LOL - HillClinton: ignorant "whites support me"

[Driven1]

"and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."
--Hillary Clinton

so we got a black man running for President who initially (for a long time I might add) refused to repudiate his racist pastor (until such time that it became politically expediant to NOT repudiate him) and then we got a white woman who boasts in the fact that she sees hope in the ignorant white vote!!!! 

i love it. 

pardon me...waiter, can i have the blooming onion with 4 more years of dubya?

By Kathy Kiely and Jill Lawrence, USA TODAY
Hillary Rodham Clinton vowed Wednesday to continue her quest for the Democratic nomination, arguing she would be the stronger nominee because she appeals to a wider coalition of voters â€" including whites who have not supported Barack Obama in recent contests.

"I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article "that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."

"There's a pattern emerging here," she said.

Clinton's blunt remarks about race came a day after primaries in Indiana and North Carolina dealt symbolic and mathematical blows to her White House ambitions.


POLITICS BLOG: Reactions to Clinton's comments

The Obama campaign, looking toward locking up the nomination, stepped up pressure on superdelegates who have the decisive votes in their race.

In both states, Clinton won six of 10 white voters, according to surveys of people as they left polling places.

Obama spokesman Bill Burton said that in Indiana, Obama split working-class voters with Clinton and won a higher percentage of white voters than in Ohio in March. He said Obama will be the strongest nominee because he appeals "to Americans from every background and all walks of life. These statements from Sen. Clinton are not true and frankly disappointing."

Clinton rejected any idea that her emphasis on white voters could be interpreted as racially divisive. "These are the people you have to win if you're a Democrat in sufficient numbers to actually win the election. Everybody knows that."


CLINTON: Campaigning continues despite dire forecasts
OBAMA: Faced with a divided party

Larry Sabato, head of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said Clinton's comment was a "poorly worded" variation on the way analysts have been "slicing and dicing the vote in racial terms."

However, he said her primary support doesn't prove she's more electable. Either Democrat will get "the vast majority" of the other's primary election votes in a general election, he said.

Clinton lost North Carolina by 14 percentage points and won Indiana by 2 points after competing full-out in both states. She had loaned the campaign $6.4 million in the past month. She said she might lend more.

"We should finish the contests we have and see where we stand after they're over," she said, referring to the six remaining primaries that will end June 3.

There were signs of unrest Wednesday, even among Clinton allies. California Sen. Dianne Feinstein wondered to The Hill, a Capitol Hill newspaper, "whether she can get the delegates that she needs." Former South Dakota senator George McGovern, whose 1972 presidential bid gave Clinton her first political experience, switched his support from Clinton to Obama.

[thelakelander]

Tough decision ahead indeed.  Old man Dubya II has already admitted he doesn't know much about the economy which will probably be the main issue the candidates have to address this fall.  For proof, look no farther than the gas tax idea that saves us a whopping 30 cents individually but eliminates billions for needed infrastructure improvements, in the process.

[Driven1]

presidential candidates John McCain and Hillary Clinton want to suspend the federal excise tax on gasoline, 18 cents a gallon, for the summer travel season.

http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/editorials/hc-gastaxes.artmay06,0,7587685.story

i agree this is an idiotic plan that encourages gas consumption....but it is getting support from both sides of the aisle.

[thelakelander]

Billary pushed for it hard these past few weeks and she was rewarded by getting taken out to the wood shed in North Carolina and to a virtual tie in Indiana, a state very similar to Ohio demographically.

[RiversideGator]

Billary pushed for it hard these past few weeks and she was rewarded by getting taken out to the wood shed in North Carolina and to a virtual tie in Indiana, a state very similar to Ohio demographically.

Actually, Indiana is younger than Ohio demographically speaking.  And, it is more healthy economically and 1/3 of the state is within the Chicago media market - Obama's base.  So, there are key differences between the states.

[hillary supporter]

actually, hillarys tax proposal is the best, imo. its doesnt and isnt supposed to address the average consumer. in todays economy a large number, but not a majority, make their living through frankly the consumption of gas as they are in the service sector, not the manufacturing sector. so, as with truck drivers, construction contractors, sales realty agents, their autos are essential to their livelyhood. thats why she made her proposal in front of truck drivers. obamas refusal of modifying the gas tax is a good alternative, but it does signal to most american voters he wont "cut taxes" and will lean to "raise taxes". its not true, but the republicans will jump on this and drive it successfully as they have the past two elections, even longer in which they controlled congress along this "principle".
i think its wrong to talk down to voters who have no college education. but particularly in this topic as they do pretty much choose the president.
hillarys victory in indiana was powerful in that she overcame a deficit in the polls to beat obama. obamas victory
in nc was based around the strenght  of african americans in the nc democratic party.
an important statistic i'm concerned about is race---- last weeks exit polls (cnn) stated that white voters voted on race at 10%. african american voters chose race 33%.  that scares me to believe whites will turn out to really vote against obama because hes black (although hes half white). also hillery voters (not supporters) were polled
at 48% would not vote for obama.
i want to say that should obama win the nomination i will indeed support him, but from my own recent experiences, i believe america is still a racist country, and the turnout will be there to defeat him on this question of race.