Saturday, April 26, 2008

Comment of the Day

Comments at TaylorMarsh.com

"Okay, I feel a need to speak up here, because I am seeing comments along the lines of how can the whole AA community, who loved and respected the Clintons for so many years, now suddenly think they are racists?? It's crazy!"

The short answer is that, of course, THEY DON'T. Please, please differentiate in your minds two SEPARATE facts:

1) AA's are voting for Obama at around 90%

2) Some AA Obamabots and "leaders" are saying that they and the whole community are mad at the Clintons.

Those two things are not one and the same. The first is undeniably true - AA's are voting for Obama.

But the assumption that the claims of Clyburn and JJ Junior are the reason for it, that the vast majority of those votes are stemming from anger at the Clintons is a LIE. Many, many AA's are voting for him because they feel they must support him, and are deeply moved by his candidacy regardless of his obvious flaws. THIS DOES NOT MEAN THEY HATE THE CLINTONS. Poll after poll has shown this not to be true. You may be disappointed in those people (as I am), but DO NOT turn them all into angry haters in your head.

Are some angry and deceived by the accusations against Bill? Yes. Some are. But please don't buy the spin that ALL of those 90% are angry at Hillary and Bill.

Voting for Obama and thinking Bill is a racist are NOT ONE AND THE SAME in the AA community. Please, please try to make that distinction and remember that.


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