Saturday Night Live said what a lot of people have been thinking - that Hillary Clinton is dividing America along racial lines with her ill advised comments. Behind the satire of the Amy Poehler skit there is more than a grain of truth.
In an interview with USA Today, Clinton said:
" ... Sen. Obama's support among hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again ... whites in both states (Indiana and N.Carolina) who had not completed college were supporting me."
Clinton supporter Rep Charles Rangel described it as "the dumbest thing she could have said."
On SNL Amy Poehler did a good Clinton impersonation. In giving reasons why she would make the better president, Poehler's Clinton said "I am a sore loser ... I would probably refuse to campaign for him." Another reason ... "my supporters are racist."
Check out the video clip at this link.
In the New York Times a Bob Herbert article - "Seeds of Destruction" - is a must read.
Herbert quotes Clinton's 'white American' comments and her follow-up remark ... "there's a pattern emerging here."
He goes on to add:
In an interview with USA Today, Clinton said:
" ... Sen. Obama's support among hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again ... whites in both states (Indiana and N.Carolina) who had not completed college were supporting me."
Clinton supporter Rep Charles Rangel described it as "the dumbest thing she could have said."
On SNL Amy Poehler did a good Clinton impersonation. In giving reasons why she would make the better president, Poehler's Clinton said "I am a sore loser ... I would probably refuse to campaign for him." Another reason ... "my supporters are racist."
Check out the video clip at this link.
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In the New York Times a Bob Herbert article - "Seeds of Destruction" - is a must read.
Herbert quotes Clinton's 'white American' comments and her follow-up remark ... "there's a pattern emerging here."
He goes on to add:
"There is, indeed. There was a name for it when the Republicans were using that kind of lousy rhetoric to good effect: it was called the Southern strategy, although it was hardly limited to the South. Now the Clintons, in their desperation to find some way — any way — back to the White House, have leapt aboard that sorry train."
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