The opposite is obvious and has been proven. You say people don't want another Clinton in the WH? Where were you when he won re-election handily and his approval ratings were sky-high. People loved Bill Clinton. Where are you getting your facts?

The piece by Dowd was disgusting. She spreads a sexist joke made at HRC's expense under guise of complaining about it. She claims that if HRC loses it will be her fault and not the fault of Dowd and the other opining meat-heads who have attacked her for being a woman. She is out of touch with reality as she and her accomplices have created it.

The entire column was an exercise in misdirection, as though none of us were capable of remembering all the trash, sexist and otherwise, she herself has spewed on Clinton (I won't even bother to mention all the other female "reporters" and "pundits" who have done the same).

Oprah is apparently caught in a love  triangle with the Obamas.  Now from what I can tell from the picture, it appears they are intending to imply that she's having an affair with Barack.  Of course, given how the tabloids and media like to lesbianize powerful women, I'm sure she'll move onto Michelle in a few weeks.

The Clintons have a secret deal where if Hillary loses, they will divorce.   And, I know that all those other 1,000,121 predictions of an imminent Clinton divorce didn't pan out, but I'm just sure this one is true.

She touts her experience as first lady, even though her judgment during those years on issue after issue was poor.

Please don't tell me Obama and his supporters are transcending race. Insult my momma jerks, and I'll make damn sure I will do everything to get your OBABA not elected.

There is apparently not one thing she likes about herself except her hair. Maureen hides behind the NYT logo...no responses please.  I write drivel, you read.

They complain about her ankles -- too thick. They complain on Fox TV that "White women are the problem" -- (idiot boy Kristol, the brain-damaged scion of Irving who rose through nepotism like our unelected "president"). Then they say she has "baggage" -- which could mean wrinkles, or her husband, or her daughter Chelsea whom they say she is "pimping." Then they say she never divorced Bill -- as if it's anyone's business. Then they moon over Obama's rhetorical style. Then they make it appear that she's a drone or a worker bee and has no royal jelly. Or else she has royal jelly and is queen bee. And that's her problem.

MoDo: "While Obama aims to transcend race,"

This is true.

BTD: "Obama clearly is benefitting from his race,"

This is true too. But it doesnt, in any way contradict that truth of the first statement. He makes no appeal for votes based on race, to the contrary, he constantly tries to shift attention away from race, gender, etc. toward a past-future framing.

MoDo: "Hillary often aims to use gender to her advantage,"

This is true also. She explicitly references electing the first woman, as an argument for voting for her. Barack NEVER does the same with regard to electing the first black.

"Hillary' gender is clearly a double edged sword"

Is Hillary really guilty of failing to separate her narrative from Bill's record? Why should she not tout her experience in the administration where she served? No male would get this kind of underhanded shafting, or at least it wouldn't be so insidiously effective.

Erica Jong says:

It gets tedious trying to counter this kind of thing. But here you go:

Michelle Obama in March of this year:

To Michelle Obama, the wife of Sen. Obama, the reason that her husband is lagging in the polls is the "fear of possibility" owned by those blacks who are holding out -- scared flesh in their racial memory from being told too often that we are "not ready" to achieve. Mrs. Obama holds, however, no fear. In an interview with MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski, she said she believes that soon the straggling blacks will "wake up and get it."

For Michelle Obama to claim that one day black America will "wake up and get it" and support her husband is to imply that any person of color who does not vote for Obama is somehow slumbering or stupid. That Obama need not earn the black vote, but rather our votes must be given out of racial fidelity.

I would add that earning the black vote does not mean pandering to the idea of "black issues," as any issues that affect blacks -- hate crimes and discrimination and lack of housing -- are not restricted to a particular race. And to suggest that those are "black issues" is to intimate that the credit crisis and the war on terrorism and the rise in oil prices are of no interest to or do not affect people of color.

by yellowdem1129, Mon Jan 28, 2008 at 07:19:18 AM EST

Yes, November is when it all started.  The Obama camp began playing the race card in an effort to boost black votes for them.  They wanted to keep their general support and then boost the black vote toward victory.  The problem is, as I know very well the black community is a PROTEST community.  This means as a group we are more invested in fighting against something than making a political decision about who is the best candidate. There was nothing to protest going into November.  So Obama sought out to create a furor to stoke the emotions of black voters:

MSNBC is using excerpts of a Michelle Obama interview to run in full on Tuesday morning. In a clip that's featured in the afternoon cycle, Michelle Obama invoked the name of civil rights leaders Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. when talking about African-American turnout, a crucial voting bloc for the Illinois senator.

