“If you have a social need, you’re with Hillary. If you want Obama to be your imaginary hip black friend and you’re young and you have no social needs, then he’s cool.”
Shocking, yes, but remember that this quote is from an unnamed source within Hillary’s campaign:
Still, a combination of sympathy and sisterly solidarity is unlikely to be enough to carry Clinton to the nomination. In her victory speech, she said that she had at last found her voice. More prosaically, she has at least found a better message, speaking less about herself and her experience and more about the voters. She is staking out policy ground slightly to the left of Obama on domestic issues, and noticeably won the votes of those on lower incomes and without college degrees. In the words of that Clinton adviser: “If you have a social need, you’re with Hillary. If you want Obama to be your imaginary hip black friend and you’re young and you have no social needs, then he’s cool.“
Don’t worry Obama supporters, Michelle let’s us know that Obama won’t be bested on entitlements. If you care to see where they stack up on giveways, read the article, it shows both parties.
Let’s get back to race. I read the comment and immediately thought of the source, The Guardian. Not always the most reliable. Secondly, is she alienating her youth base? Do whites only pretend to be friends with blacks? Thirdly, if in fact it was said by her staffer, she needs to answer for it. Josh Marshall on the other hand, doesn’t mention the news source being the problem. Please take the time to read the well worded article, but in the meantime, here is a snippet….
It’s genuinely unclear to me how much one side or the other is consciously pushing this, how much it’s escalated based in part on misunderstandings, or whether, in a somewhat related fashion, hyping journalistic accounts has given the engagement a life of its own.
Some of the statements recently attributed to the Clintons have seemed at best awkward in how they’re discussing race and the civil rights movement, others have struck me as unobjectionable statements interpreted in a tendentious fashion.
It is no wonder that Clintons Move to Tamp Down Criticism From Blacks About Recent Comments
Memeorandum has more reaction
Macsmind has an interesting take on this:
Remember it was a liberal newspaper and a liberal writer that called Obama the “Magic Negro“.
…….As much as liberals talk about the racism of Republicans, isn’t it interesting you never see this race card played among them. At least not in the magnitude liberals present.
Jules Crittenden has a good roundup.
Bizzy Blog: But what “racial barriers in American politics” did Bill Clinton ever break? Anyone?
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January 12, 2008 - 09:47 AM on January 12th, 2008
Yes, I can see how Hillary and the other Dems appeal to the ignorant and uneducated. Who with any brains, except someone horribly corrupt looking for favors, would vote for them? Except perhaps for the terrorists, who would love for the Dems to degrade the ability of the US military to defend this country while showing a complete unwillingness to do so.
January 12, 2008 - 09:58 AM on January 12th, 2008
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January 12, 2008 - 05:37 PM on January 12th, 2008
Promises, Promises
On the Six O’Clock News on teevee, the nice anchorette refers to John McCain and Hillary Clinton as the “frontrunners” in the nominations race. It is so stupid. After Iowa, the media and the political blogs had the shovels ready to bury Hillary. McC…
January 12, 2008 - 05:41 PM on January 12th, 2008
And where do we pigeon-hole John McCain?
January 12, 2008 - 07:26 PM on January 12th, 2008
Dave,
I have a hard time ganging up on John McCain…I respect him and his service to this country…I am just so angry on his immigration stance..If he is the nominaion, I will support him…
BTW, I vote Tuesday, and still haven’t picked one..Definite no to the creepy man from Arkansas though.
January 14, 2008 - 12:05 AM on January 14th, 2008
How is John McCain the front runner in anything but the liberal media’s imagination? He’s number 3 in delegates behind Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee. He came in 4th in Iowa behind those two and my favorite Fred Thompson. His campaign was nearly broke a few months ago, so he doesn’t have the war chests that Mitt, Fred or Rudy have. To call McCain the front runner after his only winning one state and that a state that allows indies and Dems to vote in the GOP primary is ludicrous.