clinton race-baiting getting more blatant by josh
on this site in recent months we’ve had lively debates over the extent to which the sean bell verdict was a racial episode, and over the racial identity of the geico caveman. for some reason, race seems to be the one issue we almost always find something to argue about.
but can we agree that this crosses a line?
“I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on,” she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article “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.
without going into full-on egghead ivory-tower academic mode, isn’t the subtext here that “real americans” don’t want a black president, and hillary clinton is okay with that?
I’m with you 100% on this one.
(although I have to say, calling the Sean Bell verdict discussion a “lively debate” is setting the bar a little low)