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Hillary’s Race to the Bottom
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| Contributor | Homegrown Democrat |
| Last Edited | Homegrown Democrat Jan 15, 2008 04:24pm |
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| Category | Editorial |
| News Date | Tuesday, January 15, 2008 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | There’s only one thing that makes sense of the Clinton campaign’s clumsy and classless injection of race into her primary battle with Barack Obama. And that is that her victory in New Hampshire — impressive though it was — threatened to transform her into a special-interest candidate.
Hillary would not have won that battle without exaggerated support from women. Despite having campaigned vigorously as a candidate who just-so-happened to be a woman, her lifeline came from affinity voters.
How then to compete against Obama, who has — as Al Sharpton recently complained — run a race-neutral campaign? A man standing as a general-interest candidate despite his historic racial qualifications.
The answer, it seems, has been to inject race into the campaign by any means necessary. The effort has run the gamut from old-school racism — Andrew Cuomo’s execrable “shuck-and-jive” comment — to tired racial paradigms — a Clinton pollster’s assertion that Hispanics don’t vote for black people — to anti-racism-as-racism — the bizarre suggestion by a Clinton surrogate that Obama had been adopted by white America as its “imaginary hip black friend.” |
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