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- jshayne, on 02/10/2008, -2/+8See also: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/opinion/10rich.h ...
NYTimes — Frank Rich:
But the wholesale substitution of Hispanics for blacks on the Hallmark show is tainted by a creepy racial back story. Last month a Hispanic pollster employed by the Clinton campaign pitted the two groups against each other by telling The New Yorker that Hispanic voters have “not shown a lot of willingness or affinity to support black candidates.” Mrs. Clinton then seconded the motion by telling Tim Russert in a debate that her pollster was “making a historical statement.”
It wasn’t an accurate statement, historical or otherwise. It was a lie, and a bigoted lie at that, given that it branded Hispanics, a group as heterogeneous as any other, as monolithic racists. As the columnist Gregory Rodriguez pointed out in The Los Angeles Times, all three black members of Congress in that city won in heavily Latino districts; black mayors as various as David Dinkins in New York in the 1980s and Ron Kirk in Dallas in the 1990s received more than 70 percent of the Hispanic vote. The real point of the Clinton campaign’s decision to sow misinformation and racial division, Mr. Rodriguez concluded, was to “undermine one of Obama’s central selling points, that he can build bridges and unite Americans of all types.” - harrisonferrel, on 02/10/2008, -0/+5I would hardly call this mudslinging. This is a look at the tactics that the Clinton Campaign itself is employing. It seems like folly to ignore the idea that racially dividing statements such as these start somewhere and it is our duty to examine them and their sources. Even if the Clinton campaign was not the 'root' of these ideas, people associated with the campaign, as well as Clinton herself validated them. In their position, that kind of a move comes with a certain responsibility. No one can argue that one of the leading Democratic candidates affirming that this divide is a 'historical statement' on national television does not reach a lot of people or have a resounding impact culturally and in the media. Clinton isn't dumb enough to just make statements without thinking them through. Whatever your final conclusions, it deserves to be examined.
Secondly, this article does mention the topic of this digg explicitly toward the end of the article. Try reading the whole thing.
Third, it is from January 28th, hardly a "month old." - inactive, on 02/10/2008, -1/+6There is no level too low for the Clintons to stoop. I can believe any dirty trick comes from the Clintons, it is how they run an election campaign.
- augenblick2007, on 02/11/2008, -0/+4I find Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign sexist as well as racist. And here is my reasoning:
They say Obama is black (but his mother is white so he is neither black nor white)
I think they come to the conclusion that his father was black (I mean african) so he must be black but his mother was white so is a childs origin just inherited from the father's side? Is this their mentality? If so, where does it fit to Hillary's so called feminist ideals?
Also to my knowledge (IIRC) none of in his speeches Obama stated that he is just black. I might be mistaken on this one but unlike Hillary I observe Obama never campaigned on a single demographic identity of his (i.e. black or female). Yes US media is also adding a lot of gas to the fire but I just wanted to share my opinion. I welcome any other comments. - LloydBentsen, on 02/11/2008, -0/+1"If you have a problem with how political strategy works, you need to look in the mirror because YOU are the reason that candidates play these kind of games for votes."
This is probably a big reason Robert Novak, a conservative columnist, wrote this editorial. A story of this content is only going to hurt the Democrats in the general election. Well, that and he understandably hates the Clintons as a conservative. - LloydBentsen, on 02/11/2008, -0/+1I'd like to point out that this is written by Robert Novak. More importantly, the Black/African-American community is considered to be anti-immigration because loose immigration policies are thought to hurt the black worker through flooding their labor markets. The black community also opposed Chinese immigration in the late 1800's for the same reasons. And for being opponents of immigration, black candidates in general may face undue repercussions.
- inactive, on 02/10/2008, -1/+2It's politics, it's strategy, it's a reality of how campaigns work. You play off of American bias, because that's what we are is a giant collective of biased personalities. If you have a problem with how political strategy works, you need to look in the mirror because YOU are the reason that candidates play these kind of games for votes. Trust me, this is not a Clinton phenomenon.. they just happen to be the best at politicking.
- inactive, on 02/11/2008, -1/+2It is disgusting, and it shouldn't have to be this way. America: land of the morally bankrupt?
- underdugg, on 02/11/2008, -0/+0The "swing" voters who could prevent Senator Clinton from seizing this nomination will be subsets of:
1.) Latinos
2.) Women
Sadly, Clinton has successfully sold the race-baiting and completely false meme "Latinos don't vote for Latinos." (which was then blindly echoed by MSNBC, CNN, NPR and others.)
In the case of Women: Her campaign has successfully delivered them the political analogue of a Virginia Slims commercial: "You've come a long way, baby!" ...A feel-good, empowering message that many women have voted on. - inactive, on 02/10/2008, -7/+1Can you please stop this mudslinging? There is not one quote in this editorial you've posted that supports the idea that Clinton or anyone in her campaign are setting blacks against hispanics. This article is a month old, it's inaccurate, it's editorial not news.... Just stop. Stop all this constant mudslinging. Is explicitly calling someone a racist your solution to halting implicit racism?
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