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| Democrat Fratricide: 'You supported Clinton!' |
| 2008-07-01 |
| Raymond Hernandez, New York Times Brooklyn’s 10th Congressional District, home to more African-Americans than any other in New York, gave Senator Barack Obama his highest margin of victory in the state. But the district’s longtime congressman, Edolphus Towns, did not share his constituency’s preference for Mr. Obama. Now some of those voters are pushing to oust him. “His decision not to back Obama shows he is out of touch with his constituents,” said N. Chandler, a former city corrections officer who lives in Bedford-Stuyvesant and who had supported Mr. Towns in the past. 'Traitor!' “And I think the people of this district are ready for a change.” 'Let's teach 'im a lesson! Hang him in effigy!' 'Naw, Effigy's too far to walk--let's hang him right here in Brooklyn!' The tensions in the district echo those in a handful of races around the country as Democratic incumbents with large African-American constituencies try to soothe resentments and anger incited by their support for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. Even after Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton embraced in Unity, N.H., on Friday and sought to put their divisions behind them, some strains are still evident closer to the ground. In Georgia, Representative John Lewis, a prominent civil rights leader, is facing primary challenges from two black candidates who have been critical of him for backing Mrs. Clinton for months before shifting to Mr. Obama. 'Heretic!' 'Iconoclast!' 'Backstabber!' To underscore the point, one of the challengers set up his headquarters in the same building that served as Mr. Obama’s office for the primary. Nearby, in Savannah, Representative John Barrow, who is white but represents a district that is largely black, is under attack from a challenger who says Mr. Barrow was also late to endorse Mr. Obama. Another New Yorker, Representative Gregory W. Meeks of Queens, faces a primary opponent who has sought to make an issue of Mr. Meeks’s support of the Clinton campaign in a district, New York’s 6th, where Mr. Obama drew nearly 56 percent of the vote. The man seeking Mr. Meeks’s seat is Ruben Wills, 36, a former chief of staff for State Senator Shirley L. Huntley and an organizer for Mr. Obama in southeast Queens. “I was on board with Obama from Day 1,” Mr. Wills said. “Meeks had to be dragged across the line.” 'Blasphemer! He denies the Obama is the One!' And Representative Yvette D. Clarke, of Flatbush, Brooklyn, is running unopposed but lost the endorsement of a vital organization, the Central Brooklyn Independent Democrats, in part because she embraced Mrs. Clinton’s candidacy. 'Infidel!' |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #4 'Let's teach 'im a lesson! Hang him in effigy!' 'Naw, Effigy's too far to walk--let's hang him right here in Brooklyn!' LOL, I'm still laughing at that one! |
| Posted by: Steve White 2008-07-01 18:53 |
| #3 “And I think the people of this district are ready for a change.” Change® We Can Deceive In! |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2008-07-01 17:08 |
| #2 Sounds like a "thought criminal" to me. He must be purged. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-07-01 16:52 |
| #1 What are Obama backers so p!ssed off about? Their guy won, ferheavensake! Talk about a bunch of sore winners.... I fear this country is headed for trouble whether Hussein Osama-bama wins OR loses. |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2008-07-01 16:48 |