Reply #29: You still haven't figured it out so I'll spell it out for you: sarcasm and subtletly [View All]

[draft_mario_cuomo]

==You are here to wave a flag and it ain't got any stars, stripes, or donkey on it. You have made a call to unity, "We are all Democrats, We are all Americans," while simultaneously bashing Obama in the same post today.==

==We also need to avoid being divided, white from black, male from female. We are all Democrats; we are all Americans; we are all human. We cannot argue that a certain skin color or a certain gender provides an electoral advantage. And we should apply this equally, not argue a case based on gender or skin color for our candidate when convenient and call others bigots for making similar arguments that show your candidate in a bad light (how many times have you seen HRC's gender or Obama's color touted as an electoral advantage by their partisans?) As someone once said: "E pluribus unum: 'Out of many, one.'...there are those who are preparing to divide us -- the spin masters, the negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of 'anything goes.' Well, I say to them tonight...There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America -- there’s the United States of America."==

That was a subtle and sarcastic jab at BO supporters who like to preach unity and then play the race card to argue BO is the most electable, attack Edwards because he is a white male. It ended with a quote from BO himself in his famous DNC speech that presented the irony of BO saying that and then making a negative attack ("spin masters, "negative ad peddlers"), particularly one based on race-baiting (there is no...Asian America.." etc.).

This part particularly was aimed at BO supporters, as well as a few HRC supporters (in light of the Edwards white male smear thread--which the OP was conspicuously silent on...)

==We cannot argue that a certain skin color or a certain gender provides an electoral advantage. And we should apply this equally, not argue a case based on gender or skin color for our candidate when convenient and call others bigots for making similar arguments that show your candidate in a bad light (how many times have you seen HRC's gender or Obama's color touted as an electoral advantage by their partisans?) ==