Twenty Eight: Sotto Voce Racism

Obama trounces Clinton in NC. Clinton ekes out win in IN. Obama increases his delegate lead, and popular vote lead. Clinton has yet to deliver a decisive, blow-out primary victory in any state since Obama became the delegate leader in February. Every rationalization Clinton has produced for continuing her scorched-earth campaign has fallen flat.

Yet in most new stories, whether print, broadcast, or web, the headline and visual begins with Clinton. Those same stories always seem to have an underlying sympathy for Clinton. She has never been asked to explain what her "experience" advantage really is. Despite being forced to admit that she has lied about her record, the press and her supporters seem unaffected.

The press reports that Obama received 90% of the black vote in NC as almost a negative for Obama. The press reports that Clinton received 60% of the white vote in Indiana also as a negative for Obama. The press continues to play up the Reverend Wright story, even when the interviewees make no mention of it, and then the press reports that the story "just will not go away."

What reason for this is there besides an insidious, sub rosa, sotto voce, racism? Why won't people who don't want a black president simply come out and say so. I suspect that Bill and Hillary are among these people.

At this stage, it is crystal clear that Hillary is running for president in 2012. In order to do so, she will do whatever she can to destroy Obama in the general, and then say, "I told you so." And the racists will be happy too.