Dave Lindorff: Clinton Courted Racists in the Pennsylvania Primary

Apparently Dave, trapped in Philly, was unable to discover the real issues surrounding the white vote in rural PA. Those so called bitter small town people. Even more interesting is Daves pathetic attempt to pin racism on the Clinton's when clearly it is Obama's campaign spinning the race card. Also interesting is the fact that none of the "enlightened" folks who write this blather ever consider the fact that the only reason black folks vote for Obama is simply because he is black. So the question should also be - is that not racism as well?? The continued race baiting by Obama and his supporters like Dave is pathetic and the reason why Obama will never be President.

Last night I watched Bill Moyers' Journal and met Rev. Wright the man instead of Rev. Wright the caricature. It was a revelation. I challenge all Americans who are interested in truth to watch the show.

Great commentary, Dave, but I have to agree with Maureen Dowd's "Obambi" op-ed: -- http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/opinion/09dowd.html -- No matter how ruthless, underhanded, and nasty Hillary's campaign is (forget "the kitchen sink"... she and her crew are throwing the contents of the sewer, and hoping some sticks!) Obama and his campaign "seem naïve when [they] keep reacting with hurt feelings and play-by-the-rules protestations to the Clinton modus vivendi of grabbing the slightest slip and ripping it open. Hillary’s kneecapper Howard Wolfson compares the goo-goo Obama campaign to Ken Starr with a straight face. The superdelegates are watching to see if Obama can stiffen his backbone. After seeing their candidates lose races they should have won in 2000 and 2004 because they flinched at Republican political waterboarding, Democrats do not want to watch the bully swipe their lollipop a third time." (Dowd, continued) "Obama’s multiculturalism is a selling point with many Democrats. But his impassioned egghead advisers have made his campaign seem not only out of his control, but effete and vaguely foreign — the same unflattering light that doomed Michael Dukakis and John Kerry." ====================================== First of all, this primary race is not NEARLY as brutal as the Democratic-Republican campaign for president between Andrew Jackson incumbent President John Quincey Adams, of the so-called "CORRUPT BARGAIN" when House Speaker Henry Clay selected (in an election tossed into the House) Adams over Jackson, despite Jackson's POPULAR VOTE plurality in a 4 way election). Adams, once he was inaugurated, reciprocated by making Clay his Sec. State... back at a time when Sec.State was an almost guaranteed stepping-stone to the White House. Jackson and his reporters became incensed at both the "STOLEN ELECTION" and "CORRUPT BARGAIN" and accused Adams, Clay, and their supporters of being "ROYALISTS," fat-cat elitists, and CORRUPT. For their part, Adam's (former Federalist/Republicans) people branded Jackson as a dictator (for his many drumhead trials and summary hangings during Jackson's long and dramatic military careeer), and above all accused Jackson's wife Rachel of being a BIGAMIST (prostitute) for having married Jackson before her divorce to her first husband was legally concluded. Since Jackson was a lawyer before he married Rachel, and since their courtship was a minor scandal in itself (even in rural, western frontier Tennessee of the time), Jackson-hating critics had plenty of ammunition. The trauma of seeing her name bandied about across the entire nation as a prostitute and bigamist led Rachel to virtually will herself to death - she died of stress and/or bad health after her husband won the election against the sitting, incumbent president, but before he was inaugurated. Jackson's victory procession from Tenneesse to the White House became a funeral dirge at the same time. Anyways, Andrew Jackson would be remembered as perhaps the most perfect example of the DUALITY OF NATURE of the American Republic. Just as America was founded seeking liberty, freedom, and "a more perfect union" at a time when good portion of America pursued chattel slavery, the very antithesis of liberty and freedom, (a union built on coercion, violence, hate, war (slave raids), brutality and terrorism), so too did Andrew Jackson personify the dichotomy of "JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY" and the expansion of American democracy into the western frontier, while at the same time simultaneously advocating more slavery and the ethnic cleansing of Indian tribes, even those that had been allies with his armies during his long military career. In spite of (or because of) his mixed record, Andrew Jackson is above all remembered AS A FIGHTER. Some of his policies may have been misguided (the ethnic cleansing of the Cherokee nation "Trail of Tears," and his battle against the national bank, which contributed to a depression so severe that there was actual starvation among some of the pioneer families that were his core supporters) but as George C Scott's opening monologue in the movie "PATTON!" declares, "the American people love a [fighter and a] winner, and will not tolerate a loser!" In the case of Obama vs Hillary Clinton, never has a candidate served up so many potential soft pitches for a good OPPOSITION RESEARCH team to knock out of the park. To begin with, there is Bill's recent TEN MILLION DOLLAR PAYOFF for lobbying Kazakhistan's brutal, ruthless SADDAM-ESQUE DICTATOR for a uranium contract for Clinton's Canadian mining baron buddy... http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/us/politics/31donor.html Then there is former President Clinton demanding $300,000 for a single evening AT A CHARITY event!! (note: the Clinton's tax filings show 10% of their income donated to charity, but this figure is misleading, because most of those "charity" donations went to Clinton's own Clinton Foundation, which didn't actually start disbursing charity until Hillary's campaign officially went underway just over a year ago). Then there is Hillary's own fantastical delusions that she landed in a war zone and faced sniper fire... and the fact that after her secretive, closed-door "Health Care Reform" fiasco of 1993, the Democrats LOST THE HOUSE, SENATE, _AND_ the majority of governor's mansions the following election (Newt Gignrich's "Contract on America); And above all there are the videos that contradict Senator Clinton's assertions that she OPPOSED Nafta, when there are dozens of witnesses on record saying that she promoted it (and, specifically, her assignment was to "BLOCK Labor and Environmental opposition to the bill in Congress). -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BrPZYbCdJ4 -- IF Obama and his campaign can't take those political soft-ball pitches and KNOCK THEM OUT OF THE PARK (in quite, dignified ads that challenge Senator Clinton's judegement), he should step back from the batter's box!

