Hillary plays the race card... again.
Hillary's playing the race card again and she's not even being subtle anymore. From USA Today:"I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article "that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."
"There's a pattern emerging here," she said.
Of course she denies that what she is saying is in any way racially divisive:
"These are the people you have to win if you're a Democrat in sufficient numbers to actually win the election. Everybody knows that."Let's leave aside the clumsy way she appears to imply that hard working Americans are white Americans, the really nasty thing she is saying is that certain white voters won't vote for Obama because he is black and, for that reason, the super delegates should succumb to this racism and give the nomination to her.
It's really hard to overstate how far she has fallen in my estimation since this election began. There was a time when I would have happily watched the Clintons walk back into the White House, but the levels she has plunged in order to win have simply left me gob smacked.
Obama's team have responded:
Obama spokesman Bill Burton said that in Indiana, Obama split working-class voters with Clinton and won a higher percentage of white voters than in Ohio in March. He said Obama will be the strongest nominee because he appeals "to Americans from every background and all walks of life. These statements from Sen. Clinton are not true and frankly disappointing."Bill Clinton used to be known as America's first black president, for his wife to be making the kind of comments that Hillary is now indulging in is simply disgraceful.
For everyone's sake, end this now...
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