Here we go again....
WASHINGTON -- Fresh off their battle for the hearts of black Americans, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are about to go head to head for Jewish votes.
The leaders for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008 plan dueling receptions Monday when an influential pro-Israeli lobby group, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, holds its major Washington policy conference.
The competing receptions are one more sign of the intensifying scrum between Clinton and Obama over key Democratic interest groups, highlighted Sunday by near-simultaneous civil rights speeches in Selma, Ala.
"It would be amazing if you didn't have a fierce competition," said Norm Ornstein, an American Enterprise Institute scholar who is leading a panel at the AIPAC forum.
In Selma, Hillary and Obama stretched the truth as they pandered to their African American audiences.
They both developed goofy Southern drawls.
They both spoke of the implausible.
Obama's parents supposedly got together and he was conceived because of Selma. Never mind that he was born in 1961 and Bloody Sunday in Selma was in 1965.
Hillary, the "Goldwater Gold," painted herself as a 1964 Civil Rights Act supporter.
Obama talked in his best Southern twang about "cousin Pookie" and "brother Jethro."
Hillary managed to outdo Obama in the fake accent department, telling the people that she was "a sister in worship and a grateful friend and beneficiary of what happened in Selma 42 years ago." She drawled, "I don't feel no ways tired."
Trying to sway voters, both Obama and Hillary pretended to be what they're not, twisting themselves out of shape to appeal to African Americans.
They tried to show that they represent the people of Selma and of generations past by abandoning their normal way of speaking to adopt ridiculous accents. I think it was insulting.
They made up stories (lied) about themselves to be accepted.
I guess it's time for another extreme makeover.
Both Obama and Hillary will be courting the Jewish community on Monday.
I wonder if they're practicing their Yiddish accents.
Will they schvitz as they schmooze?
If what they did in Selma is any indication, I wouldn't be surprised if Obama claims his parents got together when they shared a blintz. Will he revert to his Barry moniker to please his audience?
I expect Hillary will say that she was inspired by a mohel.
Panderers!
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