Despicable Sexist Sign Outside Indiana Dinner [Update]
By SusanUnPC on May 4, 2008 at 9:13 PM in Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Indiana, Sexism
This abhorrent, sexist sign is being held proudly by OBAMA supporters outside the Indiana Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, where Hillary Clinton just spoke and Barack Obama is speaking. (C-Span is carrying this event live, and will reair it later. Fox News is also covering the speeches, and offering analyses.)
IN PLAIN VIEW of OBAMA STAFF, an Obama supporter is holding up this sign, and NONE of the Senator’s staff is doing a thing about it.
IMAGINE the outcry if a Hillary supporter held up a racially-denigrating sign about Obama. (Well, not a single Hillary supporter would do that. Which is a “tell” about the difference in maturity and judgment of the two campaigns.)
HERE’s a report from a person outside the event, and what this person witnessed:
The kids with this sign were on the same side of the street (but across another street) from the obama people. They put the sign towards cars and towards Obama supporters more than towards our side of the street.
It wasn’t just field organizers that were there, there were ppl from the Obama campaign hq here bc it was a staged event.
The kids (some looked 14 others 19 or 20) were there for a good half hour before leaving.
Obama supporters were taking pix of it from across the street and laughing.
GO TO Obama’s campaign site and register a protest.
If anyone has specific e-mail addresses, share them.
We should also alert Indiana media outlets.
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UPDATE: I watched No Country For Old Men last night, and just read Peter Travers’ review in Rolling Stone. He quotes a line from the sheriff played by Tommy Lee Jones (Al Gore’s roommate at Yale) — and it reminded me of the constant ugly, demeaning, and sexist attacks on both Hillary and her supporters by far too many in the Obama camp, which has NEVER asked such behavior to stop.
“It starts when you begin to overlook bad manners. Anytime you quit hearin’ ’sir’ and ‘ma’am,’ the end is pretty much in sight.”
Most certainly, for me, the odious behavior by the Obama supporters — at events and on every political blog, particularly those that lean Obama — spells the end of any respect for civility.
Never once, to my knowledge, has Obama or his surrogates called out their supporters for their vicious and demeaning attacks on us who support Hillary. It is not a good sign.
That Obama’s staff did nothing about that ugly sign tells me what I need to know about their lack of character and their lack of civility.
That, too, “sounds” like an aging Young Republican. The asshole is probably working for McCain.
The sexist sign: awful. Media did not make a big deal of it and neither did Obama people. Strange bedfellows? The bottom line is that we cannot stoop to derogatory responses. If we do, we are no better than those who would malign Senator Clinton
As a person apart of ww.indyskate.com and a person holding up one of the “sexiest,” signs I have a response. 1st the person whom wrote this and is spreading all of this drama called us and I quote “sexiest male pigs who only think with their dicks.” This makes her sexiest by saying we only think with our dicks does it not… this also makes her a hypocrite. First and foremost we were just trying to get under some peoples skin. We have obviously succeeded, hell we got more than we could ever ask for. Well this is my opinion anyways, maybe not the rest of the groups. We were not apart of the Obama Campaign we tried to go over and join them but we WERE asked to leave, but we have freedom of speech that’s the great thing about America.
It was all in good fun, we are neither sexiest or rude. We just like to have fun! I do NOT feel bad about anything that I have done.
Love,
Chad of Indyskatedotcom want to send your hate mail? Then do entice me myspace.com/sokillyourlove
To you see what pigs these people are? That is why that pig Obama will never be president. His supporters are absolutely vile and despicable radical children.
I was just reading an undergound piece written by a female Obama supporter talking about how so many young women are having doubts about just how good Obama would be for them. They are actually AFRAID to speak up about the sexism they are seeing daily. Good. I encourage these little assholes to keep it up.
