2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: "Will Americans overlook their deeply held conviction that he’s a jerk?" [View all]Cosmocat
(14,564 posts)They clearly were not tuned in from 92 to 99.
Cause the SAME shiite was done with Clinton.
They investigated him literally dozens of times congressionally, bizarre crape like the mail his pet cat got. They sent a special prosecutor after him, books were written and open claims made that he was a drug dealer and that he had Vince Foster killed (imagine if THAT was said of BO, people would claim that was about his being black for sure.
They assailed his daughter and were exceptionally viscious of Hillary Clinton, prememptively against her running for president.
Yes, they race bait, no debating that. But, it is the CONVENIENCE of his being black that opens that door.
Their all out assault on him is not BECAUSE he is black, it is because he is a democrat.
They went after Gore, they called Kerry, a man who actually served and was injured in his service weak and a coward while propping up the twit whose family of privilege kept him from serving as being tough and resolute. They found a way to destroy Howard Dean for a simple moment of true emotion.
It is simple partisanship.
The Pizza clown was black, they loved Condi Rice, they love the snot out of Allen West.
If you kiss that ring, it is all good.