Why are Obama campaigners using the race card to attack Hillary Clinton?

And why did Hillary even make a statement about having a White President help an African American leader to advance the Civil Rights movement? Even though what Hillary said was true, it was a bad move on her part just to even bring up such an issue.





Her statement could've been easily misconstrued and be used against her. Even I could see that coming. Her husband would've never made a statement like that.

Why are Obama campaigners using the race card to attack Hillary Clinton?
I don't think Hillary meant to say it the way it has been misconstrued. She is running for president and wanted to make a point of how a PRESIDENT could help to make changes, by helping to bring certain issues to the forefront and helping to pass laws in this country. (which is true)...With all due respect to Mr. King...he most likely would not have been able to "Pass" the civil Rights laws of 1964 single-Hand-idly. Again, Hillary was only trying to show how much change (positive change) a commander in chief could help to bring about.


Obama's campaign, and of course the racist Al sharpton etc. have of course grabbed on to this and turned it into a race issue.....That makes me know for a certainty, I WILL NOT VOTE FOR OBAMA!!!!!! Hillary has a great record when it comes to the African American Community, this is HYPOCRITICAL of them to NOW accuse her of being racist!


This also proves we are NOT ready for a black president! (My opinion!)
Reply:its called a political campainge


what do expect


everyone wants to became the president of us of a


dont be so naive
Reply:Where is the evidence that OBAMA has used the race card?
Reply:The race card is not being waved any more than the gender card. I WISH they would appeal to us with what they stand for instead.


It's insulting that people assume that a woman would vote for Hillary just because she is a woman OR a black for Obama for the same reason.





Stick to issues please!
Reply:Obama isn't using the race card, neither is his campaign. They are just playing on the cards that have been thrown out. If the Clinton campaign didn't want to address the race issues, they wouldn't have thrown it out. This is Clinton's attempt to "remind America" that Barack is black and to gain some more sympathy. She figures she can't conjure up anymore tears without being "suspect."





If you haven't noticed, Obama doesn't speak on race, he speaks on UNITING America. For him to use the race card is unfathomable. The only thing that Obama said was that Clinton's comment was ill-advised. He was correct. It doesn't matter if her statement was true or not. True, it was LBJ's signing that put it into law. However, without MLK Jr.'s movement, it never would have been signed into law. Civil Rights would never have existed if either of the two weren't in the equation. To argue that one had more to do with Civil Rights than the other would be a matter of opinion. If you want to talk pure mechanics, MLK did more "physical" work. LBJ just did his job. Him signing the Civil Rights legislation is not necessarily indicative of him having a "warm heart" towards blacks. He could have simply signed it and forced it through legislation because he felt pressured by blacks marching or simply by his conscious. Making a decision because you feel that it is the right thing and making a decision because your conscious is bothering you speak differently of your character.
Reply:Hillary has open a can of worms. She had best to be careful. some people are not that forgiving. She is out for ....what ever


She needs to be careful.
Reply:dirty politics - but she uses the crying gender card
Reply:I don't think Obama wants the issue of race in the campaign. He doesn't want to run as a Black man because he knows he would lose. He wants to run as an American. I think Hillary knows this and is trying to bring in race to make Americans think that Obama is just another Black man. He surely doesn't want to have the Jessie Jackson or Al Sharpton image.
Reply:Obama's campaign has not made any comment on the situation. Clinton's people and the media only add fuel to the fire so they can get a rise out of you. It's funny Hillary can say" I am a woman, hear me roar!" That's suppose to be ok, but if you hear Obama say "I am a blackman, vote for me" that would be an issue.
Reply:I'll throw your question back at you - WHERE did the Obama campaign us the race card? His campaign and his supporters are not the same thing.





But, they played the "race card" because Hillary forced them to comment on it by bringing race into it in the first place. That Bizzo McGee can reap what she sows.
Reply:It's called if ya can't win in any other way...
Reply:I don't know if the Media misconstrued his statement but I think that ALL campaigns should stop using the race card no madder what color our skin is it is what we are made what, what we stand for, what is inside of us that counts! And that is what I think our President should Think!
Reply:Why are you continuing to bring the issue up?


