A year ago, Barack Obama was simply not white enough to get the “Black” vote. After Obama won in all white Iowa and then during the South Carolina primaries, Billary discovered a new plan — turn Barack Obama into a guy who is too Black for whites to vote for. Now Bill Clinton is saying that that was a myth (I suppose his Jesse Jackson comment was part of our collective imagination).
The fact of the matter is that Hillary Clinton cannot possibly win this election on the merits. She can’t win the votes and the numbers simply don’t work for her. She only has one chance, and that chance is to destroy Barack Obama, rendering him unelectable and hoping that the convention will mount a coup in her favor.
And the facts are also pretty clear. During the same week that Geraldine Ferraro insisted that Barack Obama had an advantage in the election because of his race and gender, a series of potentially outrageous statements from the past by the pastor of Obama’s church, Jeremiah Wright, have surfaced. Why have these statements come to light now? Why was it strategically important to bring them up precisely when Ferraro was making her statements? Continue reading
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