What Obama Needs To Be Prepared For
For all of you thinking that Obama as a presidential candidate will be immune to the racial equivalent of this, well, you’ve got another thing coming. The Republicans won’t be bold enough to actually spell out “N.I.G.G.E.R.” or “C.O.O.N” (or whatever racial code word they might come up with) like they do “C.U.N.T.” in this case, but they will be less subtle than Bill Clinton was in his remarks on Obama’s win in South Carolina.
C.U.N.T’s slogan “What Hillary Clinton Really Is,” dispels all possible explanations but misogyny. I’d bet money that some democratic Clinton haters chuckled when they saw Roger Stone’s latest despicable campaign effort.
If Obama wants to win, he’s going to have to stop complaining about the Clinton and their tactics and get on with it. Frank Rich:
If Mr. Obama doesn’t fight, no one else will. Few national Democratic leaders have the courage to stand up to the Clintons. Even in defeat, Mr. Obama may at least help wake up a party slipping into denial. Any Democrat who seriously thinks that Bill will fade away if Hillary wins the nomination — let alone that the Clintons will escape being fully vetted — is a Democrat who, as the man said, believes in fairy tales.
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You say “they” and “them” like it’s a collective and all Republicans are the ones doing this. I don’t think that’s the case. I also think it was someone who is simply looking to make a buck on what a lot of people find to be funny. And finally, you have to remember that a lot of people simply HATE Hillary Clinton. That’s part of what entertains people with this, but it also lends to the ease of getting away with this. Such is not the case with Obama, and it’s unfair to claim that “they” would even attempt something of this nature with him.
I included Stone in the post to make it clear he is the one organizing this effort, not all Republicans. However, we’ve seen over the years that this kind if thing is what can be expected whether a candidate is liked or not. MCain was a well like candidate when the Bush/Rove machine went after him 2000.
and look what they did to Harold Ford? Why not with Obama if he is the candidate? When it comes down to it, whoever the candidate is will have to deal with this kind of campaigning. You are right about on thing, its much more socially acceptable to hate Hillary Clinton for many reasons, one of which is that she is a woman.
Roger Stone…you don’t have to dig that far down the shit bucket, or count on the standard lock step goppers (even though they truly do hate her) …Just read digby’s post a few weeks back about all the Hillary hate, there is a link there to a whole page of on air Hillary/woman put downs, slights and out right slanders by none other then one time speech writer and adviser to Jimmy Carter (no reflection on JC), MSM pundit host of “Hardball”; Chris Matthews. Although Matthews seems to have a personal problem with Hillary, or for that matter any strident women that does not genuflect in his direction, this problem has seemed to pop up throughout the cable media and the gambit of political shows it hosts. I am no Hillary fan, but what has gone down with her in these resent primary runs concerning the media is a sad picture and state of this culture, we are truly regressing in a rapid pace.
I’ve done my share of Chris Matthews documenting…..but don’t forget to include Keith Olbermann on that same list.
“he’s going to have to stop complaining about the Clinton and their tactics and get on with it”
Isn’t that sort of what he did with his victory speech in South Carolina?
Also, and I mean this is in a disapproving way, the media is much more sensitive to racist attacks than to gender attacks. While I think we’d have to be naive not to believe that Obama’s campaign is more than aware of this sort of thing, the media will do much of his work for him on this account.
It’s one thing to hate Hillary C (which I don’t).
It’s another thing altogether to observe and
discuss her and her husband’s behaviors and way
of operating in politics. And, I myself, will not
accept being called a “Hillary basher” or “woman-hater”
because I speak about all the things I dislike
IN WHAT THEY DO.
I do NOT like the way they operate.
Let some 527s and some Republicans do their thing against Obama when he’s nominated. It will only highlight his basic message!
No one is calling anyone a “hillary basher” or a “woman-hater” for disagreeing with Hillary Clinton or her campaign tactics. If that were the case, I would be in that category as well.
Yes, that’s right (in this setting).
I had just returned from a “spanking” I got
at the Dems2008 yahoo group! Pretty heated over
there.