http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,262581,00.html

Al Sharpton has yet to endorse anyone.

submandave,

I should have been a little more clear. My point about “white folks voting for white folks” has to do with the BDE’s fear of being labeled as “lock step black supporters”. YET that’s what they do anyways as I said. Obama is what the BDE said they wanted: a clean cut, intelligent black candidate. And some of the comments from prominent BDE leaders concerning Obama has been downright disgusting (heck Obama worked for the NAACP at one time). So disgusting I think inkognegro’s point of them owing the Clintons is probably true.

Oh, but I thought the point was that “white folks” voted for the black fella. You are correct that generally the BDE does vote en masse for whatever candidate is fielded with the most pigment, a practice I find almost as repugnant as if there were a white establishment voting oppositely for the same reason. It frustrates me to be deluged with assuptions of racism and sexism whenever a minority or female candidate fails to muster support and have these same folks treat it as an unquestioned given that there is nothing untoward about minorities and women supporting a candidate almost solely based upon racial or gender lines.

The real significance I see in Obama’s win is that it should, once and for all, put away the idea that “white folks” won’t vote for the black candidate, when the real point all along has been that “white folks” laregly won’t vote for a black candidate that seems to be partisan toward just their black constituency. Unfortunately, there are too many too heavily invested in victimology for this point to be highlighted.

establishment vs anti-establishment
black vs white
baby boom vs younger
right vs left

To me the most telling story is the latter – I never thought I’d read something like
this on NRO or this

But one thing must be added on.

The BDE is in bed with the Clinton campaign because they were either a: Afraid that they would be on the outside looking in if/when Hillary won or (and this should NOT be overlooked)

b: they OWE the Clintons.

The Clintons are notorious for rewarding loyalty. There may be worse places to be in the democratic party than on the bad side of the Clintons, but I am not aware of them. There are FEW Black Politicians with any experience that dont owe the Clintons SOMETHING.

Almost all of them support Obama.

This could be interesting:It?s been speculated that a big reason so much of the black vote stayed with Hillary thus far is because they didn?t think Obama could win. That fear is dead now, with South Carolina shaping up to……