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January 12, 2008

Hillary's Race Problem

Amid reports (i.e., media-hyped narrative) that African-Americans are peeved with the Clinton campaign for perceived slights to their collective identity comes this hilarious quote from an unnamed Clinton advisor:

If you have a social need, you're with Hillary. If you want Obama to be your imaginary hip black friend and you're young and you have no social needs, then he's cool.
Take that liberal-white-guilt-laden yuppies. If you support Obama now, you're guilty of double-reverse racism! Brilliant move, unnamed advisor.

In an effort to reach out to the disaffected, Clinton recently released this report on positional inequality:

Posted by Zach Wendling at January 12, 2008 07:04 PM

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This comment has been deleted and the IP address banned. ITA will not tolerate impersonation in the comments.

Posted by: Editor at January 13, 2008 09:13 AM | permalink

I made the above comment on David Darlington's post, "MSN-High School Cheerleaders-BC." I DID NOT post it here. And I did not spell corps "cores."

Someone else is impersonating me.

Posted by: JohnS at January 13, 2008 11:35 AM | permalink

Both teams' supporters have to be very careful with this stuff. I don't think it's actually being scripted by the campaigns, because they've gotta know it's just too dangerous (blowback) -- and the press corps is anxiously waiting, like a pack of wolves, ready to turn this into a campaign about race/gender. And I don't know about other Dems, but this crap is turning me off big time. Back to issues, please.

Posted by: JohnS at January 14, 2008 12:31 PM | permalink

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