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Dear Ms. Clinton,


Please don't insult my intelligence.

From Talking points Memo http://tpmelectioncentral.com/2008/01/obama_spokesperson_asks_is_there_something_bigger_behind_bill_and_hillarys_race_comments.php#comments

sue wrote on January 11, 2008 6:29 PM:

The Trend:
(1)The “Obama is a radical Muslim” chain email smear – in Iowa in December, it seemed like every week it was revealed that another Clinton staffer was caught spreading that email. Of course, the Clinton camp made a big show of “disavowing” the behavior and asking them to step down, but of course it kept happening.

(2)Billy Shaheen (Hillary’s NH campaign chair) raised Obama’s teenage drug use and implied he may have been a drug dealer (he wasn’t). Obama wrote about his teenage years in his memoir and spoke to high school kids about the ills of drug use on the campaign trail.

(3)Another Clinton surrogate then gave CNN an interview in which he started talking about Obama’s “Muslim background”

(4)This week in NH, one of Hillary’s supporters criticized Obama’s references to JFK and MLK and indicated that like them he was also an “inspirational” speaker (i.e. in line with Hillary’s new “he’s a talker, not a doer” theme), only unlike them he hadn’t been assassinated yet. Hillary did not apologize for or disavow this comment.

(5)Hillary then gave several TV interviews in which she brought up the same comment mentioned above in (4), only sans the “assassination” part. She added that it took LBJ to get the civil rights act passed, MLK only gave great speeches – AND DIED!

(6)In NH this week, Bill referred to Obama as a “kid” (he’s f**cking 46 years old – nearly 50). Are they trying to call him “boy”? He graduated from two ivy league colleges, was the head of the Harvard law review, was a civil rights lawyer, has 11 years experience in elected office (4 more than Hillary and 5 more than Edwards), and isn’t try to ride to the presidency on his spouse’s coat tails.

(7)In NH this week, Bill implied Obama’s campaign was a “fairy tale”.



To say nothing of the "vote for Obama if you want the hip young black friend" comment in the Guardian by an advisor of yours, as well as the BET founder trying to obliquely bring up the cocaine deal and then, when challenged backtracking by saying that he was referring to Obama's track record in community organizing (which makes absolutely no sense in the context. If that was what you were referring to, why didn't you just say it, instead of pulling a Bill Shaheen?) Obama has responded to your bullshit twice, so far, first a spokesman asks if there is a pattern in this, and secondly when you went on Meet the Press to say that all of this was his fault.

Now, Ms. Clinton, unless you are telling me that all these "slips of the tongue"  were performed by Obama operatives in your campaign in order to make you look bad, that argument will not work. It's black bloggers that have been raising holy hell about this, as well as some mainstream black pundits and some white liberals as well. Most of the people I seen raising Cain are not even Obama supporters! Some were YOUR supporters, Ms. Clinton, until you and your husband started to blow the dog-whistle.

You see, you think that you are being smart. Obama is basically running as a raceless candidate, as such. Unlike Jesse Jackson and the rest, he is running as the quintessential American, a position that, until now, has only been held white people. (Have you ever seen a character that is Asian, Native American, Black or Latino being described as All-American? Or even, the girl next door? Or anything else aside from "exotic"?) You are pricking at his campaign, trying to prod him subtly in coded language that is likely to fly right over the head of many typical white observers (Christ, people have such a hard time explaining to to general populace why dressing up in black-face is not funny, to say nothing of that idiot woman making a lynching joke at Tiger Woods,  exactly how many typical people who are desperate to believe that racism has disappeared will recognize the racism inherent in a supposedly antiracist icon such as Cuomo claiming that Obama is "shucking and jiving"?) If Obama brings this into the open and points out that what you are doing is race-baiting, he will alienate the white people who were tentatively getting around to poking their toes into the water of "voting for a black man". They will go "oh, he's too sensitive" and, you hope, will go running into your arms. Not funny, Ms. Clinton. Not funny, not tolerable, especially for the wife of a  man who prided himself on the designation of being the first "Black President".

You see Ms. Clinton, what you are doing is alienating people who have the eyes to see. I'm a Democrat. I didn't care who gets into power in 2008, as long as its a Democrat. I was basically thinking that we could have the best of both worlds, Ms. Clinton, with you or Obama President and running mate, however it worked out. But then, you started to use Karl Rove Republican strategies, Ms. Clinton, and, in doing so, you lost my support. Totally. You see, I expect the extremist Republicans to be disgusting. I do not expect the Democrats to be so. In stooping that low, Ms. Clinton, you lost my respect and you lost my vote.

Its about honour, Ms. Clinton. There are some things that Democrats are not supposed to stoop to regardless of their need to win. There are some things that Democrats are supposed to stand for. It seems however, that ever since you all saw the success that the extremists have had in muckraking, being authoritarian, being racist, sexist, warmongering, anti-poor, religiously-domineering, power-mad, homophobic hypocrites, jerks (and the case of pundits like Ann Coulter) noxious vermin and contagion upon the land; the Democratic Party has been slowly but surely abandoning its mandate to the people
and has been gradually becoming the second Republican Party.  This development has been a worry to me for a very long time. I don't like having to choose the lesser evil, Ms. Clinton, because, as someone whose name I forget pointed out, what you are getting is STILL EVIL. But I was willing to let things slide. No more, Ms. Clinton. I hereby draw my line in the sand.  It stops, right here, right now. You do not represent me or my views. I will not tolerate the bullshit. No misogyny, Ms. Clinton, and no racism either. The I-S-S-U-E-S are what matter.


Much annoyance and upbraiding
A pissed off voter
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