MLK III: Clinton wrong but controversy overblown

In the real world, the CNN exit poll of Democrats in Michigan showed that white Democrats voted 63% for Hillary Clinton, but African-Americans voted 68% uncommitted (i.e., Obama).

To Democrats, race matters. Bigtime. They're obsessed by race.

To Democrats, race matters. Bigtime. They're obsessed by race.
Posted by: Bruce
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How many black republicans are there in Congress?
Answer: None
Let us know, Brucie, when republicans get over their obsession.
Oh yeah, Powell and Rice don't count, republicans never voted for them.

I wonder hoe Swamp reporters will respond to the new poll released by Rasmussen taht shows 48% of DEmocrats feel that Obama gets preferrential treatment by the media compared to just 18% fir HIllary CLintont. THe swamp writers are a big reason for that perception. Could at least 1 of the writers here respond to this? I want to know how you justify favoring one candidate over another and then framing every story around your own biases. I am not a HIllary fan but the pro Obama bias is just outright shameful.

Are we going to EVER discuss the candidates solution to the incredible mess this country is in?????

Bruce....and the fact that Mitt won shows the GOP candidates can buy a victory.

But how does one move on after this calculating political move on the part of the Clinton's. Each one of their attacks on Senator Obama is designed to plant the seed of doubt in the minds of voters. The MLK/Johnson issue was a water muddying calculation. We are voting for the future leader of this country and character matters. It is one of the bases upon which we are to judge people according to MLK. Who is showing the most character? Leaders in her campaign are eager to resurrect Sen Obama's teen age blunders as if that defines him as a 47 year old man. Look into her 17 year old days and find out how she was the "Goldwater Girl," went to hear MLK speak in Chicago, and worked hard to try to elect Barry Goldwater the following year. She was at that time engaged in a movement that surely would have de-constructed "the dream" if Goldwater had won. Robert Novak raises this part of Hillary's transformation in his column of March 07

www.townhall.com/columnists/RobertDNovak/2007/03/12/hillary,_king_and_goldwater

People do change, but politically calculating people do not change.

Vinny,
Put down the crack pipe and slowly back away...This is a Chicago paper and Obama is a US Senator from Illinois. Do you pick up the New York Daily News and expect to read in-depth articles about the Pheonix Suns basketball season?

Of course with the GOP race doesn't matter. When you're all lily white, old, and grumpy what problem is there with race?

To Democrats, race matters. Bigtime. They're obsessed by race.

Posted by: Bruce | January 16, 2008 9:14 AM

This coming from the guy who wouldn't live next door to someone with "a strange head dress on". Race isn't an issue with you because to you, there is only one race and it isn't the human race.

In response to John and his childish retort to my question: That is such a copout. So being from Chicago means that ll coverage of Obama must be framed as positive? That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. What about the fact the HIllary is actually from Chicago unlike Obama? How about the fact that the swamp is posted in Allentown, PA. Baltimore, Hartford, Orlando? I guess none of that matters when the paper supports your chosen candidate huh John? I would just like the writers to do their job for once. Actually take a critical look at Obama for once. There is so much there to explore yet no one in the press is willing to do it. They are suppose to be our filter to the pols. They are suppose to give us the facts and let us decide. They are not suppose to try and convince us to vote for their chosen candidate. Being a cheerleader is suppose to be the biggest insult to a reporter, but here at the swamp they do not seem to care. The Wire on HBO is taking a great look at newspapers today and how all the true professional writers are being discarded for younger, cheaper writers. I guess it really is more profitable to run a worse paper.

"But how does one move on after this calculating political move on the part of the Clinton's."

Simple, you stop insisting that this was a "calculating" political move, OR, at worse, a "calculating" political move like no other political calculating move bent on attacking race. If there is so much dirt on Hillary, to attack her character with, then there is no need to keep a list of every single misunderstanding as a "calculating" political move. Especially those that border on more likely than not a misunderstanding. Easliy cleared up by asking people, not insisting people should know, we aren't following. You jump and say "clarify!," BEFORE you jump and say "foul!"-- "a calculating political move"--"poor character." That way people on the receiving end of the criticism don't respond with an attack fueling the cycle.

We have a woman and a black man who are both able to run for president in our own party--for the first time ever in our country. Looking to read race baiting or gender baiting into anything they do defeats what this says about our country (Red and Blue sates) and our party (DNC) by being where we are today with a woman and a black man as possible options to lead our nation. With a woman and a black man who are not only able to run in order to lead the country, but who can feel free to bring up MLK or Susan B Anthony (if they wish) without fearing it will be construed as a calculating political move, an attack on race or gender.

Race and gender issues are too important for our nation to ALLOW personal political leanings to misconsture with first lable as bias and ask questions later. To prevent that we ALLOW people to speak on those issue or use those issues to make points. Then WE ask them to clarify before making assumptions on the state of someone's character. If you want character you show character even if you feel the person who you are addressing lacks it because of the incident, or has a history of lacking character. You give benefit of the doubt especially when the person in question is the farthest thing form a racist.

Quite frankly this is depressing.

"MEANWHILE LITTLE MLK"

CHERTOFF WANTS YOUR FORENSIC DNA AND A BIOMETRIC STRIP TO GO ALONG WITH YOUR LAST EEVS I-9.

SO WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE. WE ARE STILL HERE, WE ARE ALL GETTING ALONG.
ROE V WADE STILL ALLOWS YOUR SPOUSE "THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY" THE 22ND AMENDMENT IS STILL PART OF THE CONSTITUTION. "WOMENS RIGHT TO VOTE"

SO WHAT, BE BLACK, BE PROUD, BE WHITE, BE PROUD, BE WHATEVER YOU WANT TO BE; BUT BE AMERICAN.

LET'S NOT GET ALL CAUGHT IN THE GOP CONSERVATIVE FACISM AS THEY LEAVE OFFICE. LET'S NOT GET SUCKED UP IN CIRCUMVENTING THE LAW LIKE THEY DID FOR THE PAST 7 YEARS AND COUNTING. LET'S NOT GET ALL HYPED UP AND SALE THE SAME OL FEAR OF GOD THAT THE GOP PROPHETS SAY THEY HEAR.

STICK TOGETHER AND WE WILL STAND TOGETHER. WE MIGHT JUST MAKE IT.

IMPEACHMENT IS THE KEY TO SUCCESS. IMPEACHMENT IS THE ONLY WAY TO REWRITE THE DEBACKLE WE ARE FACING TODAY.

NOW THAT WOULD ALL OF US GOING TO THE MOUNTAIN TOP TOGETHER. IT'S GONNA TAKE US ALL TO GET THERE, WE MAY AS WELL CALL NANCY PELOSI AND INVITE HER TO COME WITH US.

HUH HILLARY, HUH BARACK!

This was a calculating move by the Clintons to box Obama in as a black candidate instead of him being seen as more inclusive. The sad thing is that African American Democrats saw thru it and she will lose in the general election because they will not vote for her. Her best hope is that Latinos and women will vote for her in that election because African Americans are done with her and Bill .

This was a calculating move by the Clintons to box Obama in as a black candidate instead of him being seen as more inclusive.

-I have news for you Obama is a black candidate. Are you trying to imply he has to look more "whitey" to be inclusive because that would make you a, it starts with an r ends in ist.

-He is a black candidate. If she was, which she wasn't, boxing him as a black candidate she would be doing exactly what you just did by implying all blacks are done with Obama. No one but Hispanics and women will vote for Hillary. I guess black women are in a jam.