Reply #30: There's no comparison [View All]

Until you see some sort of exit polling, specific to blacks, whose results state that said voters "would not vote for a white person over a black person," you have no leg to stand on comparing Obama's black supporters and Hillary's racist white supporters.

It's a desperate attempt to deflect the criticism of Hillary's campaign, which no one can deny.

Perhaps if blacks had NOT voted Democratic overwhelmingly for the last two decades, and perhaps if blacks had NOT voted overwhelmingly for Bill Clinton and Gore, then you might have the beginnings of a leg to stand on making the argument that Obama has racist supporters to repudiate - but they did, so you don't.

Hillary has women supporting her because she is a woman trying to raise the bar on what a woman can achieve politically. Obama has blacks supporting him because he is a black man trying to raise the bar on what a black man can achieve politically. I begrudge neither set of supporters because I don't blame them, or think there is anything wrong with what they are doing. While I would argue that Hillary's female supporters supporting her solely on that stance are doing themselves a disservice at this point now that Hillary has lost, I still understand it.

But neither of these groups hold anything in common with Hillary's blatantly racist supporters in blue-collar, poor, undereducated states like West Virginia and Kentucky. These people are not supporting Hillary because she is Hillary - they are supporting Hillary because Obama is black. "Race is an issue." What the hell do you think that exit polling question MEANS?

Anyone trying to argue that Obama has anything along these lines to repudiate is either a stinging Hillbot or just very, very ignorant.