The Obama campaign is taking a statement/words and rephrasing them and linking them to a racist implication, and now they will repeat it over and over and over to every African American audience they can find.  A classic case of swiftboating!

Thank you for the evidence to prove the memo that was sent out and acknowledged/approved by Obama himself.  I had heard about it, but was not sure it was real.

Reality bites, doesn't it?

Well, this wins something in the short-term, but the exit polls already are pointing toward it having a damaging effect on his electability among white and latino voters.

the more it might hurt him in GE.  

But he is smart, he never say it by himself.  But he uses his agent, Michelle and other surrogate to trumpet the race issue.  Maybe his strategy will work out.  who knows.  

This comment was posted yesterday by arkansasdemocrat and I am quoting it here because I believe it explains something very dangerous.  The Obama "Movement" is obviously willing to go to any length for their candidate....including swiftboating.  But if you own a movement you had better be able to control your followers and accept responsiblity for any damage it does.

As I wrote yesterday in "Do Unto Others", this is very dangerous territory.  The Repug war against Obama is going to be very very bad - for this country and our political system (IMHO)
arkansasdemocratic said (in part):

"What I mean is this: Obama refers to his candidacy as a movement. Usually movements are about something. The civil rights movement, the womens' movement, etc. had / have tangible and acheivable goals. The Obama "movement" seems to be mostly about Barack Obama. He seems to me to be using the Democratic party as a platform for his own ambition. I don't perceive Obama as a "real" Democrat. His stances on health care, his spewing of right wing critiques of universal coverage health care plans, his cavorting with homophobic ministers in the South are examples of his inferiority on the matter of being a committed Democrat seeking the Democratic nomination for President.

This is shocking. I see the Obama campaign as a stunning and alarming example of groupthink, which makes me very uncomfortable. Obama gives the masses little chunks of gristle to cling to- "hope" "togetherness" "a new way"- without really talking about what he wants to acheive in policy terms as President. He's been running for
President, quite successfully, for over a year now, and I still don't see the "there" there.
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There is a line in The American President that to me is emblematic of the Obama campaign: "People drink the sand because they don't know the difference."

It's really annoying that major Obama supporters/endorsers are still pushing this.

When you look at the fairytale comment in context, it is obvious that Bill Clinton was talking about Obama's Iraq war stance/actions, and in particular the media reporting of it.

Bill Clinton has clarified on several occasions that he was in no way referring to Obama's career or candidacy it self.

Yet, Obama surrogates have continued to push this. There's no way they have not read the context or Clinton's clarification by now.

The media ran away with wanting to paint or smear the Clintons as being "racist" last month on the run-up to SC. And it was media alone that stirred the race waters following Clinton's stunning win in NH (ie harping on the Bradley effect). After Clinton's other upset in the Nevada caucus it was the "latinos are racist" meme.

And poor Bill Clinton, every strong word that came from his mouth trying to support his wife was twisted way out of context, and the AA community has had their sensitive racial sensibilities stoked by the Media. Once the media had the AA community on board in force believing the Clintons were evil, racist Klan members--it was on. Satellite radios and media airwaves had virtually every black leader up in arms over...what? a "fairytale" comment? Because Bill referred to Obama as a "kid" in one speech? Give me a fucking break why don't you--Obama supporters and especially the AA comuunity better grow a thicker skin because this is nothing like what it will be in the gen against McCain should he clinch the nomination. The AA community has rallied behind Obama big time and it's here to stay.

Mission accomplished by MSM--Clintons all but destroyed and left in the toilet. If Obama wins...I'm bracing myself for one of the ugliest general elections imagineable.

Lol. Where's the part about race?

war and saying that Clinton used it to refer to Obama.  (What's a fairy tale about Obama...that an AA could think he can run for POTUS...which no Clinton has every said or suggested.)

PLUS, the memo that Obama knew about and acknowledged - a memo that indicates that the race card was being played.

This is going to be very damaging to the party in the GE. When the process started, I didn't mind who won i would wholeheartedly support the other. I am a registered Independent African-American female from the latte crowd.

Apartfrom her articulation of the issues,couple things have placed me firmly in the HRC column:
   1. Michelle Obama's claim that she didn't know if she could support HRC's candidacy, after HRC actively campaigned and fund-raised for her husband in 2004.
    2. BHO's claim that he can get HRC's voters, but he didn't know about the other way around.

The Jefferson Jackson dinner is just the last straw. I listened to HRC make a magnanimous party speech, and he and his backers turned it into his rally.

