This is Bill Clinton's description of the Democratic primary campaign. And I agree.
And the one reason for this, more than any other, is the Obama campaign of race baiting, dirty tricks and magic shows like Obama's three-card monte routine in Iowa on Tuesday night.
Bill Clinton also said:
The allegation that Hillary and I played the race card was a cold blooded, calculated, manipulated and revolting strategy!
And I agree with him again.
The Obama campaign has reeked of Rovian tactics and the Bush campaigns of 2000 and 2004. His campaign has covered over his lack of experience and his dearth of knowledge-- his complete lack of preparation for the job of the Presidency-- with slime and slander.
And Obama, of necessasity I guess, has aimed a lot of the vitriol against two of the most revered and committed Democrats in this country today.
Because they stood in his way!!
I fear Obama's ambition equals that of Bush, and I also fear that the WIN is all that matters. If he succeeds we will have another guy in the White House who doesn't have a clue with what to do with the job. And we will have surrogates and behind the scenes manipulators running the country again.
I sat in a restaurant here in Southern California in 2000 and before I could take off my Gore hat I was spit on by a gang of Bush boyz who were as arrogant and as mean as they could be. I have been figuratively spat on by Obama boyz this year who are equally arrogant and no less ugly. It is as if they same boyz are voting for Obama and running his campaign.
My mother has alzheimers and I had to help her vote in the primary here. I have become sensitized to the needs of the elderly and the frail and the people who gave so much and now need our help. These arrogant Obama boyz care nothing for them. And will intimidate them to get their way without a second thought
I watched the voter intimidation by the Obama campaign in Nevada at the caucus sites there and if I might have been inclined to dismiss the allegations by Bill Clinton of thuggery as so much campaign hyperbole, I soon realized when the other caucus states rolled out that thuggery was part of the Obama campaign strategy.
This is voter intimidation and suppression by a democrat against another democrat.
I also watched in horror and mounting outrage as the Obama campaign through websites and flyers actively recruited Republican cross-over voting to influence the outcome of the Democratic primary process. Way, way down the road some Republicans promoted Clinton. But by then he already had the delegate lead.
So if I ponder Obama as the standard bearer for my party I am not only appalled at the idea that thuggery and chicanery have won; but I also believe that he has taken the Democratic Party hostage. A majority of Democrats did not choose Obama as the standard bearer. Think about it. Republicans have helped his delegate lead. If that doesn't make you nervous, it should.
Obama's electoral weakness has been papered over with 90 percent AA votes achieved by some of the most deceitful race baiting in the history of American politics. If I who have fought for the rights of AAs my entire life feel outraged by it, imagine what the Clinton's must feel.
It is as if Obama insists that you forget the Clintons are loyal Democrats who have fought for Democratic Party ideals all of their public lives. The Clintion's brought back an FDR-like feeling to the Presidency, and they ushered in an across the board economic well being to the nation. How disgraceful was it, again, that Hillary tried to bring about Univesal Health Care? Because that is the other little fact we are all supposed to forget--that Hillry Clinton has been a fighter for progressive causes her entire life, both in and out of office, and that she was crucified by the militant right in this country for doing so.
This woman is a hero. She is not someone to be dismissed as "likeable enough" or "having her claws out" or as "pimping out her daughter" which Obama did not say, but which he did not protest.
The bottom line here is that Obama's record in this campaign frightens me. He has behaved like an arrogant bully who has used sexism and racism to further his own political ends. He has not cared who he smeared from Paul Krugman to Bill and Hillary Clinton with Geraldine Ferraro and Andre Cuomo sandwiched in between. He has shown little respect for the Democratic Party and even belittled Ted Kennedy as "old and out of it" until Kennedy decided to give him the nod, and then he extolled him as his mentor and friend, stood side by side with him for the endorsement, and then blithely lied about his family's history with the Kennedy's.
Obama's lies in this campaign have been many and frightening. People have written whole books about it. Bosnia was a big oops for Clinton. Obama has made similar gaffes and lies for months. And his dessembling on Rezko, Wright and William Ayers do not bode well for how he will handle the on-the-spot immediacy of the Presidency.
Obama has also stiffed the press, much as Bush did. Do we really want to go back to a managed white House with no press appearances except those that declare victory--be it on destroyers or in Iowa.
I am working my heart out for Hillary not only because she is the woman, but because in this race she is the only committed democrat with a decades long proven track record on progressive causes.
Hillary will bring honor to the party and the nation. Obama will bring something quite different. He lies at the drop of a hat, smears anyone who gets in his way, and uses race like a club with which to beat up anyone who opposes him.
He has alrady used massive, nationwide voter intimidation to further his ends.
Actually, Obama has already been a disaster for the Democratic Party. The racial polarization we have seen in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, West Virginia and Kentucky is the result of Obama's race baiting and smearing of the Clintons. Because the white working class may be demeaned by the media and by the candidate, but they ain't dumb. And they know when someone is trying to take them for a ride.
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