The Audacity of Hope-dashing Democratic Party racism [UPDATED]
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BET founder, Charlotte Bobcats owner and Hillary Clinton supporter Robert Johnson unloaded on Barack Obama today:
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Robert L. Johnson, the founder of Black Entertainment Television, who is campaigning today in South Carolina with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, just made a suggestion that raised the specter of Barack Obama’s past drug use. He also compared Mr. Obama to Sidney Poitier, the black actor, in “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.”
At a rally here for Mrs. Clinton at Columbia College, Mr. Johnson was defending recent comments that Mrs. Clinton made regarding Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. She did not mean to take any credit away from him, Mr. Johnson said, when she said that it took President Johnson to sign the civil rights legislation he fought for.
Dr. King had led a “moral crusade,” Mr. Johnson said, but such crusades have to be “written into law.”“That is the way the legislative process works in this nation and that takes political leadership,” he said. “That’s all Hillary was saying.”
He then added: “And to me, as an African-American, I am frankly insulted that the Obama campaign would imply that we are so stupid that we would think Hillary and Bill Clinton, who have been deeply and emotionally involved in black issues since Barack Obama was doing something in the neighborhood – and I won’t say what he was doing, but he said it in the book – when they have been involved.”Moments later, he added: “That kind of campaign behavior does not resonate with me, for a guy who says, ‘I want to be a reasonable, likable, Sidney Poitier ‘Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.’ And I’m thinking, I’m thinking to myself, this ain’t a movie, Sidney. This is real life.”
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I suggested in my blog from yesterday, Will voluntary servitude of Black Dems survive public humiliation at Hillary’s hands? that the race cards being played by the Clinton Machine risked alienating the Democratic Party's most loyal constituency without which they would be relugated to a permanent minority party.
Excerpt:
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".
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.
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.
Today's barrage from one of, if not, the most accomplished black men in America, shows that the Clintons have gone nuclear to not just defeat Obama, but to destroy him.
Will this tactic alienate a significant portion of black Democrats well as white Democrats?
Especially considering all the other incidents I cite in my above blog.
Will young people be turned off and vote in their usual paltry percentages rather than in the numbers seen in Iowa and NH?
We could be witnessing the liberal crack-up which will never be reported on in the MSM. Yet, we have been subjected to twice yearly announcements of a conservative crack-up since 1992.
Who will be first to label Johnson an Uncle Tom for pawn of Plantation Master Rodham?
Jesse? Al? Or Jesse, Jr?
Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
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"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson
FRED08
Our duty now, as Americans, is to denounce the racists in the dem party and challenge Blacks to stop being vountary slaves to them.
Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
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Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
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www.theminorityreportblog.com
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NY Times and you will feel great joy at the beating and really the awaking of the public to her digusting race-baiting....it is something to behold.
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The raw and brazen entitlement to power driven ambition that drives the Clintons to do all this in public is astounding. Morris said after Iowa that they would play the race card in code. Hell, they are playing it explicitly in public, as if blacks can't hear them. Its almost like the way adults talk about children in their presence yet ignoring them, and I imagine masters treated slaves this way.
This could really blow up the dem party. I had hoped to do it with shaming them over the war or with JC Watts ion the ticket, but this is even more potent.
Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
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Might I suggest an interesting tangent of this issue is what happens in the Nevada caucus. I predict that Hillary will subtly play the brown vs. black angle to try ride to victory there on the backs of the large hispanic population.
issue of racism has been a dominant theme of my life. My parents coached and led the first integrated little league and cub scouts in my hometown. I hired some of the first black paralegals. My best friend to this day is the first ball player on the team. We both endured harassment from our peers. Luckily, we could both beat the crap out of any of them!
I was a dem for 20 yrs mainly due to the race issue. I left the dem party after moving to Atlanta and meeting Lowry, et al and the brazen white pc poverty pimps.
This is personal too.
My purpose now is to seize the moment and make history, not predict it.
I am down here.
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here, The Hill has been courting the Latino vote big time, very big time in Nevada, the first state to bring that minority into play.
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might look at all this and decide to refuse voluntary servitude?
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And this time we really need it to help us past our surplus of candidates.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
The Dems are trapped in spiraling Political Correctness war brought on by years of identity politics. It will be Feminists against Sharpton; the View against Andy Young. Every pseudo-black leader against every self-proclaimed defender of women's rights. As much as Obama may try to stay above it he won't be able to control it. The Clintons are notorious street fighters and can't resist the temptation to drag this into the gutter. This will fracture the black vote as well as the women's vote. By the time the general election roles around there will be deeply hurt feelings on both side.
It's beautiful.
