Buh-bye! Hillary's SNL Bit Is a Dud
For 15 minutes at the very top of their final pre-March 4 Democratic debate, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama traded mind-numbingly wonkish soliloquies about the details of their health care plans. To any candidates for master’s degrees in Heath Care Policy who might have been watching, the dialogue was possibly beneficial.
To the remaining 99.9 percent of the viewing audience, it was an incoherent exchange in which both candidates seemed to be reaching into the minutiae of their opponent’s plan in an effort to play a particularly demagogic brand of gotcha.
For these viewers, there was no clear winner or loser during the health care portion of the debate. But then the topic changed and Clinton decided, out of a frustration that has been mounting for months it seemed, to vent some of her displeasure with the media.
Instead of diving straight into a reply to a question from Tim Russert about NAFTA, Clinton said: “Can I just point out that in the last several debates, I seem to get the first question all the time. And I don’t mind. I’ll be happy to field them.”
Then, again instead of delving into the NAFTA question, she took it a step further: “But I do find it curious. If anybody saw Saturday Night Live, maybe we should ask Barack if he’s comfortable and if he needs another pillow.”
Thud. In about 10 seconds’ time, Clinton managed to communicate self-pity, bitterness, pettiness, paranoia and mean-spirited sarcasm. And she handed the press a sound bite that will undoubtedly be played over and over, on television, radio and the Internet, thereby completely drowning out the substantive messages she tried to communicate at other times during the debate.
She may have a point about often receiving the first question in debates. (Underlying argument: Obama would never be able to think on his feet as quickly as she can.) And her staff and her most fervent supporters have certainly taken note of this, just as they have cataloged every other real and imagined slight from the press during this entire campaign.
But they are the only ones who have noticed it, and they are the only ones who will ever care much about it. To the casual viewer and voter, it simply sounds like whining—like a basketball coach who can’t stop pointing out that the refs whistled his team for four more fouls than the opposition. The coach (and his team’s fans) see a conspiracy. The average fan hears a whining coach. Even if Hillary is right and she has actually stumbled across some malicious pattern in the order of questioning—and it’s not clear that she has—she only does damage to herself by bringing it up.
Bringing up SNL and taking a shot at Obama only worsened the damage. Since its airing three nights ago, the Clinton campaign has treated the SNL sketch in question like some kind of revelation from above. For those who missed it and will never see it—and that includes the overwhelming majority of voters in Ohio and Texas—the sketch portrayed the moderators of a debate professing their undying love for Obama and scorning Clinton like an unwanted stepchild.
Perhaps Clinton intended for this shot to come across more like good-natured ribbing. But it didn’t sound that way at all. What it did do was call to mind her crack during last week’s debate that Obama represents “change you can Xerox.” So did the silence that greeted her line.
In fact, Clinton may have given media members the three examples they seem to require to declare a trend: Perhaps soon we’ll see the “pillow” and “Xerox” potshots coupled together with her effort to link Obama to a slumlord at a debate last month in television packages about “When Clinton attacks.”
Compared to the health care discussion or any of the other weighty topics discussed on Tuesday night, Clinton’s brief gripe about the media seems trivial. But it is human moments that most people talk about and remember. Clinton made her contribution to the genre on Tuesday, and she may pay a dear price for it.
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Does anyone at the Observer have any ethical compunction about allowing Kornacki, who is essentially an Obama campaign staffer, to pose as an objective journalist?
I mean, it's really becoming embarrassing.
