red states rule
05-11-2008, 08:07 AM
Once again, the Dem primary has come down to race and gender - and not the issues
The Clintons are not going away, and this ugly war is going to continue
McCain has to be the luckiest politican in the world
Hillary's best hope: racism
'Working class' means 'white'
snip
The record clearly shows that Hillary's campaign was the first to use Obama's race against him. The strategy gained an unexpected boost when Sen. Obama's former pastor, the egomaniacal Rev. Jeremiah Wright, cribbed the Obama spotlight only to show the world that racism could be a black thing, too. The opportunistic Clinton campaign shamelessly took full advantage of the tension. They not only raised questions about what the Wright debacle meant for an Obama presidency, they slyly positioned Hillary, like a latter-day George Wallace (the Alabama governor, not the very funny Las Vegas comedian), as the "working-class" candidate.
She was the candidate, as one union worker called her, with "testicular fortitude." She drank boilermakers. She bowled. She even challenged that "latte-drinking" Sen. Obama to roll against her. Her campaign reinforced the idea that she was the only candidate willing to look after "working-class" folks in Washington.
Don't fool yourself for a minute by entertaining the idea that the Clinton campaign didn't know what it was doing. Hillary and Bill knew. It was their plan. They were getting their butts kicked by the Obama campaign and rapidly reaching the point of no hope. If they were going to win, they needed a game-changer, and that had to be a profound fear of Obama.
That fear of the different guy, combined with Obama's pastor disaster, paid off. Not only did it give them late wins in important states, it gave them cover to make a thinly veiled racial appeal to the ruling class of the Democratic Party -- the "superdelegates."
http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/18841454.html
The Clintons are not going away, and this ugly war is going to continue
McCain has to be the luckiest politican in the world
Hillary's best hope: racism
'Working class' means 'white'
snip
The record clearly shows that Hillary's campaign was the first to use Obama's race against him. The strategy gained an unexpected boost when Sen. Obama's former pastor, the egomaniacal Rev. Jeremiah Wright, cribbed the Obama spotlight only to show the world that racism could be a black thing, too. The opportunistic Clinton campaign shamelessly took full advantage of the tension. They not only raised questions about what the Wright debacle meant for an Obama presidency, they slyly positioned Hillary, like a latter-day George Wallace (the Alabama governor, not the very funny Las Vegas comedian), as the "working-class" candidate.
She was the candidate, as one union worker called her, with "testicular fortitude." She drank boilermakers. She bowled. She even challenged that "latte-drinking" Sen. Obama to roll against her. Her campaign reinforced the idea that she was the only candidate willing to look after "working-class" folks in Washington.
Don't fool yourself for a minute by entertaining the idea that the Clinton campaign didn't know what it was doing. Hillary and Bill knew. It was their plan. They were getting their butts kicked by the Obama campaign and rapidly reaching the point of no hope. If they were going to win, they needed a game-changer, and that had to be a profound fear of Obama.
That fear of the different guy, combined with Obama's pastor disaster, paid off. Not only did it give them late wins in important states, it gave them cover to make a thinly veiled racial appeal to the ruling class of the Democratic Party -- the "superdelegates."
http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/18841454.html