Topic subject Obama's detestable dirty tricks

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Topic subject Obama's detestable dirty tricks
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4245525, Obama's detestable dirty tricks
Posted by rodeodance on Mon Jan-28-08 09:50 AM

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/alice_miles/article3192712.ece


Obama's detestable dirty tricks

Alice Miles

What a shame that a contest that has the world gripped, that is transforming international opinion of the United States, that has shown America in its best and most brilliant light, threatens to descend into a pathetic slanging match over race. What a shame for the centre Left, which had everything to cheer about in the stunning choice between, potentially, the first female and the first black president, that they are allowing the contest to slip into an idiotic series of unproven claims about racial bias.

On Monday Hillary Clinton called for a truce reminding everyone that “Senator Obama and I are on the same side”. Hear hear. But how did it come to this?

The thin catalogue of complaints against the Clinton campaign from the Obama campaign were unfounded, manipulative and self-indulgent. At best they called into question the oversensitivity of Mr Obama, at worst they showed him willing to play a divisive race card that is damaging the entire Democratic Party and tarnishing a great and historic electoral contest for the centre Left. The whole episode has convinced me he isn't tough enough for the White House........