Comments on: Which Mattered More in Obama vs. Clinton: Racism or Sexism?

By: Eddy

Eddy — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:47:12 +0000

Sheryl, Rev. Wright has three published, widely available books. One assumes if there was any smoke, let alone fire, in those books, Rush and quote would have been quoting with glee. What does the silence tell you? That FOX new can’t afford literate interns?

Ron, you are 100% correct in my view, and put it beautifully and with far less Hil-Hate than my take.

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By: sheryl

sheryl — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:07:04 +0000

“primary election process revealed something ugly about the perisistence of racism in America, particularly in the Democratic Party”

The Democratic Party primary revealed one of the ugliest displays of racism I’ve seen in a long time and that was from Obama’s church & several of his associates.

It is bone chilling watching Rev. Wright, Fr. Pfleger,etc..spew that kind of hatred and then to have people cheering and clapping and reveling with such joy at those terrible words.

By: Banjo

Banjo — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:34:31 +0000

Hearing a lot of leftist I’m-moving-to-Canada hysteria as usual. Is it more predictable when four years pass than crocuses in spring? The liberal label has been poison at the ballot box since McGovern, and that’s a long time ago. BO is the most liberal candidate the Democratic party has ever nominated. Hello? Doesn’t this have more to do with it than “racism,” that weary old trope so dear to the left?

By: charlie finch

charlie finch — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:31:40 +0000

Hillary lost 11 straight races by boxcar numbers. Any other candidate would have been forced to withdraw in March, but her special status as a special woman saved her. Barack’s blackness was the central issue, pro and con, in his candidacy. He was nominated because of his special brand of Afamnitude and he may also yet be defeated because of it. His blackness sticks to America as her Clintonness sticks to him. Meanwhile the good old USA comes unglued. Stock up on apples, the hedge fund of next year.

By: Bill Altreuter

Bill Altreuter — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:18:43 +0000

We’ve seen how far you can get with an appeal based on race– Jessie Jackson was as successful as that pitch gets, and managed to be a second place candidate too. I’m surprised that the Rev. Jackson comparison wasn’t something that more pundits spotted, actually– he ran a campaign that resembled HRC’s in many ways. The chief difference, I’d say, is that Jessie was never so profoundly wrong on anything as HRC was on Iraq.