With Friends Like This, Hillary Needs no Enemies
Open mouth, insert foot:
Gov. Ed Rendell, one of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s most visible supporters, said some white Pennsylvanians are likely to vote against her rival Barack Obama because he is black.
”You’ve got conservative whites here, and I think there are some whites who are probably not ready to vote for an African-American candidate,” Rendell told the editorial board of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in remarks that appeared in Tuesday’s paper.
To buttress his point, Rendell cited his 2006 re-election campaign, in which he defeated Republican challenger Lynn Swann, the former Pittsburgh Steelers star, by a margin of more than 60 percent to less than 40 percent.
So, what Rendell is saying is that white Democrats are racists and just as they put him into the governor’s mansion, they’ll also put Hillary over the top in Pennsylvania.
Anyone out there know of an even stupider statement in campaign ‘08?
23 comments February 13th, 2008
