cross-posted @ One Million Strong
Shuck and Jive???
WTF? And I mean, double, WTF??
Andrew Cuomo must think that African-Americans live under a rock. I am here to tell him, "We don’t." And also to remind him that we VOTE.
"It’s not a TV-crazed race. Frankly you can’t buy your way into it," Cuomo said. "You can’t shuck and jive at a press conference," he added. "All those moves you can make with the press don’t work when you’re in someone’s living room."
I guess I have heard and read a lot through this campaign of Team Clinton’s, but they surely don’t give a damn if their surrogates continue to use offensive language and references of African-Americans that is not only hurtful, but bring painful memories to many.
It is enough to have to deal with the email slurs that Team Clinton was caught sending; enough to have to deal with the inference of Obama possibly selling drugs; enough to try to tackle oppo on Obama’s aspirations to become president, as young as in kindergarten, but this???
Now, to have Cuomo straight up dropping race bating sentences and he is supposed to get a pass?
Or, Team Clinton, apologizing again?
No, not good enough Team Clinton. Your surrogates are a representation of you. It is understandable to have a renegade, making statements without your knowledge. But on a continuous basis? Sorry, this just won’t do.
So, keep it up Team Clinton, and while you are at it, you will continue to lose the African-American vote.
Department of Choice Words, indeed, more like the Department of Wrong Words, if you ask me.
Update [2008-1-10 14:40:2 by icebergslim]:
Since many don't believe that Cuomo is not a Clinton Supporter, read the LINKS:
TPM
Editor and Publisher
And now a statement from the radio station from Cuomo, to clarify he was not talking about Obama:
(We’ve been getting calls from the Cuomo people on this who want to point out, correctly, that the AG was not referring to Barack Obama when he used the phrase "shuck and jive," but to what politicians in general do with the media. Cuomo’s point was when candidates meet a substantial proportion of primary voters or caucus goers in person, such as in NH or Iowa, there is a certain genuineness that can be avoided in a big-state media-heavy campaign)
We all know this as CYA.