i’m scooting back down the rabbit hole

Gene McCarthy was the candidate in 1968 who took on Lyndon Johnson. Once Johnson said “I will not run, I will not accept…” Bobby Kennedy stepped in.

1968 was the first election in which I voted. I was SO pissed @ Humphrey & the Democrats over Vietnam that I did what some are threatening to do now: I voted for a third [the “Peace & Freedom”] party. That got us Nixon. Needless to say, I look upon those voicing such threats now with concern.

1968 was a heart-breaking time: Martin Luther King’s death in April, Bobby Kennedy’s death in June, violence @ the Democratic Convention in Chicago, and the draft & Vietnam hanging over us all.

Thus I worry about our scene now.

Jesse Jackson, Jr. was never fired. No one was fired over D-Punjab. Obama never renounced the UNITE-HERE ad nor did he distance himself from the highly inflammatory remarks of supporters Michael Eric Dyson after NH (accusing Clinton voters of likely being racists and stating every criticism of Obama is “racial in subtext”) or Dick Harpootlian in SC (comparing Bill to Lee Atwater).

Also: can someone from the Democratic party put a stop to the presumption that being Muslim is a smear? Please. Enough. There’s no other way to counter it without attacking the bigotry at its root.

Lastly, people here need to ask themselves, “Why would Clinton do something that repeatedly results in her being bashed for it?” She wouldn’t. She’s not suicidal. And I say this as a man of color, for crying out loud. None of you whites understand what your confirmation bias (She’s bad, therefore, she must be guilty) does with this issue: it’s making an absolute mockery of racial justice.

@1divasinger: “I won’t be fooled again!”
Too late. You already bought this nonsense hook, line, and sinker.

Ironically as this story was breaking the other big story was the Mississippi primary where the pundits crowed about Obama getting 90% of the Black vote. There is no way this would happen if he were white.

Joe- Are you saying that if an white individual won Mississippi by gaining 90% of the black vote there wouldn’t be something said? I think it was, when Jimmy Carter won that vote in 1976. But even then the numbers of black voters were not some incredible.

You seem to lack any historical reference about what happened in Mississippi in the early ’60’s. Blacks were essentially forbidden to vote through a whole host of literacy laws, poll taxes, absence of convenient polling sites, bureaucratic malfeasance and outright violent intimidation.

At the beginning of yesterdays vote the estimates by the media and the Missssippi Sect’y of State were that about 125,000 Democratic voters would come out. It was thought that Obama mighgt get maybe as high as 55%. But because of the SIZE of the African-American vote the numbers were over 400,000 voters.

Now are you saying that if a white candidate drew 75% of the White vote someone should suggest the vote was racist? That’s what you seem to be suggesting regarding Obama. Guess who won over 75% of the white vote (including 75% of the Republican white cross-over voters?).