Obama Turns On the Race-Baiting Wurlitzer: Signs of Candidacy in Trouble
By Bud White on April 28, 2008 at 4:13 PM in Bamboozling, Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, Bill Clinton, Daily Kos, David Axelrod, Economy, Elitism, Hillary Clinton, Hoodwinking, Martin Luther King, Obamedia, Popular Vote, Race Card, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., Superdelegates, Talking Points Memo, White People
I started crying during the speech and wept for a good while after Dr. King finished. He had said everything I believed, far better than I ever could…that speech steeled my determination to do whatever could for the rest of my life to make Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream come true. — From My Life by Bill Clinton
As Obama loses his grip on the nomination and the momentum of his candidacy slows, his campaign is reviving its race-baiting tactics heading into North Carolina.
We’ve seen this played out before: The Obama campaign hints that whites are unwilling to vote for Obama because he’s black, an Obama surrogate claims the Clintons are using race, and the Obamablogs, Keith Olbermann, and finally the MSM pick it up as “truth.”
The day after Clinton’s surprising victory in New Hampshire, Obama supporter Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. — in words which will live in infamy –said that Hillary’s tears in New Hampshire will “have to be looked at very, very carefully in light of Katrina and other things Mrs. Clinton did not cry for, particularly as we head toward South Carolina where 45 percent of African Americans will participate in the process.”
This was followed by Obama suggesting to mostly black audiences that the Clintons were playing them for fools by criticizing him. Obama appropriated Malcolm X’s “hoodwinked, bamboozled, okie-doke” speech and sent a clear signal that racial politics was on the table.
This narrative was given the blogger boy stamp-of-approval when Markos Moulitsas Zuniga claimed (falsely) that Team Clinton darkened a picture of Obama to make him look menacing.
Lastly, Orlando Patterson gave it legitimacy by claiming in the pages of the Times, again falsely, that there was not a black child in Hillary’s “3 a.m.” ad. Discussing Patterson, but just as accurately Obama’s racial strategy in general, Taylor Marsh said “Looking for racism in every moment of a white person’s political campaign is as bad as being racist. No, actually, it is racist.”
The Obama campaign successfully telegraphed their campaign talking points and the big blogs, Air America (Randi Rhodes said “Geraldine Ferraro is David Duke in drag”), Keith Olbermann, and many others fell in line and parroted the lie that the Clintons have been using race or are racists themselves. As others have pointed out, no one can explain why the Clintons would use race in a Democratic primary contest where African Americans have a disproportionate voice.
On the heels of another Obama defeat and the prospect that Hillary is picking up genuine momentum, members of his team are again telegraphing to their supporters in the press and the blogs that it’s time for racial politics. David Axelrod revved up the race machine when he told NPR that:
The white working class has gone to the Republican nominee for many elections, going back even to the Clinton years. This is not new that Democratic candidates don’t rely solely on those votes.
By framing the issue in terms of race, Axelrod signaled that others should do the same. Following on cue, Rep. James Clyburn told the Times:
“When he was going through his impeachment problems, it was the black community that bellied up to the bar,” Mr. Clyburn said. “I think black folks feel strongly that that this is a strange way for President Clinton to show his appreciation.”
In essence, Clyburn is telling us that Clinton owes the black community because of their support during the Lewinsky scandal and that Clinton should refrain from criticizing Obama:
Mr. Clyburn added that there appeared to be an almost “unanimous” view among African-Americans that Mr. and Mrs. Clinton were “committed to doing everything they possibly can to damage Obama to a point that he could never win.”
Clyburn, of course, ignores Rev. Wright, Wiliam Ayers, Tony Rezko, and Bitter-gate, all self-inflicted wounds. In truth, all Hillary has done to hurt Obama is win big, crucial states by talking about economic issues and national security, pretty boilerplate stuff.
The Democratic Party consists of two warring factions, and the precarious coalition that forms the Party is on the verge of splitting apart. Working class whites are not naive to Obama’s shenanigans. They’ve watched as the Obama team has smeared perhaps the most racially progressive president in our history as a racist, and they’ve seen Obama ridicule their concerns, faith, and culture.
The Obama campaign would like the superdelegates to believe that African Americans will revolt if Obama is not given the nomination. The more likely outcome–and this has actually been quantified, is that working-class whites will go with McCain if Hillary is not the nominee.
This is not because working class whites are racist but because Obama represents a wing of the party which encourages the trashing of poor white people, lacks an economic focus for their needs, and excuses the racist and America-hating rants of Reverend Wright.
Obama’s cold-hearted tacticians aren’t using these tactics because they are concerned about the plight of African Americans. They are trying to scare superdelegates about racial issues and smear the Clintons.
The use of race has nothing to do with race: this is about power, pure and simple, and controlling the largess of the federal government. Although the media loves to claim that Obama has brought in new voters, Hillary has actually received more votes than Obama and has done something which has the potential to change the political landscape for a generation: She has built a new governing coalition centered around the largest part of the electorate, women, and fastest growing part of the electorate, Hispanics.
I suggest that African American politicians, comfortable senators, wealthy blogger boyz, and lobbyists like Tom Daschle fear that Hillary’s new coalition could actually complete the New Deal promise of universal health care and dominate politics for a generation. John Kerry, for example, has gone so far as to say UHC is dead on arrival in the senate but Obama is a good candidate because the color of his skin, not exactly meat and potatoes for the working class.
Obama’s losses in Ohio, Texas, and Pennsylvania should not be underestimated. Obama is unable to win critical swing states despite having a near-monopoly on the institutional power-brokers, the media, the blogs, and the activists.
The narrative that Obama is a weak general election candidate is starting to take hold. Sensing this development, the Obama team has turned on the Wurlitzer and alerted its supporters that it’s time to smear the Clintons as racists once again. We’ve heard Axelrod and Clyburn.
Watch next for the blogger boyz, the columnists of the Times and the Post, Joe Klein, and then the mainstream media. We’ve heard this song before, and we know all the notes and lyrics by now. It means Obama is in trouble.
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“Race-Baiting Wurlitzer”
LMAO
Well the fact that the obama camp can and is doing it b/c the powerful democrats are cheering them on. the powerful democrats like pelosi, kennedy, kerry, dodd etc..are using obama to get rid of the Clintons. This is their chance. Notice the silence from the pelosi gang while rev wrong is re-viving the race war.
Excellent post…why has no one stood up to defend the Clintons?
Jealousy.
Ehemmmm……Fear…..Of Centrists….This is why they gave up Gore as well….
Let them go ahead. All they are doing is ticking off more white people who won’t vote for him. Works for me. Somebody needs to explain to Barack Obama that in the General Election, the majority of the electorate does not consist of old hippies, college kids and African Americans before he finds out the hard way. Somebody also needs to explain to him that Republicans get to vote then too. Or does he really believe they are all going to vote for him after all the unrest he has clearly and deliberately created. Somebody also needs to explain to him that nobody can be threatened to vote for him. I say let him keep on doing what he’s doing. It will make it easier to get rid of him if he runs. And so enjoyable to watch.
Latinos will never put an “x” next to his name. If the Democratic party isn’t careful, huge blocks in California, Texas, Florida and Arizona will spend three if not four elections never voting for a Democrat that can win. Sixteen to 20 years of Republicans becomes ingrained. John McCain is not one of the wall builders. There is no reason for any brown voter to support Barack. I am wondering how that effects long term strategy i.e., growing voter blocks. Not sayin’ just askin’
Obama thinks that anybody with a “d” for party affiliation will vote for him after Dean and the DNC award him the nomination. Idiot.
Oh I don’t know . . . perhaps Obama/Axlerod think that they can have one of McCain’s divorce files unsealed and find lots of SEX information — like the Ryan divorce case which left basically a non-contested “race” for the Senate.
However — for a guy McCain’s age this will probably gain him votes.
McCain is like Clinton — whatever might be found it already out there.
Whereas there is So Dam** much stuff on Obama — and lots of voters are still in the dark. Lots of voters left to be SHOCKED about the people Obama surrounds himself with.
Oh God. Uppity you have a point, and Bud you are correct. Why is this happening to the Democratic Party? Axelrod has unleashed a monstrous snowball that started with the target-marketing, has led us to Wright and ‘68 revisited. I have links up to LAT and am exploring the use of propaganda, past and present.
Economics plus ethnocentrism plus ‘68?
Our Party covers all of us, as one. Since forever. Now?
what about the bobos and trustafarians? his fellow hothouse flowers?
whine…piss…moan….pule….
where’s my waffle?
with your permission i will borrow from this post for a letter I write to my state chair. I have given up on DEAN and DONNA.
If it’s OK with Susan & Larry, it’s Ok by me.
N. Carolina Gov. Mike Easley just announced his endorsement for Hillary Clinton
great news! Thanks Patrick Henry.
I was at the Hillary rally tonight in NC. There were probably around 5,000 to 8,000 people there. She was great in person. I don’t know who was one of the introducers, but she was a black lady and she had the greatest line I have heard yet, she said when people ask why I don’t vote my race, I say I am when I vote Hillary Clinton THE HUMAN RACE!!! (paraphrasing here)….
Terry McAuliffe announced the gov was going to endorse Hillary. I knew he was a supporter cause he wrote that letter to BO basically begging him to debate, a BO supporter would not have done that. He is well liked here, if an endorsement has weight it will help her.
Hi North Carolina. I was at the fundraiser in Greensboro which preceeded your event. About a thousand supporters stood in heavy rain waiting to enter the Carolina Theatre to see and hear Hillary. Once inside the wait was still about two hours but nobody grumbled or asked for their donations back. It was a great event. Terry introduced Chelsea who then introduced her mom. Not that it matters but both Mother and daughter are much more beautiful than their images in print or on TV.
Fine by me.
LJ
Since We can Pretty well Assume that Obama is Lying about alot of his Background and Associates because Its Silly to Believe that he has associated with all those people for 20 years without knowing about thier more Extreme Thinking and Ideology…and that “LYING” seems to be a Part of the Game they ALL Play…I am beginning to wonder if what Pastor Wright is doing now is Part of a Deliberate Plan..
1..For Pastor Wright to get His Garbage out using the National platform the media is providing him..and expanding His Network..
2. And Giving Obama the Opportunity to Claim He is going t5o further distance himself from Pastor Wright and what he says..
3. Pastor Wright is saying things that Give Obama that Opportunity ..i/e O)bama is a “Politician” and he will do what he “Has” to do..
