June 19, 2007
EASILY DIVISIBLE:
Memo on Hillary stupid and caustic: Obama (Indian Express, June 19, 2007)
Facing flak over his campaign's paper criticising his party rival Hillary Clinton's links with Indian-Americans, Democratic presidential hopeful Barak Obama has blamed lower-level officials in his team for the document and described it as "stupid and caustic". [...]The memo, which was passed on friendly political correspondents to quote from it without attribution to the campaign, had implied that Clintons haves raised tens of thousands of dollars from American Indians and that is why they are supporting outsourcing without caring for lost American jobs.
The paper also picked up a remark of Hillary Clinton to imply that her investments in India made her fit to fight elections in India. It was referring to the remark made by Hillary Clinton to an Indian-American audience in March that "I can certainly run for the Senate seat in Punjab and win easily."
A GOP that can't exploit the racial divides in the Democratic Party doesn't deserve to win elections. Posted by Orrin Judd at June 19, 2007 10:34 AM
American Indians or Indian-Americans,which is it? Kowa-bonga!
A serious cmment: behold how imprecise, equivocal language scatters us.
Posted by: Lou Gots at June 19, 2007 10:24 PM