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Originally Posted by scbelle
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As for the Obama remarks, wow. just wow. He's never touted his race, black, white or otherwise. In fact, all of the pundits I've heard who've been watching the campaign say that he's been very deft at not bringing race into the discussion. It was the Clinton campaign that brought all that crap into focus, along with the media. I think what he's doing in the Midwest is paying homage to his roots as far as values are concerned. Midwesterners are a lot like Southerners. We have deep-rooted values. And I don't think you have to be white to have them.
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Ok, let me start off by saying I am Obama fan, and I LOATHE the Clintons... BUT!!!!! The Clinton campaign didn't bring this in perspective. No, first, Obama didn't have the black vote, so the media brought it into perspective last summer. Then the recent stuff started when Clinton was connecting MLK's achievement to the importance of being president, by saying it MLK to do all this, and it took LBJ to do that. ALL TOO TRUE, and MLK was only in the mix due to the holiday. She didn't bring up the race card, she was merely making a statement that shows the importance of a good pres. THEN, the obama campaign (NOT OBAMA, but some of his supporters) called fowl that H.C. was under-minding MLK's achievements. This is where the media stepped in an made it a Black man standing up for a black man against he rich white lady. The race card also got played in FROM THE MEDIA with the whole issue dating back to this summer, that S.C. has a shit ton of black voters, and Obama wasn't black enough, and black votings wondering if the rest of America was not racist enough, so Obama could have a chance. That is how the whole race card jizz started, so don't give the Clintons the CREDIT for starting something that has come really important to the election (but shouldn't be). The only thing they were capable of doing was staying on the news, and there for playing into this whole race issue the best they could. Otherwise, you are letting the Clinton sound like masterminds, and really, they are more like Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters from 'the Jerk.'
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