I have only read a few comments but I think it is fair to say that racial prejudice works both ways.
I am so tired of people saying that the Clintons are prejudice against blacks. So many of the blacks have turned against them because that is the message they are getting from the Obama camp.
they are so clever at making you think That the Clintons comments are racial. Hogwash! You are just falling into their trap and being more determined to vote for Obama.
Barack Obama is the one that is using his race. He said "I am where I am because I am black, If I were white I would simply be one of 14 others without a chance for a bestseller book, and running for the President of the United States". He knew this early on, and has been using it very skillfully. That is why they jumped on Geraldine Ferrero, when she just repeated what he had said. She is not racist either, but he was able to get a lot more attention and votes by using this. Sorry, but he is not being hurt by racial prejudice.
Hillary on the other hand, is the recipient of mass prejudice against her because of gender. Her campaign has been such an uphill climb with everything she says or does scrutinized so closely that it is ridiculous. She is forbidden to campaign in the same manner as he does. Obama does not know how to campaign unless he obliterates his opponents. Ask Alice Palmer, the beloved longtime activist, in Illinois!

Posted at May 12, 2008 5:35 PM in response to Obama and racism. READ.

So everyone that breaks down the categories are racists, right? This is a situation where race cannot be avoided. You people are all up in arms about Hillary telling the TRUTH! Just what do you want from Hillary Clinton? Have any of you checked Obama out? If you did ladies, you would find that he has no respect for you. I pray that we do not find out just what he is all about by him getting the nomination. Hillary's shame!! How positively ridiculous. so just what have all of you done to make this world a better place? I don't want to know, I just think you should make your own camparison and see who comes out on top?
I would vote for a DECENT black man and I am white. Hillary Clinton is not a racist. Perhaps you are?

Posted at May 9, 2008 8:09 PM in response to Hillary's Shame

To tpmgary:

I am from Florida and Obama campaigned in Florida for about two weeks on a regular basis with TV commercials. I saw them! This was completely against the rules. If he campaigned and broke the rules why should Hillary supporters be the ones to be punished? Hillary won Florida and 1.7 million votes in our state were not counted because Hillary won. I truly feel that had Omama won they would have been counted just as voted.

Not to mention that Hillary has been held to a much higher standard, to try and trip her up to get her out of the race. People should be very angry at how a group of old Democrats are manipulating this election against Hillary. People that are spewing all of this hate probably have never checked anything out on Obama or the Clintons.

Posted at May 9, 2008 7:50 PM in response to What's the deal with Paul Krugman?

why are people making a comparison between Clinton and Obama supporters? ONLY the Clinton
supporters were disenfranchised! There were no states that Obama won where the votes were not counted. Do you blame florida and Michigan voters? Don't you think it is frightening to have a circumstance where people are told we don't need your votes now, but be sure and come in and vote in November because we really need you at that time?

COUNT OUR VOTES. TAMPERING WITH THE OUTCOME OF AN ELECTION IS CALLED FIXING A RACE.

Posted at May 9, 2008 7:28 PM in response to Clinton Supporters Email-Bomb Superdelegates

It's been a very sad campaign from the beginning.
I have never been prejudice in my life and I am 70 years old. I always thought it was nice to help all races and colors and treat each with the same dignity. I have seen first Valerie Plame being tragically mistreated, after she had been outed by the Bush Administration. Geraldine Ferrero was basically forced to give up Clinton fundraising because she repeated a statement made by Barack Obama himself. She said that being black helped him be where he was today. He said that if he were not black he would be one of 14 Senators going nowhere, without the opportunity to run for president and certainly not have the opportunity as far as the book deals go. This is not verbatim for either because I can no remember exactly but the idea is completely as spoken.

Hillary Clinton, has been held to such a high standard that it would be impossible for anyone to achieve balance. She has always worked for the poor and for women and somehow, those very people she has worked for the hardest are ready to abandon her and even degrade her, because they think something better has come along! She does get up every day and goes out and tries to win the nomination, despite taking criticism from most involved in the news, talk shows and guests, because she has a mission to help people. She has proven herself in the Senate. Just listen to those who had their doubts. She is highly respected in the Senate by all who thought she would be very partisian and found her to work well with all but to fight for what she believes in. When she tries to make a point of a difference between Barack Obama and herself she is accused of being racist or nasty. Obama's
Chief Strategist, David Axelrod, has a daughter who is developmentally disabled and his wife, co- founded a a foundation for Epilepsy, and Hillary Clinton had done significant work on behalf of epilepsy. His wife even said that a 1999 conference that Clinton's convening on finding a cure for the condition was "one of the most important things anyone has done for epilepsy."
This is the kind of people the Clinton's are. There are so many positive stories out there about them, but people like to focus on the negative, mostly lies, to take her down.

I am more sad because of how Obama runs over women and no one hears or listens. If you knew how he got started in the Illinois State Senate, you would probably not feel so good about him, no matter if you are black or white. I am sorry to say he uses what ever will work people.
Hillary has proven she will work for us but they are trying to run her off. She wants to save the election and Obama will not be able to stand up to the Republicans. They will bring all of his shady deals from Chicago and his lack of experience will assure 4 more years of Bush actions.

Posted at May 9, 2008 6:28 PM in response to Clinton Supporters Email-Bomb Superdelegates

According to the Chicagotribune.com
By David Jackson and Ray Long april 3, 2007

Obama knows his way around a ballot

The day afer New year's 1996, operatives for Barack Omama filed into a barren hearing room of the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners.
There they began the tedious process of challenging hundreds of signatures on the nominating petitions of state Sen. Alice Palmer, the longtime progressive activist from the city's South Side. They kept challenging petitions until every one of Obama's four Democratic primary rivals were forced off the ballot.
Fresh from his work as a civil rights lawyer and head of a voter registration project that expanded access to the ballot box, Obama launched his first campaign for the Illinois Senate saying he wanted to empower disenfranchised citizens.
But in that initial bid for political office, Obama quickly mastered the bare-knuckle arts of Chicago electoral politics. His overwhelming legal onslaught signaled his impatience to gain office, even if that meant elbowing aside an elder stateswoman like Palmer.
www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-070403obama-ballot,1,57567.story

If you want to read the whole story, try the above website. If not, you might want to know that he had an unwritten agreement with Alice Palmer which he did not honor. There are many articles which you need to read. If you check out the history of his white grandparents and his mother you will question the statement he made "a mother who was at one time on foodstamps". You need to see the whole picture. Michelle information on her thesis that will not be released until right after the November Election(Nov. 5th).

Posted at May 9, 2008 12:06 PM in response to Edwards Endorsed..... "him"?