Hillary Uses More Race Baiting
May 8, 2008 by Joshua Davis
Hillary has defined herself as the white candidate today, telling USA Today that “I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on, [the AP] found how Senator 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. Hillary must feel pretty desperate when she has to specifically single out white voters as the hard working ones.
The Clinton’s previous comments on race were regrettable, and told black voters the Clinton’s were willing to use race baiting as their strategy. The strategy may have been offensive, but these comments are on a whole new level with Hillary implying that white voters are the only hard working voters.
Despite all her arguments that she can carry working class, rural, and Hispanic (she usually excludes blacks) voters, she needs the black vote to win in the Fall. If this group stays home or votes for an alternate candidate she will not win.
Blacks are not voting for Obama because he is black. Blacks are voting en masse for Obama because Hillary’s race baiting has driven them away. When the primaries started many African Americans where skeptical a black could win, or worried for Obama’s safety, or just felt Hillary was more likely to win in the fall. After nearly each contest more blacks vote for Obama because Hillary offends them in her attempt to court the racist vote.
It’s Hillary’s fault this primary season has turned into game a of race and gender. If she wasn’t so desperate to get back in the White House she wouldn’t have to pull tricks like this to win. If she had played less like a Republican, and more like a Democrat, maybe she’d be looking at being a vice president. But now she has shot her chance for a November win, and probably any primary wins in the future.
Hillary can try to pull in the “Regan Democrats,” but this will never work for Democrats like it did for Republicans, because they would lose their key group of civil rights advocates and blacks.
Cross posted at my personal blog.
I’m sorry, but I completely disagree with this. If you want to say Bill has been race baiting, that’s arguable, and I disagree of course.
But if you’re now calling Hillary a racist, that’s just crazy.
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I didn’t call her racist, I said she was using race baiting. I didn’t call Bill Clinton racist, I just said he used race baiting. What I said was they where applying to the racist elements. But I’m also not saying they’re not racist. Bill Clinton once said (not an exact quote) “When a person encounters hard times they often return to old habits.”
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Clinton’s statements are completely fruitless. There is nothing that she could say to the voters to change the fact that she much farther behind in delegates, and probably won’t win the nomination unless she wins every other state in a blow-out.
Well, I have to wonder, since it’s becoming clearer every day that Clinton probably won’t be Obama’s Vice-President, who do you think it will be? I wonder who is on Obama’s list? Personally, I think that he ought to choose Joe Biden as his Vice-President, but that probably won’t happen. Biden was my third favorite candidate after Gravel and Kucinich, and I would be glad to see him on the Democratic ticket.
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I’m thinking Mayor Bloomberg. He’ll be able to court moderate Wall Street types with his effectives at running a business, and great leadership of NYC. Or maybe he’ll pick Nancy Pelosi to win back the woman vote, and carry California. Would be really great is if could find a female (with similar ideologies of course) that had extensive experience in the State Department or the DoD.
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