Clintons Playing the Race Card?

Watched Hillary on "Meet the Press" this morning. She's now attempting to paint the Obama campaign with the same stripes the media has been painting her with this past week - implying Obama is lying, exaggerating, and taking her and Bill's comments out of context in an effort to make them look bad. Calling into question the intent and the content of public statements made by Billary that are, if not overtly, at least inadvertently racist, is not the same as spreading innuendo and rumor through the internet. As to Hillary's claims that she fired people in her campaign for their false statements - she let the "Barack is a Muslim and attended a madrassa as a child" rumor fly for the entire NH campaign and didn't, at first, admit to it. Then when it was irrefutably traced back to her campaign, she waited until AFTER she'd eeked out a win in NH before firing the "responsible party" who was probably just some low level fall guy.

As to what Hillary is accusing Barack of - lying about her statements regarding MLK and Bill's now infamous "fairy tale" speech - several black leaders, such as SC Congressman James Clyburn, and concerned journalists were the first to take notice of the pattern of subtle race baiting that both Clintons have been participating in for some time now. The Obama campaign is calling into question direct quotes made by their opponent - that's responsible campaigning. We should ALL be looking at the candidates' records, questioning their intent, and examining their character before we just blindly give them our vote. Apparently Hillary thinks her extremely slow reaction to the slew of lies her campaign is slinging (slow enough to make sure they have enough time to hit and resonate before retracting them after the damage is done) gives her the moral high ground in her eyes, and Obama's calling her to account for her public words makes him "negative." I'm not buying it. And hoping millions of South Carolinians won't either.

You, too, Bill?

I used to like Bill Clinton... But I was SHOCKED by the Clinton campaign's dirty campaigning in NH. I thought that was something only Republicans did. It was like we were fighting against Karl Rove out there on the streets. I had several people - registered Democrats, I might add - who were sure that Obama was a Muslim terrorist that wanted to "take America down from the inside..." And where did they get this info? Why emails from he Clinton campaign, of course. Dis-GUSTING. Seriously, is this what we want from our President? 4 more years of the same crap we've gotten for the last 8? I can say that I loved Barack before I went to NH and totally supported his policies, but now I am FERVENT that he is the right person. We ran such a CLEAN campaign in the NH election, the ethical nature of the Obama campaign in NH came from the top down. And the campaign itself was run from the ground up. Democracy at its best.

If you think Hillary can change and run a positive campaign, here is, essentially, what Bill said on the Sharpton show yesterday - vote for Hillary, because this is her last chance, but Obama will have other opportunities. I.e. - "don't vote for who you think is the best candidate, just throw the old girl a bone, give her a pity vote, because this young kid has time on his side." Using that logic, we all should have voted for Dole in '96. Pathetic. They know her time is past and her potential was always limited. They're just trying to force her on the American public because the value of the Republican party has never been lower, which is her only chance of ever being elected.

I think we owe it to ourselves and the country we love to choose the RIGHT candidate. I'm not suffering through another mediocre President because she feels the Office is owed to her for some reason...