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To: American Spirit who wrote (112969)	1/17/2008 7:37:51 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Why the Clintons Play the Race Card By Don Rose Posted in Our Columns on January 17, 2008 with 1 comment. tags: Clinton Election Obama The more the conversation gets to be about race, the better the Clintons think they will do. It’s as simple as that. They want to nudge—even provoke—Barack Obama into becoming the “black” candidate rather than the healing, unity candidate. They want black supporters to raise their voices on his behalf—preferably the Al Sharpton types who will shrilly cry “racism” and thus exacerbate the divide. That’s why Billary changed the conversation in New Hampshire, risking some anger against them in the black communities—anger they know would be assuaged in a general election. Okay, let him carry South Carolina, as long as he is tagged with Afrocentrism. Hillary went on the attack in the last 24 hours of the New Hampshire campaign, first telling Obama he was no Martin Luther King, then going on to say, in effect, that all King could do was preach and agitate—it took Lyndon Johnson to actually pass the civil rights act. She, of course, implied she was the experienced, effective Johnson and he was, at best, a King who raised “false hopes.” The male end of the tag team used the term “fairy tale” in one of his anti-Obama, anti-media rants, suggesting that Obama was peddling snake oil. Bill claims “fairy tale” simply referred to Obama’s position on the war—and later phoned into Sharpton’s radio program to re-emphasize the point. All of which keeps the focus on the shade of Obama’s complexion. His magic has always been transcending race, keeping the topic down to a whisper. That’s largely why he carried some of the most racially hostile wards in Chicago and went on to win in 97 percent white Iowa and come within three points in the similarly pale-hued New Hampshire. Earlier, a Clinton surrogate suggested Obama might be a dope peddler—as so many of those persons of color are, you know. Another lobbed the Muslim grenade in Obama’s direction, noting once again what the Rush Limbaughs of the world keep hollering: Hey! The candidate’s middle name is “Hussein” That surrogate, former Sen. Bob Kerrey, went on to tell the world that Obama attended a “secular madrassa.” As a college president, Kerrey of course knows there is no such thing. Madrassas are religious schools teaching fundamentalist Muslim doctrine. Many are feared as terrorist training schools. Kerrey went on, incredibly, to say he admired the fact that Obama had that funny middle name and attended that contradictorily identified school in Indonesia. <This is called praising with faint damns—and the more said about it the more the libel is repeated. So now we got this fellow of dubious nomenclature, questionable religion and worse schooling. By the way, have you noticed he is of color as well? (What next? He is the father of black children??) Of course the Clintons are supporters of civil rights—Bill was once infamously called the “first black president.” So they can be excused for playing this subtle race card, right? They’re not really racists—they just want to stress that Obama hasn’t really transcended race—and that a person of color may not be electable. Think about it folks. Over and over again. You don’t want to “roll the dice”—in Bill’s quaint phrase—for a guy who might turn out to be a captive of Al Sharpton or even Jesse Jackson, do you? Maybe you’ll switch, just like some of those white New Hampshireites apparently did. If you don’t get the message today, they’ll find a new way to say it tomorrow. _____________________________________ Don Rose is a regular political columnist for The Chicago Daily Observer. cdobs.com