A Campaign to Hate

[DeepModem Mom]

WP: A Campaign to Hate
By Richard Cohen
Tuesday, June 3, 2008; Page A15

....I have come to loathe the campaign.

I loathe above all the resurgence of racism -- or maybe it is merely my appreciation of the fact that it is wider and deeper than I thought. I am stunned by the numbers of people who have come out to vote against Barack Obama because he is black. I am even more stunned that many of these people have no compunction about telling a pollster they voted on account of race -- one in five whites in Kentucky, for instance....

I acknowledge that some people can find nonracial reasons to vote against Obama -- his youth, his inexperience, his uber-liberalism and, of course, his willingness to abide his minister's admiration for a racist demagogue (Louis Farrakhan) until it was way, way too late. But for too many people, Obama is first and foremost a black man and is rejected for that reason alone. This is very sad.

I loathe what has happened to Hillary Clinton. This person of no mean achievement has been witchified, turned into a shrew, so that almost any remark of hers is instantly interpreted as sinister and ugly. All she had to do, for instance, was note that it took Lyndon Johnson to implement Martin Luther King's dream, and somehow it became a racist statement. The Obama camp has been no help in this regard, expressing insincere regret instead of a sincere "that's not what she meant."

I loathe also what Hillary Clinton has done to herself. The incessant exaggerations, the cheap shots, the flights into hallucinatory history -- that sniper fire in Bosnia, for instance -- have turned her into a caricature of what her caricaturists long claimed she already was....I loathe what has happened to Bill Clinton....

I loathe what has happened to the press. I loathe the incessant blogging and commenting and talking and yapping and hype. I hate that Clinton's observation that Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in June ran on and on when everyone save some indigenous people in the Brazilian rain forest knew what she meant....

What is perhaps most surprising, and sad as well, is what can be seen in the rearview mirror. There, reduced to a speck, is the once-huge expectation that the next president would be a Democrat....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/02/AR2008060202590.html?nav%3Dhcmodule&sub=AR

[Hydra]

1. Hahaha

We are our own worst enemies.

Instead of making this campaign, and a deadly important one at that, about the issues, we allowed it to show what deep divides we have between each other.

On top of that, we are not voting for someone who will fix things...we are voting for two candidates who will not say no to the BS pandered by the Neocons.

Proof that there was nothing wrong with America when we invaded Iraq or used torture. We were just following our nature.

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On Edit

Having reread the article, I was astounded by this little gem:

It includes, of course, a lack of trust in an administration that weaseled and fibbed and exaggerated and Cheneyed the American people -- but has (and so the GOP will remind us all) kept the nation safe from another attack. No small matter, it will turn out.

Is he for real??? They didn't protect us from the first 9/11- in fact it's likely that they allowed it to happen or helped the process along...another one of their "fibs"

"Weaseled and fibbed and exaggerated and Cheneyed"? Is that all he think they did? If only.

[RethugAssKicker]

2. You ain't seen nothing yet !

When the GE gets in high gear... Obama is going to be torn to pieces over
his color.... Thats what this country responds to ... and the Rethugs
will have to use it !

[Hydra]

3. They may not have to

The have Diebold- all they need is a healthy doubt. They have that now.

[DSC_EBR]

4. hate Campaign

I don't think they are voting against him because of race, it is the radical people he associates with. How can you lead this great nation when you associate with someone that wants to do great harm to this nation. I am talking about Bill Aires. He is a terrorist. Rev. Wright has radical view points and now the corruption involving Rezko. Obama says These are not the people I know. How could he not know that. He has been friends with these people for over 20 years.