Seems to me a lot of playground smack being thrown at him…..and whatever your feelings on this issue – it is dividing the party….so how to bring the coalition back in? You have to be able to reach out to someone who might not know how much their words had unintended consequences….where is the understanding and forgiveness we have spent so many years perfecting in the harshest circumstances?

LOL

That's why I'm bracing for the convention in three weeks.

The roll call vote with Clinton's name in nomination makes me nervous.

But will he want to deal with the “how dare he snub Hillary!!!” backlash?

Who knows.

I'm afraid he's going to choose a white man. Out of left field.

And then there's his capacity for denial. He's been successful at getting away saying one thing in one venue and not having at reach national attention until it was too late (if at all) for a long time. As have other politicians. What's changed, of course, is that with the internet and the 24/7 cable news cycle, politicians can't get away with that anymore. No doubt Clinton was chagrined to discover that but, rather than acknowledge he'd been caught, he lashed out at the media and the Obama campaign. And what's more, he still blames them!

So anyway, I don't know who his audience is with this. Maybe it's whites, maybe it's whites and blacks, maybe it's anyone who'll listen. But I do know it's not just blacks who aren't taken in by him. I might one day still be inclined to listen to him speak on some subject of interest to me — but my opinion of him as a person is shot for good.

Seems to me a lot of playground smack being thrown at him…..and whatever your feelings on this issue – it is dividing the party….so how to bring the coalition back in? You have to be able to reach out to someone who might not know how much their words had unintended consequences….where is the understanding and forgiveness we have spent so many years perfecting in the harshest circumstances?

Seems to me a lot of playground smack being thrown at him…..and whatever your feelings on this issue – it is dividing the party….so how to bring the coalition back in? You have to be able to reach out to someone who might not know how much their words had unintended consequences….where is the understanding and forgiveness we have spent so many years perfecting in the harshest circumstances?

LOL

That's why I'm bracing for the convention in three weeks.

The roll call vote with Clinton's name in nomination makes me nervous.

But will he want to deal with the “how dare he snub Hillary!!!” backlash?

Who knows.

I'm afraid he's going to choose a white man. Out of left field.

And then there's his capacity for denial. He's been successful at getting away saying one thing in one venue and not having at reach national attention until it was too late (if at all) for a long time. As have other politicians. What's changed, of course, is that with the internet and the 24/7 cable news cycle, politicians can't get away with that anymore. No doubt Clinton was chagrined to discover that but, rather than acknowledge he'd been caught, he lashed out at the media and the Obama campaign. And what's more, he still blames them!

So anyway, I don't know who his audience is with this. Maybe it's whites, maybe it's whites and blacks, maybe it's anyone who'll listen. But I do know it's not just blacks who aren't taken in by him. I might one day still be inclined to listen to him speak on some subject of interest to me — but my opinion of him as a person is shot for good.