Peace in the Middle-east? Heh! Who will bring peace to the Democrat Party?
n/t
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
and I ain't talking about Huck, either.
Clintons. Its a rotteness throughout the party. Its the Clinton's ambition and evil that brought it out in the open.
Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
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He's a conservative writer for the Chicago Tribune. This column he wrote is up on Real Clear Politics. In it, he writes that Obama seems to be playing the race card and that the Clinton's comments weren't particularly racist. I tend to agree with him. One of Obama's supporters even went so far as to imply that the Clinton's are bigots. The Clintons can be accused of a lot of things, but I fail to see how racism is one of them. Obama needs to be careful--this could backfire on him big-time.
Granted Hillary could have been accused of playing the gender card in NH; however, she pulled it off because women voters, rightly, perceived that some in the media, like Andrew Sullivan, Chris Matthews, Christopher Hitchens, and Matt Drudge were using sexist rhetoric against her. Her winning in NH, due to sexist rhetoric, has now been dubbed "The Matthews Effect"--due specifically to Chris Matthews comments--"She looks like Nurse Ratched", "Hillary's shrill", "She has a cackle", "She seems witchy", "She'll remind male voters of a nagging wife", etc. etc. Although, Christopher Hitchens calling her "an aging and resentful female" was pretty bad as well. By the way, if Joe Scarborough and Pat Buchanan say that the coverage of Hillary was sexist, then you know that it's probably true.
However, I think that everyone would agree, that not only has the press totally given Obama a free ride, (and definitely NOT said anything racist about him), they've made him out to be the fourth member of The Trinity. I mean, I don't remember any politician ever getting press this good, while their rival got press that was so bad. Not to mention, Hillary is not running on some "national unity movement" platform like Obama is. Therefore, it could seem particularly transparent if he tries to play the race card--he could come across like a fraud. Again, I think that Obama should tread lightly here. Just my opinion, though. As usual GC, you provoke an interesting discussion. Y'all have a good night.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-kass_bd_13jan13,0,2710069...
closing argument made by Bill Clinton in the closing days. Bill's statement was not racist. But they began playing the race card weeks before Iowa with surrogates suggesting Obama was a coke dealer with no evidence and with Bob Kerry suggesting he is a Muslim.
Then he wins Iowa and the Clintons go into panic mode with Morris, who directed their attacks for 20 years, predicting things that followed.
Cuomo's shuck and jive, another's "pet African-American" cutism, and the "spade work" phrase.
TOO many coincidences.
And I do think Hillary's suggestion that she and LBJ do and did anything more than make speeches, just like Obama is a lie. That's all politicians do is speak, either to groups or individuals, either verbally or via a vote or pen.
ONLY MLK did more by putting his body on the line.
Plus, the fact is that the white and black dem poverty pimps are getting the PC comeuppance they deserve. They cultivated the culture of victimhood and offense that now threatens to bust their party into two pieces.
And that would be the best thing that could happen for Blacks, White and America.
Better even that getting Osama.
They have shucked and jived for 40 years to hide their race based politics that now is biting a pathologically ambitious couple that feel entitled to rule the dependent victims that now deign to challenge them.
Go back and see how they treated Maynard Jackson, Hugh McCall, and Doug Wilder. See the ZERO blacks in Bill Clinton's inner circle, except when he brought in Jordan and Jackson to hide behind when the soiled dress was presented.
more later
Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
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is not a conservative. However he does hate Daley and city hall and I guess in Chicago that makes you conservative.
McCain '08
I do agree that the "shuck and jive" comment by Cuomo was offensive and that Bob Kerry's comment was offensive--Hillary was right to get rid of him. I agree with you that the Clinton's need to get way better control of their surrogates--they've just really run a bad, unorganized campaign. However, the Obama campaign is fixating on Bill and Hillary's statements--which although were poorly worded and awkwardly expressed, I don't think were racist. I think that Obama needs to be careful with this line of attack. Obama's walking a fine line as the "movement leader" for national unity--that will be hard to do if he's perceived as playing the race card. Have a good night. :-)
and other black Dem leaders that are offended. You see, they KNOW and have KNOWN the Clintons and their and the Dems USUAL race card tactics and so they SEE the tactics in play against Obama. Forget the two non-racist statements they chose to focus on. And even the ones you mentioned. Lots of things are going on above and below the radar. The real big attack was the drug dealer one. But in many ways the details are irrelevant. Obama is not even the main story.
The main story is the increasing risk of a rift between the dem party and blacks that would render it a minority party.
The real opportunity I have been praying for for years is a live possibility, ie that black dems SEE how they have been treated by this party and bolt or stay home.
Obama was never and can't unify the country unless we decide to all be socialists.
