Hillary’s Voice

First there was the Christian Coalition separating Real Christians from the Others.
Then there was Bush making us Red or Blue.
Now Obama using the race card again and again separating blacks and white.
The Obama Campaign’s Strategic Blunder – They Made it Personalby Angie Pratt

When the Obama campaign made its claim of racism against Hillary after theNew Hampshire primary they made a booboo. A big one. Prior to that Clinton’s supporters were open to entertaining a vote for Obama. Maybe he’d be OK.
The evening of Hillary’s win in New Hampshire the claim came out that Hillary had somehow cheated. Somehow she had gotten white folks to vote for her because she was white and Obama was black. That claim was used to explain away Obama’s defeat and set the stage for getting out the black vote in South Carolina.
The media jumped on it. It explained how they could have been so wrong. Chris Mathews and Keith Olbermann actually had to tone down their anti-Hillary rhetoric for a week or so. So this lie got repeated over and over again.

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It worked. Obama had a winning strategy. If he could consistently get 80% to 90% of the black vote he’d be set.
Well … if it worked once … try it again. So the Obama camp called the Clintons racists again and again and again – at every opportunity.

Sometimes I wonder how political campaign staff people sleep at night knowing the difference between what is truth and what is just a political game.

<blockquote><a href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/magazine/01axelrod.t.html”> Obama’s Narrator</a>

 This, Axelrod says, is what Karl Rove understood about George W. Bush. “One of the reasons Bush has succeeded in two elections,” Axelrod says, “is that in his own rough-hewn way he has conveyed a sense of this is who I am, warts and all.” For Obama, because of Senator Hillary Clinton’s far-greater experience and establishment backing, this is a particularly essential project. “If we run a conventional campaign and look like a conventional candidacy, we lose,” Axelrod says.</blockquote>

The Axelrod’s, Susan and David, must feel at times that they are ’sleeping with the enemy.’

We cannot afford to be guilt-tripped into voting for Obama this time around. There are just too many tough problems to fix waiting for the next POTUS. This is not the time to bargain for power.

The Obama Bargain By SHELBY STEELE
March 18, 2008; Page A23

Geraldine Ferraro may have had sinister motives when she said that Barack Obama would not be “in his position” as a frontrunner but for his race. Possibly she was acting as Hillary Clinton’s surrogate. Or maybe she was simply befuddled by this new reality — in which blackness could constitute a political advantage.

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Jesse Jackson and Barack Obama, June 4, 2007.
But whatever her motives, she was right: “If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position.” Barack Obama is, of course, a very talented politician with a first-rate political organization at his back. But it does not detract from his merit to say that his race is also a large part of his prominence. And it is undeniable that something extremely powerful in the body politic, a force quite apart from the man himself, has pulled Obama forward. This force is about race and nothing else.

I won’t be hoodwinked or bamboozled into casting a vote just because blacks can guilt-trip whites to do your bidding.

How to turn one’s blackness to advantage?

I remember when I first heard Obama speak. It sent good chills up my spine, kind of like when you hear someone who can really sing.  I listened a few times and then realized he wasn’t saying much. The thrill was gone.

I remember listening to Hillary speak. I was inspired by her health care and economic issues and her intelligence shined though. I got goose bumps thinking that this woman could be the next President of the United States.

From the beginning of the primary season Hillary became my first choice, Obama was second. The idea of empowering the most minorities, which is the majority of the people was my main basis on making my election selection.

Living in New Hampshire I voted for Hillary, she won and I got those excited chills up my spine again. I thought to myself this is going to be a great primary season.

But as time went on I was attacked by first, some Edwards supporters, then when he quit, I was attacked by most of Obama supporters EVERYTIME I diaried or commented about Hillary. Every time!  Being on a political blog has been a chilling experience this winter. The hate-speak and verbal abuse triggered a lot of anxiety in me.

Verbal abuse has long lasting effects.