Posted on 01/28/2008 7:39:39 PM PST by jazusamo
Whatever one may think about Barack Obama as a candidate or as a potential President, his candidacy has brought something new to the American political scene.
His stunning victory in the Iowa caucuses, in a state where more than 90 percent of the population is white, was an unmistakable signal that racism is not the invincible thing that some seem to think it is.
Unlike Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton before him, Obama has not been running as a black candidate for symbolic purposes but as a serious contender who happens to be black.
Into this upbeat national scene Bill and Hillary Clinton have brought race back as one of their many sleazy tactics to try to win in any way possible, whether clean or dirty.
First, there were the surrogates bringing up youthful peccadillos that Obama had already admitted in his autobiography. They milked this for all it was worth.
First there was the innuendo, which got media coverage. Then came the claim that the Clintons had nothing to do with the innuendo, which got more media time.
Then came the claim from the surrogate that his statement was misinterpreted, which got still more media time.
But these cheap shots have been by no means as poisonous as Bill Clinton's obvious attempts to reduce Obama to just a black candidate.
Even after much of the media had gotten on him for this, Bill Clinton returned to that theme after Hillary lost the South Carolina primary big time, by saying that Jesse Jackson had won South Carolina before.
It is not that the Clintons are racists. It is just that they will use whatever they want, in order to get whatever they want — and the effect on the country does not bother them.
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Paul/Sowell ‘08
and, after all, he is black (I think), and he is a candidate. So...that does make him a "black candidate," doesn't it?
Thomas Sowell/Walter Williams 2008
It should probably be rather obvious by now these people have little or no concern how others are injured by their sleazy attacks...and how the lap dogs of the Drive By Media continuously cover for them.
Thomas Sowell/Walter Williams 2008
A dream ticket!
Sleazy is correct, neither will stop at anything when it comes to their political ambitions and they seem to be proud of it.
But they're Democrats... That's what Democrats are...
Here Sowell demonstrates one of the huge differences between conservatives and liberals. If Obama becomes the dem nominee and loses the general election, mark my words-the dems will accuse every white who didn't vote for him of being racist.
I support the Thomas Sowell/Walter E. Williams ticket, but Sowell is wrong in saying the Clintons are not racists.
Jesse Jackson, spadework, these are just the most recent.
Bill used the n-word frequently according to the Arkansas troopers. Hillary flew her "errand boy's" plane into a mountain and had it followed up with one to the head.
Rush periodically catalogues the black candidates crushed by the Clintons (and Democrats in general).
Obama is running for senior class president against Hoffa and his 300-lb fixer.
Today Rush called Bill Clinton, "Bull Clinton", referring to Bull Conner.
But Bill can't help himself: he made Mike Royko's bio of Daley Boss required reading for his gubernatorial staff, and that's just the way that aids-billy-goat rolls.
The Clintons aim to keep their African-Americans "on the plantation"--all that pretense to the contrary notwithstanding: Hillary's hash of dialectical pandering, Bill's Toni Morrison mantle, all of it too long in the rain.
this man can really write, unlike people like Eleanor Clift whom we are told are “writers.”
His prose will outlast his time while almost all of that of the MSM “writers” will not.
In either order I'd support that ticket. Would that this nation only be so worthy.
Agree...There may be several writers who approach the quality and readability of Dr. Sowell but there are none better and most are not even in the same ballpark, IMO.
The first sentence is not correct, they probably are racists. The second sentence is not in doubt at all.
I tend to agree but it’s only a feeling, they have done a pretty good job of keeping it closeted.
well...Obama did get nearly 90 something percent of the Dem vote in SC
and Jesse Jackson carried SC twice with the same demographics.
i think blacks view Obama as one of their own
and I don’t think that is racist....it’s how the world ticks usually
but Obama is still half-white.
If Edwards will drop out I would think that the Hill should be able to slide on to home.
Although, I would much prefer to listen to Obama than Hillary.
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