Jack & Jill Politics

What’s up with John Edwards? Maybe it’s good he is in the race because it he gets some white votes that might have pushed Hillary closer. We will see how that works in other states. He’s deluded. He really wants a cabinent position after he sells his soul (oh, I mean delegates) for a position in the administration.

We the people can’t let the MSM or the Clintons wield their power around. No more!

It’s called SOUR GRAPES!

Taylor Marsh…man, that girl just makes stuff up, don’t she? I wonder how much the Clinton campaign pays her per story.

ROFL nonny mouse! Has anyone checked Taylor Marsh’s blood pressure lately?

I was thinking her next entry will be “ZOMG Barack + Michelle walked in to some 2 Live Crew crankin’! Who let the dogs out?” :-)

Clinton keeps a well-worn copy of Lee Atwater’s playbook in his back pocket for occasions such as this… i suspect this will get nastier as we lead up to Super Tuesday… there are just too many delegates for the Clintonistas to pass on!

and the only two states on February 5th with the numbers of Black voters that even comes close to south carolina are georgia & alabama… i assure you that the Clintons will continue to work their “southern strategy” until they’ve alienated even the most trustworthy “house negroes” on their payroll (john lewis, andrew young, pastor butts, bob johnson, magic johnson, etc.)!

Hey, don’t knock Edwards. If he wants to be the identity politics candidate for white Southerners (based on regional voting patterns in SC, I’m guessing that a substantial number of Clinton’s white voters were retirees from out of state), that is fine with me. Though if he starts campaigning in the north or west where he might take votes from Obama, that will make me more nervous.

Barack Obama, IMO, gained the lock on the Black vote this past month. Why?

I’ve been making this point elsewhere and I’ll make it here too:

A number of White So-called Progressives are choosing to ignore this canary in the mine called their fellow Black posters. They simply do not choose to understand why Obama, though not changing any of his campaigning, is being held close to the busom, especially by the Black Middle & Professional Classes.

They don’t even want to confront why, but I’ll say it anyway.

It’s because they see themselves in Obama.

Not just because Obama is Black; they try and simple simon it down to stooge level like that.

IMO, these Black Middle and Upper Class folks see THEMSELVES in Obama. They completely identify with him, and his ‘struggle’ in White Corporate America. The Arena is Politics, but it’s just the same to them as the Corporate America in which they travel everyday.

They see in Obama, someone who is playing by a set of rules NOT for him, doing pretty well, and just as he’s about to truly succeed, THE RULES CHANGE.

The script is flipped and rules that never were there suddenly are.

Someone pointed out this week, on a board that, in addition to the attempts by the media to go along with the Three-Fifthsization of the South Carolina Primary, there was also other caveats that come out of nowehre, like, Obama just couldn’t win, but he had to win BIG in order for it to begin to ‘ actually count’. I was like WTF? Hillary Clinton can win NH by 3 points, and it’s the second coming, but Obama had to win HUGE in South Carolina, because, somehow, Black votes are less than others.

See – rules change out of nowhere.

The Black Middle and Professional Classes know this; that’s why this Dogwhistle Politics is ringing in their ears LOUDLY. They see themselves in Obama, and they understand TO THEIR SOULS how wrong he’s being done.

Another part of this is that, since Obama began this campaign, he has been criticized by some, for not ‘changing message’ for Black folks. I had always argued that he couldn’t. In order for him to win, he had to stay pretty consistent with his message.

Black folks are also mad at the Clintons because, though it took them nearly a year, for the most part, I believe our community had made peace with the fact that Obama had to be The Candidate Running for President Who Happens to Be Black instead of The Black Candidate. And, just when ‘WE’ accept that, here come THE CLINTONS….NOT Republicans, but THE CLINTONS, trying to turn Obama into The Black Candidate. It burns.

rik:

You got damm right. You were in my head on that one.

Actually Clinton’s defeat was greater than 26%, she had been up in the polls by 20%. So, she actually dropped by 46%! She was routed!