Great article on the Clinton camp with race and fake populism

I highly recommend you read it

Courting Jim Crow
The Gothic Politics of Hillary Clinton
By JEFFREY ST. CLAIR


"What was once coded is now explicit. Clinton openly talks about her appeal among “working, hard working, white voters.” The implication here is that blacks are lazy, shiftless and on the welfare dole and that perhaps only half of their votes should count. But shouldn’t someone remind her that her husband dismantled welfare? Perhaps her former mentor Marian Wright Edelman should make the call."

"Coming from a Wellesley grad who just loaned her own campaign nearly $12 million, Hillary’s attempts to peg Obama as an elitist requires a degree of chutzpah that might make Alan Dershowitz tingle with envy. But when the Clintons tag Obama as an elitist, they don’t mean primarily that he is rich (which he is) but that he’s an “uppity n@#%er.” (my edit)

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For the dull-witted, Clinton’s surrogates are sent out spell it out in capital letters. Obama used cocaine (Bob Johnson). Obama’s middle name is “Hussein” (Bob Kerrey). Obama is a master of “shuck and jive” (Andrew Cuomo). Obama is another Jesse Jackson (Bill Clinton). Obama’s story is a fairy tale (ditto). And, most recently, Geraldine Ferraro told the Los Angeles Times that Obama is a “sexist” (most black men are, right?) and she won’t vote for him if he is the nominee.

To sum up: Obama is a drug abuser, a huckster, a secret Muslim, a con artist and a misogynist. And that’s without dragging Jeremiah Wright into the scenario.

http://counterpunch.org/

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lists!! Mr St Clair nailed it on the head..it is Hillary and Bill who are the real elitists! They have never cared about working people...NEVER.

The media keeps warning us that it will be worse in the GE, so what she did was to "test" him. I don't believe that this is an equitable comparison. Calling out racism coming out of the Republican camp would have been much more telling on the Republican party if the Democratic party hadn't engaged in it first. That's the sad part of the whole tale. And this is why Hillary will never be forgiven by a large number of Democratic voters; she started this shit cause she couldn't win on her own merits. That's why she's gonna lose.

on DU, justify this overt racism, sound more like repug than the modern day Democratic Party

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Mr.St. Clair certainly doesn't hold back:

Increasingly, Clinton is operating in a virtual reality programmed by her pollster Mark Penn during his downtime from working for the butchers of Colombia. Adhering to Penn’s fatal calculus, Clinton has endeavored to re-segregate the Democratic Party electorate into demographic segments and then pitted them against each other. The Clinton campaign has intentionally inflamed these simmering antagonisms: black versus Hispanic, black versus white, black versus older women, white collar versus blue collar, young versus old, under-educated versus college grad.