[R-P] [en inglés] El racismo de la Clinton en Carolina del Sur

[Néstor Gorojovsky]

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[Solo para cumplir con una promesa. Véase cómo esta nota del Guardian
da por sentado que la estrategia de los Clinton es marginalizar a
Barack Obama como un candidato negro, irrepresentativo de la
diversidad racial de EEUU. Esto, en Carolina del Sur, tiene un único
sentido. Y pese a ello, y es más, pese a que los Clinton -como dice
esta nota de ayer- daban por descontada la victoria allí, Obama le
ganó a Billary. Es indudable que algo, no está muy claro qué, pero
"algo" está pasando en EEUU. No sería raro que esté pasando algo
parecido a lo que tanto anda planteando La Rouche]

White voters desert Obama as race divide starts to bite

Ewen MacAskill and Suzanne Goldenberg in Columbia, South Carolina
Saturday January 26, 2008

Guardian

The Clinton strategy of marginalising Barack Obama as an
African-American candidate showed signs of success on the eve of
today's Democratic primary in South Carolina. Polls suggest Obama is
in line to add South Carolina to his win in Iowa, but they also show a
sharp drop in his support from white voters, undermining his claim to
a leadership that transcends race.

A repeat of this pattern in the 22 primaries on Super Tuesday, February 5,
would see Clinton come out on top.

A poll for the McClatchy news service yesterday showed white support for
Obama down to 10% from 20% last week. Clinton had support from whites
and African-Americans while John Edwards drew his support almost
entirely from whites.

That rating may be peculiar to South Carolina, with its history of racism,
but it is a worrying trend for a candidate who spent all of last year trying
to avoid race.

Obama, asked by a reporter on the campaign trail in South Carolina on
Thursday if he feared the Clintons were trying to pigeonhole him as the
black candidate, said he had run his campaign and public career "based on
the idea that we're all in it together, and that black, white, Hispanic,
Asian, all of us share common dreams, common fears, and common concerns".

That approach, Obama said, won him votes "across the board" in Iowa,
New Hampshire and Nevada, and will do so elsewhere. "I'll let the
Clintons speak to what their strategy is going to be," he said coolly.

The Clinton team pulled a negative radio ad that cast Obama as an
admirer of Ronald Reagan after complaints from fellow Democrats about
its accuracy.

The Obama team, in response, dropped a negative ad about the Clintons.

But otherwise the bitter and divisive battle for the Democratic nomination
continued unabated. In an interview on CBS yesterday morning Clinton
conceded that her husband, who has led the personal attacks on Obama,
had admitted that "maybe he got a little bit carried away".

But minutes later, on ABC television, she resumed attacking Obama for his
links to a Chicago developer, Tony Rezko, who goes on trial for extortion
next month.

Despite the hard-fought campaign in South Carolina, the Clinton camp has
discounted the state and is concentrating its efforts on Super
Tuesday, when 1,700 delegates in 22 states will be at stake.

Clinton, renewed by victories in New Hampshire and Nevada, is more
confident on the campaign trail, and has begun to inject more emotion
into her speeches.

She received an additional boost yesterday when her hometown
newspaper, the New York Times, endorsed her for the Democratic
nomination and John McCain for the Republicans.

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