To win the presidential elections in 1992 and 1996 candidate Bill Clinton relied heavily on emotional and electoral support from the black community - in fact, even though he won both elections, he lost the white vote in both elections.
During President Clinton's impeachment days, when his white blue-collar support waivered, African-American's offered steadfast and loyal support.
So now it seems puzzling, disloyal and, frankly, hurtful to see the Clintons use subtle and not so subtle race-bating tactics in Hillary's race for the democratic presidential nomination.
Yes, make no mistake, Hillary and Bill, are win at all cost campaign veterans and they truly understand the rhectoric of racial politics. As a former governor of the southern Arkansas, Bill knows the racial politics of the southern strategy. Wikipedia defines the southern strategy as:
In American politics, the Southern strategy refers to methods of winning elections in the South in the latter decades of the 20th century by exploiting racial anxiety among white voters.
Hillary's latest quote that - “Senator Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again.” There’s a pattern emerging here.” - was labeled race-bating by the paper that endorsed her, The New York Times.
Shame on you Bill and Hillary. I do not believe you two are racist, but you have demonstated that you will deploy any strategy or tactic to win an election; even if it pulls apart the democratic party and our country's tenuous racial relations. You two have super-elevated your personal ambitions above the needs of our country at a time, black, white, Asian, Latino, poor, working class, middle-class need unification the most in order to win back our country from the elk of Bush/Cheney.
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