The “Soft Bigotry” Hillary Clinton

It is hard to accept that the Clinton’s have a racist bone in their bodies. After all Bill is the first Black President.

But again it is hard to see anything but a “soft bigotry of low expectations” in the totality of Hillary’s reactions to Barack Obama’s campaign success and the prospect of his Presidency.

She seems genuinely shocked at the successes of Obama campaign and is willing to posit any explanation for it from State to State (race-preference, white guilt, corrupt caucus systems, cultic tendencies) other than qualities and capabilities as a national leader.

She expresses total dismay at the prospect of an Obama Presidency and the risks to the nation. Her constant refrain that Obama’s only qualification is “a speech he gave in 2002” shows distain for both Obama’s life of public service and the judgement of all the people and party leaders who support him. Some thing about Obama invalidates the standard metrics for political leadership. Obama supporters must be deluded dupes, unlike those who supported candidates such as RFK, Lincoln and many others (including her husband) with similarly thin records in Washington politics and National Security.

Hillary is like the ghetto school-mistress who is so proud of her best student she would do anything to get him into community college but would be scornful of “hopes” to go a Berkeley or Harvard.

I am personal of the mind that the Party should have encouraged and backed one of the previous standard-bearers – Gore or Kerry –for the nomination. I was not an Obama supporter. But after watching the pernicious deceptions, the disabling campaign of subtle (and not so subtle) smears, and the what appears to be a pervasive “soft-bigotry” that infects her campaign, it is hard to imagine supporting Hillary Clinton for the Presidency.

I guess I have joined the swelling mass of ABC democrats – anybody but Clinton.

After Clinton supporters began saying that "true democrats" didn't support Obama. They of course, never thought that AAs have been our most loyal voting bloc in ever election. Young people also didn't count as true democrats. Only older white folks count I guess.

Belong to groups that no longer even vote Democrat. African Americans have been the most loyal Democratic voting bloc for 50 years.

If you look at the groups of "real Democrats" that Clinton has been winning, a lot of them are actually Reagan Democrats who haven't voted for a Democrat in a while.

At the risk of shameless self-promoting, I explored this in more depth on my blog. http://purplestatepundit.com/blog/election08/is-clinton-really-winning-core-democrats/

What's worse, being a sincere unapologetic racist, or just being willing to cynically use racism to slime your way to a nomination you couldn't win in a fair fight?

I know which one I'd pick.

Because I think the red-necks believe they see one of them in Hillary, just disguised.

A. hilary needs to go down in her slime.

Not to me.

Lets not forget that the Clintons are a party unto themselves.
They triangulate and divide - they parse and make damning inferences and innuendo.
And they share power with no one. They did it for 8 years.. starting 16 years ago
and they are certainly doing it now. Here we are ... divided. And the Clintons
are swooping in to take advantage. The party is crazy to think that there
will be coattails on this ... just as there were none before.
Don't forget the past.. does this not seem too familiar?
Don't you remember all the Clinton awfulness.
The Clinton way is to pit one against the other. Just look around.
They are succeeding.. and it is disgusting.
It is monstrous.

and credentials??

noticed how she proclaimed at a debate that it an "honor" to be there with Obama, and then she illegitimizes his candidacy by saying it's based on a "speech" and that he is unqualified compared to McCain. She doesn't seem to know what to do with him.

she proclaimed at a debate that it was an "honor" to be there......"

Oh, but you're wrong. Lots of DUers noticed and commented on this in the dys after that debate, only to be slapped down by Obamacans who insisted that Hillary was a "fake" and "phony".

Count me in. My soft dislike began with HRC's calculating IWR vote. My current fierce loathing is precisely because of her campaign and her hypocrisy.

Where was her 'shame on you' to GWB during the past 7 years in the Senate (her only real experience)?

Who know it was bs

but it's a very good stun.

There were a few posts here today and some people at work too. Thank you. I believe we really can change things by saying no to the old politics of divisiveness and polarization.

delegates to Hillary's 95.:woohoo: