Will voluntary servitude of Black Dems survive public humiliation at Hillary’s hands?
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Prior to the Iowa caucuses, when asked about his prospects, the junior Senator from Illinois, denied that race would play a role in his fortunes:
"I am getting a fair hearing and I will get a fair hearing and I think we are going to win this place," he said during the taping of Iowa Public Television's "Iowa Press." "You have people who are less concerned about race and much more concerned about 'Is this somebody who is really going to be fighting for me?'"
David Yepsen of The Des Moines Register, the state's most influential political columnist, then sought to further clarify.
"If you don't do well in the caucuses, we're not going to hear David Axelrod, Robert Gibbs and all your spinners telling us, 'Well, Barack Obama didn't do well in Iowa because it's a lily white state,'" Yepsen asked, referring to Obama's top strategist and communications director.
"No," Obama said. "We have invested in Iowa. I have been campaigning in Iowa. We expect to do well in Iowa."
Obama said he believes the nation is ready to elect a black man president, a notion he said he bases on his own experience in Illinois.
Hillary and the National Democratic Party didn't get the memo.
Barack, you're not in Iowa or Illinois anymore. Rather, you are the latest target of the Clinton "machine", and an increasingly desperate machine at that. Moreover, you are a member of a "victim" racial group that the Donkey's powers-that-be have determined must be taken care of by said Donkey, but not vice versa, especially when you pose a threat to the the ambition-driven former First Lady and present reigning Queen of the Liberal firmament.
The weeping Monarch's former court jester, Dick Morris predicted, soon after the junior New York Senator's loss in the Hawkeye State, that the Clintons would launch "subtle" racial attacks against Obama.
And even after a comeback victory over Obama in the New Hampshire primary, the Clintons made Morris look like a genius, albeit via the Clintons' use of a dictionary with as different a definition of the word "subtle" as it has of the word "is".
Consider the subtlety of the following not few in number iterations of the Clinton machine just days after Morris's prognostication:
Hillary's "Obama ain't no MLK, and LBJ didn't need no stinkin' MLK incident":
Mrs Clinton, trying to make a point about presidential leadership and Mr Obama’s constant references to Dr King, the civil rights icon, said: “Dr King’s dream began to be realised when President Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It took a president to get it done.”
This gaffe is likely to turn the usually irrelevant SC Democratic primary into a possible major turning point of, not only this campaign, but also in the relationship between the Democratic Party and Blacks, their most loyal constituency.
James Clyburn, the highest-ranking African American in Congress and a veteran of the civil rights movement, referred to a comment made by Mrs Clinton on Monday, the day before her stunning comeback in New Hampshire set up a brutal nomination battle with Mr Obama.
Mrs Clinton has since tried to clarify the comment, but the damage was done. Mr Clyburn, who had previously said that he would stay neutral, told The New York Times that he had been “bothered a great deal” by the remarks and was rethinking his position.
Better late (as in since 1965 when LBJ and the Dems kicked the Black man out the house and made Uncle Sam daddy) than never. I have wondered White Democrats could do and say anything to Blacks and still count on their loyalty.
Think the above statement by Hillary was bad? You ain't heard nothin' yet.
The Hillary "spade work" incident":
Last Sunday evening on Fox News Channel, Morris said: “I think that what she is going to do is she is going to say Obama is unelectable, Americans won’t elect him, he can’t beat the Republican Party, America is not ready for Obama, he doesn’t have the experience to win, and what she is going to mean is that they won’t vote for an African-American, but she won’t say it. She’ll say everything but, but that’s what she means.”
As if on cue, THE VERY NEXT MORNING, Sen. Clinton appeared on NBC’s Today Show and talked about the choice that voters were faced with in New Hampshire. She said the following: “When they say to themselves, OK, I have a choice between a truly inspirational speaker (Obama) who has not done the kind of spade work with the sort of experience that another candidate has…”
Spade work. That’s some choice of words for a black political opponent, no?
Is your jaw on the floor yet? Mine is. The MSM (see Dem Party shill) hasn't raised an eyebrow, but then again 11 year olds could have an orgy in the street (so long as they are liberal prepubescents) and the MSM's eyebrows would remain still.
Let us continue through the Dem-Lib equivalent of an abusive parent forgetting company is in the house when they go off on the children.
The Cuomo "shuck and jive" incident:
Speaking Tuesday to the New York Post's Fred Dicker, whose show airs on Albany's Talk 1300 radio station, Cuomo said of the early primaries: "It's not a TV-crazed race. Frankly, you can't buy your way through."
He added later, "You have to sit down with 10 people in a living room. You can't shuck and jive at a news conference; you can't just put off reporters, because you have real people looking at you, saying 'answer the question.'"
The 1994 book "Juba to Jive, a Dictionary of African-American Slang," says "shuck and jive" dates back to the 1870s and was an "originally southern 'Negro' expression for clowning, lying, pretense."
I left the Democratic Party in 2000 after 18 years as an activist and Party official, in no small part due to the increasing racism within the party.
Until this past week they kept it behind closed doors most of the time.
That was before Iowa. Before a real close win in NH. Before the John Kerry endorsement. Before Barack dared get in the way of Hillary's entitlement to an Oval Office her husband sullied to her disgrace. A sulliness she is desperate to repair.
And that was before Obama induced desperation met the most selfish, ambitious, power crazed candidate the party may have ever known.
Add to that an arrogance of a party so cozy with a non-judgmental media that they forget others are watching. They came to think they could even insult their voters to their face and still have their carefully developed victim-dependents remain in their care.
Could we finally have arrived at the day when Blacks will leave the liberal Plantation?
We pray.
And I know, the unimaginative conservative media sees the crux of this story as an opportunity to point out the Double-standard applied to similar incidents involving Republicans.
When they do, they miss the point. Why? Because Trent Lott was not making a racist statement while praising a dying 100 year old Strom Thurmond. I could go on, but I will not be distracted.
The most important point here is the BAD character of Hillary and the national Democratic Party. This is what happens when one's party is based on treating people as a member of a group.
The Dems are obsessed with skin pigmentation, genitalia and desires for particular kinds of sex.
They don't see individuals. Rather, they see means to ends.
But, as Juan Williams said on FNC, "Obama ain't no Sistah Soulja."
I have long argued that when Dems reflexively label Republicans as racist, bigots and homophobes, they are actually projecting their own racism upon us, assuming we share their world view.
We don't.
And its about time that the 90% of black voters that follow these Donkey pied pipers realized it.
Look at how Hillary Inc. treats Obama in front of their eyes.
Then look at how Bush treats Condoleeza Rice, Colin Powell and Alphonso Jackson.
The modern day national Democratic Party is morally and intellectually bankrupt in all ways, whether its saying and doing for free what America's foreign enemies would gladly pay them for or whether its how they treat their own voters with contempt.
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heart of the blood sucking vampire that is the Dem party and killing it off! for good
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we have a two party system. No one party will be in power for too long. That is the problem Republicans face right now. If you look at the long term picture, you cannot keep the other party from occasionally forming a government.
That is why I am not very hopeful about the current situation. It just might be that the American people have got to have another good dose of pure liberalism because they have short memories. If that happens, our party will have four years to repair all the damages, get back to basics, and offer the people a real and coherent program.
"Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty"
Kyle
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to go public with their contempt for black democrats during a presidential nomination campaign in which a desperate white candidate attacks a black dem candidate?
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at least not in one or two election cycles. As long as the Ds can promise access, influence, and an appointment or two to the ranking race shills and poverty pimps, they'll keep the vast majority of that constituency. Until a critical mass of the Black population is solidly and securely middle class and has no personal memory of being otherwise, they'll stay Ds.
You saw the same thing in The South. As late as my generation (b. 1949), every native-born Southerner had some personal experience with someone who had survived the Civil War and Reconstruction and whose hatred of Republicans was visceral. Likewise, as late as my generation, every native born Southerer either had a personal memory of life in subsistence agriculture or had lived with someone who did. Those people saw Democrat New Deal Era policies as the only way off the north end of a southbound mule. For both those cohorts, the Democrat mantra of "your life may suck, but you're better off than the Blacks" worked for a hundred years. The current Democrat mantra is something like, "you may be living the American Dream but you're Black and the White Republicans want to take it all away from you." It will work for a long, long time.
In Vino Veritas
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in fact I think we started quite some time ago. We have to have the patience to address this by making it possible for more Blacks and other minorities to become solidly and securely middle class and to do it in ways other that through affirmative action hiring and public sector make-work. Having spent so much of my working days in and around government, I've worked for and with a fair share of AA hires and unqualified tokens. I assure you that almost all know that they didn't get the job on their abilities and are very insecure about it. It's the old thing about the government that is powerful enough to give you something is powerful enough to take it away. All to much of minority America is susceptible to any appeal based on "'they' can take it all away" pandering.
In Vino Veritas
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Considering 'spade' usually refers to a shovel, I'm not getting worked up on that line.
out FOUR MORE incidents due to sleep deprivation. Will update the Dem racist rampage later.
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except at DeVine Law?
Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
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think the Apostle Paul wrote his epistles in the KJV over to my house to study Greek this afternoon, so don't worry!
smile
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And they bring their guns to church too.
What we need in a leader is to tell us not what we want to hear, but what we need to hear.
Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
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You can make the same point about how Obama supports are going after Hillary. I love how the MSM is talking about a crack-up in our primary but ignorning the racial/gender conflict going on in their primary or even firing salvos in it (ie Chris Matthews and Maureen Dowd)
McCain '08
But what's wrong with the "spade work" comment?
