May 4, 2008 - May 10, 2008

Hillary Clinton and Eminem both love White America

Filed under: Hillary Clinton

I suggest the following soundtrack while reading this post:

Once again, the Clintons play the race card:

"I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article "that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."

"There's a pattern emerging here," she said.

Yeah, the pattern emerging is that Hillary will do whatever it takes to win, including falling back on the kind of Southern race-baiting that builds a bridge back to last century.

Do you regret referring to Bill Clinton as the first black President? —Justin Dews, Cambridge, Mass.

People misunderstood that phrase. I was deploring the way in which President Clinton was being treated, vis-à-vis the sex scandal that was surrounding him. I said he was being treated like a black on the street, already guilty, already a perp. I have no idea what his real instincts are, in terms of race.

Why did you endorse Barack Obama for the presidency? —Chris Francis Lightbourne, Long Island, N.Y.

I thought about voting for Hillary at the beginning. I don't care that she is a woman. I need more than that. Neither his race, his gender, her race or her gender was enough. I needed something else, and the something else was his wisdom.

Other stuff white people like.
Stuff white people like to eat.

Posted by Kevin Hoffman at May 8, 2008 1:13 PM | Comments (5)

It's official: Barack Obama is the Democratic Nominee for President

Filed under: Celebrity Endorsements

When both Tim Russert and Matt Drudge agree, the fat lady truly has sung.

CONGRESSIONAL SOURCE: Hillary having trouble finding superdelegates who will meet with her... 'No one wants to see her today'... Developing...

Stephanopoulos: 'This nomination fight is over'...

Obama maps out general election strategy...

Posted by Kevin Hoffman at May 7, 2008 8:57 PM | Comments (0)

Operation Chaos: Rush Limbaugh dreams of riots at Denver convention

Filed under: Media

The round mound of rightwing scorn delights in the idea of human suffering being visited on the people of Denver, simply because they had the temerity to host a Democratic political convention.

Don't miss our sister paper Denver Westword's article on Rush Limbaugh's recent publicly-expressed glee over the idea of people rioting at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. Money quote:

Within minutes of these words, however, Clear Channel Denver put out a press release claiming precisely the opposite. "A review of the full transcript... shows that Limbaugh

was not advocating violence in Denver at the Democratic National Convention," the document stated — and indeed, Limbaugh did say that "I am not inspiring or inciting riots" at one point. But this comment represented the briefest of asides amid a rambling, discursive take filled with observations like "Riots in Denver at the Democrat convention would see to it we don't elect Democrats — and that's the best damn thing that could happen for this country."

This is bile of the same sort as the McCain supporter who thinks the devestation of New Orleans was punishment for a sinful lifestyle. If Obama's ex-preacher said this, there would be a national scandal.

Here's a YouTube clip of Keith Olbermann on the controversy:

Posted by Kevin Hoffman at May 6, 2008 3:05 PM | Comments (2)

McCain's preacher problem makes Obama's pale in comparison

Filed under: John McCain

In watching the ever-widening flap about Jeremiah Wright and Barack Obama, I've been stunned that the mainstream media has effectively ignored John McCain's relationship with John Hagee -- a pastor who is at least as inflammatory, and whose endorsement McCain actively sought.

A full litany of Hagee's offenses against sanity would fill the blog with non-Strib content, and nobody wants that. So I'll summarize: thinks Catholic church is whore of Babylon, metaphorically "drinking the blood of the Jewish people,"; thinks Hurricane Katrina was the fault of gay Americans; thinks the pope is like Hitler.

The New York Times' Frank Rich has noticed, and writes a terrific column about it, using the episode as a jumping off point to a broader conversation about race in the GOP.

Now, if someone will only write about Rod Parsley, I'll be mildly sated.

Posted by Jeff Shaw at May 6, 2008 5:56 AM | Comments (0)

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