Monday: LBJ Day

So I have some pretty harsh words for Obama and Clinton but also the media as well this week. Ok, as most of you should know by now, there is a 'tif' going on between these two campaigns over comments that made about Martin Luther King.

Long story short, Obama used JFK and MLK in a rather high profile comment about 'not giving up their dreams'. Not a big deal...but this rhetoric seems to be getting to the Clinton campaign who have been effectively unable to tap into the civil rights movement (a democrat standard) because it 'belongs to the black man.' So Clinton responds to this by making a poorly thought out response giving credit to LBJ for getting the civil rights act enacted. The point her campaign gave her this direction was to 1. Get a finger in the civil right's pie, and 2. make a poorly worded statement about the need of an experienced leader.

So she screwed up - her wording made it feel as if LBJ was at least as important as MLK if not more so. When you actually watch playback though, it's a very innocent comment that was left too easy to manipulate. It goes to show the importance of anti-scripting...when she's trained to NOT say certain things...this time she failed miserably.

BUT, as I say, it was innocent. I don't believe this was Clinton's intention what-so-over but it was likely the weakest moment of her campaign. Still, the ensuing fight is what has really screwed things up...and for that I can only blame the media.

The media in this instant jumped all over their dream chance opportunity as a racial fight. It has the makin' for good TV...jackasses. This story was plastered all over the broadcast media and was a major driving force for the last week's blogs. The only reason either campaign went on with this message was to defend over the sheer hours of airplay this event was getting.

I'm quite aware it's go time for both these campaigns but...guess what guys...right now it's just important that people like you. Later on, when the right is swift-boating (could insert a tasteless joke in here, ask me quietly in person) whichever of these candidates makes it to the primary...then it's time to bring out the big guns.

At the end of the day, I think this little racial tif will not matter too much to the dems. It WILL make a bit of dialog for the debate and we'll prob get reminded about it for a week in September...but whatever.

Clinton: stop
Obama: stop
Media: vaporize