Don't think they would care to be honest.... or at least I would like to hope hey wouldn't.

For all that is going wrong with this country, we actually have the potential to have an election based on issues rather than crap.  One can only hope that happens.

Lets all agree HRC supporters knew this was coming as it always does.

Wed was the bull shit Barbara Reynolds scandal.
Thursday was the BS WVWV.

And today here we go HRC and her campaign are racist.

WTF BO supporters need to get off it.

david

This is your video, right?

No comments at You Tube, you're brand new here, no comments...

And "your" video places words on the screen, some of which are not heard on the video.

Context is yet another problem.

So, who are you?

Is this for real? Has anyone seen this before?

Regardless, this will not be good for Clinton.  It will be all over the internet today.  It's already at Kos.  This needs to be neutralized as quickly as possible.

for what it is.  A hit piece on HRC drawn from more than a decade ago regarding Bill Clinton.

I thought Obama was above this?  I thought he was the change candidate?

Well, I guess not.  Most people will see thorugh the charade--Obama above it all; his advisors, not so much so.

This video reeks of desperation!  Change  you can believe in?  I guess not.

Obama should focus on people's issues, not on how much he hates HRC.

Can we quit with the smear campaigns?

Thanks.

once again we have to point this very important fact out!!!!!

HILLARY IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT NOT BILL CLINTON!!!!!!

and more to do with WAY OVERPAID consultants that the Clintons love to hire.

In the end they rake in millions and turn on the Democratic party and American people every chance they get.

The list goes on and on.

Mark Penn
Dick Morris
James Carville
George Stephanopolous
Lanny Davis
Blumenthal

Anyone care to add?

Read this: http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/5/15/1427 30/254

I wonder who?

Regardless, I doubt this be a big deal since this was in 1992.  It just reflects badly on the guy who called Indiana folks "white n%%%ers".

Actually, it turns out that it is a clip from a documentary on the 1992 campaign.

I campaign I will point out, I volunteered and worked for while in college.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108515/

More desperation from team Obama. Nothing new here.

The defensiveness here is telling.  

This matters by the same logic Wright matters: Kantor is an old friend and adviser of the Clintons, and I hear a paid adviser to the current campaign.  Senator Clinton is of course not responsible for what he says on this clip; but she is his associate, and under the current swiftboat rules it is "fair game" as they keep saying about l'affaire Wright to tar Senator Clinton with this association.  The GOP most certainly would run with this on those rules; and the point is not so much this clip or that clip, but that when we play by these rules within the democratic party, we legitimize these techniques of character assassination and swiftboating and make it "fair game" come the general election.  Anyone who thinks there are not a hundred potential serious "guilt by association" linkages (with associated video clips) on which Senator Clinton could be hoisted is kidding themselves.  Marc Rich comes right to mind, but only first in a long list of business and fundraising associates in the years since the Clinton presidency ended.

I don't believe Senator Clinton thinks the residents of Indiana are "White Niggers,"  any more than I believe Senator Obama wakes up every morning thinking "God damn America."  But turnabout is, as they say, fair play.  And payback, she is a right mean bitch.

This will be a big story; it has everything the press wants -- swiftboating and racism and elitism and video.  

Play with fire, get burned, my mama always said.

And to add, people saying this doesn't matter because it was in 1992 are also kidding themselves, and not being fair about equal opportunity swiftboating.  Senator Obama is being held liable for everything Jeremiah Wright has said for the past 20 years, and for something William Ayres did when the Senator was a small child.

The absence of a sense of fair play has been a consistent problem with this primary.  I know people on all sides feel this, and they usually do, but it really has become impossible to have a free discourse about this campaign because of the level of disingenuousness on all sides.  Somewhere, we need to stop this.

Anyone can be destroyed by playing six degrees of guilt by association.  Anyone.  We should not tolerate it on any side, or if we are going to be cynical and tolerate it because "politics ain't beanbag" and because we believe voters are sheep, then we should accept that it's going to get the mud and blood all over everyone, and demean democracy in the process.

Be Hillary's pastor?  Or would he merely be her advisor and defender, as he has been in this campaign?

Sigh.  Wouldn't it be nice if these candidates were so different on substance that bullshit like this wouldn't be as important as the presence of a health insurance mandate?

Well, its obvious he called the Indianans shit.  But I'd wait on the "white n**** " line.  Looks like that part may be fake if you look closely.

