Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Billary's Strategy to Incite a White Backlash Against Obama

Dick Morris lays it out:

If Hillary loses South Carolina and the defeat serves to demonstrate Obama’s ability to attract a bloc vote among black Democrats, the message will go out loud and clear to white voters that this is a racial fight. It’s one thing for polls to show, as they now do, that Obama beats Hillary among African-Americans by better than 4-to-1 and Hillary carries whites by almost 2-to-1. But most people don’t read the fine print on the polls. But if blacks deliver South Carolina to Obama, everybody will know that they are bloc-voting. That will trigger a massive white backlash against Obama and will drive white voters to Hillary Clinton.


I honestly think this is the Billary strategy. The Clintons know that seeing angry black leaders on TV denouncing them for their attacks on Obama will throw a fright into white voters and create a backlash in their favor. That's why they have run a subtle but clearly orchestrated effort to incite black opinion makers without appearing to be openly racist. Comments like "kid" and "fairy tale" by Bill Clinton have achieved the desired effect without exposing the Clintons directly to charges of racism.

These people are smart and they will do anything to get elected. That much should be obvious to everyone at this point.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Welcome to the club. Some of us figured this out about the Clintons about 15 years ago.

I wonder what will be the equivalent of the "vast right-wing conspiracy" that Hillary will scapegoat this time? Hell, Karl Rove's come and gone since Bill first ran for president.

J.

Anonymous said...

There's more to it than the "strategy" of Billary.

Corporate media has crowned Hillary as their best available puppet on the left.

Their marching orders were dictated by the top guns,literally and figuratively.

There's a reason why she's never taken back her vote for Iraq.

Obama just hasn't been molded to their liking........yet.

Larkin said...

Some of us figured this out about the Clintons about 15 years ago.

The difference now is that these sorts of tactics are being used against Democrats, not Republicans. I think that's what has caught a lot of us off guard.

Larkin said...

Corporate media has crowned Hillary as their best available puppet on the left.

I think it's safe to say that most corporate and business interests would fell comfortable with Hillary in the top job.