You are barking up a tree that has been dead for some time. Hillary Clinton is a cardboard cutout politician, as is congresspersons Meeks, Rangal, Waters, McKinney, etc. Note I did not say the entire CBC. Liberal congresspersons John Lewis, Cummings, Sheila Lee Jackson, Harold Ford, etc are proven legislators with a track record of achievements for their districts. While one may disagree with some of their policies, they have always been professional without sacrificing the passion for the issues they believe in. The former group is the black faced agitprops for the white liberal wing of the Democratic party. They are less respected than they are needed to confuse the issues and stoke the masses.

The former group are weal legislators who only get elected by playing the race card, and stay in office by only playing the race card. A good, competent politician uses the full deck. He has an issue or two that crosses racial lines, an issue or two that crosses socio-economic lines, and always relies on their strength to appeal to the middle 35% that often determines the election. This is the case with people like Obama, Lieberman, and Mitch Rommney. The former group cannot do the above because they are weak candidates to begin with. They get elected by playing to the lowest common denominator, and can’t reach for loftier ideas because the masses have already been united under the umbrella of the lowest common denominator. If the race card is the 1st, 2nd, 3rd card in the deck of political tricks….you are weak candidate.

Hillary is so weak a candidate, she has to be spoon fed her interview questions before hand, she only goes on friendly venues like Today with gal pal Katie Couric, or that show hosted by her husband’s former chief of staff George Stephanopolus. She spends 75% of her time trying to build her image, and the other 25% getting other people to defend her bone headed decisions or words. I like her as person. I think she is the reason Bill was elected. But her lack of political savvy and sensitivity to the need for racial healing is evident in relating the experiences of forced labor and rape to that of well heeled, mostly white, country club membership holding body of Congress, who although in the minority, wield more power than most Fortune 500 CEOs on any given day.