Dear Hillary Campaign: (I posted this to Hillary's campaign website today as well.)Enough is enough . . .
As cited in today's USA Today, Hillary stated why her defeat in North Carolina and narrow victory in Indiana were really a great success:
"I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article "that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."
" . . . hard-working Americans, white Americans . . ."
There is the most odious appositive I have ever seen.
Certainly and sadly, however, it will soon be spit from the lips of every racist American within ear-shot of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and their brothers in bile who pollute the airwaves and the soul of America.
Hillary is certainly tapping into the spirit of America here.
The spirit of Jim Crow.
That is quite a "base to build a winning coalition on," a tried and true one with a long history to be sure.
Well, speaking as a hard-working white American, you have sickened me and forever. You have lost any support in any political context, contest or conversation I would have, prior to recent days, enthusiastically given.
It is not that Obama is necessarily a wonderful candidate. Furthermore, till recently, I had always believed that Hillary would have made a much better president.
But seeing what your campaign is capable of doing in terms of this vile, racist 'dog-whistle' politics--and doing it with obvious deliberateness, obvious and odious deliberateness--there can be no doubt that Hillary is simply and bluntly unsuited to be President of the United States, a country where so much human suffering, historically and to the present, is due, directly, to the same vicious racism that Hillary Clinton has decided would be expedient politically to deploy, sustain and celebrate in the campaign process.
I am sickened.
And you would be mistaken to think I am alone. Everyone among my family, friends, and professional colleagues--democrats or progressive liberals almost all of them--have seen everything we need to see to know what sort of person Hillary Clinton is.
We have seen enough.
She will not be the democratic nominee, and precisely because of this evil and other lesser, but still significant, character flaws that have been evidenced throughout this campaign--evidenced, by the way, not in passing comments or in past unfortunate political and social affiliations, as with Obama.
No, Hillary's character flaws were evidenced strategically, as deliberate and explicit political strategy to divide an America so that she might conquer it. She has succeeded to a great extend in the former, nurturing and validating a hideous racial division in America that the republicans will surely build on. Happily build on, since what is good for the goose is good for the GOP.
However, she has failed miserably in the latter. She will not conquer. Worse--or perhaps for the better--she will suffer politically, in the esteem of all Americans, and in history for the filth and evil she brought to the political process in a critical presidential election at a time in history when, not only was a more united America essential, but it was--and I hope to a great degree still might be--tantalizingly possible.
The major obstacles to a unified America able to take historical strides in combating racism, social injustice and poverty in America are, as they always have been, located in the dark hearts of the racists and the greedy among us who work assiduously to make certain unity is not an option.
These blights are the enemy of progress and human dignity. And it is these blights that have infected Hillary's ambition and as a result sickened so many Americans who once saw such promise in what now has been so sullied.
And it is too bad, because I am certain that there is greatness and goodness in her as well. More tragically, I think that the better angels in her could have conspired to make a very good president and maybe a great one.
And I for one would have been grateful to have Bill Clinton in the White House again.
But we have seen enough of Hillary Clinton.
Enough.
