Open Political Action and the Sharpening of Knives

During The 1987-88; Presidential campaign, candidate Vice-President George H. Bush, used a Black man, Willie Horton and demonized him before the American public. Willie Horton, through the Bush campaign epitomized Black America and that proclivity for crime, stable and prosperous America generally assumes is the case.

By the way George H. Bush won the election.

A Vice-President, sitting in office, personalized the generality of politics. He sharpened national-social contradictions with caricature in "real time" of a human being, demonizing him and in extension a social group and critics could only decry it as "mud slinging".

Fast-forward to the 2008 Democratic nomination for President.

In the sad but comical effort to exploit Barack Obama's comments on small town America. Hillary Clinton is doing the same thing she criticizes Obama of having done. Obama made his comments on why small town America votes against it's interest in a wealthy section of San Francisco. Hillary in her nihilistic toss the baby out with the bath water, either I win or I destroy the Democratic Party tactic. Gave validity to the tactic of the Democratic Party enemies, by stating in Scranton, Pa. a small town and victim of the tactic, that idea and propaganda that the Democratic Party is elitist and out of touch.

This isn't simply a matter of contradiction within the Democratic Party, but this struggle between Hillary and Obama reveals mature antagonisms.

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