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From Ben Smith at the Politico:
Introducing John McCain at the Clinton Global Initiative in Manhattan, Bill Clinton doesn’t mention that he’s endorsed another candidate, or that there’s a campaign on.
“I am perso…

As I listened to the interview I can’t say I disagree with your take on this Ed. But I also couldn’t help but think (know) Couric put on the air the portion of the interview that would shed Palin in the worst possible light. That’s her job as an Obama surrogate. Rest assured, the best parts of the interview will end up on the floor of the editing room at CBS.

I still think Palin should avoid these media piranhas like the plague. They want her there for target practice and no other reason. She will never gain any stature giving in to their demands for an interview. If she comes off badly, they will point it out. If she comes off as a viable candidate, they will say she didn’t. It’s always a lose, lose proposition.

Keep her in front of the folks and away from the enemy.

Hussein is just too arrogant to think others would doublecross him after he has trashed them. This is the inexperience you show when you are in your first real campaign.

Um, nobody is having a feces fit but you.

baldilocks on September 25, 2008 at 12:09 AM

When someone accuses me of something I have never done in my life, I’m not going to sit idly by and ignore it. You made it personal, I fired back.

Now STFU.

Amazing how Bill Clinton using a racial slur against himself prompts all the pinheads to use equivalent slurs against blacks.

baldilocks on September 25, 2008 at 12:18 AM

Is this what you do when all else fails? Make things up. When did he call himself a ‘cracker”? Better go back and read the article again. In his reference to Chiles he was calling a portion of the voting electorate ‘crackers”, not himself.

This is fun. Try again.

And no names were called in my one act play.

baldilocks on September 25, 2008 at 12:09 AM

So in your view, I guess calling someone a racist isn’t name calling. You used that term at least four times in your play.

Yeah, you make perfect sense. One set of rules for you, another set of rules for everyone else.

Try again.

Having said that, Bill Clinton won’t be of any help in FL. He campaigned here for Bill McBride in 2002 (taking on Jeb Bush) when the polls were tight, and that faux pas sent Jeb WAY UP in the polls, where he won by about 13%. Bubba also campaigned for Kerry here in 2004, and Kerry wound up losing by 5%.

So PLEASE, Bubba…come on down here to FL!

That got some mild criticism for using what some see as a racist term as a label for what Obama meant as a class argument.

Actually, I don’t see that particular quote as evidence of O’s bigotry. But I guess that just proves I’m a “typical white person”.

It doesn’t offend me – I’ve been called much worse. But there’s something surreal about such a distinguished political figure using that term. Who knew there was room under the bus for Obama himself?

Anna on September 24, 2008

This is what infuriates the black racists out there (yes, they do exist, Jesse Jackson notwithstanding). They keep looking for a perjorative that will offend white people equally as much as any black perjorative and they haven’t found one yet. I think they don’t understand that we (mostly) are not so insecure about our identities that we allow that crap to get so deeply under our skin. The real breakthrough will come when the majority of black Americans are no longer offended by stupid namecalling. That would be one sign that we have become the colorblind society we wish we were.

So now that its accepted by THE ONE AND HIS LACKEY to state racial slurs against us whites ,is it now fair to call him a NIGGER?

Marines for Mccain on September 24, 2008 at 8:58 PM

I doubt that you are a Marine.

Why so sensitive? Chill.

fogw on September 24, 2008 at 7:54 PM

Um, nobody is having a feces fit but you.

And no names were called in my one act play.

During our days of slavery, the man who sat on a horse that was an overseer of those slaves would “crack” his whip to make the slaves work harder/faster

Which means the whip “cracker” and overseer saw black people as sub-human. Thus the term is actually applied to white racist everywhere generally. Not southern whites who are not racist. There are “crackers” in NY, VT, CA, OR, etc. And in Philadelphia where I grew up and still have family and friends there. The majority of the white people in my South Philly neighborhood contain about 70% “crackers”. BTW I am white.

in the the south it is blacks that call whites “crackers” It would be like whites calling blacks “nig****”. Ask 10 whites what the term “cracker” means and you might get 5 of them to know wht it means. Ask 10 blacks what it means and all 10 will give you the answer.

That shows the difference in which word is more powerful/hurtful.

We can and do use redneck as an affectionate term amongst ourselves

That is exactly why some blacks use the term “nigga” for each other. Also there is another affect. After some time, using the N word by blacks is taking the sting out of the word.

Buford Gooch on September 24, 2008 at 7:40 PM

I’m sure you are correct that was the origin of the word. But when “cracker” has been used for the last 100 years, 99.99999999% of the time it didn’t reflect the original meaning you put forth.

This couldn’t be more clear, especially after the “I don’t know if anyone can be ready” for the White House, stuff, etc. Then the interviews the other day where he practically begged to be part of the Palin family. He praised all of them, went on and on about how Todd Palin is so awesome and his “kind of guy” and how he “can’t get over” him completing 500 miles of that snowmachine race with a broken arm, called Palin “hot”, etc. etc.

Obviously my comment isn’t going to influence anything here, I’m just hoping to open the eyes of people who may just think Billy Jeff is losing his mind. This is all very calculated. As Morris said, Hillary will pretend to make some effort in helping stump for Obama, because she kind of has to, but Bill will keep doing little things on the side to undermine Obama… and it’s quite clear he has been.

Cracker attack!

This is better than a good SNL skit.

Remember……always keep the Klintons in front of you.

Res ipsa loquitur.

mushroom on September 24, 2008 at 7:36 PM

And so you did.