tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post6482023616494705693..comments2024-03-28T07:46:36.254-04:00Comments on field negro: "A live boy or a dead girl."field negrohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15411743587725023134noreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-84568615502635338312008-01-25T14:10:00.000-05:002008-01-25T14:10:00.000-05:00John Edwards isn't Thompson. I don't see Edwards...John Edwards isn't Thompson. I don't see Edwards dropping out before Feb 5th, & I want my chance to vote for him before the nomination is decided. I'm voting for him because he's the best of the three on the issues that matter most to me. & there's still a slim chance that this fight's going all the way the convention, in which case Mr. Edwards' handful of delegates will be VIP. Obama's just beginning to understand what it will take to beat a Repug; Hillary's throwing at him only 1/20th of what he'd get in the fall.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16567817295665099690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-74882293141378061132008-01-24T12:38:00.000-05:002008-01-24T12:38:00.000-05:00"I'm voting in November, regardless of who gets th..."I'm voting in November, regardless of who gets the Democratic nomination. I'm just not voting for Hillary, because if she wants Black people on her bandwagon after she eviscerates Obama and what remains of the Democratic Party, she's going to have to do a damned sight more than pat us on the head and say niceties. I'm not talking about putting Obama on her ticket, either; after all of this mudslinging, we'd get on Obama's case for even considering VP, because we'd tear him apart for the lack of self-respect."<BR/><BR/>-Driving Miss Daisy, y'all. :-)Admiral Komackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13671698772150420737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-29863618787299430412008-01-24T11:12:00.000-05:002008-01-24T11:12:00.000-05:00Obama wants to reinfranchise convicted felons. Wou...Obama wants to reinfranchise convicted felons. Would Hillary do that? Hell the F@ck no.<BR/>____________________________________<BR/><BR/>And how could she do that when the prison complex industry began to experience economic windfalls because of all the government money they got from her husband during his Administration?<BR/><BR/>We forget that Bill Clinton cleverly developed policies that send our brothers to jail for petty crimes, while allowing white collar rip-off artists and cocaine users to walk away with slaps on the wrist.<BR/><BR/>But a brotha with a $5 crack rock gets 20 years in the pen.<BR/><BR/>I'm voting in November, regardless of who gets the Democratic nomination. I'm just not voting for Hillary, because if she wants Black people on her bandwagon after she eviscerates Obama and what remains of the Democratic Party, she's going to have to do a damned sight more than pat us on the head and say niceties. I'm not talking about putting Obama on her ticket, either; after all of this mudslinging, we'd get on Obama's case for even considering VP, because we'd tear him apart for the lack of self-respect.<BR/><BR/>She'd have to hand over Chelsea' first born to the CBC for some prize leadership Cabinet positions, and probably some judiciary positions in key regions that would fast track a sista to the Supreme Court to replace Stevens.<BR/><BR/>Promises that she probably has no intention of keeping once she's in the White House and hands the reigns over to Bill to serve a de facto third term as POTUS, with her being the cover.<BR/><BR/>I wonder how they will feel giving away the store without getting a signed promisory note from Miss Anne in return?The Christian Progressive Liberalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04445662404937684518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-91199918598342383152008-01-24T08:59:00.000-05:002008-01-24T08:59:00.000-05:00Public Servant:"Have you ever heard of Pride? Do y...<B>Public Servant:</B><BR/><BR/>"Have you ever heard of Pride? Do you really want to cut off your own nose? What if the ticket was Clinton/Obama? You're telling me you still wouldn't vote? I don't believe it!"<BR/><BR/>No I would vote. Sorry, I was not clear, I have said before if Obama is not on the ticket I will support a Republican. VP is still on the ticket, but I doubt Clinton will do that unless forced at the convention.<BR/><BR/><B>As for the rest:</B><BR/><BR/>You get the government you deserve. All of you who will vote for Hillary in Nov. will be here b1tching and crying at Field's (along with him_) about the same nonsense that has not changed because the Clintons just patted you on the head with some window dressing to make nice, but not go against their slightly left of center stances (i.e. don't piss off too many whites).<BR/><BR/>Obama wants to reinfranchise convicted felons. Would Hillary do that? Hell the F@ck no.