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/supporthillary/
On 2/5/08 in Beverly Hills area, an Obama supporter White Male about 28, pushed one of our Hillary supporters in the street during rush hour traffic, she was in her early 40’s. She did nothing to instigate the attack, but it shows the kind of tactics that are all to common in his campaign, and are materialized by his supporters.
They were upset that there were more of us than there were of them, and I retaliated by putting supporters on all 4 corners of the intersection, and began chanting:
Vote Green! Vote for Hillary! Stop the War on Science!
A Woman’s Place is in the House! Let Hillary Clean the White House!
Please sign the petition at this link to encourage Super Delegates to make the only logical decision if we want to win in Nov.
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/supporthillary/
I am signing this petition, because I have witnessed and been the recipient of this disgusting behavior 3x. I am a Delegate to my STate Convention and what would ordinarily be a happy feeling about it, has turned to dread, because of my Senatorial Convention and Precinct Convention wherein the Police where called to stop the Obamabot angry outbursts of rage inflicted on innocent people. Why? THEY ARE LOSERS, and they can’t take NO for an answer. The American public is telling them NO OBABMA NO, and they lash out. They are the most disgusting because they have no concept of CONSEQUENCES. What a pity.
what piece are you referring to? I’d like to read it-sounds interesting.
“despicable radical children”? You need a wake up call. I’m a feminist for Obama, and you all can not hold us all responsible for one idiot’s sign. Get a clue. I’d love to see a woman in the White House but not Hillary Clinton! I don’t believe a word she says!!
Agreed. You can find fault on both sides. To think anything less is disingenuos.
There is nothing to compare to the angry, confrontational, thug-like behavior that I have personally witnessed over and over again from Obamabots. PLEASE, get a clue about him and his nasty campaign run by Chicago crooks, skanks, liars and thieves.
Ms. Feminist,
You need to get a load of Obama’s list of indisputable list of lies:
The Truth vs Barack Obama
http://www.savagepolitics.com
NO, you need a WAKE UP call. One-half of the Democratic Party will NEVER for Obama because of people like these bottom-dwellers who have no shame. What’s sad is that you have absolutely no remorse for this behavior. And, THAT is why Obama will NEVER be President. You should have stopped drinking the Kool-Aid a long time ago — you’re too drunk to see the TRUTH.
Oh, now its up to 1/2? Wow. Funny how (a) that doesn’t show up in any polls and (b) you can authoritatively speak for 1/2 of the democrats.
Jason– PLEASE get a clue. Doesn’t show up in the polls? — spoken like a naive, young dilettante who doesn’t know shit from shinola. I am a lifelong, Latina Democrat. Trust me, when you add Latinos, Asians, and Native Ameridans, and any other disguste-with-Obama minority who voted for Hillary — YEP, we comprise WAY more of the Democratic than the the blacks, naive college kids, Limo Libs, clueless Indies, and Billionaire wannabes. WE are the base — NOT you, and yes, approximately half of the Party has voted for Hillary — what part of more people have voted for Hillary, don’t you understand? Add pissed-off Florida and Michigan, and BO is destined for Chicago. Why is that so difficult for you and your homies to grasp that this GROSS BEHAVIOR IS A TURN-OFF to the Adults. You and your posse need to stop the senseless rationalizations in defense of this thug behavior, because it is turning off more and more voters daily. Get a clue: It does NOT equal votes for Barry.
It’s funny all you Clinton supporters are spoiling for a fight. Miss Latina you’re an idiot. Hispanics vote whichever the wind blows. This election it’s the Democrat Hillary. Prior years it’s usually Republicans. You’re not part of the democrats base at all that can be counted on consistently. Take your vote to McCain. Nothing new.
Mr. Pendejo– hey, look it up, it’s spanish for, nah, look it up, smartass. I said Latinos would vote for McCain. I NEVER said I would. I am a lifelong Democrat and so is my family, pendejo. I was voting Democrat when you were in diapers riding your tricycle and sucking on your pacifier. I don’t vote Republican. But, MILLIONS of Latinos and other minorities do and will if BO is the nominee– that is a FACT. Don’t lash out because you can’t handle the truth — Pendejo.
