I'm not stupid at all and I certainly know what Robinson does for a living. Is that all you have to say?

Posted at April 23, 2008 9:21 PM in response to Top Hillary Surrogate Disagrees With Bill: No Candidate Played Race Card

You are right that the Obama campaign cannot be blamed for what Robinson says or does as a commentator.

Posted at April 23, 2008 4:56 PM in response to Top Hillary Surrogate Disagrees With Bill: No Candidate Played Race Card

Hillary and Bill have their share of faults, but you have to give some credit to the right wing smear machine for furthering Hillary's divisiveness as a national figure. To overlook that and to lay all the blame on her is to be unprepared for what they will try to do to Obama. Look at what they did to Gore and Kerry and where they were going with Edwards. Indeed, the Republic talking points on Obama are already well on its way--that he is an elitist, latte drinking, Rev. Wright and terrorist loving anti-American surrender monkey.

Posted at April 23, 2008 4:41 PM in response to NBC calls it: Obama wins!

Why go there? It helps no one including Obama to make such comments.

Posted at April 23, 2008 4:14 PM in response to Top Hillary Surrogate Disagrees With Bill: No Candidate Played Race Card

Del moi

You hit it on the head. Accusing someone of playing the race card, who isn't, is playing the race card perfectly. Whether Obama sanctioned it or simply tolerated it, that is what his campaign did. There is no doubt that Bill Clinton was trying to diminish the significance of Obama's victory in SC with the Jesse Jackson analogy, but "racism" - give me a break. Likewise, giving credit to LBJ and the political process for the passage of civil rights legislation is hardly evidence of disrespecting the work of Martin Luther King or of racism, yet it was portrayed that way. Conversely, the "Bradley effect" keeps being dragged out to explain the failure of pollsters to accurately predict how well Hillary may do in a given primary. Give credit to Eugene Robinson for being the first to invoke that. As a Hillary supporter who also thinks that Obama would make an excellent President, seeing the race card played so cravenly on the Clintons has been very disillusioning and the only thing to date that has made me wonder if Obama may be just another politician.

Posted at April 23, 2008 4:09 PM in response to Top Hillary Surrogate Disagrees With Bill: No Candidate Played Race Card

The rules seem pretty clear. Florida and Michigan don't count unless there is a proper revote, which is not going to happen, and superdelegates can can vote on any basis whatsoever. The current craziness underscores the need for a massive overhaul of how we select nout party's nominee. In that regard, how wrong is it that Republicans in many states can vote in the Dem primary and coneivably play a decisive role

Posted at April 23, 2008 3:43 PM in response to The Morning After: Super Delegates, Do Your Job!

Apparently Barack has a problem with Wright's views also or was being completely disingenuous when he said the following:

"The statements that Rev. Wright made that are the cause of this controversy were not statements I personally heard him preach while I sat in the pews of Trinity or heard him utter in private conversation. When these statements first came to my attention, it was at the beginning of my presidential campaign. I made it clear at the time that I strongly condemned his comments. But because Rev. Wright was on the verge of retirement, and because of my strong links to the Trinity faith community, where I married my wife and where my daughters were baptized, I did not think it appropriate to leave the church."

Of course, he just found out what Wright's views are so you can draw no conclusions based on Barack's twenty year membership in the Church.

In the final analysis, Wright's views are no big deal to me. What is troubling is the slippery way in which Barack dealt with the matter. Come on Barack, we weren't born yesterday.

Posted at March 25, 2008 4:49 PM in response to Hillary Finance Committee Member Compares Wright And David Duke, Says Obama "Used Race Where It Suited Him"

You are right. Dean should have asked Obama to drop out based on Hillary's lead among superdelehgates.

Posted at March 25, 2008 4:16 PM in response to Hillary Finance Committee Member Compares Wright And David Duke, Says Obama "Used Race Where It Suited Him"

Why a hoax? And how is the caucus system, which relies on the equivalent of superdelegates at the state level, somehow superior than the votes of the people? Sounds elitist to me.

Posted at March 8, 2008 6:01 PM in response to Poll: Dems Evenly Split On What Super-Delegates Should Do

It is tragic to see so many haters out there. Hillary may not be perfect and Obama may be morally and ethically superior, but is she really the devil? Do we need to demonize her to support Obama. I don't think so. To spare the party from serious self-injury, it would make sense for the superdelegates to follow the will of their constituents. How best to do that however is itself an issue. Let's agree now that the popular vote is ultimately the best index of the will of the people. Assuming that Florida and Michigan do not schedule new primaries under DNC rules, then the superdelegates from those states should make a judgement whether the earlier primary results accurately reflect the will of their constituents and vote accordingly. Superdelegates representing constituencies like college democrats should make an effort to poll their fellow college students, e.g. via facebook, and cast their ballot on that basis rather than on that of people in other states. To be perfectly fair, superdelegates who have already committed to a candidate in opposition to the popular vote in their state, such as Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, etc., should publicly change their votes. To do otherwise would be hypocritical.

Posted at March 8, 2008 5:56 PM in response to Poll: Dems Evenly Split On What Super-Delegates Should Do