<BR/><BR/>Hillary is so divisive she won't get most of the stuff done she says, just like she could not get health care passed the first time. <BR/><BR/>What has Hillary done on a legislative level to help black people significantly. I'm sorry, what did Bill do to help black folks again? Not her husband, but her.<BR/><BR/>Please someone list out for me?<BR/><BR/>Like I said before, "go along to get along" means a pat on the head and a nice smile and business as usual. <BR/><BR/>Black people don’t understand the fact that we can literally destroy the democratic party and stop them from winning state elections and presidential elections. We have that much voting power in enough key states. When Republicans find out black folks are in play like Hispanics, they will try to court us too like Hispanics, that is real power to be pandered two from both sides, something dumb negros in this country don’t have because they jump being the master who beats them less (Democrats).<BR/><BR/>You get what you deserve and black people can’t afford to be partisan unless the party is black folks. No white person is going to deal up to our interest the way a black person will, history shows that over and over and over again. In the end black folks have to put in work because white folks only go so far unless pushed seriously.<BR/><BR/>Mistress Hillary ain’t nothing by a Ghandi, a Megawatti, a Bhutto and every other woman who got somewhere because of who they sleep with and who their father is. Nancy Pelossi could destroy Hillary publically without Bill Clinton and most women in the Senate could because they worked hard to get where they were, and did not rely on a man. Hillary is no feminist she is a Cleopatra and Bill is Casear and women just running around drolling over Hillary being the first female president? How can a woman be proud of that backward 2,000 year old B.S.? Does that show real progress? Hell no.<BR/><BR/>Who’s coattails has Obama road? Like anyone was really looking out for some skinny weird looking kid named “Barack” hell no, we know better than that. The brother came up hard, he put in work. He didn’t go bang some one and live off them like Hillary.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-38308917394818395262008-01-24T00:08:00.000-05:002008-01-24T00:08:00.000-05:00Field Negro:I have no doubt that the other side wi...Field Negro:<BR/><BR/>I have no doubt that the other side will play nice after the Clintons will us how they fought and won against the Republican political machine. However, they are fighting something different and it may play against than hurt them. It is possible that in the end the Clinton's may be responsible putting another Republican in office and we will back at square one. It is nice to see Bill's true colors, no pun intended.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-81238580752823072382008-01-23T22:32:00.000-05:002008-01-23T22:32:00.000-05:00"There are differences between Obama and Clinton. ..."There are differences between Obama and Clinton. This is like the yokels in the Green Party who would have had us believe there were no differences between Gore and Bush."<BR/><BR/><BR/>There are differences but not nearly enough. Will either end the for profit prison system? End the drug war? Dismantle the military industrial complex and bring US troops home from abroad?<BR/><BR/><BR/>A study released last month by a Washington think tank shows that in the last two decades, state spending on corrections grew at 6 times the rate of state spending on higher education. Who will end this? Not Obama or Hillary..?https://www.blogger.com/profile/16834812675776638645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-13589994482810677592008-01-23T21:37:00.000-05:002008-01-23T21:37:00.000-05:00Just to let you know I'm reading you, let me comme...Just to let you know I'm reading you, let me comment on some of the posts here. I won't be this expansive in the future--just some thoughts/questions that came to mind as I read each of you.<BR/><BR/>Francis L. Holland Blog said:<BR/><BR/>"I'm confident that they'd swim in the sewer with diving masks if that's what it took."<BR/><BR/>Francis, I'm confident they'd do it without the masks.<BR/><BR/>Christopher, the "good cop, bad cop" analogy is spot on. <BR/><BR/>francis said:<BR/><BR/>"However, when those in the black political establishment sit idly by while Bill Clinton runs around with a free pass to trash Obama...in my mind thats criminal."<BR/><BR/>Mine, too. I have to wonder why? Are they that sure that the Clintons will deliver where Obama won't? They didn't deliver when they had two terms to do so.<BR/><BR/>anonymous (11:33) said:<BR/><BR/>"Obama volunteers have been doing visibility events all over the five boroughs of NYC but we never see any Clinton supporters."<BR/><BR/>Is it because she thinks she's got a lock on N.Y.?<BR/><BR/>Dick Morris via plugg said:<BR/><BR/>"But here they have a way of appearing to seek the black vote, losing it, and getting their white backlash, all without any fingerprints showing."