Well my apologies for calling you an idiot. lol. Really, you are the ONLY one here that says that they wouldn’t vote Republican. That puts you way ahead of this sooorrrrry class of Hillary surpporters. We have that in common. If Hillary wins she has my money and my vote!! No matter how much of a desperate right wing Iranian bombing, pandering home foreclosure freezing and gas tax holiday promoting Democratic that she has become. lol lol lol.
Michelle Obama or any of Obama’s surrogates (who, it is also true, are not above taking thinly veiled swipes at Hillary; Michelle has said, “If you can’t take care of your own house, you can’t take care of the White House”).
http://www.newsweek.com/id/105679/page/3
There is video of this disgusting Michelle Obama comment floating around somewhere, but I can’t seem to find it now. All I can say is that I hope someday Michelle’s “chickens will come home to roost”, too. I have no doubt in my mind that Barry Obama is the kind of sweet talker that is unfaithful (especially if he takes after his father).
He’s already offered kisses so someone would wear his pin. Sounds like MO needs to pay more attention to her own house.
But did he get on his knees and call you sweetie?
Eeeeew-w-w-w-w-w-w, as my stomach turns…
Ehemmmm……Ask Larry Sinclair……No ?
( I could not resist that one…..scuse’…)
Look, I wouldn’t put ANYTHING past Odrama here but think that through - would YOU cheat on Michelle Obama? If he’s smart, he’s afraid of her.
If he plans to cheat on Michelle, he better find someone with bigger balls!
LMAOOOOOOOOOO now that made me laugh, thank you. I personally do not like Michelle Obama, she always looks angry and acts like she has a chip on her shoulder about something.
VOTE HILLARY on May 6th
The HOPE of America
Kara– haven’t you heard about BO and Larry Sinclair? google it or go to his blog:
http://larrysinclair0926.wordpress.com/about/
You all are just pitiful!!! lol lol lol. Larry Sinclair??? How about I just sell you all that bridge in Brooklyn. You probably believe there’s aliens in Roswell, better get Scully and Mulder on the case. lol. Meanwhile we picked up 4 count em 1-2-3-4 new Super Delegates today. Yahoo. Keep chasing your tail though. lol lol LMFAO.
There are already rumors about this but won’t repeat.
Read this for some of mobama’s chickens. follow the links on this article and send the info//links on michelle’s princeton thesis and steal of andrews vote through her hospital job:
“Brains behind Barama”
http://unityindiversity-spiritedpolitics.blogspot.com
Please forward the links in above article to ALL news outlets you can. convinced now michelle is behind it all.
Ask Michelle how she bought her house? I think the message fired back would be if you CANT AFFORD A HOUSE TAKE A POLITICAL KICKBACK … LOOK IT WORKED FOR US! LOL
Don’t forget to ask if Meeeeeeechelle has paid her property taxes yet ?
I’ve been around awhile, and I can honestly say that, save for Babs Bush in Post White House days, Michelle Obama is the nastiest women I have ever seen who dared to snatch up the white house title. She is truly one mean, nasty person who looks down her nose at people when she talks to them and insults them handily.
I agree Uppity. Barbara Bush struck me as stupid and nasty and Michelle Obama is just like her.
She leaves me cold.
Michelle Obama always seems angry. And I think even Obama’s biggest supporters will soon tire of being scolded by this person.
I would be angry if I had to see that face in the mirror every morning.
Meeeeeeechelle is a VIOLENT ASSAULT ON THE INTELLECT…..
They have tried to soften her image…
love the Black Jackie look; hair and pearls, but it is still Michelle. That jutting jaw still hurts people.
They may try to make her look like a Black Jackie, but her walk and talk is not it at all. She needs to be true to herself. She just looks manufactured like her husband.