Maybe after 20 debates it will finally be clear that Hillary Clinton herself is a terribly FLAWED CANDIDATE, not the talent her husband was...and, RESPONSIBLE for the FAILURE of the last opportunity the Nation had to achieve the universal healthcare mandate voters desperately wanted/needed fifteen years ago. She is polarizing and divisive, viewing life itself through the prism of warfare. No exchange is too large or small for her to manipulate moderators, competitors and anyone/everyone to do her bidding. Living life on her own terms as First Lady of Arkansas and the United States has warped her sense of reality and her place within it. Her Campaign has been MISMANAGED and, if Barack Obama had lost as many Primaries/Caucuses as she has, there would be demands from the media and DNC/Democratic Establishment to quit. So, who is actually getting a pass? And, she knows it. Feels entitled to it. Mocks voters and Barack for daring to be differ with her ascension. Of all the things I find dispiriting and disquieting, it is the MOCKERY and snide comments. When a woman becomes President, I hope she brings civility and grace to the toughest job in the world. That woman is not Hillary Clinton. She wears her scars as if nobody else has any but her. She has been in her bubble of privilege for too long. Enrolling voters past February 5th wasn't part of HER plan. She is bitter and angry...at us! So, now we have something in common with the anger she has at Bill. Turn the page. We have real work to do.
I have a question for RENATAM: Do you have a job? How is it that you can author SO many lengthy posts?
Ron X -- I would love to see your article about the debate. I think it would go something like this.
Me like white girl, black man, scare me. Don't be racist. Vote white.
Seriously, what are you going to do after March 4th when you're candidate loses. You might have to go back to your day job. Being a major major dick.
love,
Your Son (Ron XI)
P.S. Obama is half white, so you should half like him.
Barack Obama rasied some serious eyebrows admitting he was related to none other than Vice President Dick Cheney and drew some serious boos..
OBAMA THE CHANGE AGENT -CNN — Last night, Obama supporter Texas State Senator Kirk Watson was asked to name Obama's legislative accomplishments. He failed to name a single one. Heres a few
Obama said he goofed on votes angered fellow Democrats in the Senate when he voted to strip millions of dollars from a child welfare office on Chicago's West Side. But Obama had a ready explanation: He goofed!
Also announced he had fumbled an election-reform vote the day before, on a measure that passed 51 to 6. The next day, he acknowledged voting "present" on a key telecommunications vote. He stood on March 11, 1999, to take back his vote against legislation to end good-behavior credits for certain felons in county jails. "I pressed the wrong button on that," he said. Obama was the lone dissenter on Feb. 24, 2000, against 57 yeas for a ban on human cloning. "I pressed the wrong button by accident," he said.
But two of Obama's bumbles came on more-sensitive topics, he backed legislation to permit riverboat casinos to operate even when the boats were dockside.
The measure, pushed by the gambling industry and fought by church groups whose support Obama was seeking, passed with two "yeas" to spare -- including Obama's. Moments after its passage he rose to say, explaining that he had mistakenly voted for it.
Obama would later develop a reputation as a critic of the gambling industry, and he voted against a similar measure two years later. But he was clearly confused about how to handle the issue at the time of his first vote, telling a church group that he was "undecided" about whether he backed an expansion of riverboat gambling. And, months earlier, he had voted in favor of a version of the bill.
Obama's vote sparked a confrontation after he joined Republicans to block Democrats trying to override a veto by GOP Gov. George Ryan of a $2-million allotment for the west Chicago child welfare office. being responsible," said Sen. Rickey Hendon, accusing Obama of voting to close the child welfare office.Obama replied "I understand Sen. Hendon's anger, I was not aware that I had voted no on that piece of legislation.
He voted against requiring medical care for aborted fetuses who survive. Abortion opponents see Obama's vote on medical care for aborted fetuses as a refusal to protect the helpless. Some have even accused him of supporting infanticide.
Striking similarities between Barack Obama's words and those of Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick during his 2006 election campaign have raised eyebrows and attracted traffic on YouTube. The stump speech Barack Obama has been giving aimed at convincing voters that his campaign is not just about lofty rhetoric — is from Patrick, Obama's campaign acknowledged over the weekend.
