"Invidious BillThat last line is pure snarky sarcasm.
Hillary Clinton had her head handed to her by Barack Obama in Saturday's South Carolina primary, and her husband was quick to minimize the loss, Jake Tapper of ABC News reports:
*** QUOTE ***Said Bill Clinton [Saturday] in Columbia, SC: "Jesse Jackson won South Carolina in '84 and '88. Jackson ran a good campaign. And Obama ran a good campaign here."
This was in response to a question from ABC News' David Wright about it taking "two Clintons to beat" Obama. Jackson had not been mentioned.
Boy, I can't understand why anyone would think the Clintons are running a race-baiting campaign to paint Obama as "the black candidate."
Jim, uh...hello! Obama IS the "black candidate". I don't understand the outrage. Everything we do in this country is predicated on what "group" you belong to, including, and most importantly, which race. To suggest that this is untouchable and unmentionable in a Presidential Campaign is the height of hypocritical, mentally challenged Political Correctness.
Jesse Jackson won South Carolina twice because he is Black. There are lots of Black people in South Carolina that will vote for a Black candidate because he is Black. Is that really so hard to believe or understand? Winning South Carolina notwithstanding, Jesse Jackson went nowhere in either of his bids for the White House. How is this not relevant to yesterday's events?
Every single thing Bill Clinton says or does is not actually criminal, evil or wrong, no matter how much you (or I) hate him. If you think otherwise, how, exactly do you differ from the Moonbat nutcases plagued with Bush Derangement Syndrome?
Whether Barack Obama likes it or not, he's Black. And whether James Taranto likes it or not, we live in a world where Liberals, Democrats, Socialists and their lackey running dogs, the MSM, have decreed that your race is the most important thing about you.
Get over yourself, Jim. Martin Luther King's "content of his character, not the color of his skin" idea is dead as a stump...especially among the Blacks and White Liberals that adore him as the greatest hero of the American landscape.
In our thought policing, politically correct world, race is the bottom line. Race is the defining characteristic. To many, race is the ONLY characteristic.
Who is so dishonest or stupid as to suggest that Obama didn't win South Carolina because there are so many Blacks that voted race? That is exactly what happened. Bill Clinton, whom I despise, just stated the obvious. But usually sensible people, who, looking at the facts would arrive at the same perfectly evident conclusion, are prepared to do that which they hate in their traditional enemies: pillory someone for saying something perfectly true about race, and pretending they think it an outrage against decency... and paint that person as a 'racist'.
I despise it. And no matter how much I hated an opponent, it is a tactic I would eschew. I cannot respect someone who rails against it when adversaries use it, but employs it himself when convenient to damage an enemy.
But Taranto isn't yet finished. His praise of Obama is to the skies, with the minor aside that his politics and inexperience don't make him an "ideal" president. What does he mean to say here? Let's see if anything else he says makes it more clear:
"He [Obama] has emerged as a national political figure, and a plausible prospective president, by calling for unity, not by seeking to take advantage of division."
Should Hillary do this, there is no doubt Taranto would see it as a cynical political ploy exploiting the longing of the nation to get past all the partisan bickering. But apparently Obama is above such criticism. If I didn't know better—and I suppose I really don't—I'd say James Taranto, like so many other Republicans, has a self-deluding crush on Barry O.
This is twice in as many days that James Taranto has gone totally off the reservation. I suspect drugs. Or invasion of the body-snatchers. (Yesterday he was arguing that any troop in Iraq that wants an alcoholic drink must have a problem. But that's a subject for another post!)
This is just another example of the misguided Hillary obsession Republicans seem to be suffering from. In my mailbox this afternoon I found a mailer from the Republican National Committee...screaming on both sides in large red type: "STOP HILLARY".
It's as though the Republican Party has not turned on a TV or radio for 6 months...has been stranded on a desert island for a year, and is unaware of the new and growing threat that is Barack Obama. They are lost in time, oblivious to the new danger. They are like residual hauntings—that repeat the same action over and over despite changed surroundings and circumstances—or the fact that they are DEAD!
Stop Hillary! Indeed. How 'bout we do this in the right order?
Let's "Stop Obama!"...and then stop Hillary. At which appropriate time, it will actually get us the results we want: A Republican in the White House.
The Gunslinger
Read Taranto's entire article in Opinion Journal here
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