<BR/><BR/>This is now being called "Winning by Losing." See my earlier post on this topic.<BR/><BR/>redlipstick said:<BR/><BR/>"An angry Obama does not play well—he doesn’t have the right temperament and it’s incompatible with his message."<BR/><BR/>My gut tells me you're right, but many posts here are finding him too wimpy for his own good. It's hard to say which tactic will be a winner for him.<BR/><BR/>burpster said:<BR/><BR/>"All I can say as a Canuck is Americans are fucked, be you white, black or brown."<BR/><BR/>You're just across the border and you can see that, too? I guess we are "fucked."<BR/><BR/>dragon horse, you make me laugh, and I'm a bit of sour puss.<BR/><BR/>"White democrats need to learn a lesson." <BR/><BR/>Right on all accounts, but let's hope we don't lose our nose in the process.<BR/><BR/>west coast story said:<BR/><BR/>"Black America is not ready for a black president and probably never will be. Blacks feel safer hiding behind white folks' skirts."<BR/><BR/>west, I hope you're wrong. If the women of America can come together to support Hillary (and I know how women can, at times, distrust each other [don't hate me ladies for saying what you've told me for years], then I got to believe that we can come together for a black man running for president. <BR/><BR/>We've done it for black candidates running for lesser positions.<BR/><BR/>Andrew Sullivan via john b.<BR/><BR/>"Politicians. The kind who cannot remember any more how painful it was when they had their sense of shame removed."<BR/><BR/>Sullivan is a masterful spinner of words, but I didn't find Hillary any more appealing in her new persona than in the old one.<BR/><BR/>Shame no longer carries the punch it used to. It used to drive the shamed one into a cave built of remorse and public scorn. Now, it's worn as a badge of honor, something to be flaunted unabashedly.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-84099043768405650462008-01-23T20:25:00.000-05:002008-01-23T20:25:00.000-05:00Its time Blacks brak formthe party of Jeff Davis a...Its time Blacks brak formthe party of Jeff Davis and think out side the box. It is time to vote independantly. I think Obama should break form the jackass crew nad run as an indepedant. There is no way the Dems will let him represent them in a national election.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-43696145208839574022008-01-23T20:22:00.000-05:002008-01-23T20:22:00.000-05:00Billary's playing a very, very cynical (and politi...Billary's playing a very, very cynical (and politically brilliant) race-card game here. Hillary left S.C. early to concede the black vote to Obama to make it look like he's "just" a black candidate, with only black folks really supporting him. Don't think white folks won't get the message loud and clear. She's already leading big-time in polls from California and the other Super Tuesday states. Jump (below) to this article by Bill's ex-political hatchet man Dick Morris, who is spot-on in spelling it all out. Sad, sad, sad. I don't know that I can vote for those two in November...They'll do anything to win -- even play the race card. Am I the only one who's offended by this whole "he's just not ready" (read: qualified) refrain Hillary's using against Obama? Talk about nerve -- imagine the roasting a Republican would be getting if they were saying what these two are saying about Obama.<BR/><BR/>http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/political_commentary/commentary_by_dick_morris/how_clinton_will_win_the_nomination_by_losing_south_carolinaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-30074646417941824562008-01-23T20:14:00.000-05:002008-01-23T20:14:00.000-05:00Andrew Sullivan speaks the truth. There are diffe...Andrew Sullivan speaks the truth. There are differences between Obama and Clinton. This is like the yokels in the Green Party who would have had us believe there were no differences between Gore and Bush. <BR/><BR/>I held my nose and voted for Kerry last time and I vowed to never again vote for someone with whom I don't have some reasonable level of comfort. Concern about the Supreme Court? The Dems should have considered that when they were supporting the war in Iraq and approving the Patriot Act. At least Edwards is willing to say he was wrong about the war. The good witch Hillary isn't even apologetic about not reading the intelligence before voting to support the war. She was willing to send soldiers into harm's way without reading the fine details. She can do that impossible anatomical act to herself--two times. <BR/><BR/>The thought of McCain as president makes me sick but the thought of Clinton II makes me want to move to Canada.west coast storyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16833809632143106334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-9627695689015817202008-01-23T19:23:00.000-05:002008-01-23T19:23:00.000-05:00Classical One: You just said everything that is tr...Classical One: You just said everything that is true about this election. I applaud you for