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]]> By: sybil http://themoderatevoice.com/19425/good-night-irene-hillary/comment-page-1/#comment-150133 sybil Fri, 09 May 2008 22:59:16 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/primaries/19425/good-night-irene-hillary/#comment-150133 Hillary put together her campaign strategy the same way she put together her health insurance fiasco--too much hubris, too little common sense. (Glaring example- her faith in Mark Penn, who reportedly operated her campaign for months on the assumption that the Democratic primaries/caucuses were winner-take-all--and then there was Super Tuesday.) Bill set the conditions in South Carolina for a campaign underscored with racism just as he set the conditions with his many paramours for his impeachment--during attempts to satisfy his immediate personal goals. <br> Hillary's constituency right now consists primarily of undereducated whites of all ages and some redundant feminists trying to recapture their glory days. I don't see the point in separating white blue collar workers and their wives with a high school education from retired white blue collar workers and their wives with a high school education. I attribute a great deal of the political responses of this group to a lack of interest or skills to access the Internet--they believe what their drinking, hunting and church brethren are talking up, often based on the junk coming out of Fox News and its ilk. And to the fact that many of this cohort either lost jobs or failed to get them owing to competition from blacks and latinos as this country finally awakened. Someone needs to remind them that hundreds of young black, native american, and latino men and women have died in the service of this country, most recently in Vietnam and Iraq. <br> And that someone has come along to say to all of us: We cannot leave the working poor and the middle class of any race or religion fighting over the scraps of our economy left after the wealthy have feasted--it is already turning into a battle between working poor and lower middleclass blacks, whites and latino(a)s and none of them will emerge winners. This economy, with its appalling inequities, must be recast to embrace us all. Our poor, working poor, and lower middleclass citizens differ only by skin color--their hopes, wants and needs are the same. Who better to send this message than Obama, the long-time community organizer of the Chicago streets (who could with much less trouble be making a large fortune on Wall Street if he cared to)? And who worse than a candidate who is manipulating these blue collar whites to act on their basest impulses to secure her Presidency? <br> (Disclosure: I am an older well-educated financially comfortable professional white woman, granddaughter of immigrants, originally a supporter of John Edwards. I would very much like to have a woman president--just not this one. I am in total agreement with Obama's message: all of us (no exceptions) should have the opportunities that he and I and millions of others in this country have had that exist no longer, and this cannot be done without a sea change in our society as it is currently constituted.) Hillary put together her campaign strategy the same way she put together her health insurance fiasco–too much hubris, too little common sense. (Glaring example- her faith in Mark Penn, who reportedly operated her campaign for months on the assumption that the Democratic primaries/caucuses were winner-take-all–and then there was Super Tuesday.) Bill set the conditions in South Carolina for a campaign underscored with racism just as he set the conditions with his many paramours for his impeachment–during attempts to satisfy his immediate personal goals.
Hillary's constituency right now consists primarily of undereducated whites of all ages and some redundant feminists trying to recapture their glory days. I don't see the point in separating white blue collar workers and their wives with a high school education from retired white blue collar workers and their wives with a high school education. I attribute a great deal of the political responses of this group to a lack of interest or skills to access the Internet–they believe what their drinking, hunting and church brethren are talking up, often based on the junk coming out of Fox News and its ilk. And to the fact that many of this cohort either lost jobs or failed to get them owing to competition from blacks and latinos as this country finally awakened. Someone needs to remind them that hundreds of young black, native american, and latino men and women have died in the service of this country, most recently in Vietnam and Iraq.
And that someone has come along to say to all of us: We cannot leave the working poor and the middle class of any race or religion fighting over the scraps of our economy left after the wealthy have feasted–it is already turning into a battle between working poor and lower middleclass blacks, whites and latino(a)s and none of them will emerge winners. This economy, with its appalling inequities, must be recast to embrace us all. Our poor, working poor, and lower middleclass citizens differ only by skin color–their hopes, wants and needs are the same. Who better to send this message than Obama, the long-time community organizer of the Chicago streets (who could with much less trouble be making a large fortune on Wall Street if he cared to)? And who worse than a candidate who is manipulating these blue collar whites to act on their basest impulses to secure her Presidency?
(Disclosure: I am an older well-educated financially comfortable professional white woman, granddaughter of immigrants, originally a supporter of John Edwards. I would very much like to have a woman president–just not this one. I am in total agreement with Obama's message: all of us (no exceptions) should have the opportunities that he and I and millions of others in this country have had that exist no longer, and this cannot be done without a sea change in our society as it is currently constituted.)

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