“African-American superdelegates are being targeted, harassed and threatened,” By The Obama Campaign
Is this hope or change? Affiliates of the Obama campaign are being accused of racial intimidation, as a result of their effort to get the black superdelegates to switch their pledged support from Clinton to Obama:
African-American superdelegates said Thursday that they’ll stand up against threats, intimidation and “Uncle Tom” smears rather than switch their support from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to Sen. Barack Obama.
“African-American superdelegates are being targeted, harassed and threatened,” said Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II (D-Mo.), a superdelegate who has supported Clinton since August. Cleaver said black superdelegates are receiving “nasty letters, phone calls, threats they’ll get an opponent, being called an Uncle Tom.“This is the politics of the 1950s,” he complained. “A lot of members are experiencing a lot of ugly stuff. They’re not going to talk about it, but it’s happening.”
After civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) switched his support from Clinton to Obama earlier this week, other black superdelegates have come under renewed pressure to do a similar about-face. A handful have bowed to the entreaties in recent weeks, including Georgia Rep. David Scott, but many say they are steadfast in their support for Clinton and resent strong-arm tactics to make them change.
I am now wondering if Dean committed a freudian slip when he said Republican field ‘looks like the 1950s and talks like the 1850s’…
Cleaver questioned why white superdelegates such as Massachusetts Sens. Edward M. Kennedy and John F. Kerry weren’t being targeted to support Clinton after she carried their state.
“If white people were being harassed and threatened because they were not supporting a white candidate, we’d see headlines,” he said.
That’s a fair question. The answer is simple though. Superdelegates are not bound to the will of the people. That is what a delegate is for. Super delegates are that insurance policy that the liberals took out to make sure that the voters didn’t make a mistake.
When is someone from the media going to ask Dean about DNC plans to change the election process?
h/t to Ed for the link
February 29, 2008 - 07:52 AM on February 29th, 2008
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February 29, 2008 - 08:37 AM on February 29th, 2008
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February 29, 2008 - 09:08 AM on February 29th, 2008
Just like any would be tyrant and socialists BARACK OBAMA is sending out his brown shirts to intimadate the voters
February 29, 2008 - 01:04 PM on February 29th, 2008
This looks very bad for the Obama campaign. I thought he was supposed to fresh, new, an agent of change and hope? This smells just like the same old kind of corruption and manipulation we have seen forever.
I guess the veneer has worn through on Obama already. He’s already acting like a typical, corrupt politician.
April 7, 2008 - 03:59 PM on April 7th, 2008
[...] How Barack Obama played the race card and blamed Hillary Clinton. I told you back in February that “African-American superdelegates are being targeted, harassed and threatened,”By The Obama Camp…. Jesse Jackson Jr., has also been pressuring people: One black supporter of Clinton, Rep. Emanuel [...]