If white people have no idea what makes blacks terribly angry

[BenDavid]

it will probably happen again and again until someone explains it to us, and please don't answer by saying "the Clinton's knew what they were saying." Sidebar: when the whore media is too afraid to ask questions about obama's past and on the issues and be labeled bigots, racist, then someone played the race card just right. uh huh

YOU obama folks are the offended party. It's up to you to explain why.

[Raven]

1. What about Obama's past? I keep hearing that he's hiding something

but I can't figure out what it is.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. There are some who would like you to think that

so they just whisper that there's "something." But there isn't.

[HonestyIsAVirtue]

2. Boo

Stop bringing up race. Seriously, why is it always race with you guys?

[zabet]

3. With racism being recent

news, (Imus), before the primaries got
hot and heavy, any radio/talk show/pundit/
journalist has to fear that anything they
say/print may be misconstrued as racism
towards Obama.
I think Obama's campaign knows this too.
Noticeabley, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson
have not been all over the media promoting
Obama. They are too divisive about race issues.

[robcon]

4. No idea??? What a racist rant to suggest an entire race is clueless!

Awful OP.

[AGirl]

5. white politicans should be careful when they talk about MLK

that's the whole truth.

[Thrill]

7. Of course a Hillary supporter, Bringing race to the front again

Pathetic.

[pampango]

8. Not this again. (Oh and is it up Blacks to convince you why they are offended?

Otherwise, it doesn't count?)

There are plenty of Democrats from Kennedy to Sharpton, real people - politicians, party officials, strategists - not internet posters, who have expressed concern for Bill's antics in SC. Heck, even Hillary seems to have reigned Bill in since SC.

Bill is an excellent strategist and campaigner. I'll acknowledge that even when I don't like what he does and says.

Until Obama won the Iowa caucus, why should the Clintons have viewed him as a serious threat to her nomination? There have been Black candidates in the past who appealed to African Americans primarily, might have won a primary or two, but had no traction with the larger pool on non-Black voters.

Once Obama proved his ability to appeal to white voters, they had to take another look at him as an potential adversary. If he successfully transcended race, as he did in Iowa, he could be a threat to Hillary. If, on the other hand, Democratic primary voters came to perceive him as just another BLACK candidate like Jackson and Sharpton, well, he might win a primary or two, but he would not be any more of a danger to win the nomination than earlier Black candidates had been.

If you want to say that this doesn't prove anything, I'll grant that. It only proves the existence of a motive to inject race into the campaign in SC. If I can figure out the danger to Hillary of Obama transcending race in the campaign, I'm quite sure that they did, too.

You may feel that Bill is too highly principled a campaigner to actually seek partisan advantage by injecting race into the competition. You are entitled to your opinion and I to mine.

[TomClash]

9. I'm calling you on it

Attack Barack all you want on policy and character but leave race out of it. What if someone started posting that jews play the anti-semite card too much? Wouldn't that be wrong? It would be both wrong as a statement and offensive to raise it.

You need to stop this crap. Otherwise, look in the mirror and ask yourself why you hate African-Americans.

[Onlooker]

10. The Jewish star is embarrassing

I'm nominally Jewish (an atheist really), but your post is a racist way of defending Clinton's actions. Only an idiot would not know that comparing Obama's results to Jackson's was a way of using race to diminish them. Most people I know are vastly more sensitive than you are. I've known the type of Jew who presents things in terms of race the way you did. Your star is embarrassing because it's in many ways a good symbol that your are defiling with your post.

[knowledgeispwr]

11. Stupid post, but I'll reply anyway...

1. You're making a generalization saying "white people have no idea" about what gets under black ppl's skin. There are plenty of non-black people who "get it."

2. Black people have frequently explained why something may bother us or be offensive to us. If others choose to ignore it, dismiss it, or tell us we're "hypersensitive" that's not on us. You can't complain nobody told you.

3. You've made many posts on the race topic and people have explained what's been going on countless time. It's an unwillingness on your part to have empathy.

4. Bill Clinton is from Arkansas, he knew what he was saying and knew about innuendo being propagated from Sen. Clinton's campaign. That's why you had even Whites in SC saying there was "race-baiting" going on; they know it when they see it.