Hard-working Americans come in lots of educational backgrounds and colors (in case you didn’t know). Hillary Clinton’s current attempt at overtly dividing us into such neat, classist and racist categories is just one more reason she’s unfit to lead the country. That and the constant lying, of course.
HC has done a good job, so far, of framing the debate in terms of Obama’s weaknesses. But the framing is starting, I think, to break lose. Just yesterday–and for the first time–I heard a reporter on NPR question a Clinton handler about her lack of support from urban black voters and educated voters in general. What, after all, is the deal with that?
Of course, she’ll just claim that she “misspoke.” But it’s a bit like the sort of misstatement a lawyer makes before the jury and then, when the objection comes, respectfully withdraws the question, knowing full well that the message was sent. We’re seeing HC call out to her base here. And it’s just as disturbing as it is when republicans do it. Obama has bases too, of course. But I’ll take his rhetoric of unity over her rhetoric of division any day.