NEWS FLASH: Clinton Team says Obama is Black!!!!
Not that it should surprise anyone, but Bob Johnson is in the media pushing the Geraldine Ford line about Obama only in the race now because he is black:
The only problem that Johnson has, is that Obama did not have 90% of the black vote until Big Dog Billy opened his mouth in South Carolina. Up until then, Hillary had been well supported by the black community. Not to mention that he is trying awfully hard to revise her statement well after the event in question.
Facts, who needs them?
Anytime a campaign tries to limit the success/failure to one particular factor, it opens a clear logical fallacy. Events are not isolated and a mesh theory needs to be used to process the end results. AKA Kerry lost because of swiftboating. Kerry lost for a number of reasons, and the swiftboating was merely one of the final straws that broke the camel's back.
Simplistic reasoning like this is the same reason why Clinton was not ready for Obama to knock her lead by using small state math. Myopic. They just need to get over it, and show why anyone should vote for her.
"What I believe Geraldine Ferraro meant is that if you take a freshman senator from Illinois called `Jerry Smith' and he says I'm going to run for president, would he start off with 90 percent of the black vote?" Johnson said. "And the answer is, probably not... ."
The only problem that Johnson has, is that Obama did not have 90% of the black vote until Big Dog Billy opened his mouth in South Carolina. Up until then, Hillary had been well supported by the black community. Not to mention that he is trying awfully hard to revise her statement well after the event in question.
Facts, who needs them?
Anytime a campaign tries to limit the success/failure to one particular factor, it opens a clear logical fallacy. Events are not isolated and a mesh theory needs to be used to process the end results. AKA Kerry lost because of swiftboating. Kerry lost for a number of reasons, and the swiftboating was merely one of the final straws that broke the camel's back.
Simplistic reasoning like this is the same reason why Clinton was not ready for Obama to knock her lead by using small state math. Myopic. They just need to get over it, and show why anyone should vote for her.
