To The Victor, The Spoils…
If I should ever go insane and run for public office, I would not seek nor would I want the endorsement of people who openly express their disdain or hatred of people not like themselves. But Hillary Clinton, in winning the support of a majority of Democrats in West Virginia has done just that. She basked in the bigotry that was showered on her. She glowed with that smug arrogance and better-than-you white privilege attitude that sickens and disgusts so many of us. I am not suggesting that she should be ashamed, because she is what she is, that’s all she knows. The ability to feel shame requires one have some moral sense of right and wrong, and she has not demonstrated any knowledge of those concepts.
I agree with Tamarika that the Democratic party and the Democratic super-delegates should be calling Clinton out for being a part of such a racially charged endorsement celebration. And the people of West Virginia who stand up and boastfully declare that they would never vote for a black man, you remind me of others who made similar declarations while standing in school house doorways in Alabama or blocking access to voter registration offices in Mississippi, people who, like you, lived at the intersection of ignorance and invective.
The year is 2008. It is far past time for you to get over it. The United States of America will elect a black president, if not this year, soon.
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I agree. Jon Stewart on the Daily Show has a video clip out showing some of the comments people made in West Virginia. It’s very funny with his reaction but it is also very sad that people think that way or rather don’t think, that they are so easily manipulated to feel superior just by nature of skin color. The media was even worse as they seriously suggested that if West Virginia didn’t support Obama, with it’s million and a half white people who are afraid of black people, then he has no hope in the national election. Say what! I am so sick of the media that to me they have become the worst of the worst in this primary! I don’t expect it’ll get better in the fall…
I so agree with you. It saddens and quite frankly sickens me to see the racism in our country. The day before the WV primary there was a reporter at a local diner in Charleston, WV interviewing people and asking who they would vote for. Some of the things that came out of their mouths made mine drop! If the race card has been played in this campaign it’s been played to the hilt by Hillary and is shameful!
I heard some interviews with the West Virginians on XMPR. I wonder if growing up with outhouses, kerosene lamps, and coal dust has kept them in the dark ages, or if it just what they prefer. Do they actually let these chaw-bacons vote in the general election?
You are talking about WV where the Democrat Senator Robert Byrd an ex KKK member has been re-elected every time since 1959. You can bet if he was a republican or from any other state that would not have happened. Trying to say that the US will not vote for Obama because WV did not is totally irrational.
I’ve never been much of a fan of the Clintons but I expected better from HRC.
The campaign has gotten ugly even among the blogs - I know of one blogger who writes pro-Clinton and is not going to continue her blog because her email inbox became clogged with what she calls hate mail from Obama supporters. What is wrong with people??
No candidate is worth taking up hate for a hobby.
Mudcat Saunders, who is John Edwards’ James Carville, so to speak, says that Edwards instructed him and the rest of his supporters to politely decline when offered the support of people who expressed racist sentiments toward Obama.
Think Hillary has done the same?
I think you said it all in the first paragraph of your post Winston. Just when was it that Hillary’s common sense took a back seat to her arrogance? The longer she sticks around, the uglier the picture if painted of her. That can’t possibly be what she wants, is it?
I think you said it all in the first paragraph of your post Winston. Just when was it that Hillary’s common sense took a back seat to her arrogance? The longer she sticks around, the uglier the picture is painted of her. That can’t possibly be what she wants, is it?
I hadn’t heard about that. How dreadful. Is Hilary really going to hang on until everyone weakens and let’s her play?
Your post brings tears to my eyes W. And I agree with you, it’s time for people to be over it. And we all know what “it” is. What do we want? Obama. When do we want it? This year. What do we hope for? Change. Wish that the media etc would cease making race and issue, and make the human race the issue.
Hanging in there W, have a good feeling that Obama will get the nomination.
Winston,
Thanks so much for the link. Much appreciated. It is heart warming for me to read the comments posted here. We are not alone. Hope is on the way!
I am having the time of my life watching the Democrat Party destroy itself.
I’m afraid those of the ilk of twomartini are going to be sadly disappointed if they think the tight race between Ms. Clinton and Mr. Obama is going to “destroy” the Democratic Party and usher Mr. McCain into the White House. If anything, the Bush administration has damaged the GOP with its fiscally ruinous and security-weakening policies.
I, for one, will never vote for a Republican, and if recent Congressional tidings are any measure, few others will either.