SC Dem Decision Based on Racism and Mud!

7PM EST Projection: Barrack Hussein Obama WINS SC!!!

The spectacle of a former President stumping South Carolina stirring up racial animosity would be a HUUUGGEEE scandal if the President doing it were a Republican!

Writing at 5 PM EST on Saturday, we'll know the results of the Democrat primary in South Carolina in a few hours. While most of us have been distracted dealing with the GOP race, it's important to consider what is happening on the other side as it's likely just a warm up act for what we will see in November.

After McCain won the SC GOP primary, attention quickly turned to the Democrats. The air waves immediately filled with commercials by Barrack Obama promising to rob from the rich and give to the poor. That's not so far off what Hillary and John Edwards were promising as they each marked out a socialist campaign platform.

But the real story was Bill Clinton campaigning all week in the state while his wife was elsewhere as if that would fool the voters into believing she wasn't responsible for what he was doing.

On his wife's behalf, Bill Clinton waged a subliminal racist campaign against Barrack Obama. That subtext came out into the open midweek when Bill Clinton postulated that his wife might lose SC because: "As far as I can tell, neither Senator Obama nor Hillary have lost votes because of their race or gender," he said. "They are getting votes, to be sure, because of their race or gender — that's why people tell me Hillary doesn't have a chance of winning here."

This was in the same time frame when Bill Clinton accused Obama of being the one to inject the race issue into the campaign.

Meanwhile, Hillary took the high road:"I'm out there every day making a positive case for my candidacy. I have a lot of wonderful people, including my husband, who are out there making the case for me," she said on Wednesday.

All of this has prompted Democrats who previously defended Bill Clinton, no matter what, to rethink their support for him and his wife.

Here's a sampling:

Skin Deep
by Michael Crowley
Just how strong is black affection for the Clintons?
The New Republic
Post Date Wednesday, February 13, 2008

...With black voters turning away from her, Clinton has found a new firewall: Latino voters, whose reputed tensions with African Americans will lead them, some Clintonites believe, to reflexively oppose Obama. Indeed, the black embrace of Obama poses a threat if it makes him appear to be the "black candidate," perhaps driving away some white voters, too. If that happens, Hillary, in a twist few could have predicted, might win the nomination much as her husband first won the presidency--using the black electorate as a foil.

Is the right right on the Clintons?
Hillary's campaign tactics are causing some liberals to turn against the couple.
By Jonathan Chait
LA Times
January 26, 2008

...Something strange happened the other day. All these different people -- friends, co-workers, relatives, people on a liberal e-mail list I read -- kept saying the same thing: They've suddenly developed a disdain for Bill and Hillary Clinton. Maybe this is just a coincidence, but I think we've reached an irrevocable turning point in liberal opinion of the Clintons.
... It made me wonder: Were the conservatives right about Bill Clinton all along? Maybe not right to set up a perjury trap so they could impeach him, but right about the Clintons' essential nature? Fortunately, the Journal's attempt to convince us that the Clintons have always been unscrupulous liars seemed to prove the opposite. Its examples of Clintonian lies were their claims that Bob Dole wanted to cut Medicare, that there was a vast right-wing conspiracy, that Paula Jones was "trailer trash" and that Kenneth Starr was a partisan.
...
But the conservatives might have had a point about the Clintons' character. Bill's affair with Monica Lewinsky jeopardized the whole progressive project for momentary pleasure. The Clintons gleefully triangulated the Democrats in Congress to boost his approval rating. They do seem to have a feeling of entitlement to power.

If Hillary wins the nomination, most of us will probably vote for her because the alternative is likely to be worse. But what happens if she's embroiled in another scandal? Will liberals rally behind her, or will they remember the Democratic primary?

And while all of that is troubling to Eleanor Clift, she says what is probably on many Democrat's minds when she suggests that such tactics are fair game if used on the GOP:

Cheap Shots, But Valuable?
The Clinton approach to Obama could pay dividends this fall.
By Eleanor Clift
Newsweek
Jan 25, 2008

...What happened to the softer Hillary we saw in New Hampshire? I thought maybe if I closed my eyes and imagined Rudy Giuliani or Mitt Romney standing at the podium in Obama's place, I'd feel better about the "Rollerball" politics the Clintons play. "Let me finish," Obama interjected, vainly trying to quiet Hillary, whom he said had gone on for two minutes. That's my signature line when I struggle to get a word in edgewise on "The McLaughlin Group," which is perhaps why I found the combat so unsettling.

So there you go. Racebaiting is bad unless it's being used against a Republican!

Can you say HYPOCRISY Eleanor Clift? Proably not!