A lot of people use it in normal, everday context referring to exactly what Mrs Bill Clinton seemed to be referring to: having the experience, doing the work.
Obama hasn't done the spade work she has, is her implication.
What's wrong with that?
...and I dream of the day when I can safely say "Yeah, I caught a bad case of the 'itis after lunch." during a political campaign. It's something I've said for a long time.
"Guns don't kill people...
"...But they sure help!"
-Paul Giamatti, Shoot 'Em Up
is covering up her and her husband's corruption and indiscretions. I just cringe everytime I hear the Harridan talking about her experience. What experience in a real, Honest-to-God paying job does that woman have? She was WJC's political business partner, looking and acting the part of the dutiful wife most of the time. We have reasonable cause in Chelsea that she was his bed partner at least once. And that's IT, except for her one disasterous foray into healthcare policy. If that's the resume she wants to run on, I'll take it.
In Vino Veritas
SHE is.
And this appears to be no more than another allusion to that claim.
Seriously, I just don't see it in this comment. In the others, sure. But not that one.
"Guns don't kill people...
"...But they sure help!"
-Paul Giamatti, Shoot 'Em Up
phrase, and given the EIGHT incidents including the MLK, etc following Morris's prediction, it just all seems a bit to coincidental.
Mike DeVine, just shuckin' and jivin' between spade work and got my rights from LBJ, no help needed from MLK, and ain't beleivin' in no Magic Negro Brack fairey tale....
more later
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Could we finally have arrived at the day when Blacks will leave the liberal Plantation?
We pray.
What we need in a leader is to tell us not what we want to hear, but what we need to hear.
While I do think that Cuomo's "shuck and jive" comment sounded bad, I really don't think that Hillary meant anything by the "spade work" comment. Furthermore, I really don't think that Hillary meant to imply that MLK was not the true leader of the Civil Rights Movement. I definitely think that she was exhausted and misspoke. However, I think that what she was trying to say, was that LBJ's mastery of pushing the levers of power in Washington, due to years of experience, was, also, necessary in putting King's movement into law (civil rights legislation). I think that she was tired and it just "came out wrong".
However, keep in mind, part of Obama's appeal (like many pundits have pointed out) is that he doesn't play the race card like Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson. I think that Obama needs to be careful on this one, because he could wind up putting off voters, if he's perceived as calling Hillary Clinton a "racist". Although I agree, that there probably are some racists in the Democratic Party, I don't think that Bill and Hillary Clinton are racists. Even Jonah Goldberg, on "Tucker" yesterday, said that it was ridiculous to call Bill Clinton a racist.
Still, I am recommending this diary, because, as usual, you provoke a thoughtful discussion GC. :-)
you can have as POTUS. At minimum you'll catch Hell for it politically, at worst, you'll start a World War.
No, WJC and HRC are not racists, per se, they are elitists of the worst sort however. That allows them to feel superior to everyone without regard to race, creed, color, or national origin. Throw in a good Methodist background for HRC and you get all that perfectability of man and salvation through works stuff for good measure. What a toxic combination!
In Vino Veritas
Dem party treat blacks differently (see condescendingly) based on race; advance race based policies; and seem to playing the race card in many ways since the Iowa loss.
Bill Clinton had a race conference while president but lacked the courage to take on the race pimps in his own party.
Not sure about the incidents I cite, and will cite (there are 4 more!), but we do know they exploited the cocaine/drug dealer charge and have suggested that Barack is no MLK, i.e. not authentically black, i.e. down with the struggle.
more later and thanks gal
Moreover, James Clyburn's and Donna Brazille's offense at the above as well as Bill's "fairy tale" comment has brought into the open the fact of racism behind the scenes, even if these incidents aren't major.
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Two of my most influential books were Vance Packard's The Hidden Persuaders and Wilson Key's Subliminal Seduction.
I'm not inclined to believe that, in big media campaigns, very much happens by accident. If a word, phrase or image catches your attention, then, chances are, it's not there by accident.
That's funny; I have a sudden craving for fried clams at Howard Johnson's.
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa
Not for clams---ice cream.
"Who will stand/On either hand/And guard this bridge with me?" (Macaulay)
are hypersensitive to language. Exhibit A: Biden calls Obama "articulate." I'm confident Biden meant to compliment Obama. I'll bet Biden had no idea that, instead, he would be tried and convicted the minute that quote hit the wires. IIRC, no one asked him to reconsider his words. He was simply informed that he'd defacto disrespected Obama, and would soon receive his punishment.
Good luck, Hil. Watch your words carefully---others will be doing the same thing.
"Who will stand/On either hand/And guard this bridge with me?" (Macaulay)
servitude to those that deliver no results nor to being locked out of leadership positions by same.
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is for Hillary to turn up the attack machine and win the nomination while completely alienating the black voters. If they stay home or vote against Hillary, we'll have a Republican President.