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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 --- 57 days ago http://www.charlotteobserver.com/409/story/621480.html
| The Clintons have never understood how to exit the stage gracefully. Their repertoire has always been deficient in grace and class. So there was Hillary Clinton cold-bloodedly asserting to USA Today that she was the candidate favored by "hard-working Americans, white Americans," and that her opponent, Barack Obama, the black candidate, just can't cut it with that crowd. "There's a pattern emerging here," said Clinton. There is, indeed. There was a name for it when the Republicans were using that kind of lousy rhetoric to good effect: It was called the Southern strategy, although it was hardly limited to the South. Now the Clintons, in their desperation to find some way -- any way -- back to the White House, have leapt aboard that sorry train. He can't win! Don't you understand? He's black! He's black! The Clintons have been trying to embed that gruesomely destructive message in the brains of white voters and superdelegates for the longest time. It's a grotesque insult to African Americans, who have given so much support to both Bill and Hillary over the years. (Rep. Charles Rangel of New York, who is black and has been an unwavering supporter of Hillary Clinton's White House quest, told the New York Daily News: "I can't believe Sen. Clinton would say anything that dumb.") But it's an insult to white voters as well, including white working-class voters. It's true that there are some whites who will not vote for a black candidate un ... |
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