I wrote this letter to Keith Olbermann tonight hoping he would see fit to add some of it to his SPECIAL COMMENT piece on his show COUNTDOWN tomorrow night.
Keith,
I was thinking about this tonight as I watched MSNBC’c coverage of the Mississippi primary. Hillary has been short-sighted throughout this campaign; not planning ahead after Super Tuesday, counting on Texas as if the Latino’s there would “wrap it up” for her, keeping her mismanaging staff on at the expense of her campaign’s financial solvency. And now, the fact that she refuses to separate herself from Geraldine Ferraro’s remarks might have consequences that I’m sure she isn’t willing to admit or take responsibility for.
She is not only categorically tearing apart the Democratic Party; she’s fanning the flames of long-dormant racial divides in this country as well. Just as people began to blame Muslims for all our problems after 9/11 thanks to George W. Bush, it seems as though she would like to use, for the moment, the idea that Black American's are responsible for her shortcomings. If she is willing to tamper with America societal dynamics in this manner, as one of the panelists on Hardball said today, in order to “get the white vote in red portions” of Pennsylvania, it becomes apparent that not only has she run a divisive campaign, but a HIGHLY irresponsible one.
We’ve come too far in this country to allow one woman’s quest for power to set us back generations. We let Bush get away with it for EIGHT FREAKING YEARS; let’s not allow the idea of blaming a “scapegoat for our problems” be yet another terrible tradition this country is willing to carry forward from the disastrous Bush/Cheney years.
Mary
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