Comments on: Steve & Cokie Roberts: Race Trumps Gender, Yet Again

By: Sir Elton John: Racist

Sir Elton John: Racist — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:59:08 +0000

[...] was posted by … let me think now… oh, that’s right. It was written by Diane Dees at The Democratic Daily less than a week [...]

By: Darrell Prows

Darrell Prows — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:23:21 +0000

That’s a very interesting point about the absentee ballots. My recollection from having lived in Oregon in the early eighties is that, among other things, they have “motor voter” (automatically registered to vote when registering a car) and mail in voting for everyone.

By: Kendall Johnson

Kendall Johnson — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:57:37 +0000

OH YES, IF THEY F*** CLINTON BECAUSE THEY DON’T THINK SEXISM IS AN ISSUE, THERE WILL BE A BACK LASH THAT WELL PUT MCCAIN IN THE WHITE HOUSE!!!!! I WILL NOT VOTE FOR OBAMA!!!!! WOMEN WILL REMEMBER!!!!!! WE WILL NOT LET THEM TAKE US FOR GRANTED!!!!!!!!!!

By: Janis

Janis — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 04:26:52 +0000

Fantastic link:

http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=576&Itemid=1

A really interesting dissection of Obama from a totally black-centered point of view, which introduced this white woman to a lot of angles she hadn’t considered before. It’s quite an eye-opened to see a dissection of the Greatest Show on Earth, without the assumed support for HRC.

I feel dorky for not realizing this, although someone on Taylor Marsh has said it: Obama played the race card against the Clintons because he had no other way of enshrining himself as a Black Leader — because he hadn’t done a damned thing for the community. She called it the “cheater’s way” to establish oneself as a black community leader.

Anyhow, damned eye-opening.

By: Diane Elayne Dees

Diane Elayne Dees — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 03:13:29 +0000

Jessica, it’s quite possible that Roberts has changed her political affiliation because of Bush. Or perhaps she is just being objective. I don’t really keep up with her.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 03:07:34 +0000

Diane: Since you seem to know more about Cokie Roberts than I do, if you think her compliments were disingenuous than I take you at your word. Maybe she has a different agenda than I ascribed to her.

By: Diane Elayne Dees

Diane Elayne Dees — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 01:59:52 +0000

“Nearly everything I have heard her say these last few months is very favorable to Hillary. ”

That’s interesting–I didn’t take Roberts to be one of those “oh no, not McCain!” Republicans.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 01:49:57 +0000

I wouldn’t throw Cokie Roberts under the bus. Nearly everything I have heard her say these last few months is very favorable to Hillary. She and her husband were suggesting that if the superdelegates push Hillary over the delegate goal line that blacks would be upset. That might be true but I think that is far too narrow a reading of the current climate. It’s less about racism and sexism and more about what people perceive to be fair. Almost anyone who thinks earning more pledged delegates means you should win will be upset–black and white, women and men.

By: workingclass artist

workingclass artist — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:55:38 +0000

Well…. These two join the others I’ve been throwing under my bus. Thanks.

By: caucusdebacle

caucusdebacle — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:41:07 +0000

The whole point of superdelegates is to account for grotesque anti-democratic injustices like the deplorable 15% Caucus Skew which has cheated Hillary’s voters of their rightful share of pledged delegates and popular vote.

Every 8th volunteer phone call I made into a caucus state got me a version of “Oh no, honey, I dare not caucus, I’m off-balance.” There is an epidemic of older women who have a dread of falling. No ‘ride’ would help them. Only the Absentee Ballot forbidden in Caucus States.

In Texas, Hillary was plus 4 in the primary & minus 12 on the same day. A 16% swing! What made the difference? No, NOT “superior organization” or more passionate voters, the unexamined ideas parroted by the audacity -of -ignorance MSM. It’s the Absentee Ballot. Period.

If you don’t think these passionate, silenced, and cheated Hillary voters are “deeply offended,” you’ll see that they’ll sit out in November unless they are acknowledged and accounted for in the thinking of the non-lemming superdelegates.