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Is Clinton Playing the Race Card?

Started by blacksmythe · 11 months ago

This was the subject of at least three blog posts worth reading. The New York Times post falls furthest from the mark, but I include it for the sake of comparison. I don’t think the question is the right one. Nor is “is Clinton racist?” The question for me is, how has Clinton taken advantage [...]

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albatross
11 months ago

So, the interesting question is which of those four blog posts were you not so sure were worth reading....

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DarkStar
11 months ago

:-)

Did I write that I thought Clinton was nothing but a cracka in a suit?

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Mark
11 months ago

I doubt he's actually racist, but that doesn't mean he isn't a politician through and through. I find in many ways that Obama is following the same strategy: going after the soft, easy targets ("deadbeat dads" + "personal responsibility" lately) while dodging the fundamental economic and political issues that underpin most of the problems that blacks face. Every once in awhile, he'll drop something in about revitalizing inner cities with federal money, but he has yet to make any real policy declarations, and given the disastrous state of the annual federal budget, it's hard not to see it as any more than wishful thinking. We can thank Iraq for that. Talk about unintended consequences...

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