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Here is the brief yet very alarming video link of Carol Costello of CNN where she credibly documents how that "Some African-American supporters of Hillary Clinton say they're coming under growing pressure to back Barack Obama instead and some of them resent it," "A form of emotional blackmail," and how that "Obama's candidacy has become a movement:"

http://us.video.aol.com/player/launcher?ar=us_en_video_748x541_full&mode=1&pmmsid=2103392 (02:30)

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CNN's Carol Costello reports on black voters who feel enormous, painful peer pressure to vote Obama. (April 9)

http://us.video.aol.com/player/launcher?ar=us_en_video_748x541_full&mode=1&pmmsid=2103392 (02:30)

Here is the CNN Situation Room transcript of this video from Tuesday, April 8:

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0804/08/sitroom.02.html

THE SITUATION ROOM

Iraq Sits on Oil Money; Candidates Grill Petraeus and Crocker on Iraq War; Black Voters Under Pressure to Support Obama; American Airlines Cancels Hundreds of Flights

Aired April 8, 2008 - 17:00 ET

WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: "Some African-American supporters of Hillary Clinton say they're coming under growing pressure to back Barack Obama instead and some of them resent it.

CNN's Carol Costello is here. She's watching this story for us.

All right, so what's going on? You spoke to African-American voters who support Hillary Clinton. What are they saying?

CAROL COSTELLO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, you know, Wolf, it's been emotionally draining for them. They face enormous pressure within their own communities to vote Obama. And now there's this poem celebrating a vote from a black man jumping from e-mail box to e-mail box, suddenly urging African-Americans to do the right thing.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Today, I cried.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I voted for a black man, and I cried.

COSTELLO (voice-over): It's an anonymous poem titled "Today." It's made its way unsolicited into e-mail boxes across the country.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If I should die before the presidential election, it will be OK.

LISA HAWKINS, CLINTON SUPPORTER: Because today I voted. I voted for a black man, and I cried.

COSTELLO: For Lisa Hawkins, though moving, the poem was unwelcome. A form of emotional blackmail.

HAWKINS: When I received this, I felt as if it was a guilt trip. I was offended.

COSTELLO: Hawkins is a Hillary Clinton supporter. Something she says has become a heavy burden. The poem only added to it.

HAWKINS: I feel like a traitor to my race or I'm made to feel that way.

COSTELLO: For many in the African-American community, Obama's candidacy has become a movement. And Clinton supporters are feeling the heat. The film director Spike Lee slammed them -- "Ooh, Massuh Clinton was good to us, massuh hired a lot of us, massuh was good!"

Charlie Rangel, David Dinkins, they have to understand this is a new day. It's like a tide. And the people who get in the way are just going to get swept out into the ocean."

TENE DAVIS, CLINTON SUPPORTER: It makes me very angry and it makes me angry because, again, I don't think that race should play such a strong factor.

COSTELLO: Tene Davis also supports Clinton. While proud of Barack Obama's candidacy, she suspects some of the overwhelming black support he enjoys is guilt driven. She says his supporters use every ploy to get voters to switch.

Some even saying a vote for Obama is the realization of Dr. King's dream. Some Obama supporters say that's fair.

KENDAL MINTER, OBAMA SUPPORTER: That's a call that calls into arms and calls him to the polls and calls them to do the right thing and pull the right switch on Election Day. Go for it.

COSTELLO: But for voters like Davis, who also revered Dr. King, it's just wrong.

DAVIS: I think that's wholly inappropriate. I don't know if Martin -- obviously Martin is no longer with us, so no one would have known what he wanted us to do.

COSTELLO: One thing Davis does know for sure, she's tired of the guilt. Hillary Clinton is her candidate, and no, she won't change her mind.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

COSTELLO: Now, all of the people we talked for this story said the pressure to vote for Obama is not coming from the candidate but it's coming from family or friends and that may be a tougher place for it to come from, Wolf.

BLITZER: Carol Costello, doing good reporting for us. Thank you..."

All of this in my opinion clearly verifies that race is one of three main reasons why Barack Obama is in the position that he is in right now (the other two reasons being his highly charismatic oratory skills which emotionally affect people and the fact that he has received a near free ride from most of the mainstream media who are rooting for him) and that African-Americans are being pressured to support Obama:

http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/15039

ANALYSIS: Geraldine Ferraro; The reasons why Obama is where he is at right now!

Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on March 17, 2008 - 4:05am.

http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/15162

John Harris and The Politico implied Hillary will lose due to the race issue!

Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on April 1, 2008 - 4:35am.

http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/14894

CNN documented superdelegates are facing racial pressure & threats to back Obama

Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on March 1, 2008 - 11:58pm.

Affirmative Action at a regular 9 to 5 job is one thing BUT it should definitely NOT apply to the office of President of The United States in my opinion, especially when the next President will inherit and will have to be able to fix each and every problem that Bush will leave behind on 1/20/09 and when there will probably be very little to no room for any margin of error!

Please forward this information on so that hopefully more Democratic primary voters and superdelegates will vote based on the issues which this campaign is supposed to be about instead of voting on race!

Mitch Dworkin

http://www.securingamerica.com/

http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/10756
StopIranWar.com: "War is not the answer"
Submitted by Wes Clark on February 21, 2007 - 11:40am.

http://www.securingamerica.com/ccn/node/7191
Listen to Gen. Wes Clark fight for Dems on Sean Hannity's radio program: An excellent example for all of us to follow and what we all need to be doing to help fight back against extreme right wing Neocon smear propaganda!