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May 21, 2008
The Clintons And Race
This conversation on CNN struck me as pretty dead-on...
GERGEN: And from her point of view, over a quarter of the people who voted for her today in Kentucky were people who said race was a factor in their decision. And it really means -- I mean, she's been talking about sexism in this race and she has complained about some in the last 24 hours.You know race is really playing an increasing issue. And it also raises the question in my judgment of whether she shouldn't say, you know, if you want to vote against him because he's black, I don't want your vote.I don't want to win that way. This has no place in this primary.
COOPER: Do you see her saying that?
GERGEN: Well, she has been a champion -- she's been a champion of civil rights for a long, long time. She and her husband both have I think well-earned reputations in the civil rights front. She's never had redneck votes before in her life.
I see no reason why she couldn't take the high road here in the closing days of his campaign and try to take this on and take on the Reverend Wright issue to say, "Look, I campaigned with this fellow for 15 months. I know a lot of you people don't think he shares your values that somehow Barack thinks like Reverend Wright. Not true. I know him. I have been with him. And race should come out of this."
I think she could do a lot by taking a high road.
Posted By Bob Cesca | May 21, 2008 11:52 AM | DIGG ME!
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I saw that conversation on CNN last night and wanted to French Kiss David Gergen! Why arent other "pundits" brave enough to get into the meat of this topic? They need to stop using the code words "hardworking blue collar white people" when they really mean "racists".
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at May 21, 2008 12:54 PM
That is a great freaking point. Someone should ask her now why she is accepting the votes of the Appalachia bigots. She should be "denouncing and rejecting". :)
Posted by: SoylentJames at May 21, 2008 01:24 PM
Indeed, Soylent. I mean, she's winning the popular vote so she can afford to lose the votes of a few "inbred, incestuous mental defectives" (Rex Harrison, Cleopatra (1963)) and still win this thing.
She's in "Can't say anything nice about Barac- (oops!)- my opponent" mode. She can wax poetic about unifying the party for November, but right now she has to talk about what a bad choice he is even if it means reaffirming the prejudices of a bunch of yokels.
Posted by: Nanotyrannus at May 21, 2008 02:14 PM
Ron Reagan, BTW, made your point, Bob, on MSNBC's late night coverage with Dan Abrams that if those "hard-working, blue-collar whites" won't vote for Obama because of his color, then it's not Obama's problem, it's their's and America's. Not a lot of discussion about it - though there seemed to be a lot of agreement! - but I wondered if he'd been reading the live blog...
Posted by: ceu at May 21, 2008 02:53 PM
I am so glad he said that. RRJr is OK by me. Wish we saw more of him on the talk shows.
Posted by: midad at May 21, 2008 04:09 PM
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