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The Clintons have never understood how to exit the stage gracefully.

[He can’t win! Don’t you understand? He’s black! He’s black!!]

The Clintons have been trying to embed that gruesomely destructive message in the brains of white voters and superdelegates for the longest time. It’s a grotesque insult to African-Americans, who have given so much support to both Bill and Hillary over the years.

But it’s an insult to white voters as well, including white working-class voters. It’s true that there are some whites who will not vote for a black candidate under any circumstance. But the United States is in a much better place now than it was when people like Richard Nixon, George Wallace and many others could make political hay by appealing to the very worst in people, using the kind of poisonous rhetoric that Senator Clinton is using now.

The last time the Clintons had to make a big exit was at the end of Bill Clinton’s second term as president — and they made a complete and utter hash of that historic moment. Having survived the Monica Lewinsky ordeal, you might have thought the Clintons would be on their best behavior.

Instead, a huge scandal erupted when it became known that Mrs. Clinton’s brothers, Tony and Hugh Rodham, had lobbied the president on behalf of criminals who then received presidential pardons or a sentence commutation from Mr. Clinton.

It wasn’t just the pardons that sullied the Clintons’ exit from the White House. They took furniture and rugs from the White House collection that had to be returned.

So class is not a Clinton forte.

But it’s one thing to lack class and a sense of grace, quite another to deliberately try and wreck the presidential prospects of your party’s likely nominee — and to do it in a way that has the potential to undermine the substantial racial progress that has been made in this country over many years.

The Clintons should be ashamed of themselves. But they long ago proved to the world that they have no shame.
smorrisey

18 responses // Seeds of destruction

  • Racism is a double edged sword, it cuts both ways. Those who use it to denigrade those of darker pigmentation should be ashamed of themselve. Those who hold onto racism and use it as a crutch and excuse for their misgivings and misfortune should be reserved.
    Kylsport
  • The vibe I've been getting from Hillary has all along been, "I can't lose! I'm a Clinton, Godamnit! It's my right!" That'd be where GWB was coming from, too.
    Let's leave out "White" and focus on "Working Class".
    Do they even see Hillary as one of their own?
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    huntre
  • I can't wait to see how the tactic of screaming racism everytime they don't like what's happening works for the Obama groupies in November. I almost hope he does get the nomination just to see the spectacle. Republicans won't care if you call them racist, they've never had the black vote and they've never needed it, they've won 7 out of the last 10 Presidential elections without it. And the more the Obama fanatics scream racism at the drop of a hat, the more whites they drive away from their candidate. And by continuing to call the best President the Democrats have had since Kennedy, the only one elected to two terms since FDR, a racist they risk the destruction of the Democratic Party itself! How ironic, the party of civil rights go down in flames because of racial intolerence, not of whites, but of blacks, ironic indeed. And even more ironic, when they lose in November, do you know who they will blame? Bill Clinton. Now THAT is irony.
    JohnA
  • I'm with Huntre....

    I think this has less to do with racism and more to do with elitism.....