When you paint a wrinkled canvas, the wrinkles will show under scrutiny.
MO can’t carry Babs’ shoes in the Nasty Department.
OR the Entitlement Department.
Give her a couple of years. She starts out with a bigger chip on her shoulder, so advantage Michelle in that category.
she’s not in the White House yet — thank goodness!!! That would be a sad, sad state of affairs.
Michelle Obama should be the last person in the world to speak of houses.
Buy a clue, Mo.
BTW, men who cheat do so for reasons that have nothing to do with the woman, same for women who cheat.
Common knowledge.
So please, again show me just how stupid you are…
It’s the little things that matter…
Here is the michelle obama video insulting Hillary with “if you can’t run your own house, you certianly can’t run the white house”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN1qZMBE9Gc
This is the most offensive comment to all women.
She’s going to be even more surprised when she finds out that he is allegedly on the “Down Low”. Go to larrysinclair0926.wordpress.com and read his story on Obama. An eyeopener.
Michelle’s insult to Hillary…video…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN1qZMBE9Gc
Those idiots with the signs got their lead from BO’s wife.
I have also heard about spousal abuse in the Obama household. Just saying…..
Her speech was energized.
B.O.’s was the same tired old rehash.
Fox News kept running a crawl that was pro Obama, and anti Clinton.
It was inevitable that Fox would turn on her. She would wipe out
McCain bigtime.
Just Hill’s ideas in her speech would give Fox the willies. Taking on Oil companies? taking on Insurance companies, regulations! on and on.
It scares them even to have to broadcast this stuff. If the DNC stand in her way, we are fooked as a nation.
Why did Obama look so angry in that speech, but I liked what that guy on the FOX panel said Obama gave a speech like a donut, not a whole lot of substance but it’s said to taste good.
He always looks angry or depressed to me. I think it’s his desperate attempt to look smart and serious.
I happen to believe in Karma… I sure as h$ll do not get away with my flaws, so why should I be tolerant of someone who wants to pursue a nobler office than any person in this country holds.
No doubt team Daily Kos. That’s their level.
Ever seen that guy Kos? He looks like somebody ought to run him through a car wash. I don’t imagine women have much to do with him on any level other than perhaps breaking into a political party.
M. Obama’s comment is on YouTube and that is the point I really didn’t like her…
People need to get over Monicagate, it over, in the past, the Clintons have moved on I have. It was none of our business anyway.
Disgusting as it usually is with Obama and his supporters.
BO really lost touch with reality. He can’t see what’s coming. He is gonna be sacked in a blind spot by HRC supporters. And it will knock the last wind out of him.
Hey the OBama marriage drama was on the Nat. Enq. late week. He cheats on Michele lol.
Course Obama cheats — He has an ego the size of Cleveland — No one woman could satisfy that.
Woman?
Oh cmon, that man is GAY…
And how would you know that? Ahhhh I see….
Not to stick up for Barry, but I don’t blame him. She is one nasty woman.
Before you make the claim that Hillary supporters would never make racist statements, you should check the film and look at Bill Clinton playing the race card in South Carolina by comparing Obama’s winning campaign to Jesse Jackson.
Here plain and simple, Obama is a digusting white person this week!
Next week, Obama is a disgusting Black person!
In total, Obama is simply a disgusting person!
Got it, everyone with a brain did after Bichelle trumped the race card in NH!
ROFL!
You know, that is nonsense. Jesse Jackson himself came out right after the comment about Bill being a racist was made and defended President Clinton.
Move along.
Is that all you’ve got?
No what we’ve got is More popular votes, more delegates, and more states won… and eventually the Democratic nomination for President.
You actually have less popular votes, a bunch of Red states won, and Obama and Michelle living in infamy for the rest of their lives.
You keep telling yourself that, if it eases the pain. Meanwhile… yahoo!! another super delegate for the Obama train!!!
Recess at high school? Does mom know you took her blackberry?
