Prometheus 6

My Deep Thoughts on the Dem Primary

Obama has it tough because Americans are more racist than sexist. There are just more white women than blacks. At the same time, Hillary gets a bigger benefit in the form of backlash against sexist attacks on her (like this) because sexism can be overt, while racism must be coded.

Other hand, Hillary's got it tough because any attack on Obama can be interpreted as coded racism. She's got to knock the halo off his head in order to disrupt his appeal to black Christians, but putting surrogates out to talk about his drug use blew up in her face. She's got to play to her supposed strength on experience, so Bill went out and played attack dog and quickly found out how shallow black support for him was. Who cares where you have an office? Some people who usually talk sense are already saying they'd rather see a Republican win than Hillary.

Somewhere, Karl Rove cackles.

These people who usually talk sense...have they suddenly changed somehow, become virulent? Has their reasoning changed?