Obama metaphor is a mirage. Repudiating racism is not a magic cure-all for the nation's ills. It requires independent ideas, Obama has few. If you examine his agenda, it is completely ordinary, highly partisan, not candid and mostly unresponsive to many pressing national problems. By Obama's own moral standards, Obama fails. Americans "are tired of hearing promises made and 10-point plans proposed in the heat of a campaign only to have nothing change," he recently said. Shortly thereafter, he outlined an economic plan of at least 12 points that, among other things, would:
-- Provide a $1,000 tax cut for most two-earner families ($500 for singles).
-- Create a $4,000 refundable tuition tax credit for every year of college.
-- Expand the child care tax credit for people earning less than $50,000 and "double spending on quality after-school programs."
-- Enact an "energy plan" that would invest $150 billion in 10 years to create a "green energy sector."
Whatever one thinks of these ideas, they're standard goodie-bag politics: something for everyone. They're so similar to many Clinton proposals that her campaign put out a news release accusing him of plagiarizing. With existing budget deficits and the costs of Obama's "universal health plan," the odds of enacting his full package are slim.
A favorite Obama line is that he will tell "the American people not just what they want to hear, but what we need to know." Well, he hasn't so far.
Consider the retiring baby boomers. A truth-telling Obama might say: "Spending for retirees -- mainly Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid -- is already nearly half the federal budget. Unless we curb these rising costs, we will crush our children with higher taxes. Reflecting longer life expectancies, we should gradually raise the eligibility ages for these programs and trim benefits for wealthier retirees. Both Democrats and Republicans are to blame for inaction. Waiting longer will only worsen the problem."
Instead, Obama pledges not to raise the retirement age and to "protect Social Security benefits for current and future beneficiaries." This isn't "change"; it's sanctification of the status quo. He would also exempt all retirees making less than $50,000 annually from income tax. By his math, that would provide average tax relief of $1,400 to 7 million retirees -- shifting more of the tax burden onto younger workers. Obama's main proposal for Social Security is to raise the payroll tax beyond the present $102,000 ceiling.
Political candidates routinely indulge in exaggeration, pandering, inconsistency and self-serving obscurity. Clinton and McCain do. The reason for holding Obama to a higher standard is that it's his standard and also his campaign's central theme. He has run on the vague promise of "change," but on issue after issue -- immigration, the economy, global warming -- he has offered boilerplate policies that evade the underlying causes of the stalemates. These issues remain contentious because they involve real conflicts or differences of opinion.
The contrast between his broad rhetoric and his narrow agenda is stark, and yet the press corps -- preoccupied with the political "horse race" -- has treated his invocation of "change" as a serious idea rather than a shallow campaign slogan. He seems to have hypnotized much of the media and the public with his eloquence and the symbolism of his life story. The result is a mass delusion that Obama is forthrightly engaging the nation's major problems when, so far, he isn't.
The change movement Obama is touting does not include whites, Hispanics, Asians or any NON-BLACK voter, with all the problems our great country is in because of the in-experience of Bush/Chaney we most certainly DO NOT need a racist movement in the white house to over shadow what MUST be done to save this country. People supporting Obama do not know anything about him or his severe lack of good political judgment or even doing the job he was elected to. They have fallen for the MEDIA FAIRY TALE! If Osama get the dem nom, Clinton supporters will not vote for him, especially because of the biased media. Non-black voters will stay home or support the republican before they hand over this great country to someone who cant lead his own campaign and touts racism as his platform. Obama is very wrong to say publically that Clinton’s supporters will throw their support behind him. He too has fallen in the republican media trap. They know in a general election there is so much that they will rip him a part. Is why they are scared to up against Clinton. She has been disgustingly attacks for a white woman, if the things that were said about her were said about any BLACK person male or female the country would be in an uproar! Theres nothing they can get on her except she has done an exceptional job as two term first lady and Senator! Clinton is the only candidate that can save our country. DO NOT SELL OUT FOR THE MEDIA... VOTE FOR CLINTON
OBAMA LOOSES JOBS FOR MINORITIES
Ms. Obama, VP Chicago Hosp, that charges minorities 6 times as much, isn’t cold hearted enough; she also caused hundreds to loose their 11.hr jobs, to be more efficient she said! In 05, elected to the BOD Westchester-based TreeHouse Foods, she received $12,000 and $33,000 from a subsidiaries, in Nov announced closing its La Junta, plant, that claimed the jobs of 153 workers, most of them Hispanic! Huge blow to a rural town jobs paid a starting wage of $11hr, Company pays top execs like MICHELLE OBAMA tens of millions a year while destroying middle-class America. Raises the question not only about corporate values but about Barrack Obama's own values. Specifically, while he bashes Wal-Mart, why does his wife, make $45,000 and up a year serving on the board of Chicago comp that pays her a very hefty amount of money while laying off mostly minority workers in economically deprived areas? No. 1 customer is Wal-Mart???
Obamas attack on middle class and minorities- The Crowns and employees of their family-run holding company have given at least $195,000 to Obama's presidential campaign. Maytag shut the Galesburg plant after Labor Day 2004 Union member say senator did little to save jobs in the blue-collar town of 37,000. Obama connection to Maytag: Lester Crown, company's director’s records show, has raised tens of thousands of dollars for Obama's campaigns. Maytag shut the Galesburg plant after Labor Day 2004.
Black voters are choosing black candidate based on skin color not merit and not what he can do to help our failing country. What a serious shame...we are giving away another election. Thank the media! Obamas speeches address just black voters. The same person who claims he is not running on race? It sure isn’t experience or who is best to run this country. Don’t believe it will work in the general election He truly had divided voters since SC win. No one is so naive as not to think that black resentment towards whites could render Senator Obama unelectable. NOW IT’S TIME FOR THE MEDIA TO SCRUTINIZE OBAMA LIKE THEY HAVE DONE TO EVERYOTHER NON-BLACK CANDIDATE. MEDIA HAS FAILED AMERICAN VOTERS
Funny how all the Obama supporters are calling Latino's & Asians rac
Renatam, is that you?? Stop posting under Anonymous!!! Christ, take a break for once.
Funny how many people are just pasting articles they've lifted off various blogs, instead of voicing an opinion of their own.
Post all the articles you want, Clintonistas. In 6 days time you'll be aboard the O-Train.
A few things that caught me last night:
1) If Hillary can supposedly "take any and all heat" then why does she and Mark Penn kick and scream when the media and her OWN party gives her a little heat?
2) The fact that she wouldn't answer two incredible important questions: Tax returns and White House Schedule shows how secretive she is and how secretive her White House would have been.
3) Ron X., I remember when Kornacki ripped Obama apart about 2 weeks ago. Go home and cry on your stack of Hillary petitions, it's OVER!
4) God, she looked so damn unprofessional last night. Gaffe after gaffe. It was like nails on a chalk board.
Barack Obama has had the kitchen sink thrown at him, which is the worst kind of politics which tends to divide and incite fear. "The world can use him too, with his reach to the Muslim nations and his middle name making it impossible for the US to walk away from one of the biggest foreign policy blunders in history. A restructuring of this overall policy is due after the demolition of the World Trade Towers. Some people think it's cool to be cynical. They deride those who show overt respect, admiration, and optimism. Those who still believe they can make a difference. Those who know they have power. This campaign has proven that cruelty is no longer desired as political style in the United States. The people now have a choice. A choice between magnifying the negatives or using the positives
I will say this. Obama has the potential to be one of the greats, but only if the people participate in molding his leadership. That's the task at hand. He, himself, invites others to recognize his faults not letting them interfere with the work. You can see how the people's support has molded him already in his quick evolution from weak debating events to the beautiful, strong, elegant, debate he delivered last night.."
From: Blogger, J.M., Raging Universe
I'd support Hillary if she WASN'T SUCH A FREAKIN' LIAR!!!!! This woman can't open her mouth without dissembling, spinning, fabricating or going into one of her multiple personalities. I simply don't believe a word she says. What a fine camander and chief that will make. It'll me a do-over of Nixon and Dubya.
