Clinton Serves Up Hellish Roux of Bigotry, Division and Suspicion

The roux that Clinton has been cooking up over the past months for Obama is seemingly ready - boiled down to its final form and served up in W. VA for all to see. It isn't pretty, but there it is. For those not familiar with a roux: The fat is heated in a pot or pan melting it if necessary, then the flour is added. The mixture is stirred until the flour is incorporated and then cooked until at least the point where a raw flour taste is no longer apparent or until desired color has been reached. The final results can range from the nearly white to the nearly black, depending on the length of time it is over the heat, and its intended use. The end result is a thickening and flavoring agent.

It seems Clinton's Roux is "nearly white".

Here are some points taken from an LA Times Article called "W. VA Could Spell Trouble for Obama".

1. "I'm not yet convinced that Barack Obama is more substance than fluff," said Clyde M. See Jr., a former Democratic speaker of the West Virginia House of Delegates and two-time gubernatorial candidate who heads a small law practice in Moorefield, the county seat. "He's a fine speaker, mind you, but I'm still not sure he's got the right stuff to win the general election."
   
   
2. The concerns of party members who live amid this rolling landscape of soybean fields, poultry plants and retirement cabins mirror those of many white Democrats nationwide: Some fear voters will be turned off by Obama's black heritage. Others, they say, will find reason to doubt his patriotism or will perceive him to be an elitist.
   
   
3. "My worry is there's just too many people in this country who aren't ready to elect a black president," said Charles L. Silliman, a retired Air Force officer who is Hardy County's Democratic Party co-chairman. "There's a lot to like about him. But I'm just afraid that too many people will vote against him based on their fears and prejudice."
   
   
4. Neil Gillies, an Obama supporter who runs a local environmental nonprofit group, glumly recounted the gibes that his wife, a schoolteacher, hears regularly from her students. "They're convinced is a Muslim, a terrorist, a guy who's coming to take away their guns," Gillies said. "It's just sad."
   
   
5. "I've got 50-some guns, and I wasn't crazy about Obama's talk about small towns," said Sam Vetter, 64, a farmer and lifelong Democrat who regrets voting for Bush in 2000. "Besides," he added, "Obama just doesn't sound right for an American president."
   
   
6. Obama "takes the cake," he said, "because of, you know, who he is." He suspects Obama for his "Muslim name," and comments by his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., rankle him. "He's just a mistake any way you look at him," Hardy said.
   
   
7. In Hardy County, Democrats outnumber Republicans more than 2 to 1. But there is little enthusiasm for Barack Obama in this mountainside enclave, a portent of trouble for the Illinois senator in next week's West Virginia primary and the general election beyond.
   
   

Congratulations, Hillary. West Virginia and your "base" may buy into this. As for me, I choose to look away from the hate and division, from the bigotry and fear. I'll take my chances with the Senator from Illinois who will be the President of ALL the people, and who is speaking to us of Hope, Unity, Change.. and Love. You may have served up a Hellish Roux - but your meal is incomplete and palatable to very few.

Amazing that the existence of Rev. Wright doesn't automatically negate the Muslim smear.

single digits and that Indiana may still turn.

It was obvious that Hillary's comment about getting white support where Obama does not would invite criticism, perhaps from the Obama campaign. Hillary could then spin this reaction into an attack on white Americans. This would incite the already present fear in white rural America that an uppity anti-white black man was coming to change things.

This would serve to boost turnout in remaining contests where there is relatively little minority population (I think).

knew exactly what she was doing and this is the result.

hell for people like this. george wallace at least tried to repent. I doubt she ever will.

In the first place, blaming Hillary for things other people said is what wingnut Repthuglicans and character-assasins do.

In the second, none of these quotes is propaganda or racism or bigotry. It every case, they are nothing but the stated opinions of some of the people the reporter interviewed. IOW, these comments are from the general news, not the Clinton Campaign.

The Red Scare of the 1950s was NOTHING in comparison to the Hillary Scare of 2008.

There are people who still call themselves Democrats who would summarily execute HRC on the spot if they could avoid blame for it. Disgusting paranoid hate-mongers!

West Virginia, her recent interviews, her surrogates on TV, etc.

Well, many of us HAVE been paying attention. A blind defense with name-calling is no defense at all. You have no response but to fling poo.

Typical.