Hillary is a woman and G-D- it I'm going to vote for her regardless if she regularly lies, tells false statements, and is an extension of the 25 year Bush-Clinton dynasty, and will in the end cause the Democrats to lose Congress. I want a woman in the WH damn it!

Let's see ... Lindorff attributes Hillary's Pennsylvania win to racism. "There are white voters in the Democratic Party in Pennsylvania -- a lot of them, in fact -- who are simply racists. They will not vote for a black candidate for president. Period." Fair enough. No doubt there are some voters in every state (including PA) that will not vote for a black candidate - period.

Yet Ed Rendell makes a similar statement in much more mild terms, and he's a racist: “You’ve got conservative whites here, and I think there are some whites who are probably not ready to vote for an African-American candidate," and "There's no question some Pennsylvanians, just like there are people all over the country, who aren't ready to vote an executive position for an African American. Just like there are people, some men, who don't want to see a woman as commander-in-chief of the United States military."

Oh, I get it. Lindorff supports Obama and criticizes Hillary, so he's one of US (you know, the true progressives ..... the true Democrats ..... the good guys. Not one of those 47.6% delusional, racist, senile, too-stupid-to-see-past-their-own-gender Hillary supporters.

Old people aka racists aka the people who brought us Reagan and the destruction of the middle class plus a billion other horrible things. And uneducated people aka racists who blame their problems on brown people when in reality they are just losers. The MSM can smear Obama by calling him and his supporters elitest. But the bottom line is a black (half black, half white actually) guy from Chicago who was middle class until his book came out and started selling is not an elitest, and the people who vote for him aren't either. We're just not stupid like the rest of you.

63 % of PA voters report Hillary is not trustworthy. 86 % of PA voters report race was of no importance in their vote 55% of PA voters chose Hillary 100 % of PA voters are probably comfortable with lying

let me try to explain something. We blacks see what tremendous odds a fellow black is up against and try to help by counteracting the racism from the racist whites. We see all blacks as the true underdogs that they are and are just trying to give encouragement and support where we can. There is nothing sinister about it. We vote for whites all the time. We help out underdogs all the time. Simple as that.

It is just as racist, to vote for a person because they are black as it is to vote against a person because they are black. Political correctness has lost the Dems.the whitehouse twice in a row. Going with Obama will make it three in a row. The racist crap printed here hides under that same cloak of lame political correctness. In Americas prisons a group of black racist extremists ( muslem 5 %ers) spew the same racist hate speech that Obama's preacher has been yelling at Obama from his pulpit for 18 years. You think the stories of this very important person in Obama's life, his mentor, and spiritual advisor are going away. The swift boat guys are sharpening their steelie knives, while they laugh at these political correct lame articles. You have the nerve to call the Clintons racists? Shame on you. For me and all the other white people who marched for equal rights in the 60's and voted for black congressmen,governors, and Senators. KISS OUR COLLECTIVE ASSES!

One big reason that Blacks who were supporting Hillary turned to Obama is because they certainly understand the race-baiting that has been going on by the Clinton campaign. Another example is when Clinton, out of nowhere, threw out the name 'Farakhan' in connection to Obama (when there is no connection) in the last debate. These memes are dog-whistles for racists, and Blacks understand that better than anyone. Blacks who vote for Obama are not being racists, however many of them are reacting to the racism coming from Clinton's campaign.

Let's just call a spade a spade, so to speak—Hillary is running a racist campaign. She pretends not to, but she is, talking out of both sides of her mouth, saying that Obama is electable when sitting next to him at a debate, but by now it's painfully obvious the Clinton camp's whispering campaign about Obama's electability problem is a euphemism for their conviction that a black man cannot win the presidency. Their focus on Reagan Democrats and the DLC triangulation strategy as the key to a Democratic victory pulls the Clinton campaign to the right in an attempt to win the center, in the process cynically pandering to the prejudices of rural voters by trying to out-Republican the Republicans. Obama is trying to convince voters to defend their pocketbooks by pointing out how Republicans conduct class warfare by appealing to cultural "values" issues, which too often translate into racism and homophobia that divides Americans. This is exactly how the Democratic Party should be positioning itself, as its activist base has been arguing for years, but Bill and Hillary are still pursuing the losing—not to mention morally reprehensible—strategy of trying to appease Blue Dog Democrats, whose political sway is fading. What we are seeing is literally is a fight for the soul of the Democratic Party, and it's ugly.
I imagine Bill and Hillary think they're right about all this, which explains their single minded determination to destroy Obama and his activist base, even at the expense of the party. Personal ambition certainly lies at the root of their obliviousness, but on top of that they really believe they are saving the Democratic Party from itself, which is what's so scary about their behavior, because they're stuck in the old school mode of destructive, dishonest, condescending, behind-the-scenes machine politics. Granted they have been scarred badly by that process while trying to do good for the country but it seems to have instilled in them a persecution complex, which plays out in their otherwise inexplicably hateful attacks on Obama. Geraldine Ferraro exemplifies this cluelessness, insisting that the fact that Obama is black helps his candidacy more than hinders it. Bill also keeps referring to the "race card" in a veiled manner, but here's what they mean, what they really want to say but can't—Look, Obama can't win because he's black, but the politically correct rules of public discourse prevent us from saying it and gives his candidacy an unfair advantage. Hillary and Bill are banking on the racism of Americans as their central strategy for getting her elected. It's a heinous place to take the Democratic Party, and if black voters walk away from her, who's unelectable then?
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