Reactions To "The Fairy Tale Revisited"
My post, "A Fairy Tale Revisited" has elicited reactions from some quarters. The interesting reactions are the ones that insist that the Clintons are racists and that rejection of the Clintons is the way for Obama to go. August J. Pollak writes:
Jesus Christ, someone save us from the stupid. . . . Because the Obama campaign had the audacity to be upset about veiled racist attacks made against him in the primary, now it's already on the table for McCain to use. See, Obama only had one "race card" in his Magic: The Election deck, and he should have saved it for McCain. A smart candidate would have simply held off from responding to six months of suggesting that the black guy can't actually win.. . . Armando and the rest of the baby brigade truly embody the most disgraceful and arrogant remnants of the Democratic Party. It's Obama's fault, you understand, that Clinton ran a disgraceful . . . campaign. . . . [I]t's Obama's fault that Hillary Clinton spent the last six weeks of a primary she was already statistically incapable of still winning having her surrogates practically write half of McCain's campaign ads for him.
(Emphasis supplied.) More . .
Heh. Yep, the Clintons are racists, their supporters are racists, I am a racist. That is the Obama supporter plan on responding to the McCain race baiting attacks. Good plan.
See, what August seems not to understand is that it was just this type of thing that has opened the door wide open for McCain. McCain is not using what Clinton said. He is using what people like August Pollak did - smear the Clintons, as a political weapon.
These disgraceful, false and inflammatory attacks on the Clintons are why McCain is pushing this button. August and Obama supporters like him did and continue to do a great service for McCain. Even at this late date, they do not get it. The blind hatred for all things Clinton means more to them than their desire to have Obama win. It is a pretty remarkable phenomenon. With supporters like these, Obama hardly needs opponents.
Update [2008-8-3 16:7:49 by Big Tent Democrat]: Digby writes:
I have no doubt that the campaign has learned the proper lesson from all this. McCain and his nasty surrogates can dogwhistle themselves hoarse all the way to November and nobody can call them on it. If the "liberal" media does, they will be portrayed as in the tank for Obama and part of the problem. It's a brilliant inoculation. Indeed, it may be such a thorough inoculation that it means that Obama is now in a bit of a straight jacket, having to second guess all criticism of McCain to ensure that it can't be taken as "racist."
All true. But Digby chooses to ignore the Clinton smear part of the equation. That's fine. I'll tell the truth about it.
By Big Tent Democrat, speaking for me only
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