Some have said that Bill Clinton was America’s first ‘black’ president. I’ve never understood that comment, save his predilection for heavy-set white girls.

Yet, registered Democrats in South Carolina, many of whom are black, seem to have treated Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton as if she were the white girl on a black man’s arm walking down the street — with complete and utter disdain.

An Obama victory could have been predicted in a state with so many black voters. However, the thorough ass-kicking Clinton received — 55% - 27% — indicates that her message isn’t only failing to get through to black voters, but that it has garnered a full-on rejection of her and her platform.

The Democratic party establishment should take heed of this defeat. If blacks continue to shun the DNC leadership and its (self-) anointed leader, the Democrats may actually lose the White House in 2008 — further strengthening the idea that they are perhaps the most feckless political entity in recent American history.

It wouldn’t take a large-scale defection of blacks to the GOP — because that just ain’t happenin’ — but if the Dems can’t muster a decent black turn out, there are plenty of people in the fly-over states that will whole-heartedly reject Bill Clinton’s white girl to hand over the White House to another Republican.

The DNC needs to wake up to the fact that Obama is not only their best chance for winning that chair at 1600 Pennsylvania, but that he would also be the best thing (from their side of the aisle) for the country.

Filed under: Politics is Personal, Mock the Vote