Politico on Tweetie: Obama won't get Jewish, low income white or Latino votes.

[EFerrari]

That's what he said the Clintons are telling Super delegates.

So, if this report is true, the Clintons have never stopped marginalizing Obama as the black candidate that only liberal elites and black people will vote for.

Are Super delegates stupid enough to believe this?

(And as always, the Clintons are so uplifting in their focus on issues that matter to voters losing their homes, their health, their children in Iraq, their pensions, their jobs, their hope in a better future for their families.)

[Kaylee]

1. And don't you just love how she continues to explain why she would

be a great President, instead of tearing the other guy down. :sarcasm:

[LisaM]

2. Well, first of all, just because HE said it doesn't mean it's true

What was his source?

[EFerrari]

3. It's in the OP. It was an editor at the Politico AND

I said "if this is true".

[LisaM]

7. Sorry, didn't mean to get testy, but everyone is suddenly saying this.

I haven't heard Hillary discuss it at all.

[EFerrari]

20. I put the link to the article in #19. And, we're ALL a little testy. lol

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/9564.html

[Emit]

13. This, likely

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/9564.html

[crankychatter]

4. I saw that guy and this is what happened

Matthews dug in on "who said what? on what do you base this?"

he kept back pedalling with vague "on my authority, as an insider watching the Clintons" blah blah

Then... he owned it... He said his op ed was based on the demographic data from polls... spewing all the usual

It was JUST HIS OPINION, and nothing else.

pseudo authority, trying to get airtime and credibility by ascribing his OWN beliefs to the Clintons

it was just a sideways way to get the spin out there

for all I know he WAS speaking for the Clintons and QUITE directly...

THAT's the irony...

he should be waterboarded

[ej510]

8. Clintons are getting ever so close to becoming racist.

Using race to get elected is disgusting.

[EFerrari]

15. Yep. A way to catapult the propaganda.

But, it does sort of match up with earlier messages out of the Clinton campaign about Jews, Latinos and low income white people.

He did a terrible job -- it was just so naked.

Then, another guy went on to say that's a loser for Hillary because she can't win without the black vote or the youth vote. :crazy:

[woolldog]

35. I thought Matthews made him look pretty foolish. n/t

[rodeodance]

5. good on Hillary. The job of SD is to choose who can best win the GE.

[BeatleBoot]

6. Hopefully, Super Delegates Understand Rev Wright and Louis Farrakhan

and the Nation of Islam.

Enough said.

Do your homework.

[mountainvue]

14. Yep. I know people who fit the categories

in the OP and they ain't voting Obama.

[EFerrari]

17. I'm sure they understand the Clinton's use of the Reverend Wright.

And I agree, you've said enough.

[BeatleBoot]

21. Actually, there is a long history there and

the right wing will let everyone know about it before Halloween.

My party has its blinders on.

Again, I beg you. Do your homework.

[EFerrari]

22. Innuendo. My blinders aren't good enough to screen out your bullshit.

[BeatleBoot]

29. Okee. Dokee.

I wish you the best. You are a dynamic person. And I respect your viewpoint.

And, just so you know, I am voting for a Dem this fall.

But I'll tell you this: Homework trumps bullshit, any day.

[cali]

28. LOL!

Super Delegates understand that he's a stronger candidate than hills. That's why she's gotten virtually no SD endorsements for months and he's gotten over 70. duh.

[rockymountaindem]

9. Shows what they know about the Jewish vote n/t

[blogslut]

10. Who was it?

The lovely Mike Allen or the delightful Ben Smith? Which one of the Democrat's not concerned "friends" at Politico was it?

[EFerrari]

24. I put a link to the article in #19 abut don't know which of the two authors

it was.

He was pretty slimey. The problem is, it's hard to tell any more if I'm listening to divisive RW slime or the newer, closer variety.

[The_Casual_Observer]

11. If "he" says it, it must be true.

[EFerrari]

18. Did you read the OP? I hope not. lol

[EFerrari]

19. This is the link to the article the guest was talking about but

I don't know which of the authors he was. Shoot me.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/9564.html

[blogslut]

34. Did he look like this?

[MannyGoldstein]

12. This Jew Will Vote For Obama!

And I'll have a word with my kin who run the media from an underground vault - maybe they can help Barack out a little.

[JerseygirlCT]

16. Only anecdotal, but every one of my Jewish family members

(extended), are passionate supporters of Obama.

And the whole line of thinking that groups of people who tend toward Clinton in the primaries won't therefore vote Dem in November is screwy.

[Madam Mossfern]

23. Another Jew for Obama here

and my whole fam damily too!

[Hawkeye-X]

25. Politico's wrong - Ben's wrong.

He got one Jewish low income vote - mine.

Hawkeye-X

[EFerrari]

30. And, I'm a Latina. But the pitch was just so contrived

it made me think, this could well be what is happening behind the scenes.

They tried to use Farakhan to disaffect "the Jewish vote". They've tried to use race to distance a portion of the white vote. I don't know how the hell they figure Latinos won't vote for Obama, lol, since some of us *are* black.

Obama is a great candidate for Latinos. He communicates as a quietly successful man of faith, family and community. In fact, I'd be willng to bet he could get a record number of Latinos out exactly for those reasons. :shrug:

[Cha]

26. No SuperDees are smarter than clinton

and all her rag tag team of operatives and then some.

[EFerrari]

31. Thank you.

lol

[ElsewheresDaughter]

27. well......, Rev Wright, Farrakhan, having tea with Qaddafi and Obama's Palestinian remarks

:think: it might have some affect on the Jewish vote

[gmudem]

32. Sure

Wright got hashed plenty. Nobody cares. Farrakahan? LMAO at you for thinking anybody will give a shit about that or that there is anything there to begin with.

You can keep wishing but there are already plenty of Jews for Obama, and I myself have a Jewish background and most of my family is for Obama. Me and my father are a couple of New York Jews who absolutely cannot stand Clinton.

There's also this.
http://www.motherjones.com/news/update/2008/04/hillary-clintons-little-noticed-israel-problem.html

[frazzled]

33. Kein Anu Yecholim (Yes We Can)

A statement and long list of Jewish endorsers at http://jews4obama2008.wordpress.com/

Okay, the Clintons have more Jews, for reasons I don't understand ... but liberal progressive Jews are backing Obama in large numbers. In fact, I believe a recent poll has them almost splitting the Jewish vote.