The Clintons and Jim Crow Racism

[ShortnFiery]

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/7168
May 9, 2008 - 7:59am
By DOUG THOMPSON

Hillary Clinton Thursday admitted that she is the candidate of dumb whites - no more, no less.

As her campaign continues its slide into the dustbin of political also-rans, she told USA Today that she should be president because ignorant white people want her in the White House and they are the only people who really matter in this election year. In other words, she said vote for me because I'm white because the black guy from Chicago doesn't stand a chance in this racially-divided nation.

Reports USA Today: In an interview Wednesday with USA TODAY, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said that she would be the stronger nominee because she appeals to a wider coalition of voters -- including whites who have not supported Barack Obama in recent contests. "I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," she said. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article that she said "found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."

A card-carrying member of the Ku Klux Klan could made a statement any more racist or ignorant.

/snip

Perhaps (it's arrogance), but it is also possible that both Hillary and Bill Clinton are racists. They are good enough at the game of politics to sucker African Americans into believing they supported their causes when, as history clearly shows, the only causes the Clintons ever truly support are their own unbridled arrogance and ambition.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oRwZQLdhEw

[ShortnFiery]

1. One gratuitous KICK

:dem:

[TexasObserver]

2. It's absolutely Jim Crow campaigning

and it's disgusting

If you will use racism to gain advantage in politics, you are a racist.

[cliffordu]

3. Yep - I wonder.....

how the hell does she think she'd get a SINGLE VOTE from any minority in the GE?

Does she think that other minorities won't mind all this??????

Now that I phrase it that way, I wonder what the hell is really wrong with them.

[IsItJustMe]

4. I just wonder how her and Bill will be able to go through the rest of their lives and look AA in the

eye. I know they don't have any shame now, but sometimes that catches up with you.

[anigbrowl]

7. Or any Asian-American, Latino American etc.

as an immigrant myself who had long been a fan of the Clintons, it's especially disappointing to me.

[VolcanoJen]

9. And hard-working white people who voted in the millions for Obama, too.

They insulted all of us. They left no stone unturned. They are running the most racially and socially divisive Democratic candidacy I have ever seen.

[IsItJustMe]

14. True that. I am looking through my own filters of a life time of seeing division between white and

black Americans, sometimes I forget about my other brothers and sisters.

[VolcanoJen]

5. The conversation in my workplace breakroom today was just staggering.

It's a very diverse workplace, and everyone was just batting around how shocked they are at the Clintons. It was a raucous conversation in which dozens were involved. The talk of the town.

It's as if they've convinced themselves that the Whole World Isn't Actually Watching. They really do appear that out-of-touch, like nobody's picking up on this. In fact, everyone is. Even working, hard-working, white, black and hispanic Americans at a hotel. I have a feeling they don't realize that.

Or... this is all a set-up, a ploy to manufacture "outrage" so they can turn around and say to the voters of West Virginia and Kentucky, "See, they're calling you racist! They think we're racists! They're playing the race card on us! They think they're better than you."

This hypothesis was proposed by the most un-political folk you could imagine at my workplace today. And I haven't heard a single high-paid political pundit bring it up yet.

If there's one good thing that's going to come out of this, it's that the American worker has become incredibly politically savvy. It's awesome, if you ask me. The national conversation is a good one, and the result will not be what the Clintons expect.

[Renaissance Man]

6. My Dad!

A 58-year old, black male, retired chemical engineer, pastor of a church, loved Bill and Hillary Clinton and defended him all throughout his Presidency and voted for Bill twice. Let's just say that he feels sorely disappointed now.

[VolcanoJen]

8. Stories like this break my heart.

Who among us doesn't feel let down by the Clintons? This should have been an uplifting, inspirational race, with, at the end, two historic and accomplished candidates.

And yet it comes down to this. The most tragic part of it all is that the Clintons seem lost to me forever. Just lost.

[cliffordu]

10. Kicky one more time

[JVS]

11. I wonder if Bill will move his office out of Harlem

[ShortnFiery]

13. What's truly bizarre is that Bill Clinton has deluded himself that he's still "aces" within the ...

AA community. :crazy:

Remember when Obama was talking about Rev. Wright from "an earlier era?" I believe that the 60 something Clintons are also stuck within that SAME *time warp.*

[AtomicKitten]

12. The Clintons should just switch parties and be done with it.

[rodeodance]

15. Not too long ago, that website was looked when used by DU. Now BHO fans can bring it to DU

as evidence.

same goes for Drudge.