The Hillary Race Card and Black Surrogates

In the January 15 Washington Post article entitled ”A hand the Clintons are’nt showing” Eugene Robinson writes, ”Still it’s possible that the Clinton campaign has been so aggressive in keeping the race issue alive”. Robinson goes further to state, “Is it possible that accusing Obama and his campaign of playing the race card might create doubt in the minds of the moderate, independent white voters who now seem so enamoured of the young black senator. Might that be the idea.” In light of the foregoing, then,  in light of the foregoing, clearly Robinson is on to something here. But to understand the dynamics of the Clinton-Obama racial conflict, it is critical that we understand its anatomy.

Going into the primaries, the Clintons believed that an unstoppable cake-walk to the coronation was a foregone conclusion given the  presumptions prompted by her assumed aura of inevitability which ofcourse was proven unsustainble by subsequent developments  as very little did they realize that, lurked unexpected, was the ensuing Obama challenge that grew increasingly potent by the day and caught the Clinton campaign off guard, throwing them into a tailspin, and leaving the once seemingly impregnable Clinton fortress as vulnerable as ever.

While the Clintons may not necessarily have engineered this race issue, nor anticipated the media frenzy feeding thereon, it  became obvious to them that this was a do-or-die moment for their campaign. Hence for them the fundamental question seems to have boiled down to the prudence and wisdom of seizing this moment and adapting  to the practicality of the utility of race for political advantage. Thus since that realization, then, they have not looked back. Their demagogic drumbit preying on the racial fears of the white electorate will continue unabated—albeit surrepiously day in and day out. Although they purport to exercise some restraint toward the demonization of Obama lately,  there is ample evidence that they underhandedly will continue to ratchet up race issues until they are convined that they have effectively disabled the Obama campaign by driving a wedge between him and the white electorate, using black surrogates to neutralize his effectiveness,  thereby rendering his challenge fatally impotent.

Hillary’s worst attacks on Obama are in the offing

Barack Obama won Iowa last Thurday, and is more likely than not to win New Hampshire come Tuesday because the issues he is bringing forth are gaining the level of traction we have’nt seen, more so with a reveberating resonance with the American people . As much as they flow deep from his heart, these issues speak to the the aspirations of the Americans across color line. Unlike Hillary Clinton whose campaign talking points float conveniently depending on the direction the winds blows. The narrative of “change” she is trying to steal from Obama is unlikely going to work for her, if only because the people will without doubt see through her hypocritical machinations and shenanigans as driven by her vituperatve impulses and over-sized ambition whose boundless petulence are dwarfed  only by her williness to initiate ruthless reprisals against perceived foes. The Clinton’s punitive posture has not only yielded an intimidating deterrent to potential challengers, but has also meted out swift punishment to those who dare stand in their way. It thus remains unquestionable that, while they have already, and continue to subject Obama to the most underhanded political negativity, the worst is yet to come before it is all over.