Race

I hate to address this topic again, but I have seen it more in the media and in my blogs now than ever before. There are a couple issues with the candidates. Barack Obama’s wife has been accused of pandering, Hillary Clinton is being accused of attacking Obama on a race basis, and newscasters are not sure how to address these politically incorrect issues.

Barack Obama’s wife was accused of pandering recently. Here is the situation from Tucker Carlson. “I cannot resist putting up on the screen a brand-new quote from Michelle Obama which I think is interesting for a bunch of different reasons. This is apparently in a speech to a predominantly black audience, she said this, recently, quote: ‘We had a miraculous victory in Iowa . . ain't no black people in Iowa. Something big, something new is happening. Let's build the future we all know is possible. Let's show our kids that America is ready for Barack Obama right now.’” In this show, Tucker was afraid to accuse Obama’s wife of slurring her speech in order to please the crowd. The conversation continues with Carlson talking to a guy by the name of Franklin.

CARLSON: The more we talk about race in relation to this presidential election, the more it hurts Obama, and I think a lot people --

BOB FRANKEN: That could be Tucker --

CARLSON: I think that's right.

FRANKEN: Yeah, but when you have this Harvard [law school] graduate [and Princeton undergrad alum] using an expression like "ain't no," I've got to question the sincerity of it a little bit. I think she might be accused of pandering just a tiny bit.

CARLSON: Well, there are many layers here that we don't have the time, or maybe the bravery, to delve into, but I want to get to Newt Gingrich . . .

I am not sure that I aggree with Carlson that the more we talk about race, the more it will hurt Obama’s campaign. The more I hear about it personally the more I want to vote FOR Obama simply because I want to prove that this country is (or should be) over this disgusting issue.
The other blog is about Hilary Clinton turning to race to try to help herself in the primary election against Obama. Here is part of the blog.

“There’s already been plenty of discussion of Clinton resorting to the use of race since Obama has seriously challenged her for the nomination. Sam Stein discusses this along with a copy of a memo from the Obama campaign. Joe Gandelman also posts the memo along with additional observations. Steve Benen ranks the examples on a five “Horton” scale after noting earlier in the day that Clinton was taking the race “in a cheap and ugly direction.”
There is some ambiguity in the use of race by the Clinton campaign as they know an outright racial attack would backfire. Instead they are concentrating on a series of subtle comments to inject race into the campaign while leaving them room for denial.” (Ron Chusid)

Once again, we should be past this. I am taken back by the idea that Clinton would use this as a strategy in her campaign.