Good one..must have to be really slow er I mean quick witted to come up with material like that.
Go back to the your universe of Obama’s lies that you all believe in.
That fucking lie is getting fucking old, and really fucking annoying.
Oh, do we have to educate these dumb obamabots, again?
“I don’t read anything negative into Clinton’s observation,” Mr. Jackson said in a phone conversation late Sunday night from India, where he is taking part in a commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi.
New York Times
Now bugger off.
Why is comparing someone to Jesse Jackson racist?
Actually, Rev. Jackson is TRULY the first African-American to run a serious and credible campaign for President — he did it in 1988 and that is what Pres. Clinton was referring to in his comments.
Is it not okay in Obamaland to credit other African-Americans for their accomplishments? Is Obama the first African-American to ever accomplish anything? Are all the other African-Americans who came first and laid the groundwork for him (in truly dangerous and often times deadly circumstances) to be denied their place in history?
What’s wrong with Rev. Jackson that you find it so offensive for BO to be compared to him? Could it be because Rev. Jackson did not go to Harvard, or an expensive private school? Maybe because Rev. Jackson was born poor in South Carolina and not comfortably middle-class in Honolulu. Is it because Rev. Jackson really IS descended from slaves and not a European-American and a wealthy African exchange student?
James, I hope you’ll return and answer some of my questions….I remain confused. Whats so wrong with Jesse Jackson, Sr? I’ve always kind of liked him.
Either you’re extremely naive or just extremely stupid. Up until Bill’s statement race wasn’t even a part of the campaign…anywhere. We all know how polarizing race is, Bill knew it when he made those statements. It’s evidenced now. It was an effective move for the Clinton campaign. Disgusting…but effective.
Not quite as effective as going to an anti-American, anti-white church for 20 years, giving the church tens of thousands of dollars, getting married by a ranting, bigoted “reverend,” having that same “reverend” as your moral compass and spiritual advisor. What? Wright said he was not BO’s spiritual advisor? Well, who is the liar then?
At any rate, the neither one of them is fit to be even *near* the White House, nor is Michelle “I’m just now proud of America for the first time” Obama.
Don’t *you* at least care about this country? Because if you did, you’d never back this joker.
Here’s my take on the Wright thing. It’s bad for Obama. As an AA I disagree with the crap the rev spews. And I believe that Obama may have had some idea where Wright stood on some of these issues. But so what. What matters ultimately is what is in Obama’s heart. I could list a MULTITUDE of HRC’s personal shortcomings and judgements that have absolutely no significance but where would that get us. Obama wasn’t trying to use his pastor to get votes, quite the opposite. However, the Clintons, specifically Bill, did interject race as an issue solely for the sake of winning an election.
Bill said Obama’s Iraq stance was a “fairy tale”. Obama’s camp needed to pull that race card to win at that time and had nothing else. So they played the card. Then there was Hillary mentioning that an actual president was involved in MLK’s success. It didn’t just happen by magic you know. Still, that was racist too. Then, from there it was downhill all the way. The divide was set. And what a divide it IS now! It worked well for get AA’s away from their beloved Clintons. And please do not tell me they weren’t beloved. Before the “Fairy Tale” thing, AAs were very torn because the fact is they LOVED bill clinton. Please admit that. Thanks, I appreciate it.
I have watched dozens of objections to Obama since then be called “racist” when they have nothing whatsoever to do with race. It’s not working any longer. All it is doing is scaring off white people.
In the meantime, the sexism in this race has been rampant and totally vile. Nobody seems to care much about that in the Obama camp, so I don’t care about racism anymore either. I help you, you help me, otherwise all bets are off. And the 32% of Obama supporters who have consistently polled that they will never vote for him are women. You need us and you can’t have us. We are hopping mad. That 32% at this momemt amounts to 4.4 MILLION people, and most of them are women who recognize piggism when they see it.
