In your Face Hillary :"He's Transformative And Restorative": New York Observer Endorses Obama

The New York Observer urges New York Democrats to support Mr. Obama in the state's presidential primary on Feb. 5.

New Yorkers might ask why they should not pull a lever for our junior senator, Hillary Rodham Clinton. While Mrs. Clinton is an extraordinary United States senator for New York, we believe that Mr. Obama can be a great president for the United States of America.

Most of the other candidates have absorbed, assimilated or appropriated Mr. Obama's issue of change.

But a great deal of the argument for Mr. Obama's candidacy is about one great issue in American life: Restoring American democracy.

It is difficult to remember the last national candidate who has charged and jazzed the democratic system as Mr. Obama has. Partly as a result of his candidacy, college campuses have remembered why they are proud of the United States, kids are going door to door, runners are handing out leaflets on weekends, racial lines have been culturally melted and the electoral approach to presidential campaigning has been reborn.

And, as more than one commentator has said, America is being reintroduced to the world.


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He has risen too quickly for his opponents' taste; that fact is nothing less than a recommendation.

His relationship to truth and plain speaking and public transparency is the first step toward reviving democracy in the United States of America.

Barack Obama of Illinois is the future. New York's Democrats should embrace him.



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/22/hes-transformative-and-_n_82768.html

What the fuck was Obama supposed to do?

"Why yes, Hillary of course you're right, the Civil Rights Act would never have passed without the nice white President! Thank you so much for pointing that out to me. I'll just be dropping out of the race now since you've got the whole civil rights thing covered, due to your amazing Caucasian abilities!" :sarcasm:

race.

Good going on alienating the most reliably Democratic voting bloc - African Americans - there is.

How's that hollow primary victory going to feel when black voters don't come out to vote in November?

the role of MLK, but plenty of his surrogates made that claim.

I have to live in this majority minority district when this is over. How's that victory gonna be? Sweet.

Oh and Hillary DID dis Dr. King. I heard her statement in it's entirety. It was a coded appeal to liberal whites who may have been wrestling over whether to vote for the white woman or the black man. It was a sop to their egos. She may not have intended it to offend the black community but it got out there and it did. Don't blame surrogates for this.

I have to live in this majority minority district when this is over. How's that victory gonna be? Sweet.

I have no earthly idea what you mean by that comment. Are you planning to gloat in the faces of those minorities if Hillary wins the primary? Nice. :eyes: