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Thank You, Barbara!
January 15th, 2008 (11:36 am)
Leave it to Barbara Ehrenreich to get to the root of what has bothered (at least) me about Senator Clinton's remarks regarding LBJ and MLK:
But Clinton's LBJ remark reveals something more worrisome than racial tone-deafness - a theory of social change that's as elitist as it is inaccurate. Black civil rights weren't won by suited men (or women) sitting at desks. They were won by a mass movement of millions who marched, sat in at lunch counters, endured jailings, and took bullets and beatings for the right to vote and move freely about. Some were students and pastors; many were dirt-poor farmers and urban workers. No one has ever attempted to list all their names.
And it's all a red herring.
Clinton, Obama, Edwards, and others have been in public office for some time. Their records speak for them. All this chatter about race and gender issues is just to mask out that none of them have really been serving the interests of their consituencies.
Seriously. Send them all back to Washington and tell 'em to get cracking and SHOW us the kind of President they will be. Kinda like Truman did to the Do Nothing Congress in, what, 48?
All of it is a lie, of course, including the issue du jour. We already know what kind of people they are, we have it as a matter of public record.