The above quote was not spoken by Barack Obama, David Axelrod, John Kerry, or anyone remotely connected with the Obama campaign. It came from the mouth of Clinton supporter Charles Rangel of Brooklyn.
With just a few words in her desperation to save her failed campaign, Senator Clinton managed to make the statement that a) blacks are lazy and b) white working people are racist.
This woman who has spent a lifetime distinguishing herself with good work has managed, in just a few weeks time, to disgrace herself and her legacy. She has in the past two days been hammered by three of the most prominent, Democratic leaning, African-American columnists in the country, Bob Herbert of the New York Times, Derrick Jackson of the Boston Globe, and Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post.
Here are links to their writing:
Robinson: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con tent/article/2008/05/08/AR2008050802807. html
Lead paragraph: ""From the beginning, Hillary Clinton has campaigned as if the Democratic nomination were hers by divine right. That's why she is falling short -- and that's why she should be persuaded to quit now, rather than later, before her majestic sense of entitlement splits the party along racial lines."
Lead paragraph: "IN HER long, sad self-diminution to being merely a white candidate for subsegments of white people, Hillary Clinton claimed to USA Today this week, "I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on." Clinton exploited an Associated Press poll to say how "Senator 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.""
Herbert: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/10/opinio n/10herbert.html?hp
Lead paragraph: "The Clintons have never understood how to exit the stage gracefully. Their repertoire has always been deficient in grace and class. So there was Hillary Clinton cold-bloodedly asserting to USA Today that she was the candidate favored by "hard-working Americans, white Americans," and that her opponent, Barack Obama, the black candidate, just can't cut it with that crowd."
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