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Tears, Race Baiting, Verbal Jabs, and Proxies: The Clinton Strategy
January 15th, 2008
These are some of the tools employed by the unscrupulous Clintons in the last couple of weeks.
You gotta give it to the Clintons; if nothing else, they’re some sly devils. You can’t turn your back or let your guard down around these people for a second. A lesson Barack Obama should have now learned in New Hampshire. He had the chance to deliver a likely knock out punch, but instead, played it safe with a prevent defense of trying to stay above the fray and coast to a win. It didn’t work. Hillary new what was at stake and immediately went into the Clinton bag of tricks.
Tears – Hillary came into the campaign expecting, and for the longest time having the women’s vote in her corner. After seeing Barack draw even with her in Iowa amongst women; the Ice Princess who had to over do laughing in interviews and concoct a warm smiley personality that we’ve never seen before to make herself seem human; breaks out the water works in a sentimental display, playing the victim role and “damzel in distress” roll . It worked.
At the same time between Iowa and New Hampshire, she started sending out her proxies after Barack, starting with arch Femi-nazi Gloria Steinem, race baiting and gender baiting on Clinton’s behalf all at once; by initiating a pissing contest over which is worst between sexism and racism - basically saying that 94% white Iowa discriminated against white Hillary because she’s female. More victimization coming from the entrenched, status quo, big money, party machine, establishment, front runner.
Clinton also race baited at that time with the MLK/LBJ comment. Basically giving the white man all the credit for Black people’s long, hard fought struggle; and claiming MLK’s role was just giving inspirational speeches. I guess she missed the whole part where Black people got sprayed with high-powered hoses, bitten by dogs, beaten mercilessly, jailed, shot, and hung.
Even after winning New Hampshire they sent out New York Attorney General Andrew Quomo to refer to Obama as shucking and jiving.
She wasn’t done yet. Sunday she had Bob Johnson, BET founder and arch capitalist who made his billions largely off of peddling drug and gang culture to the youth; come out and take a strike at Obama’s well admitted late teenage drug use, while trying to give her cover for saying Lyndon Johnson had more to do with civil rights for Blacks than Martin Luther King.
This comes after Billy Sheehan, Clinton’s co-chair in New Hampshire, implied that Obama was a drug dealer, playing to the most base racial stereotype fears. She apologized for that and dismissed him back in December; but now has other surrogates doing more or less the same thing.
She can have her proxies say something, then claim, well she didn’t say it; dismiss that individual, but then have someone else say the same thing again. And the bottom line is that she gets it out there, even if she distances herself after the fact. You can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube once it comes out, and the Clinton’s know this. They’re lawyers. This is like a lawyer who brings up a defendants past even though the judge has ruled it inadmissible; but the lawyer knows no matter if it’s stricken from the record, the jury has heard it nonetheless.
But that’s not it, they even got Andrew Young, a relative paragon of the Black Civil rights era to make race based attacks, saying that Bill is every bit as Black as Obama; primarily on the evidence that Bill has screwed more Black woman. Yeah, because screwing around is an innate quality of the Black man, and going up in a Black woman then makes you Black.
I’m sure Thomas Jefferson had more Black women than Obama too, from raping his slaves; I await Andrew Young to cheer on his exploits next.
The race baiting continues moving from white specific racial fears to planting seeds of racial fears amongst Hispanics. One of her operatives just told The New Yorker that “The Hispanic voter—and I want to say this very carefully—has not shown a lot of willingness or affinity to support black candidates.” An attempt to convince voters of Obamas un-electibility by again using race; this as they head out West for the Neveda primary. Another play on racial fear, by using the politics of fear; very Bush-esq of the Clintons.
Verbal Jabs – They have jabbed him with everything they can think of. Inexperienced (more experience in Washington than Bill before he went there), too hopeful, fairytales about Iraq, drug dealer, doesn’t know what he’s going to do on the first day, etc. I guess most of that part is standard political faire; but the fact that it’s coming from the entrenched political machine against a new comer shows how scared the Clinton’s are.
Are the Clintons racist? Probably not in the limited definition of the word that most people go by. I don’t think they dislike Black people nor have particular animus toward them; but what I know is, and this is the issue, THEY DON’T CARE!
When push comes to shove, when it’s do or die, they will toss any principle out the window to win. Have they not shown this time and time again? If race baiting gets them what they want, then race baiting is what they’ll do. If they have to engage in some racial denigration to forward their goals, I don’t think they’re going to go home and cry about it afterwards. To them its the unintended consequences of striving for a goal where the ends justify the means. It’s acceptable collateral damage. And if they set Black people back in the process, never mind that, they don’t have to live with it.
So do I think they’re intentionally race baiting, absolutely. The evidence presented above is clear. Because, if they didn’t send out these people to race bait for them, then the question becomes; why do they hangout with so many race baiters? Birds of the same feather…?
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The above tactics and the intended victims, namely Black folk are what is known as the casualties of war. In a war, there is a perceived winner and loser. It is not, nor will ever be fair. However, since the Clintons are race baiting, this is as good a time as any for Obama to address some of the racial disparties affecting Black and Brown Americans. I am speaking of those disparities which would warrant Presidential consideration. He can address issues about Black America’s right to vote, substandard public education and substandard housing. While the Clintons strategically continue their politics, Obama need to address real issues, issues that matter to the Black, Brown and poor American Public.
Since the last incident, both candidates have promised to play fair, which we know will not happen. Something will inadvertantly be said, something will slip out, apologies will be made and the band will keep playing on.
This is a race for the Presidency of the United States. All of the candidates are going to do whatever it takes to win. We, the Black citizens of this country must be mindful, watch carefully, and hold all candidates accountable.
Barack can’t address racial disparaties becasue it would be off
putting to the feel good whites who believe “we are equal now, and I don’t see color” crowd. And he can’t win without that crowd so he can’t disrupt their delusion.
Hence why his presidency, if it happened, would not be this great wonderous thing for black folks as I pointed out in my post last week. Nothing will have really changed.
Well, it looks like the fighting is over. I think you both are correct in your statements and Yobachi, your posts have been right on point. Politics is war and the the Clinton’s are a lot more seasoned and have a lot more backing in the long run. It looks like Obama has made the first move to end the bickering and I think it is a smart move on his part.
www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/15/obama.clinton/index.html
No matter who wins the presidency, black people will need to continue to make their voices heard. Neither Obama or Clinton will hook us up if they get in office. We tend to forget that bills/laws have to make it through Congress first before they get passed. Any promises these candidates make rely heavily on the fact that they can convince Congress to create the necessary legislation to make it happen.
Yep Theo, I made the point in a post last week that it’s not as if Obama is a dictator who can just unilaterally mandate change. Unitl we fundamentally change the systems of society, I won’t matter that much who’s in that seat - only on the margins at best.