Campaign strategy for HRC going forward. Good lesson from (come on cut the shit and lick the knife, please) someone who can HARDLY be called a RACIST. But that's the point. It's so bad that even Bill Clinton got called a racist!
This song is perferct. Protagonist is a White Midwesterner being picked on by a Black Midwesterner with the complicity of the "officials," the schoolteacher and principal in the song and the MSM and the blogs in the DemNom campaign.
She can win if she listens to the protagonist. Only way to deal with a bully, from time immemorial.
Anyway how could a guy like Obama with close friends like McClurkin and Shuster POSSIBLY be as scary to HRC as the D'Angelo Bailey character is to song's narrator?
Barack Obama's close friends? Hell, Barack Obama's RUNNING MATES.
Saturday, February 09, 2008
Eminem-Brain Damage
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You act as if Hillary has no skeletons.
You act as if Obama is a threat.
They are virtually interchangeable.
Pontificating on all the 'negatives' to a an Obama candidacy is what is exposing you as a racist. I, personally, do not think you are. But obviously you are going above and beyond the call of duty.
I actually read one of your exchanges with Johnny Wingnut and both of you were saying Obama can't talk , he doesn't make sense he can't string together sentences.
WOW
If i did not know you (as much as the ethers allow). At first glance, I would think you were racist too.
I am waiting to see how many people switch to the Republican party if Obama wins the candidacy.
Post Racial- we'll see.
Dave:
I'll address this comment one sub-comment at a time because it's a very good comment and I want to be sure I'm clear.
1) HRC/skeltons: I never did that at all. Quite the contrary. I've referred to my belief that of all of the things she was "accused" of, the one thing I believe she actually did which was very wrong was being involved in tax fraud, conspiracy and commigling with regard to cattle trades and I ALWAYS wrote that I believed that the Obama drug use issue was silly because I thought that HRC had spilled more than Obama's had. I drew this inference from the Clinton family's closeness with Mr. Lasater and some other stuff I've heard. Moreover, I have never failed to call her a corporatist. I have written that I opposed vehemently her "yes" vote on Kyl-Lieberman.
2) OBAMA/threat. Insofar as Obama is a UIGEA supporter, he IS a threat to ME and my friends and associates. Insofar as he has Pat Robertson, Joe Lieberman and Colin Powell in his inner circle of trusted confidentes, he is a threat to the USA and the globe. Obama's fundamentalist Christianity is also a threat to us all. See W for details.
3) "Interchangeability": As to voting records in the U.S. Senate, corporate contributions, and views on the "hot-button" issues, I'd say that they were very, very close, which is why my candidate of choice was Kucinich and HRC was my second-choice. I wanted a REAL progressive and I didn't buy Edwards at all, so I did my homework, watched the debates and chose the person whom I thought would be the best candidate, party leader and the best president out of the bunch.
You are absolutely right that I'm going FAR ABOVE AND BEYOND THE CALL OF DUTY. Dave, I've got a tough assignment here. I'm one of maybe a handful of male progressives on the internets who supports her. HRC's support, sadly, IS a slender "silent majority." There are plenty of FEMINIST voices in support of her out here on the telegraph wire, but very few men such as myself who fit the "Obama demograpic": urban, post-graduate, White, well-to-do. Moreover, once Shuster -- in ADVOCACY of Obama versus Press in ADVOCACY of Clinton -- called Chelsea a whore, all bets became super-off. This was the second time one of these fuckers went after the daughter (McCain's "joke" on Leno in 1995 was the first). That's fucked-up and if HRC doesn't feel license to go above and beyond, well too bad, I do.
4) JWN & ME. I never wrote that Obama couldn't string three sentences together. Go back to what I DID write. I wrote that his speeches and his debate responses are EMPTY OF MEANING. They are perfect English. They contain a subject, predicate, object and modifiers but THEY DON'T MEAN ANYTHING. Listen to the words, Dave. The words are the equivalent of "The subway train ate the eclair." I should also add that his "hope" shtick is getting an awful lot like Rudy Giuliani's "9/11" shtick.
