A Blacklash?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/03/opinion/03blow.html?scp=11&sq=hillary+clinton&st=nyt

A Blacklash?


By CHARLES M. BLOW
Published: May 3, 2008




Since January, the Clintons have pummeled Barack Obama with racially tinged comments and questions about his character.

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If Hillary Clinton should defy the odds (and the current math) and secure the nomination, she would be hard-pressed to defeat John McCain without the enthusiastic support of black voters, stalwarts of the Democratic base.

Getting that support could now be tricky.

Many blacks are aghast that their extraordinary support of Bill Clinton in the past would be repaid by the Clintons with racial innuendo (in a Times/CBS News poll after the salacious 1998 Starr report was released, his unfavorable rating among whites climbed to 52 percent; among blacks it was only 10 percent). Some who stood by him then now apparently feel betrayed.

It is no wonder then that McCain is making a place at the table for possible defectors, however unlikely. He began his “forgotten places” tour in Alabama’s Black Belt by literally dancing into the arms of an elderly black woman as she sang the gospel hymn “Do, Lord, Remember Me.”

Remember that moment if you ever see a bumper sticker that reads, “Repulsed into voting Republican.”

Hillary Clinton has questioned why he didn’t walk out on the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.; why he “denounced” but didn’t “reject” Louis Farrakhan; and whether he is too chummy with the former radical Bill Ayers. She chastised his characterization of white working-class voters as being highfalutin and chided him for not agreeing to a street-fight-style debate.

Bill Clinton has called Obama’s stance on the war a fairy tale, dismissed an early primary win as mere Jesse Jackson redux and recently claimed that Obama was playing the race card against him. Some of this is valid, the result of Obama’s own missteps, but some of it is baffling.

The rhetoric appears to be trafficking in old fears and historic stereotypes. The unspoken (and confusing) characterization of Obama is that he’s militant yet cowardly; uppity yet too cool for school.

The question is this: Have white Democrats soured on Obama? Apparently not. Although his unfavorable rating from the group is up five percentage points since last summer in polls conducted by The New York Times and CBS News, his favorable rating is up just as much.

This is a very under-reported story.

She would be the most disastrous nominee since McGovern, if not worse.

:kick:

Obama has divided the party to insure a win by McCain.

So much for 'a sure thing' eh?

Here it is :sarcasm:

He can take it.

How's that Tuzla thing working out??

:hi:

how is indiana and NC working out? We will all see Tuesday.

She knows she can't win the nomination, and if by some miracle she did, she knows she has lost the black vote, and could never beat McCain. It's all about destroying Obama now so she can run again in 2012.

If you want the actual impact go look at RCP.

where AA's supported Clinton in his moment of need? That has nothing to do with Wright. Nice try.

her wallow with the trolls.

They keep talkin' about hilary alienating Blacks well I know more than a few Whiteys who would never vote for this hilary clinton For Dog Catcher.

Mr. Blow joined The New York Times in 1994 as a graphics editor and quickly became the paper's graphics director, a position he held for nine years.

Got a problem with that?

http://www.nytimes.com/ref/opinion/CHBLOW-BIO.html

but I love it when you talk all mafia to me. :)

might be more nefarious. And if I really want to sound all 'mafia', I woulda said, "Yo, dirtbag. Ya got a problem with that?"

Disclaimer: I am from New Yawk and did love the Sopranos. Maybe I overdid it? :rofl: :hi:

lil' ol' me?