Obama supporters are running a RACIST campaign ad and Obama REFUSES to condemn it

[Herman Munster]

He's going to regret this ad ever went up. His entire fallacy of uniting people and hope has been exposed for the bullshit that he is. This is going to hurt him big in California with latinos. Huge backlash coming.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0108/UniteHERE_ad_Hillary_Clinton_does_not_respect_our_people.html

Paid for by UNITE HERE Campaign Committee

(Spanish language)
Hillary Clinton no respeta a nuestra gente los partidarios de Hillary Clinton fueron a corte para evitar que la gente que trabaja pueda votar este sábado, eso es vergonzoso. Los partidarios de Hillary Clinton quieren evitar que la gente que trabaja el sábado pueda votar en sus lugares de empleo. ¡Imperdonable! Hillary Clinton no tiene vergüenza.

Hillary Clinton no debería permitir que sus amigos ataquen el derecho de nuestra gente de votar este sábado. Es imperdonable! No hay respeto el senador Barack Obama esta defendiendo nuestro derecho de votar.

El senador Barack Obama quiere nuestros votos, el respeta nuestros votos, nuestra comunidad y a nuestra gente. El lema de la campaña de Barrack Obama es “sí se puede, si se puede”. Vote por un presidente que nos respeta y respeta nuestro derecho de votar. Obama para presidente. Si se puede.

Pagada por UNITE HERE.

UNITE HERE Negative Ad
(Translation)
Hillary Clinton does not respect our people. Hillary Clinton supporters went to court to prevent working people to vote this Saturday — that is an embarrassment.

Hillary Clinton supporters want to prevent people from voting in their workplace on Saturday. This is unforgivable. Hillary Clinton is shameless. Hillary Clinton should not allow her friends to attack our people’s right to vote this Saturday. This is unforgivable; there’s no respect

Sen. Obama is defending our right to vote. Sen. Obama wants our votes. He respects our votes, our community, and our people.

Sen. Obama’s campaign slogan is “Si Se Puede” (“Yes We Can”). Vote for a president that respects us, and that respects our right to vote. Obama for president, “Si Se Puede” (“Yes We Can”).

[Bicoastal]

1. Obama is a bad, bad, BAD man. Be scared. nt

:sarcasm:

[TwilightZone]

2. You might want to include a link.

I realize that it's been posted a couple times already, but context would be helpful.

[Herman Munster]

4. link added

[TwilightZone]

5. Thanks.

Like I said, I know it's been posted, but not everyone has probably clicked on the other threads.

[2rth2pwr]

3. :::

[annie1]

17. LMAO

[ccpup]

6. what's the translation of that ad? n/t

[Herman Munster]

7. added translation

[MethuenProgressive]

8. "Hillary Clinton does not respect our people," link to:

"A spokesman for Obama, Bill Burton, did not condemn the ad or the independent spending specifically, but instead attacked Clinton."


http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0108/UniteHERE_ad_Hillary_Clinton_does_not_respect_our_people.html

[jefferson_dem]

9. Tell us all exactly HOW that ad is racist.

The ad is produced by the group Hillary was trying to disenfranchise. Are you mad at them for beating back Hillary's legal shenanigans...and keeping the right to caucus?

[annie1]

22. "teachers union" not "hillary". or "teachers union which includes hillary supporters"

[rateyes]

30. The teachers union AND Hillary Clinton Supporters who

were not part of the union.

[annie1]

32. cool.

[2rth2pwr]

10. "Our people" wtf? nt

[Drunken Irishman]

12. Yes, working class union folk.

[annie1]

16. oh, i thought they meant hispanics. :D. that would have really freaked me out.

[Herman Munster]

18. it's clearly meant to mean hispanics

[annie1]

19. okay, back to being disgusted. that's a shame. :(((((

:(.

[Herman Munster]

21. remember it was in spanish language radio

there is no other audience for than ad that hispanics.

[annie1]

25. they could still mean those belonging the union, but not nec. hispanics. but...

"our people" definitely sounds like they are talking about race. i guess. tricky.

[2rth2pwr]

28. It's meant for all the white union workers in Nevada that listen to Spanish media. nt

[Drunken Irishman]

34. Maybe it's meant for union workers who speak Spanish.

[Tom Rinaldo]

36. Anyone who thinks that a spanish language ad that says:

"Hillary Clinton doesn't respect our people" is referring only to Union members being disenfranchised better be gullable enough to believe that the quote from Bob Johnson...

"when Barack Obama was doing something in the neighborhood; I won't say what he was doing, but he said it in his book"

...was really about Obama's community organizing. Fair is fair.

[annie1]

37. it's a really awful ad. :(. it's a terrible thing to make people feel that way. :(

[Satyagrahi]

39. "nuestra gente" = "la gente que trabaja", working people. The context

makes that absolutely clear.

[Tom Rinaldo]

42. I'm not buying that. In fact the ad shows otherwise

"Sen. Obama’s campaign slogan is “Si Se Puede” (“Yes We Can”). Vote for a president that respects us, and that respects our right to vote."

“Si Se Puede” is not just a labor or working people's slogan. And the fact that the ad focuses on a Union and working people's issue as the specific supposed afront does not negate the implication that Hillary "does not respect our people" in a racial context. That meme is introduced first and then reenforced at the end.

And even if you chose to ignore that, it is a much more overt attack to say here that Clinton doesn't respect working people than the claim made that she showed insufficient respect to Martin Luther King Jr. The pattern is ugly. Very ugly. It tears at the fabric of Democratic solidarity. Hillary Clinton has earned strong union support, just like she earned strong Black support and strong Hispanic support. A sweeping charge like this only hurts Democrats in general and will hurt us in the General Election.

[emilyg]

35. I took it as such.

[jefferson_dem]

20. Apparently, some think the "working class union folk" should just sit the fuck down.

She's reaped what she's sowed.

[Herman Munster]

23. so obama will unite the country by starting a race war

He does have a lot in common with his idol Reagan afterall.

[jefferson_dem]

27. Unions standing up to ClintonInc = igniting a race war...

in your little world.

:eyes:

[chieftain]

29. That is a shameful comment. The idea that any of our candidates

will start a race war is both absurd and reprehensible.

[2rth2pwr]

24. Yeah, and watch Spanish language television. nt

[Drunken Irishman]

31. Right, because no union member speaks Spanish, right?

[HeraldSquare212]

11. LOL third post of this in what, 10 minutes? nt

[Proud2BAmurkin]

13. That ad is pukeworthy. nt

[SunDrop23]

14. Well what the hell, why don't we just implode and get it over with. (n/t)

[annie1]

15. That ad is disgusting.

[LittleClarkie]

26. Care for some water?

[Tom Rinaldo]

41. I don't blame the Obama campaign for the ad

I do blame them for how they are reacting to it. When Clinton supporter Bob Johnson made a veiled attack on Obama it was out of bounds wrong. Hillary admitted it herself. So far Obama's spokesperson seems to be pretending that the line "Hillary does not respect our people" does not have overt racial overtones (which is as believable as Bob Johnson's claim that he was really talking about Obama's community organizing). Instead of distancing Obama's campaign from that message he instead used the occaision to take another swipe at Hillary for running a negative campaign. I'm sorry, but doing that IS negative campaigning. At least admit that Obama's Union supporters chose unfortunate wording - don't make it into another attack on Hillary.

This was playing with matches along racial lines. Those matches need to be stomped on any time they are lit.

[dionysus]

33. take two qualludes and call me in the morning.

[hedgehog]

38. The ad should be corrected to say : Hillary Clinton's supporters

don't want us to vote unless we vote for her.

[Barack_America]

40. Thanks for showing up!

I've been meaning to ignore you.

[jackson_dem]

43. His model is Reagan, right? He is only doing what Reagan did: use race and hate to win

Let's not forget Obama playing the gay card earlier in South Carolina.

[Occam Bandage]

44. Where's the beef?

Seriously, where's the racism there. Dispicable attempt to play the race card.

[Maven]

45. That is a pretty atrocious ad.

Yuck.