4. similar to johyn McCain telling the N. Carolina Republicans to quit running the Obama / Wright Add..
5. Good Guy/ Bady guys..Politics…
Well done Bud….I salute you….You hit the nail on the head….
Bud, excellent analysis and a great title! Isn’t a Wurlitzer an organ? Some how that’s just a perfect pun with all the attention of Wright, who was filmed gyrating his “organ” at the pulpit.
Truer words never spoken
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Really scary and creeeepy!
There are a lot of seriously stupid people out there!
The logic of the DNC must be questioned. Hillary must drop out because we don’t want to offend the AAs and others that BELIEVE and voted for Barry. More people have voted for Hillary. Who cares if we offend them they will fall in line.
I Don’t think so.
Well said, Bud.
I firmly believe that she has the potential to attract many moderate republican women who will vote in this historical election were she to be the nominee. With Wright he loses the republicans, men and women. I also believe this is the election where the party should solidify their share of the Hispanics — I fear they will vote McCain if Clinton is not the nominee, especially with a republican governor in CA supporting McCain.
And FL. Gov. Charlie Christ, who is anglin for VP.
And FL. Gov. Charlie Christ, who is angling for VP.
Right on about Republican women — all of my Republican women friends ARE voting for Clinton if she makes it to the November Ballot — in fact they can’t wait to vote for her. These same women will NEVER vote for Obama — because they have gotten the message from Obama that he hates women. And some of these women hated Bill Clinton — but they WILL vote for Hillary.
I don’t know how any poll will be able to pick this up — I expect that if polled these women might respond that they’ll vote straight ticket GOP.
Obama is also a down ticket killer — and the Dems will NOT meekly fall in line and vote the Party machine.
Ohio and Pennsylvania sent a signal — PLUS the hugh surge in donations Hillary got post Pennsylvania primary — is also a signal that the Dem party machine had better take notice of.
The Democratic Party is DISGUSTING!
I am so finished with them!
That these people hate the Clintons so much that they would cut off ALL Democratic noses out of spite, is about the most unprofessional thing I have ever heard. What? Bill Clinton didn’t do anthing at all? Is that what they are saying by their hatred?
And they aren’t going to do anything to help the black underclass. What have they done lately anyway? It’s all politics and power.
Look under that bus again. The poor black community has been thrown under it too!
Mimi — it is damned crowded under that bus.
And yes I agree — Obama threw the poor black community under the bus ages ago. As you pointed out a few days ago the majority of the occupants of the Rezko unheated buildings were poor black people — the people Obama had zero empathy for at the time time Obama got campaign contributions from Rezko.
I consider myself a typical middle class white person and while I have had some person issues with people of other races and cultrues I would not consider myself a racist (myabe I’m wrong.)
But I feel like the typical white person needs to stand up and tell it like it is
This is an excerpt from my email to Bob Herbert NYT after his “Heading Toward the Danger Zone”
Excellent, just excellent. Can I borrow that language for some letters I want to write?
Be my guest.
Well, I’m probably even younger than you but I became thoroughly enchanted with Mrs Chisholm during her campaign (unfortunately, I was way too young to vote–being in 6th grade and all), and even bought a copy of her biography. By way of disclaimers, I was a study in real contrast–George Wallace also had an appeal, being the “favorite son” (living in Alabama will do that); however, Mrs Chisholm just had some at-the-time unidentifiable quality that really appealed to me.
When Jesse Jackson ran in the Democratic primaries in 1988, I honestly don’t recall if I voted for him or not; IIRC, the Alabama primary wasn’t held until June that year (I think the state has only been a “real” participant maybe twice since 1980) and I may have just voted for Dukakis because I felt he really did have a good chance to win that year. I did like Jackson but I was much less comfortable with his being an active minister (I honestly don’t believe that anyone running for the Presidency should be allowed to use the honorific of “Reverend” or “Minister” during their campaigning; Carter’s being a Sunday School teacher and lay preacher at his church is a wholly different matter). I also was appalled with Pat Robertson’s run for the Presidency for that reason just as much as his conservative views.
Other than Mrs Chisholm, I can think of only two African-Americans whom I could have supported without hesitation: Barbara Jordan and Colin Powell. The late Mrs Jordan was just so thoroughly talented and gifted as a political candidate (and, more importantly, a human being) that even Jesse Jackson comes off as second-rate. As to Powell, until he made his truly appalling shill for BushCo at the UN, he was the single Afican-American who could’ve truly won the Presidency in a real landslide (with well over 80% of the voters and probably all but 1 Elector–you just know that some singular Elector would feel compelled to maintain Washington’s unique status in the Electoral vote).
Living in Alabama, I’ve had my fair share of voting for African-American candidates at all levels of government and I feel personally offended when Obama’s people decide that “if you’re white and you don’t vote for Obama, you’re a racist”. I *might* vote for Obama in the general election (though Cynthia McKinney is hoping to be the Green Party candidate; I’d love for her to be the Green’s candidate–that might cause the Obama campaign’s collective head to blow up ’cause you can’t be a racist if you have a choice between two African-American candidates) but Obama is not a “sure thing” as every other Democratic candidate has been since 1980.
great use of Wurlitzer! Best thing about it is, Obamabots won’t even know what it is.
