Obama's labor allies re-injects ethnicity into the Democratic primary contest in sharp terms.

[KennedyGuy]

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0108/UniteHERE_ad_Hillary_Clinton_does_not_respect_our_people.html

"Hillary Clinton does not respect our people," the ad says in Spanish (original and Clinton campaign translation after the jump), referring to the lawsuit that failed today to shut down special caucus sites on Las Vegas' strip. "Hillary Clinton is shameless"
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"It’s pathetic and it's sad and it's unfortunate that they have to stoop so low," said Dolores Huerta, a longtime Hispanic labor leader who supports Clinton. She said she had never met Obama in her years of working on Hispanic causes, and suggested the ad was prompted by his lack of Hispanic support.

"I have yet to find even one worker — a Latino worker — who is supporting Barack Obama," she said.

The political director for the textile and hotel workers' union UNITE-HERE, Tom Snyder, confirmed a portion of the transcript, and defended the decision to run it.

"We're doing this because forces allied with her campaign are trying to keep our members out of voting through this lawsuit, which neither Senator Clinton nor former President Clinton have denounced," he said.

A spokesman for Obama, Bill Burton, did not condemn the ad or the independent spending specifically, but instead attacked Clinton.

[AX10]

1. K/R

[redqueen]

2. *sigh*

Yeah, this has already been posted.

Sad, sad stuff.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

3. That is fucking FILTHY. Worst thing yet in this campaign

"Hillary Clinton does not respect our people," the ad says in Spanish...

[aquart]

5. Eh, they're just warming up.

I'm sure Obama has much dirtier tricks up his sleeve. In fact, I have complete faith in him.

[aquart]

4. So the Obama camp is still using divide and conquer.

Just not in the black community anymore. Well, it's an old and trust strategy. I'm sure they'll do well with it.

After all, Obama is a uniter not a divider.

[DURHAM D]

10. The fact that Obama has gone nasty won't be reported

by the boys who carry his water in the corporate media.

They didn't report on JJ.

They still act like there is a question as to who started and elongated the race mess even though Jon Stewart and the foreign press got it.

They still can't comprehend the pile on problem.

I doubt they will report on his Raygun problem.

Obama will continue to ride on the wings of the men in the media until they are done with him - like May 15th.

[HeraldSquare212]

6. I would think 'lack of respect' and 'shameless' would be among the kinder epithets

any of us would use against someone who tried to block our opportunity to vote.

[MethuenProgressive]

7. "Hillary Clinton does not respect our people," the ad says in Spanish

Chicago politics.

[Tom Rinaldo]

8. A spokesman for Obama, Bill Burton, did not condemn the ad or the independent spending specifically"

"Coming from a campaign that is repeatedly launching absolutely false attacks against Sen. Obama, it takes some chutzpah. The facts is their camp clearly would like to have worker's voices silences and they need to live with that unfortunate position."

This is becoming all too familiar a tactic from Obama's people. Is it not a false attack for a pro Obama group to proclaim that "Hillary Clinton does not respect our people (hispanics)"? Meanwhile Hillary got attacked for dissing Blacks by even a suggesting that Martin Luther King Jr. could not bring about a social transformation on his own without the efforts of skilled politicians nailing down new laws.

That line of attack on Clinton was fanned by Obama's people, but they didn't call it an attack, they just "responded" to what they called Clinton's poorly chosen words. But with the shoe on the other foot, they have no comment on their own Union allies poorly chosen words, instead it is another opportunity to claim that Hillary is the one who uses dirty tactics.

Give me a break. Just disown the comment, OK? It was over the top. I understand what that Union was trying to say about disenfranchizement regarding the caucus sites but they flat out globablized it into Clinton not respecting Hispanics, period. That is bullshit and polorizing. It injected race once again into the campaign. Inappropriately.

Obama's campaign goes passive aggressive a little too often for my taste. It's never them, it's always the Clinton's, or their allies, who are "negative"

What can be more negative than that ad?

[Bitwit1234]

9. Well --- the people IN the union complained to the authorities

they were told they had to take the ballot and vote for him who can not be denied.....when they complained...the leader said they misunderstood.

If you hand someone a ballot and say YOU HAVE TO VOTE FOR HIM...how in the devil can you misunderstand...but then when the mob runs the union I guess you will be afraid to not do what they tell you.

[jackson_dem]

11. I told everyone the "truce" was a PR move. Shame on Obama using racism