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Claiming the Race Card: Trump or Joker?
I've been around long enough to have seen the race card played--most famously by Clarence Thomas of "high-tech lynching" fame. Can Bill Clinton (sorry buddy, you are every bit as white as I am) say Obama has done the following?
play the race card, v • political tactic to appeal to racist motives in the electorate. Alternatively; political tactic to appeal to non-racist motives in the electorate by accusing an opponent of appealing to racist motives.
Furthermore, can Bill make the claim that he is a victim of racism? Maybe so if you have enjoyed being called "the first Black president" for years and never bothered to remind folks you are white.
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Comments (2)
Vintage footage of the republican slime machine against Bill Clinton, featuring Carville and Stephanopoulos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFPPCP9S9EA&feature=user
Think he learned the wrong lesson from that experience?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUm7tkgFGYs
Obama hits back
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SjC6nnCvXM
April 23, 2008 12:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks. Both of those were great. It was worth it just to see Carville with hair and his bride-to-be looking like a refugee from Dogpatch!
Answer: They learned the lesson alright! They know just how to act like the republican slime machine!
April 23, 2008 2:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
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