Posted on 01/11/2008 12:46:58 PM PST by vietvet67
A series of comments from Senator Hillary Clinton, her husband, and her supporters are spurring a racial backlash and adding a divisive edge to the presidential primary as the candidates head south to heavily African-American South Carolina.
The comments, which ranged from the New York Senator appearing to diminish the role of Martin Luther King Jr. in the civil rights movement – an aide later said she misspoke – to Bill Clinton dismissing Sen. Barack Obama’s image in the media as a “fairy tale” –generated outrage on black radio, black blogs, and cable television. And now they've drawn the attention of prominent African-American politicians.
“A cross-section of voters are alarmed at the tenor of some of these statements,” said a Obama spokeswoman Candice Tolliver, who said that Clinton would have to decide whether or not she owed anyone an apology.
“There’s a groundswell of reaction to these comments – and not just these latest comments but really a pattern, or a series of comments that we’ve heard for several months,” she said. “Folks are beginning to wonder: Is this really an isolated situation or is there something bigger behind all of this?”
Clinton supporters responded to that suggestion with their own outrage.
“To say that there is a pattern of racist comments coming out of the Hillary campaign is ridiculous,” said Ohio Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones. “All of the world knows the commitment of President Clinton and Senator Clinton to civil rights issues – and not only the commitment in terms of words but in terms of deeds.”
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What does the looter guy have to say about this?
ELDERS: I've heard Eric Clapner, ... I think it was a wonderful thing that Eric Clapner the musician did...So I think that's the wonderful part about it, but listen - I like Eric Clapner!
Yeah, someone’s gonna catch Her Thighness spouting the “n” word.
What I like is that this is exposing the inherent racism/bigotry that permeates liberal thought processes.
Conservatives, for the most part, judge people based on individual behavior.
Libs judge people based on their “group”. For all their “tolerance” and “diversity” and “free thinking” - they see everyone, and identify themselves, as some group, preferably a victim group.
Would you not you like to be a fly on the wall and listen to Bill, Hillary and their aides grind their teeth trying to figure out how to beat Obama with brining race into it. This has got to be rich.
Very true.
But I think that the razor sharp pointy steel between her legs is probably pretty close to the real thing.
Seems Bill knew enough to stay away from it.
I wonder if the new models cry?
Especially the "guacamole" hispanic crowds and those "f#$%ing jew b@#$t@%ds" Hillary seems to be so enamored with.
I’ve said it before...it’s highly possible Hillary’s gonna slip verbally big time, because she is explosive and doesn’t have the self control DingDong her Hubby does.
What would be wonderful would be for this to happen after the DNC nomination...It would throw the whole DIM establishment into utter chaos!
“I wonder if the new models cry?”
Only if you wound their manhood.
a.k.a. "Mistress Bates".
“All of the world knows the commitment of President Clinton and Senator Clinton to civil rights issues – and not only the commitment in terms of words but in terms of deeds”
That’s right! He wrote the Emancipation Proclamation!
Er, no, he passed the Civil Rights Act of...
Hmmmm.
Just what DID he do, indeed?
LOL
I’d have thought the ‘fairy tale’ remark would have alienated the G-L Dem base.
Steffie, Steffie, Steffie, I hope your got your walking around money upfront from Hillary.
Perhaps the black community is waking up to the fact that they are not respected among Dems, they are a means to an end: votes. Democrats are the party of group rights. Republicans are the party of individual rights. If blacks would ever think for themselves, the Dems are in trouble.
And it took another president, Kennedy, to wiretap Dr. King.
I’ll have one of each.
It was just a matter of time before the true colors (no pun intended) of the Democrats came out.
The Clintons are all for you . . . as long keep your rightful place on The Plantation. The blacks are all for the Clintons . . .as long a black guy isn’t running.
Keep that beer cold. I’ll be likely having another.
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