Jack & Jill Politics

…or another question: does putting a black face on the Bush Doctrine validate it?

Just saw a shout out to Jack & Jill in an article from The Nation. Keep up the good work.

i’m promising myself that i will never ever forget the destructive, indecent tactics of the Clintons over the past week. using race to divide and conquer now. then later they’ll try to sweet talk the minority groups back into their tent. and with the fury of the episode behind me, i’ll probably say some shit like: “well, they’re awful feisty aren’t they, these clintons. they certainly know how to fight a bare-knuckled brawl!”

NO!

I like the plan. I’ll do what I can. I would start by pointing out that Obama got health care in Illinois when Hillary couldn’t get it in 1993. I would follow up with his death penalty work versus her refusal to vote for retroactive on mandatory minimums on crack cocaine. Constrast their speeches on Iraq and include transcripts from MTP. She refused to do MTP until this past Sunday after she had significantly marginalized Russert because he was afraid he would be accused of piling on. There is some stuff over at Huffington. Sorry this is so frantic, but I need to iron school clothes and go donate more money to Obama.

Charlie Rangel attacks Obama.

Strikingly, though, one of Clinton’s supporters, New York Rep. Charles Rangel, was sharply critical of Obama in an interview during the day. “How race got into this thing is because Obama said ‘race,’” Rangel, the dean of the Congressional Black Caucus, said on television station NY1.

Either he doesn’t read, or he’s going senile. Anyways, he needs to take his Handkerchief Head behind somewhere and sit down.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080115/ap_on_el_pr/campaign_rdp

NMP,

thanks so much for the link.

I suspect the next line of attack after the youthful drug use, the secret muslim and Al Qadea ties, the distortion of Obama’s past voting record, and the racial attacks (cleverly using black leaders, successful black business folks, elected officials and those with access to the media) will be trying to make a contrived connection between Sen. Obama and the pastor of the Church he attends in Chicago. That pastor (who has wisely kept a low profile thus far) has a reputation of being a polarizing and outspoken individual in the mold of past Black leaders from the Civil Rights Movement (eg., the Al Sharptons and Jesse Jacksons). The difference is he is much more radical than the aforementioned. I hope and pray Sen. Obama and his supporters DO NOT TAKE THE BAIT as they have done with the latest barrage. The Clintons are MASTERS of spin and dirty politics. In one of the debates earlier in the year, when asked what his new year’s resolution would be, Sen. Obama said one of them would be not to get distracted by the fear of losing. That was a direct message to the Clinton camp (in code) to not go down this path they’re pursuing now. That would put Hillary in the White House at the expense of the explicit mandate of the American people to move on in a new and positive direction. The Clintons will do ANYTHING to win the presidency (and repair the damage later). That is what they do. That is their strategy and it has been all along.