What Hillary Said About BO &Jesse J: "People That Go Into The Arena Deserve Our Appreciation".....

[global1]

What she meant: They just don't deserve to be president.

[theboss]

1. There is such a level of condescension in Hillary's attacks

The notion from her (and which Ferraro made clear) is that blacks have a place at the Democratic table as long as they listen to their leaders - who are ultimately white. You can have "civil rights" leaders like John Lewis. But even he needs to heed th call of a higher, whiter power.

I'm beginning to see that Obama's campaign is rather like Harold Washington's mayoral campaign in Chicago. Washington was hardly a radical, but he was viewed as the vested powers in the Party as a huge threat because he represented the largest voting block of the party that had previously simply done as it was told.

[stray cat]

2. Even the apology was a condescending jab

thats the way I took it as well. They get credit for being willing to campain but certainly not presidential material.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

3. Notice how even in "apology" HRC lumps Obama with JJ, just like Bill on the eve of SC

Woooo -- "scary Black men" -- wink wink

[karynnj]

4. What surprises me is how tone deaf this is - why single out blacks?

But then do you say that everybody that goes into the arena deserves appreciation? What of Nader? What of Huckabee?