Billy stepped into some huge cow pies when he brought the idea of race into the campaign fray. Subsequently Billy got his butt kicked by fellow dems for his remarks. So in order to keep the race issue alive his cronies have picked up the mantra:
Gov. Ed Rendell says some white Pennsylvanians are likely to vote against Barack Obama because he’s black.
In Rendell’s words: “I think there are some whites who are probably not ready to vote for an African-American candidate.” Rendell said so while speaking to the editorial board of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The remarks appeared in Tuesday’s paper.
The Democratic governor, who is white, faced a black Republican challenger in 2006. Rendell says if Lynn Swann had been white, Rendell’s margin of victory wouldn’t be so big. Rendell took more than 60 percent of the vote.
Rendell is one of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s most visible supporters. Several people in Clinton’s campaign have been criticized in recent weeks for raising Obama’s race.
And some American’s are willing to vote for her?
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