Michelle Obama said there was a "natural fear of possibility" and that there were times in her life when she was put down and not encouraged. There is "always that doubt in the minds of people of color."

She said the African-American community has to shake of its fear

"That's what we want to show our community," Michelle Obama said. "...We can do this too."

snip

CROWLEY: In South Carolina.

WINFREY: You know, Dr. King dreamed the dream, but we don't have to just dream the dream anymore. We get to vote that dream into reality.

CROWLEY: Almost half the Democratic primary voters in South Carolina are black.

OBAMA: The fire hoses came out, the dogs came out, but they kept on standing up. Because a few stood up, a few thousand stood up, and then a few million stood up, standing up with courage and conviction. They changed the world.

(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

OBAMA: South Carolina, we can change the world.

Now could the dream be made into reality only by voting for the black guy?

3. the much talked about "fairytale" comment which had no racial overtones.

4. The big one: LBJ - MLK. timeline:

here's obama's response:
http://www.suntimes.com/news/sweet/73017 0,CST-NWS-sweet08.article

What does that mean, false hopes?" he said at Claremont, the start of a 720-word summation about "false hope" he repeated almost word for word during the day.

"How have we made progress in this country? Look, did John F. Kennedy look at the moon and say, 'Ah, it's too far?' We can't do that. We need a reality check.

"Dr. King standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. 'You know, this dream thing, it's a false hope. We can't expect equality.'

"False hopes. Let me tell you something about hope. I do talk about hope quite a bit. Out of necessity. There is no oddsmaker who would have said that I would be standing here when I was born in 1961."

Then Hillary said, it took a president to get the 1964 civil rights acts through Congress.  

There were a lot of non-black people standing up with blacks during the time of Martin Luther King and before him, too. There were a couple of young white men buried in a levee down there in Mississippi for their efforts to get black people to the polls. Their names were Mickey Schwerner and Andrew Goodman. They were murdered, along with James Chaney, a young black man who was working with them. I doubt you would know their names. When B.O. stands up and declares how "we" stood up, he doesn't mention them. He mentions Martin Luther King.

There was a very brave White Federal Prosecutor who risked his life to go down there and convict the racists of murdering the two young white men and a young Black man at the same time. It was the first time a White man had been convicted of a crime against a Black person in the history of the state. The prosecutor's name was John Doar but I doubt you would know that. You certainly never heard about it from B.O. or his wife.

Nor were those White men alone. And it wasn't Martin Luther King who sent the National Guard into Little Rock to open the high school there to Blacks. It was Dwight Eisenhower. And it wasn't Martin Luther King who sent the National Guard to Alabama to dust George Wallace out of the doorway of the University of Alabama where he was precluding blacks from becoming enrolled there. That was John Kennedy.

And it wasn't Martin Luther King who sacrificed his own political career and oversaw the demise of the Democratic Party in the south by signing the Civil Rights Bill in 1967. That would be LBJ, just as HRC said it was.

None of this takes away anything Martin Luther King did, and telling the truth that whites stood shoulder to shoulder to blacks in the civil rights fight is not racist.

Bill Clinton, in his years as governor of Arkansas did more for people of color, appointed more people of color to state office than any governor in the history of the US.

And you cannot tell me that all those blacks who adored him, called him their first black president, went to the polls and voted for an inexperienced, untested neophyte with no specific plan at all beyond "hope" because they thought he was more qualified than HRC. They voted for him because he was black and he had convinced them that HRC and Bill Clinton are racists and were dissing Martin Luther King.

If he has, I apologize. I haven't seen it. Got a link?

The quotes I put up are accurate. I was asked for quotes by B.O. where he asks blacks to vote for him for the sake of racial unity. The quotes I put up are proof that he did and context has nothing to do with it. Just read his words. Just read his wife's words.