This country is about free speech and compoeting views. It would be nice if we could unify once the nation goes to war, but Obama doesn;t want that.
The only unity he wants is if repubs come to support his leftist policies.
the movement talk was all liberal starry-eyed Iowa msm commercial $$ generation
more later
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deniability is the way
What they got blindsided by was the offense seeking culture in the dem party that they have cultivated for 40 years to silence repubs, that found offense with their use of words.
see?
I will say that Bill is a weak shell of himself, Hillary never was as smart as Bill, and they are both desperate for power. I do think that Bill is off and on trying to sabotage Hillary to get even for how she humiliated him in front of the White House staff for years.
Hillary is getting better though, as on MTP today and Bill was great in the last days of NH. And that worries me just as the arrogant and charismatic Obama after Iowa. A competent and or charismatic liberal president would harm this country.
Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
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I agree with you that the Clinton's need to get way better control of their surrogates--they've just really run a bad, unorganized campaign.
The other possibility is that the Clintons have carefully scripted everything and figure to get the best fof both worlds:
- Some surrogate uses racist comments to try to hurt Obama.
- Hillary gets rid of the person and says that's awful.
- Voila! They get a two-fer - make Obama look bad and Hillary look good.
It's scary how similar our posts have been lately. :-)
In fact, I think that part of the reason why Obama won Iowa was because of a backlash to those idiotic, racist statements made by Clinton surrogates--just like Clinton won NH, in part, because of sexist comments made by commentators and John Edwards--i.e., "The Matthews Effect". I don't see why Clinton would have scripted those comments thinking that it would help her out. There is always a backlash to this kind of stuff. Then again, people's stupidity never ceases to amaze me. You guys might be right. I could be wrong.
However, I still think that the Obama campaign is making a mistake focusing on the Clinton's statements that are clearly not racist, because it could look like he's playing the race card right before going into the SC primary. People are going to ask why he didn't bring up racism when the true racist comments were made about him ("drug dealer and "Muslim" comments) before the Iowa caucus. I'm going to bed. Y'all have a good night. :-)
I agree, that we are starting to see a crackup, and I would believe that we would be doing well in 2008, if Martinez had not abandoned Melhman's strategy. IMO, Melhman took the hit for things that were not his fault, and he was the best RNC chair we've seen in a long long time. His efforts to run Black R's to higher office as well as his constantly speaking and being at African-American conventions was starting to have an effect on the young Black demographic. I think that Blacks are going to become more disenchanted with Hispanics being the new flavor of the month in both parties, but if 2006 had not been the year where we got spanked in the elections and we were staring at a Governor Swann, Governor Blackwell, and Seantors Steele and Butler, then we would be able to have those discussions about the party that rpesents opportunities like the R's, and the party that crushes them. I've long said that the Dems will never let a black man be the leader of their party as their attempts to moderate their liberal views are to moderate them with racism. The Clintons are more power hungry than ever, but they will win the nomination and be crushed in the general by whoever we put up, because Hillary will pick Richardson over Obama as VP, and Blacks will never let a Hispanic become President before a Black person. Sounds mean, sounds like the worst kind of identity politics, but I know for a fact, the common feeling is that we've been here longer, and Hispanics ought to wait their turn in line. Obama is likely to pick Edwards, which is why the Breck girl has been hitting Hillary just as hard for her comments, because he knows he can ride Obamas wave to the VP slot, it's all but secured for him as the other bringer of "change". This trash is why I left the Dems in 2003.
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of pervasive white racism in America, and so therefore, the Dems cannot allow him to win?
Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
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Don't speak Hillary, just go!
and I shouldn't even pay attention to what happens on the D side because I am voting R even if Paul is our guy, but the way the Clintons and their sock puppets are hell bent on tearing down Obama as a complete fraud is kind of depressing.
I'd love nothing more that to have say a Fred Thompson rip Obama to shreds in a conservative philosophy vs. liberal philosophy debate.
But what the Clintons are doing is another thing and it is unpleasant to watch, and the irony of the Clintons painting somebody else as a fraud and a phony is almost unbearable.
But I will predict a couple of things-
1) Hillary will get the nomination because she wants it more than Obama and will stop at nothing to get it and
2) There won't be a lib crack up because IMO (as a white person) African Americans really believe they have no where else to go as long as the GOP has a small government platform. The A.A. point of view inherently is at odds with a small govt philosphy because as minorities they need govt protection from the worst inclinations of the majority and being disproportionately at the lower end of the economic ladder they need the government to be generous with both benefits and with the level of govt employment.
Maybe if the GOP adopts the Huckabee political philosophy, we could become appealing to A.A. voters, but as much as I'd like to get more A.A. votes I can't say it would be worth going that route.