Why is her campaign being so divisive...using racism, using threats toward the chairman.

[madfloridian]

I have been watching very little TV lately, but today I made an effort to go and watch when I saw a posting here that caught my interest. What Clinton's campaign is doing, not just in her own words, but in Bill's words, in the words of her surrogates on TV....

What they are doing is deliberately spreading anger among us, using racist code words on purpose.

The people speaking for her like McAuliffe, Lanny Davis, Ki Ki what's her name, and so many others.... use talking points that are so far out they don't even make sense. They say things meant to anger those of us who support Obama. It is deliberate.

Why?

Why would the campaign of a well-loved two term Democratic president set out to divide the party through anger and racist code words. Why would they do that?

Why would they agree to rules set out by the national party, and then decide those rules are unacceptable. Why would they use threats and intimidation against the party chairman?

Why would she carry things so far as to threaten the party with the nuclear option about Florida's delegates?

Why would her Florida co-chair keep going on TV and resort to practically yelling about the Florida delegates being seated at all costs, no matter the harm to the party. Why would she get in a shouting match with a radio host on a show like Larry King Live?

Why would her surrogate, Paul Begala, say we can not turn the party over to "eggheads and African Americans" while Donna Brazile is sitting right there? How insulting.

There is so much more. James Carville calling a good man like Bill Richard a "Judas" when he endorsed Obama. Lanny Davis spewing his foul rhetoric.

Howard Dean is only one target of theirs. The people of the party are also being targeted in words of divisiveness and vitriol.

I am not sure I know the answer. One thing I can say though....is that it is NOT because they love the party that much right now. They love themselves and their power much better it seems at this moment.

It is a sad thing to see for those of us who loved them for the eight good years in the 90s.

We are being urged to start reaching out to the other side in unity, so we can heal. Yet she and her campaign people are every day stirring the pot, bringing things to a boil again. Watching Larry King tonight was a scary thing.

Yet I am supposed to be, since the primaries last Tuesday, in a mode of reconciliation.

That works both ways.