The race card was devised by Whites to limit Blacks (slavery, Jim Crow, Housing Covenents, Redlining, segregation). Generally when Whites use it other Whites pretend not to understand the power of what is being said. If Blacks are seen as using it Whites come out of the woodwork to claim foul. This article is rare indeed and I can't wait to see responses.

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This morning on C-Span, Allen Raymond (How to Rig an Election)says that the untruths about Obama that the Clintons are spreading here in South Carolina, are essentially election rigging.

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The campaign being waged by the Clintons is pathetic and putrid and should be repudiated at the polls.

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Why do Right Winged Talk Show Host continually bash Bill and Hillery Clinton? I belive its because they are deathley afread of being IMUS'ed if they say the least critical thing about Obama.If he can't stand a little criticism now than he will Rue the day he was born if he becomes the Democrate Condidate for the Presidency. The Republican Smear Machine will turn him every way but loose.

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It's politics as usual and it gets ugly. How ugly? Remeber what happened to Al Gore? Every- thing is on the line for us and he can't continue to be so easily offended. If he wants the job he's gonna have to fight for it. We've had a government operating in secrecy for too long. And it's time he told us about himself. We certainly know all about Hillary. If he doesn't like the game he can take his bat and ball and go home. Where's Edwards? Thanks,
ANNA

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It's politics as usual and it gets ugly. How ugly? Remeber what happened to Al Gore? Every- thing is on the line for us and he can't continue to be so easily offended. If he wants the job he's gonna have to fight for it. We've had a government operating in secrecy for too long. And it's time he told us about himself. We certainly know all about Hillary. If he doesn't like the game he can take his bat and ball and go home. Where's Edwards? Thanks,
ANNA

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It's politics as usual and it gets ugly. How ugly? Remeber what happened to Al Gore? Every- thing is on the line for us and he can't continue to be so easily offended. If he wants the job he's gonna have to fight for it. We've had a government operating in secrecy for too long. And it's time he told us about himself. We certainly know all about Hillary. If he doesn't like the game he can take his bat and ball and go home. Where's Edwards? Thanks,
ANNA

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This represents an incredible opportunity for the Republicans to attract the African-American votes in the general election, especially if Senator McCain is the nominee. Although this will be a difficult psychological switch for a party that has won all of its recent general election by appealing to the baser instinct of racial division. However, with Sen. McCain but unfortunately not with any other candidates currently running for the GOP nomination, it is possible.

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That Obama has promised to use our military to hunt for patsy bin Laden (whom Benazir Bhutto announced to the world just before her death had already been assassinated-- she even named his killer)in the sovereign country of Pakistan.

That doesn't sound very "anti-war" to me.

Edwards is the only one of the top THREE frontrunners who promises to start removing troops from Iraq immediately.

Too bad none of them addressed the issue of the huge money-hole that the Iraq quagmire has become while debating their various plans for economic relief.

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When the Clintons left the Arkansas governor's mansion for Washington in 1993, Democrats found the state party was reduced to a shambles. Clinton's hand-picked state party head had spent the group into heavy debt, while the organization had been turned into little more than a platform for promoting the Clintons.

It took the state party years to undo the damage, and in the meantime Mike Huckabee became governor and Republican Tim Hutchinson became senator. Now it looks like the same thing will happen nationally. I supported Bill Clinton for president both times and worked in his administration, but I share Robert Reich's sentiments.

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Freedom for Gaza (but for one day only)
Hole in the wall provides relief from misery of Israeli blockade
Come off. This is good enough after 50 years even one day is very good. The relatives had a chance to meet one another. I think that was very good of the Egyptian Government.
Live today who knows what tomorrow will bring. Look outside the box please
Black voters – rich and poor – divided over Clinton and Obama
Hello. What do we have? The tribal fight in democracy?
After I sit down on the benches of the schools and churches in the Caucuses?

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they claim to be above pettiness, while practically shoving it down your throat, and when called on it, they scream foul. As one poster here has pointed out, they were practically run out of Arkansas when Bill ran, and they left the Democratic Party there in shambles. Now they have started to divide the Democratic Party here, and if by some fluke Obama is nominated over the objections of the DNC hierarchy, they will give as much support as they gave to Al Gore, lest we forget their absence on the campaign trail for Gore.

see http://www.standanddeliveramerica.com for further comments on Hillary and the current election politics.

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To say Bill Clinton's comments calling Barack Obama's ideas a fairy tale is unfair is like saying nothing at all can be said about Obama because he gets a free pass. I think not.

Give me a break, and not my neck, Obama is in a presidential race. What Clinton said is not inflammatory, and at best, you can make the claim it is just another opinion.Why are the Clintons being treated this way? They can say or do nothing without this over evaluation of their words or actions.

I can say this: the media is behind this attempt to turn the most petty statements made by the Clintons into a negative. They are really dividing the Democratic Party, and at the same time sending America the message Republicans are not as bad as the Democrats. You need only look at how respectful the latest Republican debates were. I wanted to throw up.

