Prior to the Iowa caucuses, when asked about his prospects, the junior Senator from Illinois, denied that race would play a role in his fortunes:
"I am getting a fair hearing and I will get a fair hearing and I think we are going to win this place," he said during the taping of Iowa Public Television's "Iowa Press." "You have people who are less concerned about race and much more concerned about 'Is this somebody who is really going to be fighting for me?'"David Yepsen of The Des Moines Register, the state's most influential political columnist, then sought to further clarify.
"If you don't do well in the caucuses, we're not going to hear David Axelrod, Robert Gibbs and all your spinners telling us, 'Well, Barack Obama didn't do well in Iowa because it's a lily white state,'" Yepsen asked, referring to Obama's top strategist and communications director.
"No," Obama said. "We have invested in Iowa. I have been campaigning in Iowa. We expect to do well in Iowa."
Obama said he believes the nation is ready to elect a black man president, a notion he said he bases on his own experience in Illinois.
Hillary and the National Democratic Party didn't get the memo.
Barack, you're not in Iowa or Illinois anymore. Rather, you are the latest target of the Clinton "machine", and an increasingly desperate machine at that. Moreover, you are a member of a "victim" racial group that the Donkey's powers-that-be have determined must be taken care of by said Donkey, but not vice versa, especially when you pose a threat to the the ambition-driven former First Lady and present reigning Queen of the Liberal firmament.
The weeping Monarch's former court jester, Dick Morris predicted, soon after the junior New York Senator's loss in the Hawkeye State, that the Clintons would launch "subtle" racial attacks against Obama.
And even after a comeback victory over Obama in the New Hampshire primary, the Clintons made Morris look like a genius, albeit via the Clintons' use of a dictionary with as different a definition of the word "subtle" as it has of the word "is".
Consider the subtlety of the following not few in number iterations of the Clinton machine just days after Morris's prognostication:
Hillary's "Obama ain't no MLK, and LBJ didn't need no stinkin' MLK incident":
Mrs Clinton, trying to make a point about presidential leadership and Mr Obama’s constant references to Dr King, the civil rights icon, said: “Dr King’s dream began to be realised when President Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It took a president to get it done.”
This gaffe is likely to turn the usually irrelevant SC Democratic primary into a possible major turning point of, not only this campaign, but also in the relationship between the Democratic Party and Blacks, their most loyal constituency.
James Clyburn, the highest-ranking African American in Congress and a veteran of the civil rights movement, referred to a comment made by Mrs Clinton on Monday, the day before her stunning comeback in New Hampshire set up a brutal nomination battle with Mr Obama.Mrs Clinton has since tried to clarify the comment, but the damage was done. Mr Clyburn, who had previously said that he would stay neutral, told The New York Times that he had been “bothered a great deal” by the remarks and was rethinking his position.
Better late (as in since 1965 when LBJ and the Dems kicked the Black man out the house and made Uncle Sam daddy) than never. I have wondered White Democrats could do and say anything to Blacks and still count on their loyalty.
Think the above statement by Hillary was bad? You ain't heard nothin' yet.
The Hillary "spade work" incident":
Last Sunday evening on Fox News Channel, Morris said: “I think that what she is going to do is she is going to say Obama is unelectable, Americans won’t elect him, he can’t beat the Republican Party, America is not ready for Obama, he doesn’t have the experience to win, and what she is going to mean is that they won’t vote for an African-American, but she won’t say it. She’ll say everything but, but that’s what she means.”As if on cue, THE VERY NEXT MORNING, Sen. Clinton appeared on NBC’s Today Show and talked about the choice that voters were faced with in New Hampshire. She said the following: “When they say to themselves, OK, I have a choice between a truly inspirational speaker (Obama) who has not done the kind of spade work with the sort of experience that another candidate has…”
Spade work. That’s some choice of words for a black political opponent, no?
Is your jaw on the floor yet? Mine is. The MSM (see Dem Party shill) hasn't raised an eyebrow, but then again 11 year olds could have an orgy in the street (so long as they are liberal prepubescents) and the MSM's eyebrows would remain still.
Let us continue through the Dem-Lib equivalent of an abusive parent forgetting company is in the house when they go off on the children.
The Cuomo "shuck and jive" incident:
Speaking Tuesday to the New York Post's Fred Dicker, whose show airs on Albany's Talk 1300 radio station, Cuomo said of the early primaries: "It's not a TV-crazed race. Frankly, you can't buy your way through."He added later, "You have to sit down with 10 people in a living room. You can't shuck and jive at a news conference; you can't just put off reporters, because you have real people looking at you, saying 'answer the question.'"
The 1994 book "Juba to Jive, a Dictionary of African-American Slang," says "shuck and jive" dates back to the 1870s and was an "originally southern 'Negro' expression for clowning, lying, pretense."
I left the Democratic Party in 2000 after 18 years as an activist and Party official, in no small part due to the increasing racism within the party.
Until this past week they kept it behind closed doors most of the time.
That was before Iowa. Before a real close win in NH. Before the John Kerry endorsement. Before Barack dared get in the way of Hillary's entitlement to an Oval Office her husband sullied to her disgrace. A sulliness she is desperate to repair.
And that was before Obama induced desperation met the most selfish, ambitious, power crazed candidate the party may have ever known.
Add to that an arrogance of a party so cozy with a non-judgmental media that they forget others are watching. They came to think they could even insult their voters to their face and still have their carefully developed victim-dependents remain in their care.
Could we finally have arrived at the day when Blacks will leave the liberal Plantation?
We pray.
And I know, the unimaginative conservative media sees the crux of this story as an opportunity to point out the Double-standard applied to similar incidents involving Republicans.
When they do, they miss the point. Why? Because Trent Lott was not making a racist statement while praising a dying 100 year old Strom Thurmond. I could go on, but I will not be distracted.
The most important point here is the BAD character of Hillary and the national Democratic Party. This is what happens when one's party is based on treating people as a member of a group.
The Dems are obsessed with skin pigmentation, genitalia and desires for particular kinds of sex.
They don't see individuals. Rather, they see means to ends.
But, as Juan Williams said on FNC, "Obama ain't no Sistah Soulja."
I have long argued that when Dems reflexively label Republicans as racist, bigots and homophobes, they are actually projecting their own racism upon us, assuming we share their world view.
We don't.
And its about time that the 90% of black voters that follow these Donkey pied pipers realized it.
Look at how Hillary Inc. treats Obama in front of their eyes.
Then look at how Bush treats Condoleeza Rice, Colin Powell and Alphonso Jackson.
The modern day national Democratic Party is morally and intellectually bankrupt in all ways, whether its saying and doing for free what America's foreign enemies would gladly pay them for or whether its how they treat their own voters with contempt.
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