who really plays the race card

[wrando]

and he's been playing it since before the Clintons became the biggest racists alive

http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2008/04/25/floyd_brown/

bill from ct

[Perry Logan]

1. Correction: the Obama people play the race card, over and over again.

[cali]

3. you have plenty to be ashamed

of with your dishonesty and misrepresentations. Disgusting.

[Perry Logan]

11. Same to you, fella.

[wrando]

6. correct but

Obama and his people have used race to their advantage in many ways, but this guy Brown is a sheet wearing creep.

bill from ct

[Perry Logan]

8. I'm just sad that Democrats call other Democrats racists, as the Obamites do. This is not healthy.

[cliffordu]

26. Need a binky???

[wowimthere]

Someone living in an alternate universe... who doesn't see things for what they are....

Everyone knows Bill continues to play the race card. He did it in PA.

[wrando]

36. that's right

If you dare to run against Obama, and you have the audacity to try, then you are a racist.

This has gotten totally ridiculous, and it needs to stop.

bill from ct

[wowimthere]

29. Someone living in an alternate universe... who doesn't see things for what they are....

Everyone knows Bill continues to play the race card. He did it in PA.

[cali]

2. huh?

are you talking about McCain? And no one here has said the Clintons are the "biggest racists alive".

[wrando]

10. Obama's shield

Any political dispute with the Obama campaign is hit head on by the race shield that surrounds Obama. If the attack is personal then it has to be race. This is the politics of the democratic party. It's a little more subtle than the way Brown uses it. He wears his sheet on the outside, the Obama campaign uses it beneath the radar.

bill from ct

[cali]

13. your posts really are disgusting

comparing Obama to the KKK. You shoud do something unspeakable to your anatomy. You really are a **** piece of ****.

[wrando]

15. excellent reply

true to form another nonsensical attack

facts are facts

you are a bit nasty this morning

it's wonderful to able to direct that kind of hate with no fear of retribution

bill from ct

[cali]

16. it's a fact that Obama wears a sheet

on the "inside" as you put it? You wouldn't know a fact from a hole in the ground. And you've made it clear what you are.

[wrando]

17. obviously not a fact

I know you're not stupid, so save the act. The sheet reference is directed at Brown, the race card is what the Obama people use covertly.

I should have made that point better, but if you don't think racism flows both ways, then you aren't as smart as I previously gave you credit for.

BTW you have no idea what I am, who knows, putting aside this political argument we might actually like each other, as I'm sure would be the case with many other people at DU.

Bill from ct

[mmonk]

4. Yep.

That's what he' known for. Scare the white people for rightwing politicians. As Obama says about the politics of old, Not This Time.

[wrando]

12. Brown will attack Obama

Up until now Brown has only gone after the Clintons, but that will change, probably in NC.

bill from ct

[HCE SuiGeneris]

5. .

:popcorn:

[tishaLA]

7. 1. The Clintons are not "the biggest racists alive"

They aren't even racists. They do, however, use race as a political tactic very effectively.

2. Enough with this "race card" stuff.

[mmonk]

9. I concur.

They only have used this once they started losing some to him. It's a campaign strategy.

[greenvpi]

14. While you are correct...

Clinton is using race, she only did it as a defense against Obama's constant use of race as a weapon. It's sad our candidates are doing this against each other. They should have waited to use these very effective weapons against the Repukes in Nov.

[wrando]

18. but we are told they are

MSNBC Matthews,Olbermann and their little group of idiots remind us daily of the terrible racist Clintons

The black community has bought into it as has the hoi pollio.

bill from ct

[wowimthere]

27. You're misinformed about what racism is... it can be disguised as a southern smile...

If you try to undermine a voting block to gain power by using race then that is being a racist. What the clintons have done is mask their candidacy in conciliatory terms while under the surface they are trying to politically undermine Obama's candidacy by raising the issue of race to explain his electability.

"He can't win and you know he can't win because people are not going to vote for him because he is black." This is their racist appeal to the nation. Obama is bi-racial though. "Jesse Jackson ran a good campaign." Again, using race. He should have said, Edwards ran a good campaign too. It's as though Bill was running for the presidency against Obama. His racism is oh so subtle but it's there even if he doesn't think he's a racist because this kind of racism has to do with keeping "power". And he will undermine the will of an electorate to keep that power.

[tishaLA]

30. No I'm not misinformed about what racism is

I am, however, well-informed about what opportunism is. Using race in the 2008 election is, for them, like using senior citizens in another election, or class conflict in another. It is simple Machiavellianism, not racism.

[smiley_glad_hands]

19. The whole Wright ordeal and O's "electability" are full of racist undertones. eom

[wrando]

21. that's what Obama wants you to think

The Wright ordeal has to do with judgment.

The elect ability issue obviously will be full of racial and racist overtones.

In the general election the undertones will not always be covert. The repubs love the racist angle, and they aren't afraid of it.

bill from ct

[smiley_glad_hands]

23. I don't need you, Hill, or Obama to tell me what to think.

If it looks like a duck, talks like a duck, and walks like a duck, its a duck. Your statements only confirm my original post.

[wrando]

31. well

you probably could use some help

bill from ct

[wowimthere]

25. I'm not sure you know what you just said. You are actually admitting racism is being played.

Are you your brother's keeper? You act like you don't know anyone whose ever said something racially derogatory or derogatory in general. If you live long enough you have heard a friend, relative, co-worker say something derogative and you probably didn't disown them. You don't have to answer to me... just think about it.

For Bill to bring it up again before PA was injecting race into the equation.

[wrando]

32. on the contrary

I'm in the construction business, I hear that crap every day.

bill from ct

[EFerrari]

28. You bet it does. "Electability" is code, flat out. n/t

[wrando]

33. code?

I'll tell what electability is code for----reality

It sucks, but that's life in America 2008.

bill from ct

[EFerrari]

34. Since Obama is winning the actual electibility contest,

I have to disagree.

The RW media and the Clinton campaign ignoring that and using that word over and over, yes. It's code for black.

And that's not life in America in 2008. Hillary is toast no matter what dirty cr@p she pulls next.

[wrando]

35. hillary is toast

The democratic primary rules have finished Hillary, and in the process is installing a candidate that can't win in November.

The DNC made the rules and it will probably cost them the white house.

The only hope now would be a unified ticket, but that prospect isn't looking too likely.

bill from ct

[EFerrari]

37. Obama will sweep. Make your reservations for January now. n/t

[BlooInBloo]

20. White folks. Every single time they say it.

[wrando]

22. not true

look into your own soul on that one

don't include the entire white race

bill from ct

[wowimthere]

24. How Bushian... Bill introduces that Obama had played the race card and had proof of it just before

the PA primary as away of firing up "Blue Collar" bigots and racist, you know the ones that Chris Matthews calls "Regular people". He introduces this again as a way of injecting race back into the equation. Then he recants his statements when it's clear she will win the "white blue collar" vote.

Maybe Regular people can't see what he's doing but latte drinking liberals do. He's dumb enough to think that we're dumb enough not to see what he's doing. Some of the Hillary supporters are waaaaayyyyy too gullible. As a Democrat I'm shocked.

Like I said... Clinton... so Bushian.