Hillary's last-gasp race-baiting attempt

Captain...the ship is sinking...

Well, surprise, surprise. The Clinton campaign is race-baiting again. Only this time, instead of letting one of her surrogates like her husband or Geraldine Ferraro or BET founder Robert Johnson do it, Hillary is doing it herself.

In a press conference yesterday in Pennsylvania, Hillary tried to stir back up the racial row over the comments made by Barack Obama's pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, saying:

I think, given all we have heard and seen, he would not have been my pastor.... We don't have a choice when it comes to our relatives. We have a choice when it comes to our pastors and the church we attend.... You know, I spoke out against Don Imus, saying that hate speech was unacceptable in any setting, and I believe that....I just think you have to speak out against that.

Mm. Mmmmmm... give me a minute here. Lord, give me the serenity ...

You know seeing and hearing the tactics of the Clinton campaign, I really do need to hold a little prayer every now and then. The unmitigated gall is TRYING.

After being largely silent and refusing to play politics on this controversy as it raged for the last two weeks, isn't it passing strange that all of a sudden, Hillary seems to feel it's necessary to point this out?

Particularly after Obama has already 'spoken out' as she has urged, against his pastor's comments?

Particularly after he then went on to not only speak out against Wright's comments but to give a widely-heralded, historic speech on race and racism in America, where he addressed the fears and suspicions of both black and white and urged the country to move forward together?

Moreover, isn't it rather bold-faced of Hillary to posture as if she is so anti-racism when she herself has admitted she was a 'Goldwater Girl' in her youth? You know, a supporter of Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater, one of only five non-southern Republicans to vote against the Civil Rights Act? Maybe we should wonder about the sincerity of Hillary's committment to civil rights and justice. After all, if her candidate had succeeded, segregation could well still be in place, blacks would still be prevented from voting, etc. etc. Perhaps we should wonder and cast asperions on Hillary because of this. After all, you can't choose your family, but you can choose which presidential candidate you support.

Hmm... so what could inspire Hillary to suddenly decide to try to stroke the dying embers of the Obama-Wright controversy? Could it be...possibly...that she has been under attack for the last few news cycles for her big fat 'misspeak' on her trip to Bosnia in 1996? You know, the one where she has repeatedly said she landed under sniper fire and had to sprint, head down to her vehicle? And then...whoopsie...it turned out that no such thing had happened, that they had a very pleasant landing and ceremony, including a poem and some flowers from a little Bosnian girl?

Could it actually be that Hillary is trying to deflect attention from her lie? Noo....couldn't possibly be. I mean, if she was, I think she would come up with something less blatantly obvious than that. Hillary's slicker than that right? She cannot possibly hold her own well-educated countrymen in such contempt that she thinks they are so stupid they cannot see this for the obvious, desperate attempt it is. It's actually kinda embarrassing, it's so obvious. She could have at least waited a few days til after her Bosnia controversy had died down to not make it look like a blatant, desperate attempt to distract everyone. Because as it is, most of the headlines I've seen are still linking it to the Bosnia lie and framing it as an attempt at distraction.

Damn...surely Hillary can wag the dog better than that. I... I'm not even mad anymore - just embarrassed for her. I want to avert my eyes but I can't. The writing is on the wall and ...whatever. It's the desperate flailings of a sinking campaign. Who cares?