Will superdelegates weigh in on this new race-based fearmongering by the Clinton campaign??

[polichick]

Where are those 50 who were all set to go for Barack before Ohio ~ NOW is the time!

[MethuenProgressive]

1. Did they weigh in when Obama Swiftboated the Clintons on race in South Carolina?

Now would a bit late for the scolding the Obama Camp deserves for their race-baiting hateful anti-Democratic Party Karl Roveish smear-mongering.

[polichick]

2. Actually, it was Bill's and their surrogates' remarks that crossed a line in SC...

...now they've crossed another line ~ obviously they don't mind playing to ANY kind of fear if it will get them a few votes. Fortunately, it didn't work in SC ~ and it won't work in PA. But if I were a superdelegate, I'd weigh in now for the good of the party.

[MethuenProgressive]

3. That's the line the Obama Camp was selling. You bought it? Wow...

And admit it, too? Wow, again.

[oviedodem]

5. Do you really believe that Obama is inciting this?

Get on grip, race only comes up when your people bring it up. Explain Rendell, Obama did not even talk about the comments. Now Ferraro, he has no choice because of what she said.

[MethuenProgressive]

8. Yep. (edit adds link)

He has his fake hypersensitivity/outrage machine running at full tilt.
Remember the leaked Obama Camp memo about their plans to Swiftboat the Clintons on Race from HuffPo that was all over DU? That's what they call "proof".

"the Obama campaign is seeking to capitalize on the view - and push the narrative - that the Clintons are using race-related issues for political leverage"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/12/obama-camps-memo-on-clin_n_81205.html

[Rageneau]

12. Me, too. The only one benefiting from "racism" in this race is Obama.

The Racism charge benefits only Obama. Were it not for trumped-up accusations of racism against the Clintons, Obama would be down if not out of the running by now. It is racism alone (or at least the manufactured perception of it) that has got him so far ahead.

The Obama Campaign and its media allies have wrongly persuaded many people that the Clintons are stupid enough to campaign in an overtly racist way. It would take someone very, very dumb indeed to inject racism into a Democratic Primary. Because no Democrat could possibly win the primary if he or she campaigned in the "obviously" racist way so many people are going crazy over.

The only people who want to inject racism into a Democratic primary are people who want you to think the OTHER side is being racist and that THEIR side is a victim of racism. As a party, Democrats punish racists and we empower victims of racism. So if you are shrewd and sly and well-connected enough to convince voters that your opponent is a racist and your candidate is being victimized by a racist, you'll get their votes.

IOW, the Clintons would have to be FOOLS to employ racism in a campaign, and the Clintons are NOT fools.

It is reverse-racism, promulgated by Axelrod and broadcast incessantly by the MSM that has put this campaign into the shape it's in. Were both candidates the same color, and were the race being run on the basis of merit alone, the situation would be much different.

[polichick]

7. I don't need a campaign to tell me anything...

...that's how you Clinton people work ~ top-down machine politics.

Buzz off.

[powergirl]

9. Sen. Clinton appologized for President Clintons remarks in SC

so, the Clinton camp "acknowledges" this as their fault.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

11. Sounds to me as though you may be in "denial"--an early stage of grief over HRC's Orwellian

campaign turn, before you are forced to abandon your strong support for her. If Elizabeth Kubler-Ross is correct and her findings carry over to political support, the next stage might be "bargaining".

[tokenlib]

4. It's time before this seriously damages the party...

...Hillary has no intention of stopping the destruction.

[polichick]

10. You're right...

And if their job is to put the party first, we should be hearing from some of them soon. When I heard Bill Clinton campaigning before SC, I knew I didn't want the Clintons back in the WH ~ I'm sure some of the superdelegates are feeling that way now.

[bigtree]

6. Yep, just like everyone else. But they won't have any right to make up facts about that conduct

. . . any more than you have here. I suspect that's the reason they haven't responded to the cries of racism coming from the Obama camp as if he needed them to come to his rescue.