Michael Moore: Not going to vote for Hillary, I guess!

In a piece titled: My Vote's for Obama (if I could vote) ...
Michael Moore has posted a rather vapid piece on his website that puts the "urge" in the word scourge.

Moore throws a rant like I've rarely seen aimed directly at Hillary Clinton for an unusual moment in last week's debates in Philadelphia. I heard it as well and I'm sure others did too. She runs a list of names of people of "ill repute" and points to Obama's associations with them and among the list, she included Louis Farrakhan's name. Odd, because there is no association between the two men aside from their ethnicity. And this is what brings on the scourge.

Moore states:

Well, that sounded good last year, but over the past two months, the actions and words of Hillary Clinton have gone from being merely disappointing to downright disgusting. I guess the debate last week was the final straw. I've watched Senator Clinton and her husband play this game of appealing to the worst side of white people, but last Wednesday, when she hurled the name "Farrakhan" out of nowhere, well that's when the silly season came to an early end for me. She said the "F" word to scare white people, pure and simple. Of course, Obama has no connection to Farrakhan. But, according to Senator Clinton, Obama's pastor does -- AND the "church bulletin" once included a Los Angeles Times op-ed from some guy with Hamas! No, not the church bulletin!

This sleazy attempt to smear Obama was brilliantly explained the following night by Stephen Colbert. He pointed out that if Obama is supported by Ted Kennedy, who is Catholic, and the Catholic Church is led by a Pope who was in the Hitler Youth, that can mean only one thing: OBAMA LOVES HITLER!

Moore then goes on in for the jugular:

Yes, Senator Clinton, that's how you sounded. Like you were nuts. Like you were a bigot stoking the fires of stupidity. How sad that I would ever have to write those words about you. You have devoted your life to good causes and good deeds. And now to throw it all away for an office you can't win unless you smear the black man so much that the superdelegates cry "Uncle (Tom)" and give it all to you.

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How sad for a country that wanted to see the first woman elected to the White House. That day will come -- but it won't be you. We'll have to wait for the current Democratic governor of Kansas to run in 2016 (you read it here first!).

After a short amount of time discussing subjects like "electability" and Clinton's vote for the Iraq War, Moore finishes with:

But the question I keep hearing is... 'can he win? Can he win in November?' In the distance we hear the siren of the death train called the Straight Talk Express. We know it's possible to hear the words "President McCain" on January 20th. We know there are still many Americans who will never vote for a black man. Hillary knows it, too. She's counting on it.

I can't say I disagree with him. Clinton's tactic is right out of Jesse Helms' playbook when he ran against Harvey Gantt in 1990. I helped the Gantt Campaign and it was run like a well oiled machine. Up to about three weeks before the voters went to the ballot, Jesse Helms ran television ads of retouched photos of Gantt's skin color with fear mongering insinuations that a black man couldn't be trusted as a US Senator.

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