Hillary Clinton made this primary about race.

Her well-designed comment about MLK and LBJ was just ambiguous enough for her to go back and restate what she really meant (and have Bill do it too); but by invoking MLK, she got the desired result. That comment and the way it was stated was no accident.

Suddenly, the media was all over it and yes, comments from Obama's campaign and Obama supporters were made in retort. Not from Obama though. I commend him for staying above the fray.

Now the Clinton campaign is accusing the Obama campaign and worse, Obama himself, of injecting race into the primary. The tactic is repulsive because Obama's message is about bringing Americans together, not dividing us by race.

This tactic should be familiar to all of us - it's been used many times by Rove and the GOP to cut off political opponents at the knees. It's highly effective but also dishonest; the last thing I want to see is Democrats acting like Republicans.

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when will she admit her IWR vote was a mistake? Her inability to do so is beyond comprehension. If you haven't seen this yet, watch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYATbsu2cP8

Maybe you will learn something about your candidate.

over and over admit they were/are in over their heads too. Just sayin'.

Watch the video.

Or hasn't that been the day long bitch on DU for the last 7 years.... Clinton is not alone in this, nor is Obama. Note that the rest of Washington is munching on popcorn enjoying the show.

"You are", fyi.

If the other stuff hadn't happened, especially from Kerrey and Shaheen, then these other remarks wouldn't have taken a racial connotation.

I think it's sad that so many DUers are ignoring the odious remarks made to focus on these, which is really what the Clinton campaign wants you to do.

Oh, and not forget to be upset about Hillary being called "likeable enough", as if that's the insult of the century.

and her supporters are making a lousy counterargument that it's somehow Obama's fault for something CLINTON said.

I ,personally, think that remark was odious. Enough said.

It was friendly teasing and she knew it at the time.

She wants to make Obama the "black candidate" so white voters will vote for her.

The key is how Obama handles this.

has always stood up for them. You are just whistling Dixie, as we say in the South, which is another way of saying "up yours".

I miss them all. :hug:

But she's slowly losing favor with minority voters with her obvious political moves.

It may cost her those same minority votes in November.

...everyone has realized it.

I personally believe that Hillary is better than this. It's sad that her campaign has convinced her that she has to act this way to win. I couldn't disagree more.

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can you pin this shit on someone else?

I hate having to stick up for Hillary Clinton. But you Obama people are something else.

that guy says.

One of the sources of the racist remarks.

and proved to be quite a neocon supporter as well. Screw Bob Kerrey.

But it started with the OBAMA supporters. And that you can't deny.

And slurs kept on coming out of that campaign. People should just ignore racial slurs?

...MLK's civil rights activism would have been in vain were it not for LBJ pushing the civil and voting rights legislation.

Ignorance of the history of those days is rampant or being maliciously overlooked for racist purposes by Obama supporters.

If not for the movement created by Martin Luther King. It was a disrespectful thing to say.

No one has diminished MLK's activism, nor anyone else's.

But, here pay close attention: the purpose of political activism, in most cases, is to effect legislation to bring about the changes being sought. Without those legislative or executive results, the activism is wasted!

Hillary said that Presidents are a vital part of that political activism - hand in hand with the Rosa Parks and the Martin Luther Kings of those days.

Get it now?

She said it to draw a comparison to her and Obama (that was the context). It was a very divisive comment meant to stir emotion not make everyone feel good because government and those brave souls worked hand in hand.

Uh, the "crowd" and way too many in other places know very little about civil rights and civil rights activism. Especially during that period. It wasn't just about "I have a dream".

What Hillary stated was very simple and articulate: You need great political strength to achieve your goals and especially your dreams in political activism.

Look between the lines - such a statement, the way it was phrased insinuates it took a white man to do what a black man couldn't. That's why it struck a chord and got such a response. It was genius really - because it gave Hillary and Bill the opportunity to revisit the comment over and over and over.

She could have said MLK and LBJ worked together to further the cause but she didn't.

And historically that is absolutely correct. There weren't enough blacks in office during that time. They came much later. So, you play up to the white man and make him listen to the people - all the people.

The people...all they do is complain and beg for stuff.

That is why Hillary Clinton as President can give us Health Care and Pre-K Education and other goodies under our Christmas Trees.

She is so freaking condescending it is offensive.

I hadn't been able to pinpoint my growing dislike for Hillary - you sum it up well.

They're OURS and we have the right to them. There should never have even needed to be law granting African Americans the rights outlined in the Declaration of Independence.

doing in the primaries.

... LBJ pushing the civil and voting rights legislation would have been in vain were it not for MLK's civil rights activism.

Ignorance of the history of those days is rampant or being maliciously overlooked for racist purposes by Clinton supporters.


It's not a coincidence that civil rights legislation was enacted during one of our countries largest periods of civil unrest.
And it would not have been written or enacted had that unrest not have occurred.

The same way we would never leave Iraq if the decision was left solely to the government,
we will be exiting Iraq because it's the will of the people.
And whomever is President in 2009 had damn well better sign the necessary paperwork

She will continue Bush's failed policies - she is the establishment, the status quo.

:hi:

dlc, bill clinton triangulation, over the hill smearjeerers.

Fucker couldn't run on her own accomplisments.

If that's all it takes for Obama's supporters to accuse someone of racism, then is candidacy is doomed.

It was very calculated and invoked great emotion in a lot of people. If the primary is all about race, the issues get lost in the fog and Hillary won't have to answer serious questions about her support of Bush's war. Brilliant move for the Clinton campaign.

Hillary is brilliant and she does believe in election strategy
but Jesse Jackson did start all of this...and no doubt not approved
or created by Obama's campaign....or at least I can't imagine their
being that calculated. I sinceerely hope I'm not being completely
naive here.

in his face big time. I am sure it will

This didn't come from Obama. It comes from people who are pissed at Clinton for minimizing MLK.

Hillary really stepped into it now.

he may win SC because of his accusations of racism against the Clintons, but hopefully, other people will wake up to the fact that Obama has as much intention of uniting the country as george W had. Obama has made his campaign about anger not "Hope".

That's exactly what your post says. I challenge you to find one instance where he did so. Have fun looking.

all the while blaming it on some made up character.

...I believe it was Obama that did that. Hillary cannot mention someone who is black or mention the civil rights movement, lest Obama percieve it as some sort of a racist attack? The whole notion is absurd and it illistrates the thin skinned hypersensitivy of Obamas campaign and support base. Imagine how Obama would stand up the the withering, 24/7 viscious attacks Hillary has put up with for the last 15 years. Judging by his reaction to relatively minor criticisms, he would end up in a strait jacket right along with his supporters. The more he crys and whines every time he is criticized, the less and less I like him. Which candidate has the pair here?

to Katrina.

c'mon. Obama's campaign has dived into the mud.