Clinton: First Black President. What?
Dan Frisa
Newsmax.com archives
Monday, March 5, 2001
Can it get any nuttier?
Over the weekend, NAACP President Kweisi Mfume presented X-PREZ with an Image Award at a Universal City, Calif., ceremony, citing his work in improving life for blacks during his eight-year tenure as president.
"That's why I went to Harlem, because I think I am the first black president,'' Clinton responded, referring to plans for his new office in New York, according to an AP report.
What?
This guy has finally gone over the deep end!
What kind of nonsense and drivel is this?
This whole episode is so bizarre and filled with so many surreal aspects that it more than defies logic. But since when has anything involving X-PREZ been normal?
To begin with, how about a little outrage and indignation at the fact that he even had the nerve to attend an NAACP event. Haven’t we been lectured – and screamed at – by the left wing of the mainstream media that to speak before a group is, by implication, to adopt the group’s views and positions?
That’s what they shouted when then-governor Bush was trashed repeatedly for speaking at Bob Jones University during the recent presidential campaign. We were told that it is unacceptable to do so when any position of the organization is deemed questionable.
So where is the outrage at X-PREZ for his appearance at the NAACP?
Remember, it was the NAACP that sponsored those hideous, despicable television ads depicting the horrific and tragic dragging death of James Byrd as being directly linked to George W. Bush.
Clinton, using the left’s own standard, either should have boycotted the NAACP event or he should have attended and lectured the group about their immoral – and possibly illegal – sponsorship of the ad.
(Nonprofit organizations such as the NAACP are prohibited by IRS rules from engaging in electoral advocacy.)
Where was that crooked, wagging finger when it might have actually done some good?
But of course that would have taken integrity and courage and a genuine belief in principle. Enough said here; that takes care of this possibility.
Yet there are a host of other instances of X-PREZ fostering racial hatred and division, any one of which would seem to have disqualified his selection for an NAACP award for supposed good works.
During the troubling spate of burnings of black churches several years ago, X-PREZ not only did not help the "healing" – he went and threw gas on the fire when he came out with a whopper of a lie recalling how "troubled" he was when, as a child, black churches were ostensibly burned in Arkansas.
It never happened.
Investigative reporting following up on these remarks proved there was not a single black church burned as Clinton had falsely claimed. Such an outlandish lie only served to strain, not assuage, racial tensions.
And how about the race-baiting ads run by Democrats in predominately black areas during the 1998 congressional elections, which threatened that the election of Republicans would lead to more church burnings and such horrors as lynchings?
Where was Bill Clinton then to stand up and speak out and order that such ugly tactics be ceased immediately?
He was nowhere to be found, silent as usual when his "great gift" for oratory could have been – for once in his life – lent to a noble end.
Most recently, Clinton himself hand-picked his biggest fund-raiser, Terry McAuliffe, as new Democrat National Committee chairman and went so far as to prevent even the opportunity for a vote to black former Atlanta mayor Maynard Jackson, who sought the post as well.
How does that promote better treatment of black Americans?
And where was Clinton when McAuliffe referred to blacks as colored people? Should he not have publicly ridiculed such insensitive language and demanded that civil discourse cannot tolerate the fostering of racial insensitivity?
Yeah, right.
It will be interesting to see who X-PREZ and Senator Slick Hilly support in the upcoming New York Democratic gubernatorial primary: Andrew Cuomo or Carl McCall, the state’s highest elected black official.
(Insiders know they’ve already committed to back Cuomo, which is their right. But given their posture as having done such wonderful things to advance the cause of blacks in America, is it such a stretch to believe they might support McCall, who, by the way, worked tirelessly for Senator Slick Hilly? Or at least to remain neutral?)
When it came time to select a site for his post-presidential office, where did Clinton decide to settle?
On 57th Street above Carnegie Hall, in the most expensive office space in midtown Manhattan, that’s where.
He only chose Harlem as a means to quell one of the many controversies he created for himself upon leaving office.
Harlem, in short, was an afterthought at best.
Here, again, is the lie X-PREZ spun on that one:
"That's why I went to Harlem, because I think I am the first black president.''
Hard as it may be to fathom, that doesn’t quite pass the smell test.
"Wacko" seems so much more fitting.
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Dan Frisa represented New York in the United States Congress and served four terms in the New York State Assembly.
I think it only fitting, then, that his face should appear on the Food Stamp.
If any thing Clinton could be referred to as the first African American president, the 650,000 black Rawandan's who are dead probaly would not think of him as the first "black President".
How can anyone read this diatribe? It goes on and on and on. Sheesh!
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