Cardin's Race issues?

This is interesting:

It's an unfortunate situation when you're running an established, older, white candidate against a dynamic, younger African American. It's unfortunate, because the racism card hovers constantly, just waiting to be dealt.

It's unfortunate, because no matter how completely and utterly incompetant a person is, if he fits in the wrong demographic, you're stuck with him. It doesn't matter what his job history is, or that he may have been fired by every other campaign in the county's history, you can't let him go.

And when his supervisor, after explaining the same detail seventeen different times, becomes frustrated and less then pleasant, he has one recourse that is only available to him because of the color of his skin.

He plays the racism card, the magic passport to a different chain of command.

His supervisor has no such weapon in her arsenal, she has only the documentation of their interactions, and her own good standing within the organization. She has the respect of her supervisors, and their backing, but still nothing can be done.

And this one:

As I've grown older, and gotten to know these men who seemed so frightening to the toddler me, I find that they share a number of chracteristics. They are large men with strong, loud voices and Jewish noses. They are also overly friendly. Some of these men are now my friends, but some are just a little bit creepy to this day.

This was a staffer who worked for Ben Cardin.

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Comments

[Temple3]

No it's not. Both parties have gone to great lengths to alienate the type of black folk who are not subject to this type of criticism - and what card do incompetent white folks play. I thought they played the race card too. In this country, it's called the numbers game. Mediocre white folk are everywhere - including this seemingly anti-Semitic staffer with "loose lips." So, this shit ain't really all that interestin'. It's more parochial myopic shit masquerading as a "universal.objective.fair and balanced" observation. But I feel you though. You still the darkest star in the universe.