rising above the fray and staying true to yourself. I only wish other people could do the same.The Public Servanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10351753042543297206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-64655794917136059892008-01-23T19:19:00.000-05:002008-01-23T19:19:00.000-05:00The bottom line is people don't vote their interes...The bottom line is people don't vote their interests. Obama and Clinton are on the same page on most issues. Clinton voted for the war but Obama has continued to vote to finance it. People will end up voting for either canidate for dumb reasons. For Hillary becuase she's a woman or O becuase he is black, will they really look at their stance on the issues? If your middle or working class, these two will not represent your interests. I vote mine, so I'm voting for Kucinich.?https://www.blogger.com/profile/16834812675776638645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-62719572999789110472008-01-23T19:12:00.000-05:002008-01-23T19:12:00.000-05:00The man came from Chicago politics, he can definit...The man came from Chicago politics, he can definitely weather national politics.<BR/><BR/>And in response to your question on the sidebar (below "Proud Black Voter): No one's talking about it because everybody knows already.Wooziehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11637072916156389703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-31212421172759196392008-01-23T19:09:00.000-05:002008-01-23T19:09:00.000-05:00Dragon Horse,Have you ever heard of Pride? Do you ...Dragon Horse,<BR/>Have you ever heard of Pride? Do you really want to cut off your own nose? What if the ticket was Clinton/Obama? You're telling me you still wouldn't vote? I don't believe it!<BR/><BR/>Instead of bashing Hillary, let's rise above and work to promote our candidates. The media pushes ridiculous stories on us and tries to make us believe that there is a giant wedge among liberals (note: I didn't say Democrats. I include liberal-leaning independents). Instead, let's make the media do their job: report the facts, let the people decide. Too much of this race has already been tainted by the media. <BR/><BR/>If the media won't take race out of the equation, we'll do it for them. We'll avoid the mainstream sources and do our own research. I did mine and I came up with Edwards as the best candidate. He will fight for the people. He won't make sit down and woo the people that have ruined this country. He doesn't take money from corporations, so he doesn't owe any favors to any special interests. Clinton AND Obama can't say that. <BR/><BR/>I urge everyone, be independent! Don't follow the heard unless you know where it's going!The Public Servanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10351753042543297206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-55772175217660500992008-01-23T19:03:00.000-05:002008-01-23T19:03:00.000-05:00From Andrew Sullivan's blog:Thinking over last nig...From Andrew Sullivan's blog:<BR/><BR/>Thinking over last night again, I realized that, for the first time in memory, I actually liked parts of Hillary Clinton's performance. I liked her unplugged comfort with her own vile hackery. I like her when she's transparently shameless. I like watching a woman politician tearing into a guy like a rottweiler with issues. It's the feminist in me. <BR/><BR/>When she went for Obama over his respect for conservative ideas, she knew it was a phony charge, but she clearly relished wielding it. Ditto the Rezko swipe. And her gob-smackingly brazen lecture about Obama not taking responsibility for his own words - this from Bill Clinton's wife? And watching her, you could see she was loving it. There was this absolute unconcern for propriety - especially the unconscionably tacky interventions of her husband. There was a relish in small-bore partisan attacks. She is steeped in the old politics, and there's something clarifying about watching her enjoy flinging the dirt that is now caked under her fingernails. <BR/><BR/>This was always there, of course. But for a few moments, the patina of bien-pensant benevolence fell off. We didn't have to endure the trademarked Clinton sacrifice-myself-for-saving-the-world routine. We could appreciate her for the gutter politician she is, deep down, all the way down. The real Clinton is actually more palatable than the Mother Teresa act we have had to deal with in this campaign so far. This is the Clinton who yacks it up with Sidney Blumenthal in her spare time, the Clinton whose main concern with her husband's sexual pathologies was the damage it might do to her career. I can handle that candidate, even respect her, even as I loathe her. But it won't last, alas. That's part of the game. She won't allow us the pleasure of her own self-awareness for long. <BR/><BR/>Do I sound like I'm resigning myself to the inevitable? Nah. You've got to have hope. The logic for Obama and McCain still outstrips re-electing the Clinton Machine. She'd be terrible for the country and the world in many ways. And the terms on which she is winning this campaign - Bill's terms - guarantee endless psychodrama and dysfunction in the Oval Office. But at least we now begin to see her and her classless, needy, lying lech of a husband for what they are. <BR/><BR/>Politicians. The kind who cannot remember any more how painful it was when they had their sense of shame removed.John B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00603354267259344759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-23373502820640430252008-01-23T18:55:00.000-05:002008-01-23T18:55:00.000-05:00dragon horse: I'm with you. If Hillary is the no...dragon horse: I'm with you. If Hillary is the nominee and Bloomberg doesn't jump into the race, I'm staying home the first Tuesday in November. First time ever in my life. I'm not a Democrat, y'all can have those people. I don't need them. <BR/><BR/>Black America is not ready for a black president and probably never will be. Blacks feel safer hiding behind white folks' skirts.west coast storyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16833809632143106334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-81009390320989698312008-01-23T18:14:00.000-05:002008-01-23T18:14:00.000-05:00I honestly think any black person who votes for Bi...I honestly think any black person who votes for Billary and considers themselves conscience is a fraud and as much a sellout as Johnson was two weeks ago.<BR/><BR/>This is like a black man siding with the slave master who beats them less instead of siding with the black man who wants to run away.<BR/><BR/>As I said before, power respects power. Jumping behind Hillary (married into power, experience by nepotism ass) Clinton is not in the long term benefit of blacks.<BR/><BR/>It might cause a Republican to come to power, but we have to bite the bullet for 4 years if we want to show white Democratic we are not to be played with and not be to be ignored in favor of Hispanics or one day we might look up in the save situation as now with President Juan Garcia and VP Dan Wong and the black folks still running around the white house cooking and cutting grass for them.<BR/><BR/>I swear to God if Hillary is the nominee I will openly and aggressively campaign for John McCain out of spite.<BR/><BR/>White democrats need to learn a lesson.<BR/><BR/>If Obama ain't nominated game over. Take your damn ball and go home and watch the Republicans run all over their ass.<BR/><BR/>When those exit polls come out all the white pundits will be on TV talking about how Hillary Clinton alienated the black vote and lost the election in swing states.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Then Field will really have a post to talk about.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-40778844451131262552008-01-23T18:07:00.000-05:002008-01-23T18:07:00.000-05:00Obama got to Billary today through a surrogate. h...Obama got to Billary today through a surrogate. haha<BR/><BR/>Bill blew his top:<BR/><BR/>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS<BR/>/01/23/clinton.obama/index.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-63242700674314356932008-01-23T18:00:00.000-05:002008-01-23T18:00:00.000-05:00Could've sworn that Edwards tried to play the race...Could've sworn that Edwards tried to play the race card a bit when he implied that he was the only candidate who would draw well in the south. Did anyone else catch that, or am I reading too much into what he said?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-37587494971661353242008-01-23T17:17:00.000-05:002008-01-23T17:17:00.000-05:00My co-worker a white conservative made a comment a...<B>My co-worker a white conservative made a comment and all I could do was shake my head. "Isn't it funny that the Democratic Party who prides themselves as racially tolerant and gender neutral have the candidates who are battling each other over who is best for blacks and using racial epithet to feed off of the racial division not only in "A-merry-ca" but also in the Democratic Party?" Man! I feel sorry for Obama. He was having pipe dreams to think that the Clintons would not pull the race card if they felt threatened. Wouldn't you have thought that Edwards would be the one playing the race card. Only 'Billary' could get away with this Hoodwink!</B><BR/><BR/>I think your friend failed to mention that repubs are running nothing but rich white doods. Most of them are either religious crazies or, lets bomb the fuck outta something or someone candidates. I'm sure most here know where that has gotten America. <BR/><BR/>On the democratic side at least there are some choices other than the above mentioned. <BR/><BR/>This is a race for the presidency of what used to be the most powerful country on earth. Of course it's going to be down and dirty but, just wait til OB if he does make it as the democratic candidate gets to play with the repub smear machine. Hillary will seem like the kind ol' aunt that used to pinch your cheek and hug you to much.