Clinton: ‘White Americans’ Are Supporting Me

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Was Hillary channeling George Wallace?
Published 5/9/2008 by Joe Conason at Salon
... Baines Johnson in the civil rights crusade, although several prominent Obama supporters promoted that smear. And if Bill Clinton's comparison of Obama and Jesse Jackson was badly timed and clumsy, that too fell within the bounds of acceptable commentary. Indeed, the discussion of ethnic and racial voting preferences is not only fair but unavoidable and utterly mundane in American politics. But this time she violated the rhetorical rules, no doubt by mistake. It was her offhand reference to "working, hard-working Americans, white Americans" that raises the specter of old ...

David Roberts: What Should Obama Do In West Virginia and Kentucky?
Published 5/11/2008 by David Roberts at Huffington Post Entertainment Blog
... that there is no pander to "hard-working Americans, white Americans" too crass or desperate. She's been wallowing in ham-handed ...