Saturday, June 07, 2008

Hillary campaign used racist tactics against Obama.

A Democratic superdelegate from New Jersey said this week he is worried that unifying the party behind Barack Obama may be difficult because the Clinton camp "has engaged in some very divisive tactics and rhetoric it should not have."

U.S. Rep. Rob Andrews, who supported Hillary Clinton throughout the primary season, disclosed he received a phone call shortly before the April 22 Pennsylvania primary from a top member of Clinton's organization and that the caller explicitly discussed a strategy of winning over Jewish voters by exploiting tensions between Jews and African-Americans.

The Clinton campaign cried sexism every time they felt under attack. Bill even made the "ganging up on a girl" comment at one point. To be honest the only possibly sexist thing that Obama said about Hillary that I can remember, may have been the "Annie Oakley" comment that he made when she started pandering to the NRA crowd. But that only works if you believe a reference to Annie Oakley to be derogatory, which I do not. I actually think of Oakley as a great feminist icon since she earned the respect of the men by beating them at their own games.

However I think it is clear that the Clinton campaign has far more to be ashamed of in the way they used race against Obama. Bill's comment comparing the Obama campaign to Jesse Jackson's Presidential bid in an effort to label Obama the "black candidate" which up to that point was not how he was being identified may have been the first volley. Then there was the photo of Obama dressed in African garb that the Clinton campaign staffers sent to the Drudge Report in a further effort to make white America nervous about Barack Obama.

These speak of a coordinated effort to keep Obama from rising above race to appeal to the voters strictly on ideas and to weigh him down with the label of "the token black Presidential candidate", destined to defeat just like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and even Republican Alan Keyes.

In the Mental Health community there is a term called "projecting" which is what a patient does when they identify their own problems in the people around them. So when the Clinton campaign cried "sexism" it was really them self identifying "racism" in their own campaign.

The truly sad thing is that often the mentally ill patient firmly believes that all of their problems are the fault of others and they can take absolutely no ownership of them. Sound familiar?

2 comments:

  1. What everyone is missing is that Obama is not a black candidate. he is a bi-racial candidate.

    Alan Keyes is the only black presidential candidate.

    www.alankeyes.com
    www.selfgovernment.us

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  2. omg...please tell me that Alan Keyes is not running again??? is he ? really? I thought 2004 was the last time...( Did I miss something?)

    Obama is Biracial...but he is also a man of a wonderfully culturally rich background...Indonesia, Hawaii...and his grandmother in Kenya...but as a young man and as a man he has faced ALL that comes with being a Black Man in America- and whether we like it or not we are clearly a country that has problems with Racism...and Hillary did play all the racial cards she could find...it was horrible..

    And for people that don't believe we have a problem with racism..I have one word...Katrina..

    Hillary crossed the line and pandered to Bigots, it was real and it did indeed happen...and it did hurt people...esp. black DEMS that had always supported the Clintons...it broke their hearts- they felt betrayed....and they were...

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