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  • Re: Hillary Makes Bill's Jesse Jackson Remark Sound Gracious

    To ''Insight'' I have been teaching civil rights for 20 years-- and civil rights does not favor race over gender, or any person over any other person. All of the comments you have referred to as ''sexist'' certainly are. But they are not comments by Obama, they are in your own words ''media'' remarks out of the control of the Obama campaign. I ...
    Posted to Trailhead by john adkisson on February 11, 2008

  • Re: Hillary Makes Bill's Jesse Jackson Remark Sound Gracious

    There is nothing ''benign'' about discounting the importance of black voters, especially when just weeks before, the Clintons were laying claim to them. Obama has never asked to black voters to support him because of his race, and has never once boasted that he disproved the Clintons' original bboast. If Lbutterfly is not sensitive to Hillary's ...
    Posted to Trailhead by john adkisson on February 11, 2008

  • Hillary Makes Bill's Jesse Jackson Remark Sound Gracious

    Today Hillary discounted the massive rout by Obama because there was ''in the case of Louisiana, you know, a very strong and very proud African-American electorate, which I totally respect and understand.'' This is a direct quote and much more divisive and insensitive toward the black electorate than Bill's ''Jesse Jackson'' remark. Hillary's ...
    Posted to Trailhead by john adkisson on February 11, 2008

  • REPUBLICAN DISINFORMATION ALERT ...

    On MSNBC tonight, an exit poll in Louisana showed that 50 percent of Obama supporters said that they would be dissatisfied with Hillary Clinton as the nominee, while roughly two thirds of the Clinton voters said they would be dissatisfied with Obama as the party standardbearer. There was no racial breakdown of who in each camp would be ...
    Posted to XX Factor by Martin Edwin Andersen on February 10, 2008