<BR/><BR/>Since there is no chance of an issues candidate getting the nomination, the best we can hope for is moderate demo. getting the nod. I hope thats OB, thats who I'll be pointing to for my American wife to vote for. <BR/><BR/>All I can say as a Canuck is Americans are fucked, be you white, black or brown.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-7294773108665964972008-01-23T17:06:00.000-05:002008-01-23T17:06:00.000-05:00I get the feeling that a black man doesn't have th...I get the feeling that a black man doesn't have the right to self-defense. It's a privilege afforded only afforded to white women who feel threatened by the angry black man.<BR/><BR/>I've been on huffington post, watched the tv shows, "Morning Joe," "The Chris Matthews Show," "Dan Abrams" and CSPAN and most of the commentators have said that Barack lost for essentially getting into the pit and slingin mud with Clinton.<BR/><BR/>I've also listened to left-wing radio and their feeling is that yeah Billary is wrong, but ultimately when its time to vote blacks must forget this for the sake of the party, come together and vote for Clinton. <BR/><BR/>I say bullsh#%. I will be voting for anyone but Clinton. I've accepted that she will get the nomination, but she will not get my vote come November. I do believe that this is the sentiment amongst alot of people who are disgusted w/ the Clintons' tactics.tryexcellencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03261142317873268816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-81808289620843444032008-01-23T16:46:00.000-05:002008-01-23T16:46:00.000-05:00"If you want class on this site check out the comm..."If you want class on this site check out the comments from folks like before the mayflower,hathor, and blinders off".<BR/>-----------------------------------<BR/>Yes, so true! That's why I admire them so! <BR/><BR/>HugsSouthernGirl2https://www.blogger.com/profile/01829901840187884140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-87510133231588511082008-01-23T15:57:00.000-05:002008-01-23T15:57:00.000-05:00Plugg I get the article but I think Hillary has be...Plugg I get the article but I think Hillary has been playing down her chances in each contest. Lowering the expectations makes each win more dramatic. In the vernacular of that great poet laureate, B.D. Kane, "Word"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-11773888749415804562008-01-23T15:40:00.001-05:002008-01-23T15:40:00.001-05:00An angry Obama does not play well—he doesn’t have ...An angry Obama does not play well—he doesn’t have the right temperament and it’s incompatible with his message. People like his rhetoric, but he needs to tighten it up. He does not need to get in the gutter with Clinton, although I’m reminded of Gene Hackman in Mississippi Burning when he said “These people crawled out of the sewers Mr. Ward…maybe the gutter is the place we have to be.” I’m of the “speak softly and carry a big stick” mold and I think this approach will work better for Obama than mud slinging. <BR/><BR/>Let me add that a Clinton-McCain matchup is what the Repubs desperately want. I’m not sure which blog I read this on, but someone said that the Repubs would drag their dead grandmothers out of their graves to vote against Clinton. This is a terrible position for any candidate. It’s better to have apathetic opposition but Clinton is an opposition motivator and that is very risky for the Dems. <BR/><BR/>Edwards’ candidacy reminds me of Bob Dole. Remember he was the running mate for Ford when they lost to Carter and then later ran for prez? He never got over the hump because he didn’t excite, inspire, motivate or even provoke the people. Edwards has a little more fire, but it’s the same song for me. <BR/><BR/>Plugg I get the article but I think Hillary has been playing down her chances in each contest. Lowering the expectations makes each win more dramatic. Hill/Bill are no doubt keen strategists and believe me they have plenty of tricks in their bag.RedLipstickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03622715969829104092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23428832.post-11363814700297238682008-01-23T15:40:00.000-05:002008-01-23T15:40:00.000-05:00My co-worker a white conservative made a comment a...My co-worker a white conservative made a comment and all I could do was shake my head. "Isn't it funny that the Democratic Party who prides themselves as racially tolerant and gender neutral have the candidates who are battling each other over who is best for blacks and using racial epithet to feed off of the racial division not only in "A-merry-ca" but also in the Democratic Party?" Man! I feel sorry for Obama. He was having pipe dreams to think that the Clintons would not pull the race card if they felt threatened. Wouldn't you have thought that Edwards would be the one playing the race card. Only 'Billary' could get away with this Hoodwink!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com