Before I left South Carolina for Tennessee, Bill told me, “It’s all over but the counting. Mission accomplished.”
The ‘mission’ was Bill’s attacks on Barack Obama up to the South Carolina election today. By all accounts, including my official response which will come later today, Bill went overboard. Like a fox.
We figured it out weeks ago. There was no way to win in South Carolina. For crying out loud, Jesse Jackson once ran for President and carried the state. What chance does a white woman from New York have?
Bill’s objective was clear to anyone paying attention, which is why you didn’t hear about it on CNN, Fox, ABC, CBS, NBC or anywhere else. They don’t pay attention.
Politics is a contact sport. It’s also strategy and tactics. Obama is winning the black vote, as expected, but from here on out he won’t be able to expand that base because Bill labeled him as the ‘black candidate’ or the ‘African-American’ candidate.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that. It’s just the truth. But it will scare the beJesus out of white folks and a lot more of them will vote white than will vote black.
Mission accomplished.
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January 31st, 2008 at 11:48 am
I told my husband that’s what I thought the Clinton’s were up to. They knew they could not win in South Carolina, so they set up the negative noise just to prevent Obama from gaining support among white voters. Looks to me like it worked.
January 31st, 2008 at 11:50 am
The real question here is this: Who do you want to lead the country? Some naive black man who dreams big but cannot deliver? Or a tough and scrappy white woman who knows how to punch it out and get things done?
Think about it.