McCamy Taylor
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Thu Apr-17-08 11:48 PM
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8. Public perception of Hillary changed after New Hampshire when SOMEONE spread the lies |
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Edited on Thu Apr-17-08 11:49 PM by McCamy Taylor
that 1) Hillary hacked the vote in New Hampshire 2) New Hampshire voters were racist 3) Obama camp put out the "Race Memo" which they gave to Huffington Post in which they included three key distortions of things which they claimed Clintons and their surrogates had done which were racist,
It made no sense for Clinton to interject race before South Carolina but it made a lot of sense for either Obama or for Republicans who wanted Hillary to lose and Obama to win to interject race at that point.
THAT is where people started to hate Hillary.
I am surprised that people can not remember such recent history.
The Obama camp has called Hillary's wins in Nevada racist because Latino's are racists (it is one their website) California because Asians are racist, Ohio because of an MSNBC splitter poll that could have simply meant voters are pragmatic (and the poll did not ask about gender) and they are laying the ground work to call a loss in Pennsylvania racist, too. Obama called Hillary's foreign policy experience "tea" drinking in December. His camp has propelled the Bosnia sniper story with repeated emails and public statements. He has selectively quoted a few questionable sources and used KO to make it appear that Hillary has lied about her entire foreign policy experience when in fact everything except the sniper fire has been confirmed. He is now trying to spread the "Screw' Em" while saying that he does not want any "distractions."
Obama drove Edwards and Kucinich, two men who really do not take corporate and lobbyist money out of the race by pretending that he does not take lobbyist money when it turns out that he will take any lobbyist's money as long as they funnel it through a state capital first. Obama is not different from Hillary Clinton, except that she is a bit more honest about her corporate ties.
Obama needs to be careful or the label hypocrite is going to get attached to him. This will not be a good thing since he is the likely Democratic nominee, and I want to see the Democrats win this fall. However, he is not running a very safe or sound campaign. He seems to believe that just winning the nomination will be good enough and if he loses the general he can blame America for being racist.
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