Is this new News?

I assume so,

Just VERY suprised it hasn't hit Huffington yet, they usually are at least no more than 15 mins behind the blogs.

This will only effect Indiana if they can show this advisor from the film is working for her on the ground.

If he is, Im sure they wisked him away, probably on a flight to Guam to open up campain office there.

Read this: http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/5/15/1427 30/254

Funny BO is doing really bad and somehow race is being pushed back into the news by BO supporters.

Like we have never seen this before.

david

Just in time for a primary.

Just coincidence, I'm sure.

New politics are so foul, don't you think?

Kantor is a scumbag.

This video is a snippet from the documentary "War Room" about the 1992 campaign. Watch the whole section and you get a sense of the atmosphere in the war room as the last polls roll in.

Mickey Kantor is a big supporter of Hillary Clinton and was very influential in the Clinton White House.  He clearly says of Indianans, "Those people are shit." I don't hear the "white ni**ers" line at all.

The sentiment about "shit" is based on two ideas: Indiana is hopelessly Republican and has been since 1964. The second is that to many Chicagoans Indiana is filled with "white trash." I lived in around Chicago for years and many of them despise Indianans as toothless redneck trash. Kantor is from Nashville but clearly shares the common (not universal) Chicago attitude of Indianans as ignorant rednecks. I think that's what he's conveying in this snippet.

Does this matter? Well, it shouldn't. But Rev. Wright shouldn't matter either. Until I see evidence that Clinton believes Indianans are "shit" I'll attribute these views to Kantor alone - even though he's been a trusted and influential friend and adviser for the Clintons for decades. I would hope that people would dissociate Rev. Wright's political remarks from Obama too.

Obama does not have close surrogates flogging this kind of crap from right wing web sites into the mainstream media. Clinton does. Sidney Blumenthal, Lanny Davis, Penn, et al.

Obama can't control every post on dKos or other sites that may be from Republican trolls or pissed off partisans who think what's good for the goose is good for the gander.

None of this will get play by the media UNLESS Hillary becomes the presumptive candidate. If that happens watch out for a tidal wave of slime that will make Rev. Wright look like kindergarten stuff. The cable networks will switch from 24/7 Wright to 24/7 pardon scandals, commie law firms, Bill's personal  morals, etc., etc., and Hillary's new BFF's in the right wing media will turn on her like a pack of rabid dogs.

However Obama will not go there, neither will his campaign and without him pushing now it it won't get picked up by the media. The Republicans could flog it to the networks but they have no interest right now in anything but taking down the Democrats nominee which they still believe will be Obama. You will know if Hillary has a chance at the nomination. Watch the behavior of the media and the Republicans if they start ignoring Obama and piling on her you will know she is winning.

foot. Isn't someone going to argue how its good that this comes out now or that the Republicans will use this. Finally its all about electability ... blah blah blah ... Frankly this is the worst kind of politics and it does not matter who does it.

In light of Hillary's recent remarks about obliterating Iran and the gas tax holiday (sounds rather Republican-like to me) and media's focus on the gas tax holiday, I post No. 8 of Atlantic Charter written by Roosevelt and Churchill after World War II. It speaks for itsself!

"Eighth, they believe that all of the nations of the world, for realistic as well as spiritual reasons must come to the abandonment of the use of force. Since no future peace can be maintained if land, sea or air armaments continue to be employed by nations which threaten, or may threaten, aggression outside of their frontiers, they believe, pending the establishment of a wider and permanent system of general security, that the disarmament of such nations is essential. They will likewise aid and encourage all other practicable measures which will lighten for peace-loving peoples the crushing burden of armaments."

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Winston S. Churchill

So, I ask, are we and our leaders today living up to these ideals? And, would the obliteration of Iran have a more devastating effect on our nation than whether or not we give a Gas Tax Holiday? Or do the words of God D..m America by a Rev. Wright contain more risk to Americans than a potential President who could take us into another war with Iran? And is our Media ethically and morally giving us the real facts about these issues which could have a significnt effect upon our American daily lives?

It's interesting the way that some members of the MyDD community who are the first to cry "outrage" at anything negative toward their candidate, who have said so often that "guilt by association" is wrong, that those people are the first to recommend this diary.

I don't need to name them explicitly.  Just look at the list.  Hypocrites.

hows the egg on your face?