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Hillary Supporter: "Obama's problem is that he happens to be black."
Marc Ambinder has the details.
Hillary refuses to "reject and denounce" the supporter or her comments.
The word "hypocrite" comes to mind.
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Comments (31)
I guess having a racist supporter is ok, but having an anti-semitic one, well...that's over the line.
February 27, 2008 10:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well you know freakbrown you can say things about Blacks, Hispanics, but you're crossing the line if you are to speak out against Jewish people.
February 27, 2008 11:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
I guess Hillary can't justify rejecting people who are anti-black.
She also lied about her little Independence Party experience.
I guess there is no racial overtones to this either since her husband is black.
February 27, 2008 11:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
None whatsoever. Move along, nothing to see here.
February 28, 2008 12:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
She has an official pollster pitting Blacks against Hispanics, and you're SURPRISED by this?
HUH?
At least she's consistent.
February 27, 2008 11:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
She does not. Stop lying.
February 28, 2008 10:55 AM | Reply | Permalink
She does Not... Stop... Lying.
Fixed that for you.
February 28, 2008 11:13 AM | Reply | Permalink
"Winner, winner, chicken dinner!"
February 28, 2008 11:20 AM | Reply | Permalink
How old are you, 12? Sergio Bendixen is one of the most respected and valued dem pollsters in this country. You have no right to trash that man's reputation or impugn his character. He was asked a question in an interview about the historic vote of hispanics. This was his answer - "the hispanic voter, and I want to say this very carefully, has not shown a lot of willingness or affinity to support black candidates." From that, jackasses like you and Richard Thompson Ford feel free to ruin a man's life with accusations, innuendos and smears.
Now exactly what did Clinton do here that is so damned bad? She did not want to condemn someone based on an allegation made by a reporter. It was a statement she had neither heard nor read, and the RIGHT thing to do is NOT to comment on something you have no knowledge of. A lesson you seem not to have learned.
February 28, 2008 11:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
I thought the right thing to do, as she so crassly demonstrated on Tuesday night, was to denounce, reject, renounce, condemn, castigate and grandstand about your opposition to racism.
Unless, of course, you do want this to cost you votes. Then it's okay, right?
February 28, 2008 5:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
The last sentence there should read: Unless, of course, you don'twant this to cost you votes.
February 28, 2008 7:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
I understood what you meant, I don't play silly parsing games with people I know to be intelligent.
February 28, 2008 9:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, it's always a good idea to take a reporter's word for anything. By the way, Clinton and the Independence Party wackjobs did get into a rather nasty feud.
February 28, 2008 9:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh F**K YOU, HILLARY. Just..... No, there's no other way to say it - F**K YOU!
BTW, does anyone else think "reject and denounce" is the new "there you go again"? Our boy just stepped into pop culture immortality.
February 28, 2008 1:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
The msm is so hard on Hillary! She ALWAYS get the big, nasty FIRST question.
That's also why you're reading about this despicable statement that raises the specter of January and South Carolina everywhere this morning. I mean everywhere! It's all over the place.
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(...Oh, it's not?)
February 28, 2008 8:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
No one is telling the obvious truth in this campaign.
Shock, shock, shock. Blacks are voting for Obama because he is Black. (when Bill hints at that it's considered outrageous and racist.)
Women are voting for Hillary ... because she is a woman.
What world are we living in when we try and deny the most basic political truths?
Latinos and Blacks have not always had the same interests or goals.
Sometimes Latinos have supported Blacks and sometimes they have not.
They both are on the bottom of the ladder, and clawing each other for the crumbs.
Obama's race has made him bulletproof. Hopes this keeps up in the general election.
February 28, 2008 11:19 AM | Reply | Permalink
You sound absurd when you "tell the obvious truth" because you're making absurd generalizations. That's what usually happens.
Are some blacks voting for Obama because he's black? Sure. Just like some blacks are voting for him because he's the best candidate.
Are some women voting for Hillary because she's a woman? Sure. Just like some women are voting for her because she represents the interests of them, their families, neighborhoods, cities, states, etc.
If your "white people dance like this, black people dance like this"-style analysis was foolproof, wouldn't John Edwards still be in the race? Because let's "tell the obvious truth" here: There are more white men in this country than black men.
If your analysis was true, would Barack Obama have won in Iowa? Because let's "tell the obvious truth" here: There are very few black people in Iowa.
If your analysis is so awesomely accurate, shouldn't Hillary Clinton be winning every head to head match up with Obama? Because let's "tell the obvious truth" here: More women vote than men, and there are more white people than black people in America. Even if every single eligible black voter came out for Obama, 100% African-American voter turnout, Hillary Clinton should be picking a Vice President right now. Luckily, your scholarly analysis has more than a few holes in it. Luckily, black people and white people and brown people are a little better than you're willing to credit them. And judging from what we've been hearing leaking out of the Clinton Camp in the last few weeks, luckily we've been able to see the folly of having advisors and consultants who only see the world through the narrow constructs that you do before we got saddled with an awful, awful candidate.
February 28, 2008 11:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
If I didn't make this clear enough, I both reject and denounce your stereotypes, generalizations, and assumptions on race and gender, and the impact that either of those factors have had on this campaign.
February 28, 2008 12:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
I like the cut of your jib, ondioline.
February 28, 2008 5:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
I've been eyeballing your jib at the watercooler too, DF!
February 29, 2008 12:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
This reminds me of Foreign Relations-speak, where you can denounce something but it means a lot more if you denounce it "in the strongest terms." Is this like the difference between giving someone the finger and giving them the finger with both hands? "I moon you, Louis Farrakhan!"
I think it's about time we reject (but do not denounce) Hillary's candidacy.
February 28, 2008 11:20 AM | Reply | Permalink
Have you ever seen the episode of Futurama where Jack Johnson is running against John Jackson?
Goes something like this:
Jack Johnson: "I say my opponent's three cent titanium tax goes too far!"
John Jackson: "And I say my opponent's three cent titanium tax doesn't go too far enough!"
February 28, 2008 7:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
I've often thought listening to these silly "holier-than-thou" pronouncements that when some candidate says that we ought to do X (wear flag lapel pins, sign loyalty oaths, take out Saddam Hussein, etc.), just once I'd like to hear the other candidate say: "Oh Yeah? Well I think we ought to do it twice!"
February 28, 2008 9:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
No, Blake, the outrage was never the Bill Clinton pointed out that Barack was black, it was the Bill and a number of other surrogates undertook a careful campaign to paint Obama as _only_ the candidate for black folks.
February 28, 2008 11:25 AM | Reply | Permalink
I prefer "Hillpocrisy" myself :P
http://thepersonalispolitical.tumblr.com/post/27523616
February 28, 2008 12:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hillary's problem is _not_ that she's a woman.
February 28, 2008 2:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
The original post upon which this dungheap of Clinton-hatred was built is completely false. but why let that stop you?
February 28, 2008 2:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Only if by Clinton hatred you mean "criticism that she opened herself up to by distorting the facts about her appearance before the Independence Party in New York in order to grandstand about 'being tough' on dejectanouncimafying racism."
February 28, 2008 7:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
In the land of the visionless, the one-eyed pollster is king.
February 28, 2008 3:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
You really should go to KTVT's site for the whole story. It concludes with a statement that the Clinton campaign called back that night to say they had confirmed Callejo's remarks were accurately portrayed and so they did denounce and reject them.
February 28, 2008 7:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is a stupid story, the only redeeming value of which is that it shows how ridiculous it was for Clinton to press Obama for insufficiently "rejecting" Farrakhan.
But we already knew that. Let's move on.
February 28, 2008 9:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
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