If he was smart and not quite so arrogant, Obama would drop out next week. He won’t debate Hillary, his pastor is a raving militant racist and an embarrassment to the Party and to all Americans,of all colors who are not racists. By his own words in his “race speech” he siad he could not denounce this hater. That says it all. His political career is over if he doesn’t ACT. His passive aggressive personality is doing him in.
I wonder if he even knows his political career is in jeopardy? His ego just might prevent him from seeing the truth for a while. With his “passive aggressive personality”, maybe he never really had a chance. Could he have been a great politician? I’m not so sure. Whomever talked him into running for president before he even finished one term in the Senate has killed his career. Coulda woulda shoulda, he is toast now.
Whether he realizes it or not, Obama is in a position where he needs to debate Clinton. As it is, what will undecided people remember? He did awful in his last debate. He chickened out of any further debates. The DNC is trying to railroad his nomination through without counting all of the votes. And best of all his pastor, who Obama listened to for 20 years, is batshit crazy. If Obama wants to leave people with those impressions, fine with me.
You say Obama needs to debate. Er, no he doesn’t. Hillary needs debates because (a) it will take him off the campaign trail for at least three days (an people warm to him in person); (b) it gives her free publicity (which she needs since she can’t raise or manage money sufficiently), and (c) it gives her a chance to drive up his negatives (something she has to do since she can never drive down her own negatives).
Nope . . . it’s Hillary who needs the debates, which is why she and her minnions are crying like Nancy Kerrigan!
You are, as usual, wrong. For an Obama troll to be complaining about Clinton’s negatives after the speech Wright gave this morning causes “gales and gales of derisive laughter.”
You really have no life poor thing. You must be very tired trying to digest all the information here at NQ. Bouncing back and forth amongst all the posts must wear you out.
Time for a nap???
Or maybe a visit to a sanitarium???
it wouldn’t take him off the campaign trail if he actually knew anything. the only reason he’d need 3 days is because he doesn’t know what the heck he’s talking about and it’d take 3 days for his handlers to feed him the answers and for him to try to memorize them.
you could ask hillary to debate with not one minute’s notice and she’d be fine. obama would be rolled up in a fetal position.
part of me almost hopes he gets the nomination, so he can lose like mcgovern and disappear from national politics forever.
but the better part of me realizes that i’d rather have hillary as president. we can just deal with obama’s sorry ass later.
your guys tanking, just like dean did last time.
it will be hillary or mccain - get used to it.
No — I don’t believe Obama has the potential to be truly a great politician. That takes creativity, and the ability to think outside of the box.
Obama would probably have been just an average local politician — but he has enough skill to fake it as a orator. But even then he’s not really in the top bracket — because he doesn’t write his own speeches. He can read a teleprompter.
Obama — skilled at speech delivery from teleprompter. Period.
Lately, I’ve been thinking that Obamas mamma pushed him to run for President. I think she brainstormed with Oprah but it is the wife who is pushing this. She says otherwise but after listening to her recent talk on C-Span where she was sniveling the whole time and trying to get the audience to cry too, I think she is the one behind his entire run for the nomination. She used to look so angry and drugged. Now she looks like a bug who is coming off drugs. Same expression. She touts her father as a poor blue collar worker who had multiple sclerosis but in reality he was an engineer for the city of Chicago water bureau making bucco bucks and living in an upper middle class neighborhood. The Obamas lie all the time. It’s all fantasy. Give me a break.
But…but….Michelle says Obama is going to heal your soul!
I don’t need religion or soul healing. I need better gas prices and a country not in bankruptcy. I need healtcare at a low cost. LOL
Yeay!
“The Obama campaign would like the superdelegates to believe that African Americans will revolt if Obama is not given the nomination. The more likely outcome–and this has actually been quantified, is that working-class whites will go with McCain if Hillary is not the nominee.”
So essentially, either way the party is screwed because neither candidate can do without the support of both of these groups.
“They’ve watched as the Obama team has smeared perhaps the most racially progressive president in our history as a racist”
It’s all relative - in the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king. As I point out to my children, you don’t get extra credit or praise for doing what’s right, what you know you should be doing.
“Obama represents a wing of the party which encourages the trashing of poor white people, lacks an economic focus for their needs”
Ummmmm Bud, are you really going to stand by that statement when both Clintons have said similar things????
Bill - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYaJHAnmjtk
Video clips of Bill Clinton describing the Republican electoral coalition: “God, gays, and guns”, racial antipathy, and taxes are the main reasons. Also in 2007, he said that economic anxiety leads to anti-trade, anti-immigrant politics.
Hillary - Should the administration make overtures to working class white southerners who had all but forsaken the Democratic Party? The then-first lady took a less than inclusive approach.
“Screw ‘em,” she told her husband. “You don’t owe them a thing, Bill. They’re doing nothing for you; you don’t have to do anything for them.”
Not to be rude, but I don’t understand your post.
Not rude at all.
1. You basically state that it’s a problem that white blue collar workers won’t vote for Obama… I simply pointed out that the same is true for Hillary, there are now “bitter” black voters who’d never vote for her (right or wrong). And that this is a problem for the entire party.
2. Sorry, but to claim that Bill was the “most racially progressive” president doesn’t really amount to much. It’s all relative. Anything different than what preceded was not special, but to be expected of a rational person. You don’t get extra points for doing what you know to be is right. Just as that doesn’t instantly mean you’re incapable of doing wrong (directly or indirectly).