I will not vote for John McCain, and I will not stay home if Obama wins, I'll just vote for the candidates down the ticket and not cast a vote for president.

Actually if you listen to the question and Bill Clinton's reponse you know that what he was calling a fairy tale is Barack Obama's judgement and rationale for Obama's candidacy.  So yes he was implying that Obama's run for president was not grounded in reality.

Actually if you listen to the question and Bill Clinton's reponse you know that what he was calling a fairy tale is Barack Obama's judgement and rationale for Obama's candidacy.  So yes he was implying that Obama's run for president was not grounded in reality.

If he were to  accuse McCain of being a racist McCain's numbers would go up not down.  Conservatives would say "hey maybe John really is one of us."

I don't see how Wilder's comments are race baitiing, unless Bill's were as well.  He is just taking Bill's word and turning them around for Barack's advantage.  This is something Obama has been extremely adept at doing which shows exactly how strong he is against attacks.  Hillary accused him in one of the debates as offering false hopes and said we need a reality check.  Barack now uses those exact words as a lead-in to the conclusion of his stump speeches: People say I'm peddling false hopes, I need a reality check, that I'm a Hopemonger...but let me tell you what hope is. I know what hope is because without hope I wouldn't be standing here today....

Lol. Where's the part about race?

Bill used the phrase "fairy tale" in reference to Obama. Wilder fires back with "Barack Obama is not a fairy tale. He is real" and you call this race-baiting? Where's the part of Wilder's quote that involves race? As a supporter of Obama, I could see myself saying the same thing - that Obama is no fairy tale if someone connected Obama with that phrase in any manner.

If Obama wins...I'm bracing myself for one of the ugliest general elections imagineable.

Is this just another useless Obama-bashing thread by Hillary supporters? Does the Obama-hatred increase the better that Obama does in the primaries and caucases? If so, it may get to fever-pitch on Wednesday depending on Tuesday's results.

Hey, this thing could easily drag out all the way to the convention so I guess we've got a bunch more months left to puke on each other - definitely the "Democratic" way.

and polarizing in this country than Black/White Race relations and that wound's scab has been eagerly picked at by many in the media and Obama supporters. And now that the AA community and electorate is plugged in, the media more than ever is taking this practice to an extreme. I gave examples above but you're free to view this post any way you want and have your own read on things.

And speaking about hatred, no one does it better than you Obamaniacs--who dragged Hillary though the mud and Bill to advance your guy. never mind all they've done for the AA community thoughout the years. like I've been saying...what goes around comes around.

What's wrong in saying Obama's campaign is fairy tale and how is that race baiting? Isnt all fairy tales based on HOPE?

Doug Wilder is utterly irrelevant. The only bright spot in an Obama candidacy is that this is the last time African-American voters will have any significant power within the Democratic party. A new coalition of "browns" comprised mainly of Latinos and Asians in key Western and East coast states will play a major role in this upcoming election and will check mate whatever power is left among African-Americans. From here on in, African-Americans will have to fit into the brown coalition or suffer slow sclerosis of power. Ironically, voting for a "black" president as a purely symbolic gesture, will only highlight the powerlessness of African-Americans to effect real concrete change.  "You have the first black president, what more do you want?" will be the taunt from others should African-Americans mistake their symbolic act for the promise of actual reform.

Either way the brown coalition of Latinos and Asians wins, they can either throw the election to McCain and make their power felt, or make Obama kneel before them and extract all sorts of deals to make him president in a way that African-Americans, who have readily given up their vote without extracting meaningful concrete deliverables from Obama, can't. Doug Wilder represents the last gasp of declining African American electoral power that has been so grossly mismanaged by his brand of short-sighted symbolically-based leadership of first this and that. Its a shame Wilder has to take it out on Clinton of all people.

Somebody should remind Gov. Wilder and the MSM, that Jesse Jackson and Rep. John Lewis has stated that nothing said by Bill Clinton had any racial overtones.

THANK YOU for this! I had read the comments from Gov. Wilder yesterday, and had to wonder if he was purposefully being dishonest about this, or if he somehow really believed that the Clintons became racists overnight.  

Shame on him for contorting their words.  I watched the clip of Bill Clinton, and he was absolutely talking about Obama's history of supporting or not supporting the war.  Also, how is it that Obama did a stand-up comedy routine making fun of Hillary, but every word by the Clintons or their staff or supporters is combed through for anything that can be construed as negative.  A shameful double-standard.