I admit it. I loved Bill Clinton. But if scaring off white people means calling it how you see it then we’re in real trouble. Bill’s statement prior to SC regarding Obama was flat out racist, demeaning and totally un-called for. It was a desperate attempt to downplay his win. It MAY have been unintentional, but nevertheless it was racist. 90% of black americans can’t be that overly sensitive as just to be dismissed on this issue.
Why don’t you check out Rev. Jackson’s own comments? You’d be surprised how many Obama supporters have been here dissing Jesse and all of his contributions to the Democratic party. You people want it however it gets Baby Doh! elected and don’t really care much who gets whacked.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson said late Sunday that he was not offended by comments on Saturday by former President Bill Clinton, who brought up Mr. Jackson’s name in response to a question about Senator Barack Obama.
Mr. Clinton had noted that Mr. Jackson had won South Carolina in the Democratic contests in 1984 and 1988. Pundits and many in the blogosphere interpreted Mr. Clinton’s mention of Mr. Jackson as an attempt to diminish Mr. Obama — and what would turn out to be his landslide victory Saturday in South Carolina over Senator Hillary Clinton — because Mr. Jackson had not gone on to win the Democratic nomination.
But Mr. Jackson said he did not see it that way.
“I don’t read anything negative into Clinton’s observation,” Mr. Jackson said in a phone conversation late Sunday night from India, where he is taking part in a commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi.
“You people” I’ll ignore that. lol Hey, who cares what Jesse J. thinks it wasn’t about him. You just don’t get it. Whenever a black candidate has run for the POTUS it’s always been a longshot at best. Really just symbolic. Their campaigns largely backed by and tailored to AA’s. But here you had a guy that SEEMED to transcend that. A huge underdog with not a large AA following. Even after his win in Iowa AA’s still weren’t supporting him in the numbers that they are now and Clinton still had a large AA contingent in her camp. After Bill’s comments you could see how everything had changed. CNN, MSNBC, and unfair and unbalance FOX for sure started playing up the issue of RACE. Polls, specials, documentaries on race in America. It was downhill from there and hasn’t stopped since. Before long it was Sex, age, class. The politics of division. Bill Clinton iniated it all. IMHO.
Michelle Obama started it. I posted that for you before.
You don’t want to discuss issues.
You want to troll.
Go ahead.
You’re wasting your time and energy.
You can talk to yourself, Jeff, B=Rob and the other trolls. You have no impact here. Might want to try making some calls in say, Indiana where he’s going to have his ass handed to him. Better use of your energy.
Please stop, your idiocy is showing… The comments were about Jesse Jackson so it was about him… Obama exploited and turned it into something it was not. Now people are saying the Clinton’s are secret white sheet wearers!
You do not seem to care about actions vs words. These smears are totally uncalled for and have been used to manipulate voter blocks.
Your chip on your shoulder is also showing. I see the “you people” as a statement about Obama supporters that are just unreasonable and fail to see the whole story. Those words were not about race.
I hope you learn more about your candidate before you say anymore on this subject. You will not convert anyone here with faulty information.
We could argue this all day and disagree. But instead I would just like to tell you how much I appreciate your confirmation of the love AAs had for the Clintons. You are a truly honest man/woman:)
From the New York Times:
“I don’t read anything negative into Clinton’s observation,” Mr. Jackson said in a phone conversation late Sunday night from India, where he is taking part in a commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi.
Do we no longer trust Jesse Jackson Sr. to support himself when it comes to “racially” tainted remarks? Please.
I can assure you zzzzzz….I am neither naive nor stupid. You however, have not answered my question.
What is so offensive to you about Rev. Jackson that mentioning the FACT that he won the SC primary (which, um he DID) is racist? It seems from your comments downthread that the big deal to you is that it implies that BO only has support among African-Americans (and not the ALL IMPORTANT white people). That the mere fact that another African-American was mentioned in the same sentence with BO would cause the speaker to be smeared as ‘racist’ is beyond the pale to me.
