Blacks versus women
The stunning political earthquake in New Hampshire on Tuesday and its aftershocks are opening a wrenching fissure in Democratic politics — raising the prospect of a bitter campaign with racial and gender undertones that could damage Democratic presidential hopes in November by alienating an important voting bloc — http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2916.
Though the respective celebrations over Barack Obama’s Iowa win and the resurrection of Hillary Clinton’s campaign at first obscured signs of trouble, it has become apparent that together they inflicted wounds that may be http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=246.
In the days leading up to Tuesday’s voting, the Clinton camp launched a vigorous assault on Obama’s lack of experience, a point driven home stridently by former President Bill Clinton. He focused on Obama’s credentials, insisted that Obama’s voting record in the Senate on Iraq funding was no different than Sen. Clinton’s and declared, “This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I’ve ever seen.”That prompted a sharp rebuke on CNN from Donna Brazile, a Democratic strategist: “For him to go after Obama using ‘fairy tale,’ calling him a ‘kid,’ as he did last week, it’s an insult. And I tell you, as an African American, I find his words and his tone to be very depressing.”
Hillary Clinton drifted into the same troublesome waters by asserting that Obama was raising “false hopes” and saying that it took President Lyndon Johnson to enact the civil rights agenda pushed by http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2913 Jr.
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