Comments on: Clinton’s Time to Get Up http://rutherfordl.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/clintons-time-to-get-up/ The world seen through clear eyes. Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:53:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: rutherfordl http://rutherfordl.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/clintons-time-to-get-up/#comment-208 rutherfordl Fri, 09 May 2008 15:10:44 +0000 http://rutherfordl.wordpress.com/?p=40#comment-208 There is a difference between polling data and interpretation of polling data AND who does the interpreting. The possibility that this race seems to be dividing down racial and gender lines is nothing new. The main stream media comments on it endlessly. What end does it serve for Hillary to call this out? Is she really doing her party a service by saying "wake up and smell the coffee, I'm the only one who can beat McCain in this racist country of ours"? This sentiment, coming from her is unseemly to say the least. Peggy Noonan put it beautifully in a Wall Street Journal editorial (http://online.wsj.com/article/declarations.html). "To play the race card as Mrs. Clinton has, to highlight and encourage a sense that we are crudely divided as a nation, to make your argument a brute and cynical "the black guy can't win but the white girl can" is -- well, so vulgar, so cynical, so cold, that once again a Clinton is making us turn off the television in case the children walk by." -- Peggy Noonan There is a difference between polling data and interpretation of polling data AND who does the interpreting. The possibility that this race seems to be dividing down racial and gender lines is nothing new. The main stream media comments on it endlessly.

What end does it serve for Hillary to call this out? Is she really doing her party a service by saying “wake up and smell the coffee, I’m the only one who can beat McCain in this racist country of ours”? This sentiment, coming from her is unseemly to say the least.

Peggy Noonan put it beautifully in a Wall Street Journal editorial (http://online.wsj.com/article/declarations.html).

“To play the race card as Mrs. Clinton has, to highlight and encourage a sense that we are crudely divided as a nation, to make your argument a brute and cynical “the black guy can’t win but the white girl can” is — well, so vulgar, so cynical, so cold, that once again a Clinton is making us turn off the television in case the children walk by.” — Peggy Noonan

]]> By: Alfie http://rutherfordl.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/clintons-time-to-get-up/#comment-206 Alfie Fri, 09 May 2008 14:52:08 +0000 http://rutherfordl.wordpress.com/?p=40#comment-206 Polling breakdowns bear some of her statements out and clearly shows where the black vote is going. Should these polls be outlawed ? Polling breakdowns bear some of her statements out and clearly shows where the black vote is going. Should these polls be outlawed ?

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