Obama Wave Stuns Clinton's Black Supporters

[RamboLiberal]

You can see the confusion on some of their faces, hear the concern in their voices. How in the world do we deal with this?

Hillary Clinton's black supporters -- especially the most prominent ones -- hadn't expected their candidate to be in a dogfight right now. They thought Barack Obama was an election cycle or two away from being serious presidential timber. They thought Bill Clinton's presidency and the close relationships the Clintons had forged with African Americans would translate into goo-gobs of votes in '08. They were wrong.

Remember all the commentator chatter last summer: Is Barack Obama black enough?

Well, he's black enough now.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/18/AR2008021802364.html?hpid=topnews

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

1. they were told a black man couldn't get elected

although he is half black half white, but still, they were told it coulnd't happen.

That he didn't have any chance.

[thoughtcrime1984]

2. Not only does he have a chance

He is likely to be our next President. Outstanding! :)

[TexasObserver]

3. Bill and Hill have really ripped it with blacks over their nastiness since Iowa.

You don't diss blacks as a community and then act like you didn't.

[FrenchieCat]

4. But it is the Hillary supporters who are in denial that bothers me the most.....

never again will I believe that most Democrats are all that.

[TexasObserver]

5. I thought Hillary would run a much better campaign, wouldn't stoop so low

And I don't know what to make of the 30-40 Hillary fanatics here who seem intent on making her look at bad as possible here.

[Major Hogwash]

6. She's fallen, and she can't get up. Younger people saw right through the charade Bill put on.

When he said that Obama "was no Martin Luther King."

Obama hadn't even made that claim.
And Clinton was no George Washington, either.

When they heard the crap that went down before South Carolina, they went in droves to Obama's more positive campaign.
That's why the Clintons said last week, "they're just words."

[Alexander]

9. Take heart. There aren't 30-40 Hillary fanatics here. More like 5-6.

Many others are new users with profiles disabled and low post counts who offer nothing but a stream of negative attacks.

That raises a red flag with me.

There are some DUers who legitimately support Hillary, but not that many. The rest are just trolling around for whatever reason - to stir shit, to smear Obama, to foment negative feelings or whatever their pathetic reasons are.

[TexasObserver]

10. What's up with that no profile thing?

I'm still learning the ins and outs, and didn't start looking at profiles until people started looking at mine and making comments in posts, which seems kind of shady to me. If a poster has to look at your profile and use that to make some line of attack, well, it really suggests they have nothing of substance to say, they're petty, and they're a couple bubbles off plumb.

[AtomicKitten]

7. Obama has run a spectacular campaign.

Like Margaret Carlson said on Meet the Press: "Remember that thing about Obama not being black enough? Well, the Clintons have made him black enough."

It is often in life when decency rises above the clamor of ugly. This is one of those times. Obama is going all the way.

[donheld]

8. The Clintons have made him black enough

Yes he's blacker cuz the Clintons have buried him under a ton of mud.

[adabfree]

11. Hillybilly lives by the Malcolm X rule...

By any means necessary...

They are actually darker and blacker because they play in the dungeon and dirt!