The Clinton race gambit

[DesertFox]

Wall Street Journal

About Bill Clinton, what can you say? Even before the polls closed in South Carolina on Saturday, the former President was diminishing Barack Obama's victory and trying to boost his wife in the next primaries by playing the race card.

Asked by a reporter why it took "two" Clintons to beat Mr. Obama, Mr. Clinton replied that "Jesse Jackson won South Carolina" in 1984 and 1988. And he added that both Rev. Jackson and Mr. Obama had run "a good campaign here." ... He thus associated Mr. Obama's landslide victory with that of a black candidate who ... had run overtly as an African-American candidate in contrast to Mr. Obama's explicit campaign theme of transcending race.

Anyone who thinks this was accidental has spent too much time with Sid Blumenthal. ... It's going to be fascinating to see if Democrats and the press let the Clintons get away with this. Imagine if Mitt Romney had made the Jesse Jackson comparison. Democrats would have immediately denounced the remarks as "racist," or as a part of some Republican "Southern strategy."

This primary contest has been a rolling revelation for many Democrats and the media, as they've been shocked to see the Clinton brand of divisive politics played against one of their own.

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[PaulRevere]

This primary contest has been a rolling revelation for many Democrats and the media, as they've been shocked to see the Clinton brand of divisive politics played against one of their own.

Yeah, like Germans gladly watched the Nazis persecute the Jews, then were shocked when they persecuted ordinary Germans who got in their way.

Like Sunnis who approved of Saddam persecuting Kurds and Shi'ites, then were shocked when their own sons disappeared in the middle of the night.

Like Rats who vote for Rats who promise to raise taxes on "the rich", then promptly raise taxes on everybody.

Like Nicaraguans who vote for Daniel Ortega, then are surprised that he is re-enacting his '80s communist regime.

[DesertFox]

Ain't nobody blind like a fool who keep his eyes squeezed shut.

[Wyatt_Junker]

Yeah, like Germans gladly watched the Nazis persecute the Jews, then were shocked when they persecuted ordinary Germans who got in their way.

Like Sunnis who approved of Saddam persecuting Kurds and Shi'ites, then were shocked when their own sons disappeared in the middle of the night.

Like Rats who vote for Rats who promise to raise taxes on "the rich", then promptly raise taxes on everybody.

Like Nicaraguans who vote for Daniel Ortega, then are surprised that he is re-enacting his '80s communist regime.


I think one of the defining principles of today's lefty is their inability to see an issue as it relates to someone else in the same way it could hypothetically relate to them.

For example, a lefty is so dispassionate when it comes to the death penalty, so removed, that there is no wonder how they would take up the cause of being anti-death penalty. For them, the entire enterprise is academic. Its not real.

But for me, whenever I hear about some sick F. who just broke into someone's house and raped and killed the daughter and mother while forcing the dad to watch, its as if I see my own kin. I cannot separate that act from the very real concern and love I have for my own family. And so my anger is connected. Humanity is one. I cannot divide humanity up into unreal aspects based on my lofty rhetoric.

Compartmentalization is a prereq to being a good lefty. And compartmentalization is one of the chief elements of nearly all psychosis as it is the negotiating principle behind all lies.

[DesertFox]

compartmentalization is one of the chief elements of nearly all psychosis as it is the negotiating principle behind all lies. Jeeeeee hod! :D