Hillary Clinton on Race In The Campaign?

10:28 am EST May 21st, 2008 | Uncategorized | 10 Comments

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10 Responses to “Hillary Clinton on Race In The Campaign?”

  1. KXB says:
    May 21, 2008 at 10:46 am

    So Obama has to apologize for the 60 seconds of Rev. Wright video, some 60-something year old member of the Weather Underground, etc. But 20% of Clinton voters in KY (love those initials) cite race as their main reason, and no one asks Clinton how she feels about that? Yeah, they are just ganging up on her.

  2. Vanessa says:
    May 21, 2008 at 11:12 am

    Yeah, it’s fucked up. No one said it would be easy to move beyond race. These voters who cited race as a reason for voting against Obama are messed up, BUT there were plenty of people who didn’t want women to get the vote. There were plenty of people who didn’t want slavery to end. It’s up to the rest of America to stand and and speak out against racism and sexism. It’s up to us to move beyond race and leave these neanderthals behind. Just because some rednecks don’t like Obama because he’s black doesn’t mean that Obama won’t be our next president.

  3. KXB says:
    May 21, 2008 at 11:35 am

    There were two interesting quotes regarding the results – Ron Reagan called Hillary “President of Appalachia.”

    The second, a comment left on Balloon Juice brought up the little nugget that Ross Perot, in 1992, said, “If you are a racist or a bigot, I don’t want your vote.” Don’t expect HRC to say anything remotely like that. Is she racist? No – but she is hyper-competitive and with her sense of entitlement will play any card she can.

  4. z_adura says:
    May 21, 2008 at 11:55 am

    I am also waiting for Hillary Clinton to deal with sexism in this campaign in a mature, adult way. If there is sexism and if that is harmful to Democratic prospects either now or in the fall, I expect a leader to stand up and talk about it.

    Instead, like a politician, and not a leader, Hillary has let her surrogates use increasingly divisive rhetoric. It reinforces why I didn’t vote for her and why I would have had issues with voting for her in November.

  5. Thomas says:
    May 21, 2008 at 12:01 pm

    FYI, the link fails –I get a 403-Forbidden error. I also tried pasting the link into a new browser window and got the same error.

  6. Crusty Dem says:
    May 21, 2008 at 12:06 pm

    yes, Vanessa, that is what HRC should say. She doesn’t have to worry about offending rednecks in Pennsyltuckybama at this point, so there’s no harm in saying it.

  7. somejackass says:
    May 21, 2008 at 1:03 pm

    Are you people insane? She’ll never do this. Her sleazy aide Sydney Blumenthal started the Rev. Wright kurfuffle, etc. Behind the scenes, they knew race was their only chance. And they’ve done *very* well with it (when it wasn’t Bill or Hillary implying it, but behind the scenes work). The problem for white folks in Appalachia is not that they are braindead rednecks. It’s that HRC’s campaign is playing to their fears about black guy named Barack Hussein Obama – they don’t know anything about him, and there are ridiculous rumours circulating (secret muslim, black panthers, etc.). HRC benefits from those rumors – they are her only hope. Why on earth would she denounce them? Maybe she will denounce them when she gets out of the race, but not before that.

  8. SpiderJ says:
    May 21, 2008 at 1:14 pm

    Reports are that Obama did better among hardworking white voters in Oregon than Hillary.

    It’s okay, though, because they don’t count.

  9. Lee Coles says:
    May 21, 2008 at 1:36 pm

    The Clinton’s next book will be titled “How to Destroy 35 years of Racial Rapport in Six Months”

  10. Vanessa says:
    May 21, 2008 at 1:55 pm

    LMAO at Lee Coles comment.