3. Bill Clinton pretty much expressed the same thing as Obama (albeit better) regarding how people are marginalized and how they often react. Hillary pretty much said “screw ‘em” when saying that Bill shouldn’t care about the very blue collar people she’s now championing.
Basically you are right, but the the irrelevent shots. Obama will never be president. He can’t carry the larger segments of America. Namely, older people, blue collar workers and most of the baby boomers who aren’t still on the bong.
You have no idea what you are talking about and you have no idea what Bill is talking about and you have no idea why Hillary said screw ‘em. ‘Must be why you are for the shallow guy. He’s easy for you to understand since there isn’t much there to understand.
If you really care then you would realize what the talk was about. You completely missed the point. And when someone does you dirty you might say “screw em” too! YOU PROBABLY HAVE! So what. They felt betrayed by the southern Dems crossing over (NOT the blue collar vote) and Hill said that in disgust for getting this rejection. It’s just a moment of anger and NOT her entire belief system..CHECK YOUR FACTS AND STORIES BEFORE YOU POST THEM PLEASE. Hillary is a thinking feeling human being not a robot! She is the people’s President! So screw ‘em if they can’t take a joke. SEE what she meant. It’s only a saying..DOH
get a grip Lou.
Shorter Kevin:
“But the Clintons said it tewwwwww….”
kevin, you are so full of it.
women, working class whites, Hispanics much bigger coalition that blacks. Also Clinton has always reached out to AA in this primary and will win them back for GE.
About you other points, classic “they said too” defense — not good enough — he is not getting the white working class votes now, she is.
Hillary can win the general without the bulk of the AA vote.
oh please. Go sell it somewhere else, Kevin.
Bud, I think what Kevin is saying is “please call an ambulance, I’ve overdosed on kool aid”
I think Keving is actually saying “convince me to vote for Hillary because I’m having buyers remorse over Obama”
As if all this weren’t bad enough for Obama, there’s more:
American Thinker Blog: Obama Keeps Hiring Anti-Israeli Advisors
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/04/obama_keeps_hiring_antiisraeli.html
Also, this needs to be part of the Ayers thing:
With Obama, it’s the Communism, Stupid
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/with-obama-its-the-communism-stupid/
There’s a whole anti-American thread running through all of Obama’s history and that needs to be more visible. The Wright deal and the adoption of racist Black Liberation Theology by the TUCC is but one part of a mighty nasty package that’s just plain wrong for this country.
Yeah….Chronicles of the elders of Zion is on Wrights’ bedside table for light reading….
The Obama surrogates has made race as an issue in this primary (with the blessings of the Obama campaign?) and race bait, too ,maybe as a counterpoint to whatever future controversies and scandals that Obama might have in the future. He has made race and race baiting the central portion of his campaign. It is with a certainty that Obama surrogates(with the blessings of the Obama campaign?) will answer every controversy and scandal with statements pertaining to race.
Remember the time when the Somali tribal dress that Barack wore in 2006 and was leaked thru the Drudge Report? David Plouffe immidiately accused the Clinton team of ’shameful offensive fear-mongering’. Then there is the op-ed of Orlando Patterson in the NY times which tried to put race in the 3am ad of Sen. Clinton.To qoute the 1st paragraph of the op-ed:
“On first watching Hillary Clinton’s recent “It’s 3 a.m.” advertisement, I was left with an uneasy feeling that something was not quite right — something that went beyond my disappointment that she had decided to go negative. Repeated watching of the ad on YouTube increased my unease. I realized that I had only too often in my study of America’s racial history seen images much like these, and the sentiments to which they allude.” And that is only the 1st paragraph.
Then there is the latest “brushing the dirt off the shoulder” incident which the Obama surrogates(?) has linked to the Jay Z song, “Dirt Off Your Shoulder”, a racially charged song (see this web link or google the song and judge for yourself.)http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/jayz/dirtoffyourshoulder.html
This can be construed as race baiting tactics of the Obama team and surrogates. It only needs a spark.
Please forward to your friends because it is imperative that the American people know who the real Barack Obama is and the way it is seen by me is he wants the race card to be front and foremost always. This could be his strategy up to the GE ( in case he wins the primary) and, heaven forbid, up to the presidency ( in case he wins it.)
In order for me to change this perspective on Obama, he must prove to me by his actions that this perspective is wrong.
The Obama camp has made race into an issue because on all of the legitimate issues Obama crashes and burns.
Made race an issue . . . uh huh. So when Gerry Ferraro says that Obama is only in the lead because he is Black, that is NOT making race an issue?
It is your weirdly skewed view of reality that, more than anything, explains why you guys are in such trouble. Indeed, from a racial perspective, I bet you see nothing wrong with what she said, did you?
Here is a hint — when a Democrat’s comments about another Democrat are endorsed by Laura Ingraham, that is NOT a compliment either to the subject of the comment nor the speaker!
Well, she was, in part, telling the truth.
Which is why Obama’s camp has crashed, and burned, not understanding truth as a weapon, esp since they don’t control the weather.
As opposed to what I would consider the racist “Obama, the magic negro” by Rush.
Simon, did she make race an issue or not? its a simple friggen question!
