Hillary Clinton’s Suicidal Gamble with Race Poison

From the very beginning, the premise and the promise of Barack Obama’s campaign was that it would transcend race. And last autumn the Obama team also knew this was the only way it could win.

The Clinton brand among black voters was so strong, so unbreakable, so resilient a force that even the first credible black candidate for the presidency remained stuck 20-30% behind Hillary Clinton among African-American voters. She was, after all, the wife of the “first black president”, as the author Toni Morrison called Bill.

She had almost all the black political establishment behind her. Her husband, from his days in Arkansas during the civil rights movement, had forged a deep, durable bond with black America. And Obama’s only hope as a young insurgent was in winning a surprise victory in Iowa or New Hampshire, where black votes were close to nonexistent.

A biracial man reared by one white mother and two white grandparents knew that his ability to touch and inspire white voters was his greatest strength. Especially among younger voters, it was critical. And this appeal wasn’t geared only to white audiences. I will not forget a rally over a year ago, filled with predominantly black donors and activists, when Obama recounted how a supporter greeted him at the anniversary of Martin Luther King’s march on Selma.

“That was a great celebration of African-American history,” the supporter said, to which Obama immediately responded: “No, no, no, no, no. That was not a great celebration of African-American history. That was a celebration of American history.” The postracial appeal wasn’t just about necessity. It was also Obama’s core conviction about his own political message.

Don’t talk about the 90+ percent black vote for Obama. I don’t have any issue with it whatsoever. This is the first serious black candidate for President. So that’s the voter’s including the black voter’s right.

But Shrillary is really playing into her ‘base’ of lower education, lower earning white vote, or the Bubba vote as it used to be called.

The woman is doing shots, talking about shooting guns among other things.

The Rats are the Balkanization Party of America, divided by every single area one can come up with including race, income, and genitalia.
Vote for your genitalia (tribe) is only one Shrillary motto.

Now Shrillary is making one last desperate appeal to the SPDs (Super Politician Delegates). Don’t vote for that guy, he can’t get my white chump peops and he’ll lose. If you want to win, vote for me.

This is the Clintons really what did you expect? Grace?

Exactly. Obama’s been a racist politician from the beginning. He spent 20 years as a member of a racist, anti-white, anti-American church and lied when he claimed not to know about Wright’s radical opinions. He’s become such a darling of the media that they’ve even turned on Hillary.

Hillary’s a despicable human being, but her assertion that she’d do better in the general election with white voters, working class voters, and so forth is simply the truth. She actually would do better than Obama in attracting those voters. Why is it “race poison” to point that out? The media are setting up ground rules for the general election which will make it impossible to criticize Obama without being called a “racist”. They’re treating anti-Obama white voters as a mass equivalent of Obama’s white grandmother. She was “racist” for fearing an aggressive black panhandler, and a working class white guy who doesn’t want to put a black radical named Hussein in the Commander-in-Chief position is a “racist” as well. That’s what we’re being set up for.

If they fail to elect Obama, which is likely, the media will then declare that the only reason he lost was because he was black (i.e., whites are “racists”). McCain will then be pressured to move even further to the left to prove his sensitivity and heal the nation.

Hillary deserves a ton of criticism, but for hypocrisy rather than her factual observation that she’d get more white votes than Obama. She and Bill have spent years falsely accusing whites of racism. The Dinkins-Giuliani race in NYC is one example. This behavior dates back to her college days when she fawned over the Black Panthers. She’s spent decades accusing opponents of the liberal agenda of “racism”. Not to mention her frequent claims that anyone opposing her is a sexist who doesn’t like strong women, her phony claims of a vast right-wing conspiracy, and more.

She’s currently being victimized by her own tactics, so I have zero sympathy for her. However, Obama’s the one who’s really spreading race poison, from his membership in a racist church to his sneering dismissal of the white working class in his San Francisco speech. He’s falsely accused his own grandmother of being a racist and thus a “typical white person”. And his wife’s conduct has been just as bad.

I agree. As much as I dislike Hillary, she’s not the one who played the race card - it was Osama Obama from the very start, and in fact he and his wife have built their entire careers on this (look how hard he tries to preserve his race-warrior bona fides by basically denying the white half of his own family!).

He’s a corrupt Chicago pol who tapped into the black money and power source, and no matter who ran against him, at some point they would have been forced to respond to this. This is particularly true since the media and his other flunkies immediately make aversion to Osama Obama a racial matter, thereby preventing anyone from pointing out the legitmate problems: black separatism, Muslim affiliations, radical leftism, corruption, and inexperience at anything except the foregoing.

Hillary had better have some BIG scandal on Barry pending...because after this she if forever dead with the far left of the Defeatocrat party.

If she had, she would have already used it against him. She got away with a lot of stuff because of who she is, make no mistake about it - had she been Republican or a male, the media would have crucified her and her campaign for some of what they were doing.

In the end, Obama and McCain can breath a sigh of relief (especially McCain - Hillary would have dragged every one of his skeletons out of the closet for all to see - she would have basically been running the Rove playbook from 2000 with a few minor updates).

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