For the record, I believe that Obama's "bright enough" (ha ha). No, he's got a post-graduate degree and he's an accomplished guy. He comes from more aristocratic lineage than I do for crying out loud and he speaks with a much more elegant accent than I do. I speak with an adenoidal Manhattan Jewyorican twang even though my English and Spanish are pretty good.
5) YOU & ME. I'm being totally serious here because you have been serious as well. I'm extremely glad that you've derived as best you could through the "ethers" what kind of chap I am and are sensitive enough and (I'm jealous) have that evocative writing style.
In other words, you understand hyperbole, irony and satire. In many ways, you and I as much alike as Fairlane and I are. Without your particular intelligence, literary ability and sensitivity, I agree that I could easily be perceived as racist. But maybe not so much because as Fairlane has noted there is way more racism in the knee-jerk liberal who in reality has no friends of different cohorts, whereas you KNOW that with me it's not a case of "some of my BEST FRIENDS are black, dadadadada...." Those folks have NO friends who are different from them. It's a case that MANY of my friends and acquaintances WHO SHARE MY INTERESTS are black. And gay. And especially Muslims. I don't claim to be anything other than me. Wouldn't it be silly to have "friends" with whom you have no sense of "compadre" just to collect the whole set of trading card? I'm no angel but I'm hardly the "devil" of N.O.I. talking points.
6) POST-RACIAL USA? I agree with you that Obama would be a big underdog to McCain in a general election because of what you observed -- White flight from Obama to McCain -- and because of the inevitable swicheroo by the MSM from pro-Obama to pro-McCain. I think the probility of the ABSENCE OF POST-RACIAL ANYTHING OBTAINING IN AMERICA is not in "we'll see" territory but rather in "most likely"-land.
That's the best I got, Dave.
Dave, I agree with you -- it's not going to matter much whether it's HRC or Obama, it's down to luck and who they choose for VP and the cabinet. Bush JR might've turned our great with a different VP and no 9/11. Actually after having voted against him I thought he was great in his first year in office, and then it went all wrong.
I will tell you this -- I was on Harvard Law Review, and to get to be president up there, you have to be as smart as hell and have extraordinary emotional intelligence too. Also I think if anything BO has been quite sensitive in this race so far, such as not getting on HRC during the last debate for her web of corruption, such as the story in the NYT that had run that very day, where there's more fire than smoke.
Still I plan to vote HRC because she matches up best on the issues with my views.
Harvey:
I agree with you that Obama is a very bright guy. I disagree with your view of Obama and "race".
I'm a big fan of the political game so I appreciate how Obama has played it much the way I "appreciated" just how brilliant a pitcher Roger Clemens has been, steroids or milk and cookies, even though he's one of my least favorite players.
Obama has used race as both a sword and a shield throughout this campaign. He has also used it as a sword and a shield in support of some very retrograde right-wing people and ideas: Joe Lieberman, "the whole race thing is over and blacks are just as guilty as whites so goodbye," are but two examples.
There are plenty of black pols whom I like very much for not choosing Obama's particular ethical path and are thusly not 1/100 the player he is: LEE, JACKSON-LEE, TUBBS-JONES, JACKSON JR (despite it all), SCOTT, WATT not JC Watts!), LEWIS, RANGEL, CONYERS and McKINNEY to name but a few.
I agree with you: HRC matches my views better and I believe she'd make the better leader. Her better grasp of the economic issues make it an easy call for me.
I don't have ni la fucking pinga for post-graduate that you do: HARVARD LAW REVIEW v UCLA MBA BETA GAMMA SIGMA? On the old Billy Bragg "qualifications were the Golden Rule.." standard, as a professional gambler, I'd have to make you at least a TD favorite over me.
That said, I'm still right about Obama!
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