Taken from the LA Times, a moment of honesty from BO:
Obama acknowledges, with no small irony, that he benefits from his race. If he were white, he once bluntly noted, he would simply be one of nine freshmen senators, almost certainly without a multimillion-dollar book deal and a shred of celebrity. Or would he have been elected at all?
I BELEIVE THAT WAS A COMPLIMENT
SUCKERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR,,BAWACK,,BAWACK,,,,BARAXK,,,
ooops. ‘Sounds like an obamabot. Hey you forgot your substance. Or you are on the wrong site and don’t know it.
Sonia? Are you a sexist?
Yes, made race an issue. The Obama campaign is trying to score points by manufacturing racial objections to comments that were never racial to start with. Go sell your crap where people don’t already know the truth. Comments like yours are the best indicator of just how feeble the Obama campaign is.
John Kerry said the same thing. Guess it’s ok to mention his color if you are an Obama supporter
Ehemmm……John Kerry is an officially approved CRACKER….nuff said
She did not say he was only in the lead because he is black, she said he has benefited from his race much as she benefitted from being a woman when she was selected as VP candidate. she has no illusions that she would have been selected otherwise. Obama is a freshman senator with zero foreign policy experience, next to nothing to show for his time in state politics. He plagerizes”borrows” his speeches and has demonstrated clearly poor judgement in his relationships.
And in fact his own surrogate, John Kerry, has said that Obama benefitted from his race. Obama has also said he knows he is in this position because he is black. So, ge off Geraldine’s ass. She stated a fact. The man has no qualifications at all. Why is he there? Because he promises “hope” and “Unity”, so did Bush.
Thank you, Bud. Great post.
No I am not buying the koolaid, nor do I know of anyone who is. Friends of mine from around the country — and yes, some in states just about to vote, are very troubled by Senator Obama’s tactics. Even those who were previously leaning toward him are now committed to voting for Hillary.
The Obama campaign may as well give up this race-baiting and divisive tactic. He is doing a great disservice to the very people whose cause he is pretending to protect. This is not something any good Democrat would practice which leads me to wonder: who is Senator Obama anyway and why would he do this?
How does a person “race bait” into winning Minnesota, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas, and Iowa, states with PRACTICALLY NO MINORITY POPULATION? Obama says race was NOT the reason he lost Pennsylvania, has never blamed his race for any loss, yet you claim HE is race baiting! Insane . . . .
Yawn…
A “yawn” is not an answer.
Actually, I take that back. Your inability to give a coherent answer to a simple question tells me all I need to know!
Yes. It tells you that you are boring and not providing anything useful to this conversation.
Bob-O is being trolled, my impression anyway.
And notlettingfacts get in the way, ahem, he can’t figure it out.
See, Bob never lets facts get in the way, explaining his spectacular record of successes, in addition to his range, the man is a genius.
I have never seen anyone project his own weaknesses quite like Bob surfing that wave.
All one has to do is watch what Bob accuses others of, and POW!you know exactly what he thinks of himself, and what he’s up to, a more simple minded troll I have yet to meet.
I swear, it’s like he’s on remote control.
Like I have always said: your entire “race card” claim is nothing but the shallowest projecting. Is there any surprise that it i Obama who has a friggin coalition of people in states that Dems usually overlook? No. Because the game plan is “compete everywhere”. Don’t cherry pick states like Gore and Kerry did, which worked out SO WELL! Build the party in all 50 states and compete.
Obama has the ability and personality to do that. Hillary does not.
Obama has the ability and personality to spout meaningless rhetoric and make promises to many different people that he has no idea of how to keep. Sort of like bush, without the good parts (miniscule as those are),
No Dem has ever tried to get the Red states. It’s not part of how it goes. It seems so idiotic. What is a Dem doing trying to capture the red and only has the red states. It’s politically meaningless. He didn’t really win those states anyway. From state to state crowds of Hillary voters were locked out of the caucus and told to wait outside. They never did get let back inside. Thousands upon thousands of disenfranchised Hillary supporters thought they’d finally get a fair vote. Guess not. Talk about disillusionment.
Look in the mirror. You are boring and not providing anything useful. Are you also bored with Obama’s blog? Is that why you are here?
I was hoping that meant you didn’t want to play here anymore.
Obama doesn’t strike me as someone who has the soul of a Democrat. Whay does he always compliment Reagan? I mean if you met him without knowing him you’d swear he wasn’t a Dem. Do you think he’ll branch out to his very own party and call it Obamacrat? Will it stand for a mixed bag mostly containing “God Damn America”
I was only able to see snipets on Morning Joe this morning..
He was babbling about the way JFK and LBJ talked.
I dont think the pastor likes anyone except himself and other nutballs.
Another superdelegate for Obama! HA HA HA HA!
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/04/new_mexico_sen_jeff_bingaman_e.php
NC GOV ,, TO ENDORSE HILLARY ,,HA HA HA HA ,,,IN UR ASS
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/4/28/173741/213
Oooooohhh…..JUICY…….
So you are only down four supers for the week! I guess in Hillaryland that is called “momentum”!
Whenever I read your posts, I see a battery operated cow.
Not even a rabbit, but a cow.
Can’t you comeback with anything new, we already know the SD’s are lined up to help deflect bad news days.
Geez, that’s an OLD psy ops technique, d0od.
So how does this work? Obama has secret legions of superdelegates out there set to give him the margin, but he (for some reason) is choosing to prolong this process that only drives up his negatives? OK . . . .
