The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #101088   Message #2235005
Posted By: Azizi
12-Jan-08 - 06:22 PM
Thread Name: BS: Popular Views on Obama
Subject: RE: BS: Popular Views on Obama
artbrooks,

you wrote that you have used some of these phrases and therefore they may not be racial code, context is everything. Also, with regard to the repeated incidence of the Clintons, and the Clinton campaign's use of racially charged words & phrases, what's that quote about once is an occurance, twice is concidence, and three times it's enemy attack?

Let me repeat a post that I previously quoted:

"...Day after day we have seen the racially charged comments from Clinton aides, endorsers, and even President and Mrs. Clinton themselves. They have been extremely clever, [the racially charged comments are] delivered in such a way so that there is plausible deniability..."
-Walt Starr

[I added the hypenated words for clarity and the emphasis is mine.]