{"id":197746,"date":"2008-01-15T00:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T05:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/15\/the-racial-aspect-to-the-campaign\/"},"modified":"2008-01-15T00:15:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-15T05:15:00","slug":"the-racial-aspect-to-the-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/15\/the-racial-aspect-to-the-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"The Racial Aspect to the Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

The dynamic of the back and forth between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama is interesting, and I think that Hillary had the better of the exchange, which, according to sources in both campaigns is now officially over<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Obama’s campaign is designed around a goal, to prevent the voting public from thinking of him as an angry black man who cries “wolf” about racism.<\/p>\n

As Ezra Klein<\/a> and John Aravosis<\/a> have said, this exchange undercuts Obama’s primary message, that he is a new kind of politician who can bring people together, because people are hearing what they see as the same old tired litany (it’s not really tired, because we are a bigoted society) of accusations of racism.<\/p>\n

It also gives Charlie Rangel, whose civil rights cred is unassailable, an opportunity to call Obama’s comments stupid<\/a>.<\/p>\n

BTW, if these little digs are causing a hiccup in Obama’s campaign, just wait and see what would happen if he gets the nomination.<\/p>\n

Republicans will take those accusations of racism as a badge of honor, and they will, as they have in the past, run a campaign of racist code words.<\/p>\n

I fear that Obama would be dead meat in the general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The dynamic of the back and forth between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama is interesting, and I think that Hillary had the better of the exchange, which, according to sources in both campaigns is now officially over. Obama’s campaign is designed around a goal, to prevent the voting public from thinking of him as an …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[978,977,988],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}