[Marxism] "kneecapping" Obama

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clip from The  Black Commentator - 
A Note On  The Toxic Issue Of Race In Life & Politics 
I suspect, however, that even had the “Bittergate”  misstep never occurred, 
the Obama campaign would have nonetheless experienced  much difficulty in 
persuading anything like a sizable segment of working-class  White voters in 
economic-depressed urban and rural areas of Pennsylvania  warming-up to his 
candidacy. After all, the racial mindsets among working-class  Whites in Pennsylvania 
are, shall we say, not yet inclined toward the kind of  multiculturalization 
involved in voting for a Black presidential candidate.  The  columnist Bob 
Herbert candidly addressed this issue in  the  New York Times  (April 15, 2008): 
There is no mystery here. Except for people who  have been hiding in caves or 
living in denial, it's pretty widely  understood that a substantial number of 
[white working-class] voters—in  Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and 
elsewhere—will not vote for a black  candidate for president. Pennsylvanians 
themselves will tell you that racial  attitudes in some parts of the state are, to be 
kind, less than  enlightened.

 
Moreover, Bob Herbert's forthright characterization  goes further and 
provides us a keen understanding of the dynamics that enable  the Clinton campaign to 
maneuver Senator Obama's gaffe-- his “Bittergate”   ill-chosen words—into an 
easy political missile for Hilliary Clinton to toss in  Obama's campaign 
path.  As Herbert put it:

 
This toxic issue [ working-class whites' racial mindset] is at  the core of 
the Clinton camp's relentless effort to persuade superdelegates  that Senator 
Obama 'can't win' the White House. It's the only weapon left  in the Clinton's 
depleted armory. (Emphasis Added) 
Thus there is little doubt  that Obama's “Bittergate” remark cost his 
campaign some momentum. It assisted  the Clinton campaign's skillful and cynical “
kneecap-Obama” maneuvers,  especially owing to the cynical willingness of 
Hillary Clinton and her  advisers to, as Bob Herbert put it, manipulate the “toxic 
issue” of persistent  racist motivations among some of Pennsylvania's White 
voters. It will  take perhaps another whole generation before such White voters 
shift toward a  new kind of multiculturalization of their American identity. 
This, I believe, will be looked back upon 30  years down-the-road as a major 
legacy of Barack Obama's campaign for the 2008  Democratic Party presidential 
nomination. When it comes to the “toxic  issue” of race in American life 
today, the Obama campaign has taken the high  road, which he did both 
intellectually and morally in his historic  Independence Hall address on March 8th. The 
Obama campaign has accordingly  left the low-road pattern of relating to the “
toxic issue” of race in American  life to the cynical and vulgar manipulations 
of Hillary Clinton and the  Clinton campaign advisers. And as the lead 
editorial on the Pennsylvania  campaign that appeared in the New York Times (April 23, 
2008) observed,  “It is past time for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to 
acknowledge that the  negativity [in the Pennsylvania primary contest], for which 
she is mostly  responsible, does nothing but harm to her, her opponent, her 
party and the  2008 election.”


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