Reply #30: In HRC's case, it goes to the top, including the candidate, and, frankly ... [View All]

The notion that Obama supporters are (for the most part) trying to do any more but to reveal this pattern, with the hope that enough NONblack Democrats will wisely spurn the purveyors of these tactics and stop the campaign that is the driving force behind them is an unfair canard.

I've been following the board pretty closely since this stuff became front and center in the campaign (about merely a WEEK ago) and the pattern (to my eyes, which of course, like anyone's cannot rise above all bias) and it is OVERWHELMINGLY one-sided. Part of what needs to be made clear is that not only is the HRC camp engaged in a PATTERNED strategy of race-baiting, but that here on DU there are a swarm of Obama-bashers spreading the false impression that the Obama supporters are, on the whole, 'just as bad'. If you are going to try to clear away the BS in politics, including in Democratic politics, it should be possible to develop a rough consensus on DU in support of these reasonably obvious fact truths.

It was particularly discouraging to see the moderators dismissing out of hand ALL the questioning of the exit poll/election results divergence in NH, until Dennis Kucinich, in his justification for calling for a recount, lent credibility to arguments that the DU management had dismissed as beyond the pale.

You might also notice a (much smaller but noticeable, and shockingly widely supported) Kucinich-bashing demi-urge that has surfaced at DU since his decision to call for a recount.