Comments on: PC Petard

By: saltydog

saltydog — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 23:43:31 +0000

“You’d think the Obama camp could make more mileage out of the rank hypocrisy of Bill Clinton accusing other people of pushing fairy tales, rather than letting other people play the race card.”

PC politics allows one to appeal to the emotions, by-passing the mind completely. It’s just so much easier–and dishonest.

Just an aside: Does this mean that Bill isn’t black anymore?

By: Don Surber » Blog Archive » The gift that keeps on giving, v2.008

Don Surber » Blog Archive » The gift that keeps on giving, v2.008 — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:36:39 +0000

[...] Jules Crittenden is amused. [...]

By: tanstaafl

tanstaafl — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 19:36:35 +0000

I have no idea :-), but for an electoral cycle that is supposed to be about “issues” and differing opinions on policy as to how to proceed and shape the future of this country (et al. and etc.)…

…we’re sure yakking a helluva lot about one candidate’s race and another candidate’s gender.

Maybe the notion that we’ve transcended such (limiting) obsessions is just pie in the sky stuff.

Ya think ?

By: RebeccaH

RebeccaH — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 19:03:59 +0000

Oh, so now the supposedly monolithic black voters are going for Obama, when it appears he's been dissed by the Clintons on the matter of race? Or is this the media latching onto the race card because they've been treating him with kid gloves because of his race?

By: tanstaafl

tanstaafl — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:27:38 +0000

...The comments, which ranged from the New York senator appearing to diminish the role of Martin Luther King Jr. in the civil rights movement That's incomplete without noting the context in which Hillary brought up MLK. Her real point was.that it took a President to geterdone meaning, to pass Civil Rights Legislation. That would one Lyndon Baines Johnson, most of whose career as a Texas legislator was spent thwarting civil rights initiatives. But LBJ saw some writing on the wall, and never say the man wasn't creative or adaptive when it came to furthering his position.

By: Right Voices » Blog Archive » “If you have a social need, you’re with Hillary. If you want Obama to be your imaginary hip black friend and you’re young and you have no social needs, then he’s cool.”

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:18:01 +0000

[...] Jules Crittenden has a good roundup. [...]

By: Outside The Beltway | OTB

Outside The Beltway | OTB — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 13:46:43 +0000

Blacks Turning on Clintons?

Several prominent black leaders are assailing Bill and Hillary Clinton for their use of racially insensitive language in their campaign against Barack Obama, Ben Smith reports for The Politico.
A series of comments from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, he…