Reply #16: That poor Obama using the "Jackson" strategy to win SC and lose the nomination.

[pampango]

If you really believe that you don't have a very high opinion of Obama's intelligence, do you?

After proving that he can transcend race in Iowa, then proving he can do well with whites again in NH and NV, he decides to do an about face in SC, stress that the is the BLACK candidate (like Jackson), probably win SC (like Jackson), then go on to lose the nomination (like Jackson) because Democratic voters across the country have come to view him as the BLACK candidate (like Jackson).

If you think that the virgin campaigner Bill didn't realize after Iowa that an Obama who transcended race was a threat to Hillary, you are entitled to your opinion. Once, IMHO, Bill realized this, he had to figure a way to create a public perception of Obama as the BLACK candidate, since a BLACK candidate is no more likely to win the nomination than Jackson or Sharpton were.

Now Bill is no racist, but he is a no-holds-barred campaigner (a fact that most Hillary supporters are proud of when it comes to going up against Republicans), so he came up with ways to inject race into the primary without it being overtly racist on its face.

And I agree with your disgust at using race to divide the party. We just differ on who caused this to happen.