That was what Hillary said when asked on TV if Obama were a Muslim, nurturing doubts about Obama's "other-side-ness" when she could have helped set the record straight.
"So did Jesse Jackson."
That was how Bill Clinton tried to reduce Obama to being simply "the black candidate," whereas --as Bill well understood-- Obama is not running as a black. Bill knew that Obama can only be elected if he succeeds in transcending race in the eyes of white voters, only if he is seen as someone who –unlike Jesse Jackson-exists outside of the discomfort zone that most Americans feel about race. Obama was winning because he is someone with whom both races feel able to connect. And the Clinton campaign sought to break that important connection-- just as the fascistic elemennt has sought power, ever since Nixon's Southern strategy, by fostering and exploiting division.
Hillary has operated according to an ethic in which any approach that works is a virtue to employ, so long as it works. It stands in vivid contrast with an ethic, like Obama's, of wanting to replace the evil structure of today's power system with a different one that expresses the better angels of our nature.
That's where I believe Hillary is at the spiritual level, and that's how I imagine she arrived there.
Andrew Bard Schmookler's website www.nonesoblind.org is devoted to understanding the roots of America's present moral crisis and the means by which the urgent challenge of this dangerous moment can be met. Dr. Schmookler is also the author of such books as The Parable of the Tribes: The Problem of Power in Social Evolution (SUNY Press) and Debating the Good Society: A Quest to Bridge America's Moral Divide (M.I.T. Press). He also conducts regular talk-radio conversations in both red and blue states.
Hillary is the old guard of politics that must be removed in order for this country to move forward with a progressive agenda.
To be quite honest I think Hillary who if you read her bio started off as a republican and she still is better suited for the Republican Party than she is as a democrat.If she had not been connected to Bill and caught all his flack, she would be the perfect Republican.
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Michael Chavers (50 articles, 0 quicklinks, 15 diaries, 181 comments)
on Monday, May 5, 2008 at 11:45:21 AM
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