Yup, Even Better

Hillary is still fighting. What stubborness. In an interview with USA Today, Hillary explains why she should be the nominee (emphasis mine):

Hillary Rodham Clinton vowed Wednesday to continue her quest for the Democratic nomination, arguing she would be the stronger nominee because she appeals to a wider coalition of voters — including whites who have not supported Barack Obama in recent contests.

"I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article "that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."

"There's a pattern emerging here," she said.

Clinton's blunt remarks about race came a day after primaries in Indiana and North Carolina dealt symbolic and mathematical blows to her White House ambitions.

Let's see an instant replay? "Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."

Any penalty on the play? Unnecessary roughness? Nah. Wasn't that rough, just dumb. Offsides? Sure. Delay of game? Yup, for quite a while, but not this play. Clipping? Maybe. Gratuitous playing of the race card? Bingo.

To reiterate. Two days after her fate was sealed, a day after Feinstein implicitly told her to start wrapping this thing up, Hillary explicitly plays the race card. A new low! Bravo, Hillary.

h/t TPM. Photo from here.

Update: Let me explain why this is such a bad thing, and it revolves around what the first thing I thought when I read that sentence: 'does she know she just said that out loud?'

1. Hillary is a politician. Some people think that means her job (as a legislator) is to make policy. But no; policy can and often is made by staffers and other paid experts (a.k.a. economists and other elitists). What separates a politician from a staffer, the specific skill set that a politician needs to have, is to be POLITIC (asop. the staffer who makes POLICY). Now Hillary knows how to pander (exhibit 1: the beer and a chaser in Pennsylvania), but that's not being politic. Even if it were correct and even if it were to her benefit to get the idea in the open, explicitly saying: "Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans" is not politic.
   
2. Hillary defenders sound like Bush defending Harriet Miers (or GOPers defending Bush before Katrina): they keep needing to insist, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that Hillary truly is a great senator, leader, politician. No, she isn't.
   
3. If Hillary wanted to get the statement out that Obama is unacceptable to white voters, there's a hundred or so ways to do that without crudely burping that drivel to the largest circulation newspaper in America. True, she and her crew did try many of the 100 ways... but that's no excuse! It's a mema-nafshach: if it's so important that people know it, then the 100 politic tactics will work, and if the tactics don't work then people don't think it's important/relevant/true. Shouting your point louder doesn't convince another person you're correct. Teenagers learn that rule eventually, why hasn't Hillary?
   
4. When she says such anti-Democratic drivel out loud, she sounds like her fella, Mark Penn. Not like her nominal husband, who was much better about this before his heart was removed from his body.
   
5. Last point: every time she has the opportunity to do the classy thing, she goes into the gutter. Someone please remind me of another "politician" this pathetic? No state politicians please (who are JV), but players in the big show.