According to Donna Brazile, the party has the ultimate desire to redefine itself with the hope that a massive blue-collar, the white-working class deflection takes place. It saddens me quite frankly. I believe historians will side with my point of view which is that the Obama camp owns the race baiting tag. I also believe that the party is forever changed. Positively or negatively, is yet to be determined.
If that is, in fact, the case, you wouldn't need much of a tent at all. Unless, of course, you include the space needed by all the big egos involved. Donna Brazile herself might find Madison Square Garden a bit confining...
I get that her comment was a slip, that she tried to backtrack. But that's just it - it slipped out. It's what she's been thinking.
Now, I can certainly understand her being sick of we have to keep the white bubbas in our tent, her being a black woman. Especially if you have strong suspicions your candidate is losing white bubbas because white bubbas are racist. But that's not why he's losing the working class.
But Brazille's slip was that the new party "younger" "urban" and "suburban." That burned, and I'm not even 40 yet!
and yours is a racist comment. sadly, i don't think you realize that it is.
sadly, I don't think you can see that.
To have compassion for the experiences of people who face racial discrimination is not racist. I have a lot of compassion and empathy for Brazile in that respect.
"sadly, I don't think you can see that". I need to write these down.
I am a woman. If Hillary were ahead in pledged delegates and pop vote, but there was talk of Obama being more electable because white bubbas were not ready for a woman president, well I would say to hell with them then! Why do we need these bigots in our party anyway?
You dig?
you didn't even read my comment.
This is the elitism thing - presuming people are racist, and saying we "can't see" what you see. Ugh!
Don't forget Hispanics.
Actually, the Obama coalition seems to consist of African Americans, Harvard Grads and the under 30 set.
It doesn't sound like a winning team to me but what do I know? I'm just an invisible white woman whose vote the party surely doesn't want or need.
This probably isn't the response you want to see, but one of my favorite videos of this primary season is White Haired Women for Obama. Of course, I'm biased because I'm from Tennessee (that's where they're from), and one of them reminds me of my grandmother. I just love these ladies.
Some of us feel, rightly or wrongly, that the big tent party has become a gated community, and we are no longer wanted or welcome. The party elders underestimate the conservative Democrats, those who vote D on economic issues but are closer to Republicans on cultural issues, at their own risk. Be careful what you ask for Donna.
