Hillary Clinton denounces income inequality in populist speech

[merrily]

66. I was not even watching Olberman.

I would see a clip and my jaw would drop or I'd gasp, before any comments. The photos of Obama in traditional Kenyan clothing. All the stuff about "Black liberation theology."

At first, the identifiable stuff was coming mostly from operatives and Bill, Cuomo, a New Yorker, born and bred, claiming Obama was shuckin' and jivin'. Gee, I wonder who told him using that particular phrase was a good idea. Although there was something in a speech Hillary gave with the owner of Ebony. I can't remember the words but it was a drug selling allusion.

Ferrara saying Obama would never be in the primary if he weren't black (her word; I prefer African American). Bill bringing up Jesse Jackson and being so damn dismissive, as in "This whole thing's a fairy tale." Then finally, Hillary herself saying, "hard working white people." Up until then the Hillary supporters on the board I was posting on then were arguing and arguing. Cuomo words were his own. He intended no harm. Ferrara was right. Besides, what she says is on her not the campaign. The drug-selling reference had nothing to do with Obama's race. It was about his pot smoking. and on and on. One rationalization after another, refusing to see it as a theme throughout the primary.

The most vociferous Hillary supporter on that board was the board owner, a Southern white woman. But the day the hard working white people remark hit the airwaves she posted "And there it is." And never debated the race issue with Obama supporters again.

I keep saying the biggest difference between the two parties now--not the only difference, but the biggest--is culture wars. I don't understand how they can run her for President if they profess to respect African Americans as people and not only as voters. I can't vote for her after that and I'm not even African American.

And how will that demographic vote if she is the nom? Red? Blue? Green? Not at all?