Obama has not raised the issue.


The Clintons tried to use their dirty tricks and negative strategies to undermine Obama. And guess what, it bit them in the butt. Now the Clinton campaign is trying to turn their foul play into a Obama mistake??????


Give me a break!





Clinton and her uncle tom support can go straight to H E double hockey sticks!
Reply:because barack hussein wants to be the most powerful man on earth, and bating the race card is a means to that end.
Reply:The facts of the matter are given in the following news item:








Clinton, Obama Clash Over Race Issue


from The Associated Press





LAS VEGAS January 14, 2008, 12:18 p.m. ET · Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama have become embroiled in racially tinged disputes as large numbers of black voters prepare to get their first say in the Democratic presidential campaign.





The candidates and their surrogates are heating up their rhetoric, and it could prove to be combustible beyond South Carolina's Jan. 26 primary.





Clinton, on defense over comments that she and her husband made regarding Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy and Obama's fitness for the White House, tried to turn the tables on her top primary rival. She accused his campaign of looking to score political points by distorting their words.





Hillary Clinton had said King's dream of racial equality was realized only when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, while Bill Clinton said Illinois Sen. Obama was telling a "fairy tale" about his opposition to the Iraq war. Black leaders have criticized their comments, and Obama said Sunday her comment about King was "ill-advised."





"I think it offended some folks who felt that somehow diminished King's role in bringing about the Civil Rights Act," he told reporters on a conference call. "She is free to explain that, but the notion that somehow this is our doing is ludicrous."





As evidence the Obama campaign had pushed the story, Clinton advisers pointed to a memo written by an Obama staffer compiling examples of comments by Clinton and her surrogates that could be construed as racially insensitive. The memo later surfaced on some political Web sites.





"This is an unfortunate story line the Obama campaign has pushed very successfully," the former first lady said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press." "I don't think this campaign is about gender, and I sure hope it's not about race."





Clinton taped the show before appearances in South Carolina, where at least half the primary voters are expected to be black. On Monday, she planned to attend a union event honoring King's legacy in New York City.





But no sooner had Clinton said she hoped the campaign would not be about race than it got even more heated. A prominent black Clinton supporter, Black Entertainment Television founder Bob Johnson, criticized Obama and seemed to refer to his acknowledged teenage drug use while introducing Clinton at her next event.





"To me, as an African-American, I am frankly insulted the Obama campaign would imply that we are so stupid that we would think Hillary and Bill Clinton, who have been deeply and emotionally involved in black issues — when Barack Obama was doing something in the neighborhood; I won't say what he was doing, but he said it in his book — when they have been involved," Johnson said.





Obama wrote about his youthful drug use — marijuana, alcohol and sometimes cocaine — in his memoir, "Dreams from My Father."





Johnson later said in a statement released by the Clinton campaign that his comments referred to Obama's work as a community organizer in Chicago "and nothing else. Any other suggestion is simply irresponsible and incorrect."





Another Clinton campaign official, Bill Shaheen, resigned last month after suggesting Democrats should be wary of nominating Obama because his past drug use could be used against him in the campaign.





Obama, campaigning in Las Vegas, declined to respond to Johnson.





"I'm not going to spend all my time running down the other candidates, which seems to be what Senator Clinton has been obsessed with for the last month," Obama said.





His strategist, however, didn't spare Johnson or Clinton.





"I don't see why this is so much different from what Billy Shaheen did in New Hampshire," David Axelrod said. "Senator Clinton apologized for that. It's bewildering why, since she was standing there, she had nothing to say about this."





Clinton was not yet on stage when Johnson made his statements and she did not mention them when she emerged.





Meanwhile, in Atlanta, Obama's wife rose to his defense over Bill Clinton's "fairy tale" comment. Michelle Obama said some blacks might be skeptical that white America will elect her husband, but advised them to look to his win in Iowa.





"Ain't no black people in Iowa," she said during a speech at the Trumpet Awards, an event celebrating black achievement. "Something big, something new is happening. Let's build the future we all know is possible. Let's show our kids that America is ready for Barack Obama right now."
Reply:The media picked that one up, not Obama's campaign.