The Clinton campaign is unraveling. That is abundantly clear, but the way to even attempt salvation is not by taking low and petty blows at Obama, it just makes a bad situation worse. Simply going back to the basics and articulating her platform would allow her to at least finish this race with some dignity and allow for her points to be made and effective no matter who ultimately implements them. Let me state that I do not think that this conflict is bad for the party, it is in fact rejuvenating it, by making politics some what entertaining. However, for the sake of seeming unified come general election time, there needs to be a fair and noble fight with the issues plaguing this country at the fore front..Not SNL skits and mockery. That way we can all kiss and make up come November.
And to RobX- Is there any such thing as objective news? Everyone has an agenda, take what you hear with a grain of salt, and get over it.
Though I am not accountable to you...I will respond just this once. I do not and never have posted under Annonymous, Steve G. Do not LECTURE or censure me or anyone else on a blog. Do not make baseless assertions and pivot from that place. The beauty of this year is that we all get to speak, after 200 years of listening to men like Rush...and women can and will not be stopped from voicing our opinion(s) by men such as Steve G or Bill Clinton, finger wagging or basing in our faces. All...turn the page.
Hillary's Ignominious Finale
All in all, it was a rather ignominious, belittling way to almost certainly close out the Clinton Era. Hillary would have done much better to spend the 90 minutes of Tuesday night's Ohio debate by repeatedly reading and re-reading her valedictory, closing remarks from last week's Texas match-up during which -- for a few shining moments -- a Good Hillary seemed to radiate with the grandeur of an honored First Lady and potential president of the United States....
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marc-cooper/hillarys-ignominious-fin_b_886...
Anyone who remembers the famous subway platform encounter in "The Matrix" should recall what "Inevitability" sounds like --a relentless, onrushing train threatening all kinds of ugly to anyone foolish enough to get in its way. Well, now, we have seen the kind of ugly that appears when anyone dares to get in the way of that once and inevitable candidate Hillary Clinton. Hopefully, voters saw her willingness to destroy anything and everything if sufficiently provoked. What would she do as President if someone like Putin got on her wrong side? The great mystic poet Rumi wrote: "If a man or woman flails about, he not only smashes his own house, he burns the world down." Or, as the government-created killer in "The Matrix" put it about the sound of Inevitability, "It's the sound of your death, Mr. Anderson." Fortunately the everyman superman Anderson lives to win. Would we?
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HILLARY IS A FIGHTER --- EVEN WHEN THERE IS NO REASON TO FIGHT.
SHE COMPLAINED ABOUT BEING ASKED THE FIRST QUESTION IN THE DEBATE --- EVEN THOUGH MOST CANDIDATES RELISH GETTING THE FIRST QUESTION. IF SHE BECOMES PRESIDENT, IT WILL BE FOUR MORE YEARS OF BATTLING AND NOTHING BEING ACCOMPLISHED !
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Why go personal about a committed political blogger...just makes you look bad.
By the way, I too blog a whole lot and I work a lot too. Some people work nights and odd days smarty pants. Stick to the subject.
Please all of you people who rely so heavily on word of mouth visit these sights to really know the facts on which you base so much info.
www.barackobama.com
www.factcheck.org
www.democrats.org
www.foxattacks.com
www.bbc.com--see what other nations see( with no media effect)
The fox network has attack Obama vigorously. His campaign has not cried foul. HRC is pulling the wimpy white girl card...of course which she doesnt need to do. Anytime it gets tough she shows she is unstable...
My big fear is that ignorant people ( by definition here as those who do not read more than one source for news) are voting.Making uninformed decisions which affect the rest of the nation.
SCARY isnt it.
Hillary should have spent more time learning to pronounce MEDVEDEV's name and less time memorizing nasty, scripted remarks against her opponent. Is this too much to expect of a so-called "brilliant" leaders of the "free" world?
Correct me if I'm wrong but didnt Clinton answer a question before she was asked. I'm so sick of her whining Obama was put on the spot with the Luis Farrakan question not to mention the Public financing question. Plus she was complaining about hypothetical questions. Shouldnt you be asking hypothetical questions to get a feel for how the candidate handle something that didnt go the way they expected. She was whining about that WHY?. Obama answered the queston why couldnt she.
If you want to talk about unfairness Clinton need to look at how she was crowned as the next President by the Democratic party when I'm sure they were way more people qualified than her. She wasnt complaining about the media treatment of Obama until Obama because good competition for her. Furthermore Clinton is negative. She is running around insulting red state democrats, obama supporters as being trusfund babies, Obama winning of small states as being nothing. Not to mention trying to seat ghost delegates and refusing to turn over tax info. She is behaving negatively so what is the media suppose to do spin it so its positive. Imagien for a second if Obama had lost 11 straight they would be saying he is done he would be drummed out of the contest. Yet everyone is saying Hillary is coming back. You can't count out a Clinton yada yada and she is being treated unfairly. She act like she didnt have advantages over Obama. Yes you did you had the establishment and a former president behind you. Then she made that gender comment about women bringing unique pov to the presidency. Imagine if Obama had said that in regards to being AA. He wouldnt be able to live it down. But I guess its OK cause a woman said it.
She needs to stop whining and if she is getting negative press unfairly that does NOT mean Obama is getting positive press.
Carol
HEY WASNT HILLARY SUPPOSED TO FIX HEALTHCARE WHEN SHE WAS THE FIRST LADY WHAT HAPPENED THEN???????????????????????
I never used to read these blogs and now I know I probably won't after this election.
Let's try for some civility and fairness. Sen. Hillary Clinton is an admirable candidate. There is some merit to her claim that the press "picks" on her: not a reason to whine, but a reason to dislike the media pundits yet again. I support Sen. Barack Obama but only because I prefer his political style and personal integrity. Sen. Clinton doesn't deserve all this nastiness. She has been a sincere advocate for children's issues and healthcare reform. As a party Democrats should be looking at the issues and picking the best choice, not tearing down candidates. Get a grip. Be adults and try for some useful discussion.
I was appalled at how Mrs. Clinton was treated in last night's debate. Mr. Russert was more than rude to her and obviously favored Mr. Obama.
Hillary and her people keep harping on the SNL skit as proof of the media's bias toward Obama. Beyond the fact that it was a skit -- not a documentary -- why don't they comment on the Tina Fey endorsement during Weekend Update? THAT was a much more serious bit.
Why are so many of the Hillary supporters "Anonymous"? Why don't you stand up and be counted? I'll tell you what, I saw Obama speak in Hartford CT last month. 10,000 plus people waited outside in the freezing cold over 2 hours to be in the same room with this man. I did and I'm a registered Republican. It's probably too bad that Hillary is up against a certified phenomenon but that's the way the cookie crumbles. BTW I cannot STAND the personality she puts on with the arrogant tilt of her chin and the veiling of her eyes and the sweeping "let them eat cake" gestures. She's got like 3 personalities! What is up with that?
In the debate last week there was some kind of draw which Barack Obama won and he got to choose to go first or second and he chose second. I don't know why they asked her first last night... But she did sound like she was whining. She used phrases from her husband and John Edwards during the same debate that she suggested Obama's words shoud 'be his own'... She has sent equally misleading flyers etc out about Barack Obama but gets outraged when it happens to her.. She feels she's being treated poorly by the public and the press because she is a woman, and because she is Hillary 'Clinton'. She has a pattern of doing things that she criticized Barack Obama for doing... at this point I have lost a lot of respect for her. I asked Senator Obama to run for president because I wanted him to run from the first time I heard him speak. He is brilliant and wise. He has integrity and he is inspiring. I have listened to the Senate of Cspan for years and never once did Hillary do anything that made me wish she would run for president. I hope that she can salvage her political career and remain a senator as it seems to be important to her.
