WSJ: Obama is playing the race card

[verelsol]

But for all of Mr. Obama's soaring rhetoric about the nation's need for a post-racial politics that "brings the American people together," his campaign at times has seemed overly sensitive about race. It also seems to want it both ways. Mr. Obama claims that his brand of politics transcends race, but at the same time he''s using race as a shield to shut down important and legitimate arguments.

Already, prominent Obama sympathizers, such as Harvard's Orlando Patterson, are detecting racial overtones where none exist. In a New York Times op-ed this week, Mr. Patterson said a Clinton political ad designed to question Mr. Obama's readiness as Commander in Chief contained a "racist sub-message" because none of the people depicted in the TV spot are black. Counting people of color in an ad about national security is hardly consistent with the Obama theme that "race doesn't matter."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120536677319031953.html?mod=special_page_campaign2008_mostpop

[izzybeans]

1. Wall street journal or a Race relations scholar

hmmm? That's a tough one.

[Cha]

6. Thinking people will see their

agenda.

[Cha]

2. WSFJ ...who does not want Obama

anywhere near the white house. And, their editorial is as transparent as glass.

[verelsol]

28. On the contrary, The WSJ hates Hillary Clinton

That newspaper spread rumors that Hillary and Bill had killed Vince Foster, and wouldn't shut up about Whitewater.

It also was very friendly to Obama until it was clear he was a lock for the nomination this year.

[thoughtcrime1984]

34. Make no mistake, the WSJ likes Hill more than Obama

for obvious corporatist reasons.

[AX10]

3. Obama has taken advantage of the militant PC in our society.

http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=aa0cd21b-0ff2-4329-88a1-69c6c268b304

Not a chance I would vote for him.

[Nitrogenica]

7. Iggy

[geek tragedy]

12. Militant PC? Are you Hannity or Rush? n/t

[AX10]

17. Are you Obambots Rush?

Your smears of the Clinton's sound just his smears of them.

[geek tragedy]

19. Rush wants people to vote for Hillary. n/t

[MediaBabe]

35. Excellent article

Thanks for posting it.

[AX10]

4. FIx your link.

[BenDavid]

5. Who was it that got us to stop fighting the Bush bastards

so we could fight each other? Who gained power by splitting the party and getting Democrats to fight Democrats? Obama played the race card and blamed Hillary Clinton.

[AX10]

9. Look at these repsonses Ben.

It far past the returning point.

[geek tragedy]

10. People who pimp the WSJ editorial board are not progressives

and would STFU about fighting Bush if they had any shame or honor.

[AX10]

13. People who "pimp" Andy Sullivan are no progressive.

[geek tragedy]

18. The WSJ are Bush/Cheney cheerleaders.

Quoting them around here should be a bannable offense.

Jeff Gannon, is that you?

[Occam Bandage]

20. Eh. Andy at least endorsed Kerry. He's conservative, but not a wingnut.

[Neshanic]

21. Andy would love to have a pimp I am sure.

[movonne]

22. I am so glad rupert murdock owns the wsj....I think he and hillary

are great friends....faux news in print..

[Auntie Bush]

30. Truer words were never spoken!

[FVZA_Colonel]

36. Self-Delete.

Never Mind.

[geek tragedy]

8. The Wall Street Journal editorial board? Was David Duke unavailable?

Jesus, you fucking Freeper pigs are really obvious these days.

[jackson_dem]

32. Where were you when the New York Post endorsed Obama?

Probably cheering the threads on it...

You seem to have an obsession with bullying folks who criticize Obama to stop it. You may be able to bully some folks here but you can't bully the WSJ, ABC, CBS, etc.

[TheWraith]

11. Yet another right-wing newspaper smears and lies about Obama...

And it's posted by somebody who just joined up today.

And the trend continues...

[geek tragedy]

14. That's Clinton supporters for you--McCain loving

rightwing assholes and racists.

[KittyWampus]

15. it seems to me, Obama has a narrow path to tread. He can't be seen as the "black candidate"

nor can he be seen as the "angry candidate" and he certainly can't be seen as being to belligerent towards Hillary (a woman) especially since he is black.

[Occam Bandage]

16. LOL, well, if WSJ's opinion site says it then you KNOW it's true.

Or, rather, you know the exact fucking opposite is true, because it's the Opinion Journal, which makes Ayn Rand look like a commie.

[MadBadger]

23. Quoting the National Review and WSJ in a span of one minute:Freeper or Sockpuppet?

[muntrv]

24. WSJ always gives the republickers a reach around.

[ProSense]

25. That piece accused Hillary of race baiting, but it appears to be

helping out McCain:

We're not suggesting that the Obama campaign has never been justified in crying foul over racially tinged remarks out of the Clinton camp. When Bill Clinton gratuitously invoked Jesse Jackson after Mr. Obama won the South Carolina primary, he was clearly trying to define the Senator's victory in narrowly racial terms.

<...>

We suppose some of the current back and forth is due to the diversity preoccupations of Democrats. But it bodes ill for an honest fall campaign if Mr. Obama and his allies are going to play the race card to blunt any criticism. A campaign in which John McCain couldn't question Mr. Obama's policies, experience and mettle without being called a racist is not what the country needs. Or wants.

link

[grantcart]

26. quoting prominent sympatizers yes well hmm my neighbor Ms Simpson

is a prominent sympathizer and she believes that aliens have endorse Clinton.

Can we atleast stick with somebody that actually has something to do with the campaign. I mean Powers was pretty low on the totem

pole but at least she was actually connected - sort of - to the campaign.

[enki23]

27. er... this isn't even pretend news. its a WSJ editorial.

as someone noted above, they're about a fucking nuts as you can find anywhere. their editorial opinions are worth exactly jack shit.

[TahitiNut]

29. "Them nigrahs can't be trusted to fight the enemy. They's too skeerd to fight."

One need not be over 70 years old to recall the time when the stereotype of the cowardly 'colored' was that 'they' weren't qualified for anything but being mess stewards and laborers. Rent a few old movies and watch the stock character of the black man running from anything ... ghosts, grave yards, gun shots, you name it.

There's a LOT of crap on DU about "code words" and other stuff that's far more imagination than real - "niggardly" and "tar baby" come to mind - but the notion that Obama can't be "qualified" to be Commander-in-Chief plays upon some deeply-embedded stereotypes that I find deeply noxious.

[rocktivity]

31. Rocknation: WSJ is playing the race card

by suggesting his race IS "an important and legitimate argument!"

:headbang:
rocknation

[DJ13]

33. News! Right Wing mouthpiece for GOP coporatists hates Obama!

You might want to question why they obviously prefer Clinton instead of parroting their poor analysis.