So we are in the process of trashing the Democratic front runner, and if left up to the Republicans the wedge will be so deep, we will fail to unite come time for the general elections. This is getting out of hand, and MSNBC and the Republicans are united in making it come out in favor of the Republicans. This is not and should not be a Clinton vrs Obama fight. They are playing the Democrats like a well tuned instrument. Wake up and put on an adult mind concerning the Democratic objective.

Joseph

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Take a good look at the Clintons now, how the mercurial Bill has suddenly shifted from the magnanimous statesman/philanthropist, an image he has been crafting for the last few years, to a nasty, sniping, "down and dirty" political hatchet man. Remember this when you go to the polls and your hand quivers over the button that says "Hillary." Then remember that you investigated just who is financing her campaign, and what you found was not so squeaky-clean.

Then also remember that Bill gave us NAFTA, and China's "most favored" trading status, which helped send thousands of jobs overseas, and deregulation of the banking/securities and telecommunications industries, which has done wonders for the mortgage industry AND the propagandizing media. Oh, and welfare reform, which did its part to increase the number of children living in poverty today. And, of course, remember that with one, we get both, a "twofer," two, count 'em, TWO dynastic presidents at the same time, with one of them returning from hiatus for a rerun of "In the White House."

Granted, the Clinton Dynasty is not nearly as bad as the Bush dynasty. Hell, I voted for Bill in both elections; but they were not saints then and they are not saviors now. In fact, the rapidity and ease by which both of them can alter their demeanors (Hillary choking up, Oprah-like, on cue) – and in some cases, their views – scares the hell out of me.

I've been scared for this country for the last seven years; I don't want to trade in a nightmare for a bad dream, simply because a bad dream feels better by comparison. All of us deserve better than that.

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Every time Bill opens his mouth these days, I'm reminded why I didn't vote for his ass in '96.

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The "New Democratic Party" of the Clinton administration, etc., contrasts sharply with that of the traditional Dem Party of Roosevelt, Kennedy and Johnson -- the party of ordinary people. The New Dems abandoned these ideals to become the party of Republican-Lite under Bill Clinton. Probably the most striking example of this is "welfare reform". Essentially, Clinton and the New Dem Party sold out the poor, raided the public treasury, and used the money intended for humanitarian aid for our poor for the enrichment of corporations (i.e., tax "relief-breaks-incentives" which are often used only to move our jobs to foreign countries), justifying this with the failed "trickle down economics" theory of the Reagan admin. Traditional Dems powerfully represented the poor/working class, the New Dems represent corporations/the rich. The part of Bill Clinton's legacy that has had the biggest impact on America is that he utterly dehumanized our poor, and removed US poverty from the public discussion. As a people, we turn our backs on our own poor. We almost noticed poverty in the aftermath of Katrina, but never quite grasped that Katrina remains a powerful symbol of our (mis)treatment of all our poor today. Even the Progressive community fails to connect the dots on this issue, not seeing how these welfare "reform" policies have impacted everything from wages and workers' rights to growing our massive prisons industries.

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Robert Reich brings up a few things that are spun and respun. The press is so Anti-Hillary that they keep repeating the spin, and when you get all of your information from media, it is pretty much garbage in, garbage out.

What has Bill Clinton actually said that is so wrong? Obama wasn't in the Congress and did not have the responsibility to vote. Had he been there, he might have been as confused as the rest of the Congress.

If Obama had been in the position to decide whether Hussein had WMD, he would have had to override the information that Colin Powell swore to at the UN. As a junior Senator Obama probably wouldn't have committed that political suicide. Obama's latter day version gets effectively immunized by his lack of standing.

EVERYONE of the Democrats were against the war. But the vote wasn't a vote to go to war. It is Barach who is making hay over Hillary's vote and saying she voted for the war. The vote was to give the President power IF there were WMD. This is the public record. You will hear the distortion only by the MSM.

No one believed the President and Powell were baldface lying. Ultimately, the Congress was tricked, the American people were tricked because the unimaginable did happen: They were baldface lying.

When Obama says he was against the war, well who wasn't? Obama is portraying himself as a sage against the received wisdom and saying he would have voted differently.

So Clinton calls Barach's version a fairy tale? What is wrong with this viewpoint? If Barach can spin such gobblety gook and the press gives him wall to wall distortion cover, why can't Bill Clinton say it is a fairy tale? How do you characterize Obama's 20/20 hindsight that conveniently casts himself as the hero who wasn't? Is Obama trying to say that Congress would have been in his debt if he just had been there to lead them in another direction?

The spin is everywhere.

When Oprah Winfrey whoops it up with cult of personality, that's politics. When Bill Clinton whoops it up for his wife, that is mean spirited. It all depends on the narrative you read about in the newspapers.

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