Hillary’s supporters playing the race card…again

Yesterday, Barack Obama cruised to a 61% to 37% win over Hillary Clinton in the Mississippi primary.

And, coupled with his win in Wyoming on Saturday, this effectively re-establishes him as the candidate not only with an insurmountable lead in delegates but also with the momentum in the race towards the Democratic nomination.

However, Hillary’s supporters are lamenting how troubling it is that over 90% of blacks are now voting for Obama.

And, no doubt, their lamentations were prompted by the following race-baiting remarks Geraldine Ferraro, a Hillary booster and the first female VP nominee (on the losing 1984 Democratic ticket), made recently:

If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position…. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept.

But one wonders if Hillary’s supporters find it just as troubling that 100% of blacks have voted for white Democratic presidential candidates in every presidential campaign since they got the right to vote. This, despite informed efforts by people like Colin Powell to get them to stop putting all of their eggs in one political party’s basket.

Not to mention the even more glaring, if not damning, fact that whites have been voting along racial lines since time immemorial.

Of course, it is an indisputable fact that Obama’s ability to inspire multiracial support for his candidacy has more to do with his unassailable intelligence and charisma than with luck or his race. Therefore, these lamentations and Ferraro’s remarks are patently absurd, if not racist.

On the other hand, one wonders Hillary’s supporters think that the 72% of whites who voted for Hillary did so just because she’s white; or if they think that Hillary would be in the position she’s in if she were not the wife of former president Bill Clinton.

But frankly, Ferraro is just a crotchety, ignorant and resentful old cow whose remarks Obama should not dignify with any further comment.

Although with the Clintons playing the race card at every turn (in a venal effort to marginalize Obama as just another Jesse Jackson), and Ferraro asserting that he’s nothing more than an affirmative-action candidate, many of you are probably shocked to learn that white Democrats can be every bit as racist as white Republicans. But that’s a fact!

Nevertheless, let’s keep on truckin’ Obama! To Pennsylvania we go….

NOTE: With late-breaking reports that Obama actually won the Texas caucuses, he now leads Hillary in the all-important delegate count 1,608 to 1,478.

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