Broken Eggheads Make No Omelets

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By Wesley Pruden

With Hillary dead and gone without even a decent wake, most of the punditry is busy with the fatwa, decreeing beheading with a dull knife for anyone who says irreverent things about Barack Obama.

Hillary Clinton learned yesterday that she broke the brass rule of American politics, that “race,” except for meaningless and insincere platitudes, is the http://www.wvwnews.net/printer.php?id=4522.

“I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on,” she told USA Today. “The Associated Press found how Obama’s support among working, hardworking Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me. There’s a pattern here.” Note how careful the lady was in even saying that much, all but tripping over the word “white.”

Paul http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4529 Indiana and North Carolina, and Paul Begala’s remark that nobody can win a national election in America with “only eggheads and African-Americans” is merely to state the obvious.

The statistics are plain enough: While Barack Obama was winning 92 percent of the black vote in Indiana — where blacks made up about 15 percent of those voting Tuesday night — Hillary was winning 60 percent of the whites. The percentages were roughly similar in North Carolina, and 92 percent of 15 percent is impressive mostly as a testament to racial loyalty. Aspiring eggheads in the faculty lounges at Duke, Chapel Hill, North Carolina State and Wake Forest, added to black voters, gave Obama his win in North Carolina. This says nothing conclusive about an election night in November.

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2008-05-09