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Obama Supporters Harming Obama With Divisiveness

By Big Tent Democrat

Some Congressional Obama (I know some pretend to be "neutral") supporters seem intent on damaging Barack Obama's candidacy.

I have already mentioned Jim Clyburn's disastrous behavior. Nancy Pelosi has been a disaster for a while now. Now a new WaPo article provides more of the same:

"If you have any, any kind of loyalty to the Democratic Party, perhaps you need to rethink your strategy and bow out gracefully in order to save this party from a disastrous end in November," Rep. William Lacy Clay (Mo.), an African American Obama supporter, said in an appeal to Clinton.

(Emphasis supplied.) What an insulting, divisive and stupid remark. With friends like these, Obama needs no enemies. They seem intent on making Obama unelectable. More . .

And Clyburn comes back for a second bite of the apple:

"We keep talking as if it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter that Obama gets 92 percent of the black vote, because since he only got 35 percent of the white vote, he's in trouble," Clyburn said. "Well, Hillary Clinton only got 8 percent of the black vote. . . . It's almost saying black people don't matter. The only thing that matters is how white people respond. And that's what bothered me. I think I matter."

Is Clyburn intent on making Obama the black candidate? I honestly can not imagine stupider political actions than what Clyburn is doing to Obama here. Is the Obama camp on board with this? Is Axelrod happy about this? I can not imagine he is. Someone needs to tell Clyburn to shut up. NOW. He is killing Obama.

By Big Tent Democrat, speaking for me only

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Full post as published by TalkLeft on April 26, 2008 (boomark / email).