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2008-05-09 Home Front: Politix
Clinton Touts White Support
As if the divisions between race and gender in the Democratic Party hadn’t been further exposed through Tuesday night’s exit polls — and by a very heated exchange on CNN between Donna Brazile and Paul Begala — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s interview with USA Today on Wednesday is further mining those tense depths.
“I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on,” she said in the interview, citing an article by The Associated Press.

It “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,” she said.
While she said her remarks weren’t meant to be divisive, they’re already whipping around the Internet. “These are the people you have to win if you’re a Democrat in sufficient numbers to actually win the election. Everybody knows that,” she said in the interview. (Hint, hint, message to the superdelegates still undeclared.)
Posted by Fred 2008-05-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11142 views ]  Top

#1 Billary's people have been complaining that she is being photographed from the worst angles. Frankly, I don't think she looks good from any angle. She might get more votes if she campaigned with a bag over her fool head.
Posted by McZoid 2008-05-09 00:08||   2008-05-09 00:08|| Front Page Top

#2 "...how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me.”

“There’s a pattern emerging here,” she said.


There she said it, non college whites are stupid. Next she'll call for these same stupid people to join the military, taking a play right out of John Fkn Kerry's playbook.
Posted by USN,Ret. (from home) 2008-05-09 00:26||   2008-05-09 00:26|| Front Page Top

#3 "The blacks are coming...The blacks are coming!! Hide your little girls...guns to ready!!! Don't fire till you see the whites of their ires!!!"__ General Israel Putnam, 1775 Hillary 2008!!

smn: last warning. You're trolling. We don't allow trolls on Rantburg. If you have a contribution to make, make it, otherwise be gone. If you can't manage that, I'll not only show you the door, I'll put you through it. AoS at 11:45 CDT.
Posted by smn 2008-05-09 01:43||   2008-05-09 01:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Give it a rest smn. Just give it a rest.
Posted by lotp 2008-05-09 05:26||   2008-05-09 05:26|| Front Page Top

#5 If Candidate Obama can't win the classic Democrats -- the blue collar workers, most of whom are white simply because most Americans are white -- he will not win the general election even if he does win the Democratic primary. This country is big enough and diverse enough that owning one minority isn't enough to cross the finish line.

Empathizing with that single minority is not a good substitute for clear thinking and general non-assery, smn. Besides, it tends to get one banned.
Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife  2008-05-09 06:57||   2008-05-09 06:57|| Front Page Top

#6 McZoid, for a second there, I read "bag of food over her head".

Then I realized that works, too.
Posted by no mo uro 2008-05-09 07:01||   2008-05-09 07:01|| Front Page Top

#7 smn, I think you need to go to the beauty parlor and work on that paranoid little cultural Marxism problem.

Or move to EUroland, where cM is the order of the day.

Need not apply with authentic Americans, who shun that philosophy.
Posted by no mo uro 2008-05-09 07:05||   2008-05-09 07:05|| Front Page Top

#8 “These are the people you have to win if you’re a Democrat in sufficient numbers to actually win the election. Everybody knows that.”

smn,
In a sense, I feel your pain. I mean it does seem kinda odd when Senator Clinton actually makes a truthful statement doesn’t it? I can only imagine how the people that have been spoon-fed on liberal identity-politics must feel. Hell, I remember that Geraldine Ferraro comment regarding Obamas’ skin color actually being an advantage? Boy howdy did her fellow liberals yell bigot on that one. Funny thing… Senator Obama did something no other single candidate has even come close to. He has gotten over 90% of the Black vote in the Democratic primary. But I agree there is something unsettling when you come to the realization that Democrats view the electorate simply as separate demographic groups to be manipulated in their own way. It’s almost counterintuitive to that “Big Tent” persona the Dem. party likes to portray isn’t it?
Posted by DepotGuy 2008-05-09 08:05||   2008-05-09 08:05|| Front Page Top

#9 Two interesting pundits' take on the superdelegates issue :

Racial Divide Guarantees Obama Nomination
Posted by anonymous5089 2008-05-09 11:18||   2008-05-09 11:18|| Front Page Top

#10 Dang, first one went missing :

Personal Aside: There Was Never Any Suspense Anyhow—Obama Will be Nominated and Hillary Won’t Quit (for Which I Salute Her).
Posted by anonymous5089 2008-05-09 11:25||   2008-05-09 11:25|| Front Page Top

#11 I, for one, support smn's intellectual argument




*snort!* just kidding , flush the bowl
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2008-05-09 21:39||   2008-05-09 21:39|| Front Page Top

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