Hillary's Shame
AB, on the Home Page of TPM got it absolutely right in being outraged by Clinton's remarks on "whites" and "hard working white american's." (I hope those quotation marks do not offend Ogregon Activist).
While I have pretty much supported Obama since he declared his candidacy I had very little anomosity toward Hillary Clinton. But as the campaing has gone on and the Clinton's (Bill and Hillary) have constantly tried to divide not only the party but the country into whites and blacks I am outraged against her (them).
I am a 60 year old white (and I like to think hard working american) who has very strong southern roots. While I grew up and have lived most of my life in Missouri both of my parents are from Alabama. Growing up and spending many summers in the South I saw the horrors of segregation first hand. I thought, until this election, that we had made enormous progress, slow, but real progress over the past 30 or 40 years. Much of America's support for Obama still gives me hope that we have. But when Hillary comes out and tries, in a last ditch effort to steal the nomination, and once again plays on the old fears and hatreds of long ago it is past time for her to remove herself from the campaign.
A final thought on the Clinton Campaign. Day before yesterday Hillary made the statement, "If we were following the Republican Rules I would be the nominee." it simply proved my first blog about Hillary being John McCain's VP. We are not, Mrs Clinton, the Republican's for good reason. You agreed to the rules when you were the front runner and now that you are not you want us to change the party structure in the middle of the game and all of us follow the same rules and the Republicans. Following the same rules and the Republicans has brought us to $4.00 + per gallon of gasoline and thousands of American lives and millions upon millions of dollars.
No thank you Mrs. Clinton, not wanting to follow the Republican rules is exactly why I support Obama.
While I have pretty much supported Obama since he declared his candidacy I had very little anomosity toward Hillary Clinton. But as the campaing has gone on and the Clinton's (Bill and Hillary) have constantly tried to divide not only the party but the country into whites and blacks I am outraged against her (them).
I am a 60 year old white (and I like to think hard working american) who has very strong southern roots. While I grew up and have lived most of my life in Missouri both of my parents are from Alabama. Growing up and spending many summers in the South I saw the horrors of segregation first hand. I thought, until this election, that we had made enormous progress, slow, but real progress over the past 30 or 40 years. Much of America's support for Obama still gives me hope that we have. But when Hillary comes out and tries, in a last ditch effort to steal the nomination, and once again plays on the old fears and hatreds of long ago it is past time for her to remove herself from the campaign.
A final thought on the Clinton Campaign. Day before yesterday Hillary made the statement, "If we were following the Republican Rules I would be the nominee." it simply proved my first blog about Hillary being John McCain's VP. We are not, Mrs Clinton, the Republican's for good reason. You agreed to the rules when you were the front runner and now that you are not you want us to change the party structure in the middle of the game and all of us follow the same rules and the Republicans. Following the same rules and the Republicans has brought us to $4.00 + per gallon of gasoline and thousands of American lives and millions upon millions of dollars.
No thank you Mrs. Clinton, not wanting to follow the Republican rules is exactly why I support Obama.




