blatham wrote:This is a planned strategy. Attempt to minimize the chances of the black community building consensus on Obama (with all the consequences for huge voter turnout) through suggesting/promoting division within the black community. "Is barack black enough?" is another aspect of this.
I don't know. It could be planned on the Democratic part. Seriously.
Remember when Clinton ran for office in 1992? At that time, the Republican Party had been very successful in branding the Democratic Party as the party of "special interests". Not just the normal Republican pundits, but even general humor columnists such as Dave Barry were writing how it was sort of understood that the Democrats were like this.
Nobody ever comes out and tells us what these "special interests" are, but I think it has something to do with minorities and unions. And maybe women, not sure about the last one.
Clinton, who was promoting himself as a new kind of Democrat, went to a black organization where a rap artist, Sister Souljah, performed. She made some remarks which were reported to be anti-white, or at least anti-white by the standards of a political rally. Clinton got on stage and seemingly shocked the audience by attacking Sister Souljah, and informing the crowd that he no intention of sitting by and letting her say such things.
This provoked a supposedly bad reaction from black leaders around the country, who emphasized that Clinton had better watch it lest he lose his "base". But Clinton remained unapologetic.
Needless to say, this gave Clinton a great boost, for it showed he was willing to stand up to the more extreme people in the black community.
In fact, it gave Clinton such a great boost that to this day, I am far from convinced the whole thing wasn't staged from Day One. I don't know that it was-maybe it was just a skilled politician taking an opportunity to get a certain political charge off his back-but if wasn't staged, it could not have worked any better for Clinton if it were.
Once Clinton was in, of course, blacks supported him so much the notion, (originally intended to be humorous) emerged as Clinton being The First Black President. But by the time the second election came around, unemployment was dropping, GNP was soaring, the stock market was ascending rapidly, and nobody cared if any group was getting "too much", mostly because it seemed everyone was getting plenty.
Let's face it-if the knock against you is that you might favor blacks too much, there is nothing like having the black leadership talking about how they aren't crazy about you.
It worked for Clinton, staged or not. Now we see something like that happening with Obama.
I'm suspicious.
