The news is all about her desperate continuation of he campaign for the Dem nomination, but there is afew things that most are not looking at right now. I realize that the possible run for the presidency is really important, but since does not look like she is gonna make it, some of the problems she will have if she tries to return to the Senate.
Even as she continues her longshot presidential bid, Hillary Rodham Clinton faces a political rift in New York, where black leaders say her standing has dropped due to racially charged comments by her and her husband during the campaign.
African American elected officials and clerics based in New York City say Clinton will need to defuse resentment over the campaign’s racial overtones if she returns to New York as U.S. senator.
As the campaign unfolded, both Clintons made comments that some black leaders deemed dismissive of Obama. There was Bill Clinton’s suggestion that Obama’s victory in South Carolina carried no more weight than Jesse Jackson’s success there in the 1980s. Other sore points were Hillary Clinton’s claim that she enjoys the support of “hard-working Americans, white Americans” and the credit she gave to President Lyndon Johnson — rather than the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. — on civil rights legislation.
African American leaders said she could repair frayed ties by visiting black churches, backing legislation that shows she is sensitive to conditions in black neighborhoods, and apologizing for comments she and her husband made that seemed to polarize voters and marginalize Obama.
Both she and her hubby may have some serious work to do after the convention and her only hope of not having to face black leaders is to be the Veep candidate…that could be her only saving grace.