Posted on 03/05/2008 5:29:15 PM PST by shrinkermd
If race is not an issue in this presidential contest (and I believe it is and will be), then how come virtually every mainstream black columnist has been effusively and unabashedly supporting Sen. Barack Obama, and highly critical of and even caustic towards Sen. Hillary Clinton?
...Of course, many prominent white columnists, including liberals, have joined in the adulation of Obama and the nasty criticism of whatever Clinton says, how she looks, what she wears. Her most vigorous attackers have included the New York Time duo, Maureen Dowd, who compared Clinton to Dick Cheney, and Frank Rich, who said Sen. John McCain was “channeling” Clinton. But liberal white columnists have not been single-minded.
Newsday’s Sheryl McCarthy acknowledged that virtually every black columnist was supporting Obama, “I see nothing wrong with that,” she wrote me. “For about 140 years blacks have been voting for…white candidates…And now there is finally a viable black candidate who happens to be a very strong candidate. Why on earth wouldn’t they support him?….Aren’t black columnists people, citizens and voters? I can’t tell you why black columnists are largely supporting Obama.” She had supported John Edwards, she said, but switched to Obama because “he seemed to be part of a progressive groundswell and it seemed as if he could actually capture the nomination.”
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Vote for Giuliani, because everyone else is! “Fear the Fred!” Vote for Hillary, because she’s a woman!
...so many bandwagons. so little tolerance of them.
[Spit!]
She is just one unlikeable socialist nag.
Given the near Messianic status of Barack Obama, what do you suppose the reaction of these black columnists (and all of their readers) will be when Hillary Clinton is declared the Nominee at the Convention??
I think we at least have the basis for any number of very nasty dustups among the Dhimmies that could not only cost them the election, but some seats in Congress as well...
Hillary should be flattered by that remark.
LOL
Yes, because they actually think for themselves, outside of race identity. They are on to bigger things and more complex thought, so they just don't count.
Same tribe maybe.
Actually the best scenario is for the Democrats to engage in a knock-down drag-out fight in which Hillary loses, ridding us forever of the loathsome twosome, and Hussein is severely damaged. The Clinton supporters will be so resentful that many of them will stay home or even vote for McCain, resulting in a Republican victory. Hussein will be forever tainted as a loser, instead of as an up-and-coming star who almost got the nomination.
Take them both down, I say.
It certainly most assuredly is not racism but must be based wholly on the issues.............
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