But it is interesting from a CLASS perspective that some African-Americans are viewed as ‘more equal than others’ I guess. And the one that you say is ‘lowered’ by mentioning him in the same sentence with Rev. Jackson is the Harvard educated, lawyer raised in middle-class comfort in Hawaii who just happens to be half-white.
Interesting….
Come on…Bill Clinton is not a stupid man. Obama after South Carolina was poised to put this thing away. What Bill did was draw a line in the sand. The inference being that sure this is South Carolina lots of AA’s, Webster could win here, even Jesse Jackson won here and we all know he wasn’t really a serious candidate. See where I’m going with this?? The implication was and still is that he’s just the BLACK candidate (even though his campaign was never put forth like that). When we get to those states with those right thinking white (aka blue collar) folks we’ll win. And guess what to some extent it’s worked. I can tell you from barbershop discussions, that’s how AA’s see it.
“even Jesse Jackson won here and we all know he wasn’t really a serious candidate.”
This AA doesn’t see it that way. This AA was extremely proud of Jesse’s run. This AA remembers how the Democratic Party was shocked to their core by Jackson. Jackson registered 7 million voters, it was a multi-racial campaign comprised of latinos, Native Americans, Asians, working poor rural whites, gays, feminists, etc. He ended up with more than 1500 delegates and if it hadn’t been for Dukakis’ strong showing in the later primaries, the Dem Party would have had a real serious dilemma on their hands.
All Obama and the AA community have shown during this Election cycle is their ignorance with regard to our history.
Sorry, but I draw the line in denigrating an AA of accomplishment who has stood behind the AA community through thick and thin and a biracial candidate who has absolutely no basis in the AA community in terms of contributing to our cause other than the color of his skin which he owes to his Kenyan father, btw.
Barber shop talk indeed! Like the stupidity re-created in the Ice Cube movies?
Get educated!
A mind is a terrible thing to waste!
“Babershop talk” just a euphamism Mimi. Get off that high horse. You’re just another closet hater referencing BO being half white. INDEED. lol. Love Jesse Jackson, but here are the facts: He was third in his 1984 Pres run, he got 18.2% of the vote approx 3 mil, he won 5 primaries - LA, DC, SC, Virgina, and MS. All states with a large pop of AA voters (so much for the rainbow coalition). He got 8% of the delegates. You can’t be a serious candidate for Pres of the US if the only historically democratic state you win is DC. INDEED.
In 1988 Jesse got 8% of the vote in NH, 6% of the vote in Iowa. In no state did he get more that 16% of the white vote. How serious of a candidate was he?? Bill Clinton knew what he was doing when he TRIED to make the comparison. As a matter of fact, even after Rev Wright, Bittergate, et al BO still has a higher favorability rating than Jesse ever did. I say this not to put Jesse down, but that fact is he never really had that “rainbow coalition”, in ‘84 or ‘88. INDEED.
Yes Bill Clinton is not stupid… why would he want to alienate black people? How does that help?
He was desperate. They were getting their asses kicked. Pull out the race card and polarize the whole election. Congrats, it worked.
Someone who amassed the number of delegates that Jackson did in ‘88 was most DEFINITELY a serious candidate. I remember seeing a billboard when Jackson ran in the AA section of Akron Ohio, where I grew up. It said: “They say you’ll waste your vote. When was the last time you didn’t — Run, Jesse Run.” And he did SERIOUSLY run.
Rev. Jackson may have had no appeal to the white, ‘latte liberals’ so fond of BO, but he made a lot of sense to poor, working people.
Believe me zz..in January everybody knew that BO was black…well sort of black. This whole smear campaign completely turned me off of Obama (who I was neutral on at that point). He showed his true colors (so to speak) when he smeared Clinton.
Well I disagree about Jesse, but, when did he smear Hillary in Jan?