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ColorOfChange Leader Accuses Clinton of 'Race Baiting'
blog.washingtonpost.com — There was yet another sign of racial disharmony in the Democratic Party today, as the leader of the influential black online advocacy group ColorOfChange.org lashed out at Hillary Clinton, calling her claim to owning the white, blue-collar vote "race baiting." "The politics of division now seems to be her core strategy" to overcome Barack Obama...
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- Ridgeliner7, on 05/09/2008, -2/+2It's all about 2012 for the Clinton's now.....
- redcolumbine, on 05/10/2008, -1/+2Only if we get complacent and let McCain win!
- jonolan, on 05/10/2008, -3/+1It was crude and vulgar - but she wasn't entirely wrong in her assertion. I guess you are no longer allowed to speak the truth if that truth might possibly offend a minority.
There are a plethora of very valid reasons not to vote for Hillary, this just wasn't really one of them. - coffeebaby, on 05/10/2008, -1/+1you're wrong, this is precisely another reason not to vote for Hillary. She does not know how to be tactful. it's obviously not a smart move to say ***** that is going to offend a large amount of voters when you are running for president. you let the media and polls speak for themselves. Everybody knows who her voter base is already. there was no need for her to state it. Her campaigning tactics are all ***** up and this is an indication of how she would behave as president. you will never hear Obama say some ***** like.. "Yeah i've got the educated vote all locked up," because that would offend everybody else who didn't vote for him in primaries but might possibly vote for him in the general.
- coffeebaby, on 05/10/2008, -0/+1i don't know why you are digging me down. Rangel (one of clinton's biggest AA supporters in NY) just said the same thing:
NEW YORK, – Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), among Hillary Clinton’s top African-American supporters, was none too pleased with Clinton’s comments this week to USA Today that she has broader appeal with white voters. The statement was “the dumbest thing she could have said,” Rangel told reporters before a Clinton fundraiser in a midtown hotel ballroom Saturday . He called her statement “very poorly worded,” but acknowledged there may be some truth to it. “In any campaign, there are groups of people that you know that you have and groups of people that you don’t,” he said. “And I don’t care what it is. White, black, Catholic, Protestant - pollsters and newspaper reporters, that’s all they know and so they keep asking the same question over and over. I mean, this happens in campaigns.” Still, Rangel said Clinton should leave it to others to make the case that she has more appeal to white voters. “That is rough campaign talk. That is not presidential talk. You leave that stuff to the boys in the backroom,” said Rangel, the dean of New York’s congressional delegation. He insisted that Clinton, can still defeat Obama for the Democratic nomination.
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