the number of people getting assistance -- the more the better.
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From Hitchens’ interview with Hugh Hewitt:
CH: That’s right, but remember, Clinton is the only person, at least I think he’s the only person, who have played what certainly is the race card, and played it twice. And in my little book on Clinton, it was called No One Left To Lie To, it’s still available, I think, in paperback, I have a long section on how he went back to Arkansas from New Hampshire, when he was up against it in ’92, and slipping in the polls, to supervise the execution of a mentally retarded black convict who would have met all the ordinary conditions for clemency. He lobotomized himself by shooting himself in head, didn’t understand the charges against him. He did something that really, by any standards, if you just pictured what would have happened if a Republican had done that, I’ll leave it like that, okay?
HH: Right.
CH: He played that. You might remember the Sister Souljah fight that he artificially picked with Jesse Jackson, all of this, until it comes to impeachment, when suddenly, he’s joined at the hip with Toni Morrison and has Jesse Jackson was well as Billy Graham as one of his confessors, and he’s implicitly saying to people are you attacking me because I’m a friend of the black folks. So he manages to play the race card twice. It’s never been done, I think, twice by the same politician. And now, he’s trying to do it twice again.