YOU SAID: Ron X -- I would love to see your article about the debate. I think it would go something like this: Me like white girl, black man, scare me. Don't be racist. Vote white.
I SAY: I find it amusing that whites who refuse to vote for Obama are charged with racism while blacks, who have voted FOR him at an appallingly racist rate of 85-90 percent, continue to receive a free pass from the liberal media elites who ignore black racism or, worse still, rationalize it as an justifiable reaction to the always-ubiquitous "white racism."
Of course, anyone who has even a passing familiarity with black culture in the United States knows that it's as rife with antisemitism, homophobia, xenophobia, sexism, colorism, and racism as the most vilified white community of the Jim Crow South. Yet no white person can say as much lest he, in pointing out black racism, be branded a racist, himself. And make no mistake: that's precisely what would happen. Look, for example, at the absurdity of what's taking place with the "noose" professor at Columbia. They hired her because she's black, and now that she's been cited for plagiarism, she's shamelessly pressing the race button to save her own ass. Incidentally, I am delighted that the white liberals at Columbia who fashioned the racist hiring policies that led to this woman's hiring are now being slain by their own sword.
With regard to the Obama phenomenon, it's simply the political incarnation of "The Magic Negro" archetype, which, heretofore, had been confined largely to books and films. (For more on the The Magic Negro, see this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_negro) If you regard the "The Magic Negro" archetype as racist, it's because it is. For nearly a century, white liberal authors and filmmakers have taken to portraying blacks as stupid-but-morally-superior deus ex machinae, who, imbued with mystical healing powers, can absolve the white man of guilt and help lead him back to the moral high ground. If you're looking for examples, try Will Smith in "The Legend of Bagger Vance"; Michael Clarke Duncan in "The Green Mile"; or Whoopi Goldberg in "Ghost."
Much like white America's affinity with the The Magic Negro, its fascination with Obama is catalyzed chiefly by liberal racism. This is difficult for many to understand because, at first blush, voting for a black seems incongruous with thinking ill of blacks. Indeed, whereas many people are easily able to identify Obama's overwhelming support among blacks as a product of black racism, the provenance of his white support is initially less clear because, unlike black support, it lacks a perspicuous nexus to self-interest. Some attribute the groundswell of white support for Obama to a desire among white liberals to shrive themselves of irrational guilt for the deeds of their ancestors, but this is too simplistic. In truth, much of Obama's white support comes from "benign" liberal racists who bear blacks no malice or ill intention but secretly believe them inferior to whites. For example, consider the former tendency of so many white liberals to describe high-profile blacks as "articulate." Why? Because they quietly believed that the vast majority of blacks were NOT articulate. Simply put, the fact that such an overwhelming majority of blacks fail under the criteria by which white liberals judge THEMSELVES is a source of genuine upset and consternation for them. They don't want to see blacks impoverished or disadvantaged, so they hate the fact that so many blacks tend to act in ways that promote both those ends. After all, with so many blacks failing to pass muster in their eyes, the white liberals are forced to confront their most dreaded suspicion: that they, too, are racists. Thus, on the rare occasion that they discover a black who has eschewed black culture for even the shallowest veneer of whiteness--and by direct extension, legitimacy--the white liberals seek to have him appointed Master of the Universe. And if he went to fancy schools like Harvard and Yale, they become orgasmic. Such is the case with Obama. To them, watching an eloquent black deliver a rousing speech is tantamount to watching a bear peddle a bike at the circus. It's very gratifying for them on a number of levels. First, they enjoy the charming novelty of a black "who can do everything just like a real, live white guy." Second, it enables them to stave off discomfiting questions about why 99 percent of blacks don't pass muster under their standards.
It's entirely disgusting, yet the racist white liberals are lauded as champions for racial equality. What a joke.
At least give the proper quote, moron. She said she'd be happy to "feel the way," not "field the way."