    The fact that it wasn't a big deal that the Clintons were accused of not reporting 35 million dollars of income last year....are you kidding me? Thats more money than I'll make in a lifetime yet it was chump change to them in one year...I don't know where this working class "I'm one of you" mentality came from, but its BS, and its typical Washington Politics. Thats what Ron Paul and Barak Obama have been preaching about.....there's no change possible when you're part of the problem....
    nickdotnet
  • You all make good pionts, but do not forget these are just political tactics whether the Clintons are racist or not. Let's remember we were told about the "kitchen sink Strategy" they're throwing at Sen. Obama. I think the kitchen is completely empty to the point they're stripping the walls down looking for anything that might stick. Smorrisey is spot on about this issue. Their tactics is designed to keep us devided, not to bring us together which it's beneficial to them. This will damage thier legacy in the long run with the Democratic Party which Sen. Clinton can not afford right now if she plans on running for President in 2012. She's completely desperate and it does not look good on her right now. Some people just can't catch a clue.
    samee4U
  • The Clintons are trying to divide the country by race---again! We are tired of it. It is counter-productive. We need a leader who "can" transcind race. It is obvious that the Clintons are from the "old school" that use race to claim superiority. It is a sad vision of America.
    Inteligent caucasions do not fit in the Clintons classification of followers----and they are losing the American vote, support, and damaging the Clinton name in politics. It is not just African Americans, Hispanics, Asians and other non "whites" as she chose to classify her followers, who are turned off by her claim to white supremacy!
    gbesley
  • I thought She was staying in because she has spent over thirty-million more than she has and hopes for donations to help pay her venders. It looks like it's more than that. Anyone that wants someone that can spend thirty-million more than she has raise their hand and slap your head. Her national budget would be interesting.
    Marilynn_Murray
  • The Clintons are trying to deviding the races? Excuse me, I happen to be an Intelligent Caucasion. You don't get the nickname "The First Black President" by dividing the races. And you can't win the Presidency with an Affirmitave Action nomineee. It's all about the Electorial College.
    JohnA
  • I don't usually double post, but "intelligent caucasions" don't fit the Clinton mold? OH! And you're going to ask me to vote for your canidate in November? Who is the elitest again? I somehow don't think we'll be uniting.
    JohnA
  • Bill Clinton may have had that nickname, but it doesn't apply in this campaign. They are apparently after the working, hard working white Americans this go round. You know the ones without much education. Vote for whoever you like.
    Marilynn_Murray
  • That's because to win a Presidential Election you have to have the majority, and hard working white Americans are the majority. And they're not particularly cool with you calling them "ones without much education". Bachelor of Accountancy, University of Mississippi, 1989.
    JohnA
  • Hillary said that not me. I'm sure they aren't cool with it either.
    Marilynn_Murray
  • the hard working white americans may be the majority, but like it says, just because they are white doesnt mean that a black president is no option for them.

    clinton keeps digging herself deeper and deeper. i found this shirt online that i felt expressed exactly how i feel almost to a fault. check it out:

    www.clintonfatigue.us
    asiantoast
  • Hillary didn't say that, you did. Every option is open, but dont insult me and then expect me to vote for you. It don't work that way.
    JohnA
  • I quote Hillary“There was just an AP article posted that found how Sen. Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me.”

    “There’s a pattern emerging here,” she said.

    There sure is, I said.
    Marilynn_Murray
  • Okay JohnA, I'll give her this. I think she may have been tired and misspoke. I don't think in her heart she really feels that way about anyone except maybe Obama. Just my opinion.
    Marilynn_Murray
  • JohnA...

    Dude! Lighten up! We're just making conversation about how each of us see these events. It seems like you're taking this personally. We're not Questioning anyone's intellegence or feelings towards this issue, I mean you have to look at what Sen. Clinton threw out there. I think Marilynn is right, she might have been tired and misspoken. I myself don't think she feel that way about anyone either. I have'nt heard anything negitive from Sen. Obama on this issue, if anything He's being more respectful towards her and not talking about it focusing on Sen. John Mccain. Let's face it, regardless of which one of these canidates gets the nod, anybody but John Mccain.
    samee4U
  • http://www.charlotte.com/409/story/621480.html
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    Hillary is officially beyond the point where she can exit graciously or gracefully. She's going down in blazes of debt with this ship Mark Penn and Harold Ickes have run amuck. She's insulted her base and her detractors in one awkward fell swoop. Right now, more Dems want her to pack it in and go back to the Senate than actually support her candidacy. She'd like to hold the Party hostage until she pays her campaign bills and/or is added to the ticket as a Vice Presidential cnadidate, but Dems are no longer overwhelmingly buying the Clinton brand the way they did in the 1990s when Bill represented the change everyone wanted to see. Right now, Hillary represents everything Dems want to see politically eradicated.
    96thdayofrage

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