Black superdelegates who support Hillary Clinton are facing a crescendo of racially tinged political pressure to switch their allegiance to Barack Obama.

Rep. Diane Watson, D-Calif., said she has received several e-mails from individuals within her congressional district saying they won’t vote for her if she doesn’t change her support to Obama, and she should vote for him because she, too, is black. Watson said she also is getting e-mails from around the country.

And just Friday, she said, “I was told today that they’re building up opposition,” possibly fielding a Democratic opponent for her November election.

The efforts, while they pale in comparison to death threats she received years ago when she supported school busing, are unseemly: “I don’t intimidate easily, and I don’t think that’s the way a democracy works,” Watson said.

“I’m quite upset. … People have stooped to a new low,” she said, speaking with FOXNews.com

“To be threatened with opposition because I don’t support one candidate, that’s unusual in democratic politics,” Watson added.

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II, D-Mo., also a Clinton supporter, said he has not personally received threats, but he has attended meetings with other black superdelegates who he said are being harassed by Obama supporters.

He told Politico.com that his colleagues are receiving “nasty letters, phone calls, threats they’ll get an opponent, being called an Uncle Tom” — the racial pejorative used to describe blacks who are subservient to whites.

Speaking with FOXNews.com, he said, “I am saying that there are people out here in the world who have gotten so caught up on this election that they are in fact willing to harass and threaten people who are not falling in line.”

He doesn’t believe Obama is behind the efforts, but nevertheless, “there are some [threats] that have gone too far.”

The pressure has increased in recent days after Georgia Rep. John Lewis, a black civil rights icon, switched his support from Clinton to Obama.


This is typical of obama supporters... If the superdelegates won't vote obama just threaten them heh... you obama supporters have a lot to be proud of

rain, has it finally settled in that clinton will not be president of the united states?

I understand that she wont be president... But I feel that she was cheated in someways... One thing I do know for sure... In November??? We will have a republican as our new president...

hahaha. follow your dreams, rain. itll all be okay.

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Whats your point... And it's " So it will be all right " not itll all be okay. <<<Personal Attack Removed>>>

oh, my bad. i just looked up my study notes from when i was in college. youre right. it is "so it will be all right." wow. major mistake on my part. good call.

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They're going a bit too far here...I understand that the democratic party is desperate and that some people like Obama a bit too much, but sending death threats is just ridiculous.

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Read what this is all about... It has nothing to do with Clinton not becoming president... So lets stick to this issue

Not only does this post say nothing about death threats, which the title of the thread implies it would. It also offers no link!

I have to say, that in my experiences in this election all the hillary supporters strike me as ignorant, bitter, and completely lacking any sense of humor. At least the hillary supporters on this board!

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Im a Tarte, what! you want some of this?


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Here is a link

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/02...ce-harassment/