Unhelpful remarks from Obama supporter

[KennedyGuy]

http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/1/23/181832/425

"This is bad:
In an interview with CNN's Jessica Yellin, Dick Harpootlian, a former chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party and a supporter of Barack Obama, said some of Bill Clinton's recent remarks on the campaign trail were appeals based on race and gender. He said the comments were meant to "suppresses the vote, demoralize voters, and distort the record," and said they were "reminiscent of Lee Atwater."
Outrageous and false. And, from Obama's perspective, not helpful to his campaign. Consider this, the LAST thing Obama wants is for his big win next Saturday to be viewed as a race issue. Harpootlian feeds that narrative with his outrageous smear. Obama himself strenuously denied that the Clinton campaign was playing race or gender games last week. Harpootlian does no one any favors with this outrageous smear. The Obama campaign should disavow them".

[gateley]

1. ...

:eyes:

[AX10]

2. Bad for Obama!

:eyes:
He wants to play this card to win a single primary but lose the national election.

[Proud2BAmurkin]

4. He wants to be the president of SC is all I can figure

[dionysus]

3. bad for the clinton campaign, yes indeed.

[KennedyGuy]

5. The whole "race card" thing is what is going to create the backlash

People resent and do not like being called racist for disagreeing with Obama.
They resent it..and Obama will learn how much they resent it as soon as he leaves SC.

[AX10]

6. Obama will learn about this BIGTIME on Feb 5.

[cali]

8. The Clintions are pulling a page straight out of Atwood's

revised and updated Southern Strategy book. Heaven forbid that anyone dare point it out.

[Rageneau]

21. That's baloney!

Either you never saw Lee Atwater at work (Willie Horton) or you do not correctly remember how bad he was. The Clintons did not say one WORD that could be considered racist. To say that what they did NOT say is equal to what Atwater often DID say, is to go way beyond incorrect, into the territory of absolute delusion.

[dionysus]

10. the Obama campaign says Clinton supporters are racist?

poor choice of straw men there.

[Kahuna]

12. You know, take it however you want. Because I don't believe you would

ever vote for Obama under any circumstance.

[dionysus]

15. why the hell would you say that? he's my first choice...

:shrug:

[flpoljunkie]

7. We will see. Harpootlian is the former head of the Dem party in S. C. I suspect this means somethin

[Kahuna]

9. Everybody is starting to say that. Even in the media. Get used to it..

because it's true.

[BenDavid]

11. I saw that segment with Bill CLinton. Even recorded it cause from

what wolf blitzer was saying clinton "lasheds out", Clinton "hammered home" and if this was going to be like the one of Clinton and the reporter from a week was, I knew I had to record it.......Boy was I disappointed. Not by Clinton but by Wolf Blitzer using flamable words just to hype his piece.....Bill CLinton was exactly right in what he said and he spoke as if he was having a normal conversation with the reporter from cnn and those other networks that were there. What they got from Bill was the truth about the press and the obama folks....

but not once in the panel discussion did either 3 or wolf come to the defense of Bill when Harpootlian accused clinton of basically being a racist, and one thing for damn sure Bill Clinton is no racist....but the mediawhores would rather spin for obama and be anti hrc.....

[AtomicKitten]

13. if the foo shits ...

The truth is often hard to digest.

[redqueen]

14. Ay yi yi...

I don't see things getting any better anytime soon.

I would love to have seen this from an "unnamed source"... cause then I could just ignore it.

*sigh*

I'm gonna break my sigher by the time this is all said and done.

[rodeodance]

16. I agree--not good for Obama campaign.

[suston96]

17. You know what, I remember Lee Atwater. Lee Atwater was NOT a friend of mine.....

....comparing Bill Clinton to Lee Atwater is cause for the deepest curse I can think of bringing down on whoever dared to make that repulsive comparison....

Google Lee Atwater and see how he turned out.

[Bluebear]

18. OMG comparing Clinton to ATWATER?

[zulchzulu]

19. Lee Atwater at least knew he was lying. I don't think the Clintons even know they are liars

Saying the Clintons remind some of Lee Atwater is a freaking compliment.

[NastyRiffraff]

20. This is despicable

Comparing Clinton to Lee Atwater is like saying Bill Clinton is a Republican.

Yes, yes, I know some right here on DU have actually said the Clintons are the "same as Republicans," which is nonsense.

Obama should strongly repudiate Harpootlian's comments for his own good, even if he can't see how slimy they are.