I think I hear the black helicopters overhead!
Hmm . . . seems you are tacily admitting that the supers are going to give Obama the nomionation, too. So why the calls for HIM to drop out, when you know the fix is in for him?
And another thing: to what do you ascribe the fix being in for him, as opposed to her? Do you think him running the better strategic campaign, racking up more delegates and votes and having a 50 state campaign has anything to do with it? I know I do . . . .
Is Obama buying his delegates???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB3brK2MoBU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCaEAdk7sew
What does it matter. New Mexico already voted. Panicky “JUDAS” is up to no good trying to entice SD’s for Obama.
Ex Gov of NC with huge politcal clout has endorsed Hillary. Go Hillary. Go NC. This will be an upset victory for Hillary.
i am a die heart fan of hillary
,,,
but i am one of then who could have voted for obama,,but will not anymore ,,,,,,
since the south carolina primary when blacks voted 6% for hillary AND 2% for EDWARDS,, i made up my mind ,,if blacks don,t look beyond the color why we do
but still ,,i thought ,its not about color ,,its about our future ,,,,
then came the sexism part of obama and media
and came the black leaders scared and shifting to obama
and came the kennedy and kerry..and dona and all the sexist pople in the world
so i did research and stand by our lifelong loyal democrat hillary rodham clinton who is proud of her name,,,her background,her father,her family and OUR UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
You just lumped together 12% of the US population, but claim you “look beyond color”. Interesting, I don’t recall any hue and cry when Blacks gave 90% of their vote to Bill Clinton. But do the same thing for a person who happens to be Black and you have a problem with that! Seems to me that, deep down inside, you may just have a problem with Obama winning at all, not with the population of people putting him over the top . . . which is highly educated White people and younger White people who have one thing in common: they can’t stand Hillary!
NOW U R ACTING LIKE OBAMA AND HIS SUPPORTERS ,,,PICIKING AND CHOOSING
HISTORY IS THE WITNESS,,,WHEN BLACKS GAVE 90%VOTE TO BILL ,,THAT WAS BETWEEN TWO WHITES NEVER BETWEEN A BLACK AND WHITE
IF EVER ITS A RACE BETWEEN BLACK AND WHITE ,,,THEY ALWAYS GIVE IT TO BLACKS,,
and when in south carolina they did vote for obama,,they should have said ,,well we are proud of barack ,,and we wanna give him a chance,,,but nooooooooo,,,they said its because clintons played the race card ……well if clintons played the race card and they got 6% of black vote
what did edwards do they only got 2% of black vote ,,,,,
and u were picking on which lines u wanna pick on of mine ,,,let me paste again the whole lines,,
since the south carolina primary when blacks voted 6% for hillary AND 2% for EDWARDS,, i made up my mind ,,if blacks don,t look beyond the color why we do
but still ,,i thought ,its not about color ,,its about our future ,,,,
then came the sexism part of obama and media
and came the black leaders scared and shifting to obama
and came the kennedy and kerry..and dona and all the sexist pople in the world
so i did research and stand by our lifelong loyal democrat hillary rodham clinton who is proud of her name,,,her background,her father,her family and OUR UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
“HISTORY IS THE WITNESS,,,WHEN BLACKS GAVE 90%VOTE TO BILL ,,THAT WAS BETWEEN TWO WHITES NEVER BETWEEN A BLACK AND WHITE”
And like I said — did anyone complain? No. But because his wife sucks at getting Black votes, there is a problem. So let’s recap:
Bill gets 90% of Black votes over White candidate, no problem. Barack gets 90% Black votes over White candidate, BIG problem.
And what is the difference between Bill and Barack such that 90% Black votes for one is fine, but 90% Black votes for the other is “a sign of racism in the Black community”? Well you tell me!
Finally, I note that Bill and Hillary did not just lose the Black vote to Obama; they out and out alienated Black voters with some of the most shady b.s. this side of Sistah Soulja (did I say that?). That is not Obama’s fault, though he is certainly reaping the benefit . . . the same way Hillary reaps the benefit of the percentage of White Dems who are simply racist and will never vote for Obama. They vote Hillary, but I don’t see anyone from the Hillary side apologizing for that. So neither should Obama.
MY GOD!!!
USING THAT LOGIC, YOU COULD START, AND WIN, A WAR IN IRAQ.
QUICK! SOMEONE TELL CHENEY!!!!
Funny coming from people who support Hillary, who voted FOR the idiotic war! Morons . . . .
We understand you are very upset today and suggest an enema to calm your nerves.
Well Hillary never had Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn around to help write a speech against the war, just a President giving assurances that the vote was to force inspections under threat, but you trolls only hear what Axelrod pays you to say, since you can’t listen to all the facts, only those according to Obama, more Kool Aide?
You know, the process of getting elected President is nuts, personally, from what I’ve seen I have a really hard time understanding why any sane person would want to do it.
The difference between Obama and Clinton, though, is Clinton needs to go through the process to continue her life’s work, she’s an excellent administrator and leader, and she will govern this country, fairly, competently and with vision for the future.
Obama, OTOH, thought being President would be cool, and really likes how everyone caters to him, telling him he’s special. Even Halle Barry. He’s a star.
But that’s getting old, he had no idea they would dig so far, and relentlessly, and I would think he thought since Bush’s background was cleaned up, his could be, too.
