If George Wallace would have made the same remarks to USA Today.....

...we Democrats would've been in an uproar.


That it came from Hillary Clinton is astounding.


It was vulgar. It was something NO Democratic politician should ever think, let alone say.


Even during his "southern strategy", Richard Nixon would not have been as blunt.


Hillary's raw ambition has turned her into something very ugly inside. She has literally, before our eyes, become a bad person.


Disgusting.


If Obama shows the poor judgement of adding her to the ticket, then he is not the man I thought he was ... and I will have serious problems voting for him in that case.

She has no place in his administration.

you were wrong.

those comments were unaccceptable.

to win!!! She wants the PARTY to win. She won't be the nominee but she understands what it will take for Dems to win in November with Obama at the top of the ticket. To bury your head in the sand and pretend that recognizing the race issue we have in this country will not help us win in November.

She's supposed to be "above it all".


If she were a man, I'd be calling her a dick.


What she said was a very dick-ish thing to say.


You can twist yourself in a knot trying to come up with a rationalization to defend it... but it won't change a thing.

Democrats don't think that way... at least we're not supposed to.

along racial lines in order to win votes, is not acknowledging racism..it is promoting it.

Goddamnit, people--what she said was disgusting. Beyond the pale. Inexcusable. If ANY other candidate had said those words, it would be a major scandal.

She should be ashamed, and SO SHOULD YOU.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/05/desperate_clinton_is_danger_to.html

WASHINGTON -- From the beginning, Hillary Clinton has campaigned as if the Democratic nomination were hers by divine right. That's why she is falling short -- and that's why she should be persuaded to quit now, rather than later, before her majestic sense of entitlement splits the party along racial lines.

If that sounds harsh, look at the argument she made Wednesday, in an interview with USA Today, as to why she should be the nominee instead of Barack Obama. She cited an Associated Press article "that found how Senator Obama's support ... among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again. I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on."

As a statement of fact, that's debatable at best. As a rationale for why Democratic Party superdelegates should pick her over Obama, it's a slap in the face to the party's most loyal constituency -- African-Americans -- and a repudiation of principles the party claims to stand for. Here's what she's really saying to party leaders: There's no way that white people are going to vote for the black guy. Come November, you'll be sorry.

How silly of me. I thought the Democratic Party believed in a colorblind America.

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