I think he wants out, it’s not fun anymore, and he could be looking at jail, given his relationship with Rezko. That thought must be with him every single moment, even when he sleeps, and that simply wasn’t supposed to happen.
My impression, anyway.
Never let facts get in the way of your impression, Simon!
Hey Bob-o, what is your impression?
Feelings still a little piqued?
Spot that troll yet?
No?
Poor thing, not smart enough…
Have you tried looking in the mirror?
Word has it McCain land, where you live, is feeling a bit threatened, as of late, freeperville not doing to hot?
That crew just seems to miss the boat,
every.single.day.
I know McCain is feeling threatened. That is what “Operation Chaos” is all about: get Hillary nominated no matter what, so that she riles up the con base and alienates the Black Dem base, ensuring a McCain victory. And you numbskulls just play into it . . . .
OBAMA..WILL.LOSE
DEM.PARTY..PICKED=A.ROOKIE/LOSER
Operation Chaos? Isn’t that the name of Obama’s caucus campaign? HMMM
SIMON,
((((((((THANKS))))))))))))))
That’s funny. I thought you were slamming her Sonia.
I think there is lots of buyers remorse for Obama.
No problem. We see it everyday. Once people find out he does not stand for them, they discover Hillary. Not the Hillary they assumed about. But the Hillary who can fix the country’s mess and will do it too, given the chance.
The Hillary who brings all types and ages of people to tears with her inspiration. I’d love to have a video of all the people who break into tears after hearing Hillary speak. From 8 years old all the way to 110 years old and men too. Hillary is the people’s President. She is very muched deeply loved by all cross sections. Help is on the way. Go Hillary.
Bud, I enjoyed your post very much. Thank you!
Thank you. Still smilin’ at the name!
Apropos ain’t it. And serves as a reminder to the trolls we will never forget no matter how much they pout. I’m inclined to keep the name for the duration.
Everyone is so concerned in the DNC over the possible Black retaliation by non-vote, so give it to Obama, yet they forget the Republicans have friends in the Latino community, how so?
Run ads of Obama taking money from Crown when he was suppose seeing Crown to save the jobs of the maytag workers and Michelle taking money from Treehouse while 180 Colorado Latino’s are put out of work! Sort of puts the Obama’s in a great light with Latino’s! A larger segment of the population than Blacks are and easier to swing votes historically!
This guy has more racial profile hatred than any candidate in history!
W.t.f.?
Your ignorance is near total!
First of all, Latinos (a descriptive so diverse it includes Peurto Ricans, Dominicans, and Salvadorans . . . people who barely speak the same language, nonetheless have much in common) are a larger population than Blacks, but they are (a) very young, (b) include a lot of non-citizens, and (c) therefore, do not have nearly the number of voters.
Second, the rest of your post is gibberish. Try an editor next time.
B-Rob
Unless you have a well reasoned argument in support of Obama, you will find no satisfaction here. Anti-Clinton rhetoric doesn’t count as a reason.
Pres. & Sen. Clinton have always had a good relationship with the AA community. Just before the SC primary, someone started the race baiting. Common sense dictates that IT WOULD BE POLITICAL SUICIDE for either Clinton to “play the race card.” Are you kidding me?
Dick Morris, an Obama surrogate, eagerly bashed Sen. Clinton during a recent interview. Morris, a former Clinton associate, was asked if Pres. Clinton was racist. He said, “Absolutely not! William Jefferson Clinton is the least racist person I have ever known.”
You’ve got it right there, Pam. If for no other reason, it would have been political suicide to try the Republican race-bait tactic in a heavily AA Democratic primary. It was to Obama’s advantage, and that’s where it came from.
watch the clip of Obama talking about Wright from the tarmac.
He cannot look at the camera. he just cannot let us
see his eyes as he talks about this.
this is very telling. he is ashamed and he has been caught.
what does Rev. Wright know about him that he cannot give
him up completely?
I’m not sure I really want to know the answer to that. These people give me the creepy crawlers.
Reverand wrong has BO by the B*lls. That’s why Obama can’t denounce him.
wright just flushed obama down the toilet. jump in kevin and brob and save him, he’s floating on down the basin. do you two have any brains between you ? obama is gone, down the toilet, go wipe yourselves.
a choirboy……ask larry sinclair
It wouldn’t matter if BO was pink, green, purple or a martian. I still wouldn’t vote for him. He is very creepy.
Having a centrist President is the only way for our country will have stability and progress.
You mean kind of like what we had under “Terrible” Bill Clinton? My portfolio sure misses him.
Gee that sounds like someone we know and it ain’t that empty suit guy or that guy with a temper.
Just one more reason the Democrats have only seated two presidents in thirty years–and only one was a two-termer. Every decade or so these off the cliff nutcases try to hijack our party. It’s the same people over and over again and they need to haul ass back to the wildly unsuccessful American Socialist Party. They did it in 68. They did it in 72. They did it with Dukakis, and each and every time we ended up with another Republican president…until Bill Clinton came along. Somebody needs to tell these people that adults do not let children and old radical hippies pick presidents.
…….Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim…..
Translation: Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you….
I’ve been waiting for sanity to return to the whitehouse and to my party.
I believe that Sen. Clinton will win the nomination and the presidency.
Sen. Hillary Clinton is the change I’ve been waiting for….