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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I heard one guy, just in the last two days, I think it was Crap Matthews, but it mighta been Scarborough, say (to the best of my memory..) “If Clinton/Dems lose the black vote, they’ll lose everything, because the Democrat Party’s foundation is the African-American vote. It is the base of the Democrat structure that the Dems build everything else on.” to the stunned looks of the others on camera with him.
(actually, that’s much more of a paraphrase than a quote, but it’s the gist of what Matthews was saying on Morning Joe, i believe, but maybe it was on *his* show...but he said it in the last couple of days.)
Huma needs to get her into some relaxation training.
“And it took another president, Kennedy, to wiretap Dr. King.”
Good point!
Fridge in the kitchen full: Check
Fridge in the garage full: Check
Fridge in the basement full: Check
and the two coolers in the back of the pick up truck full: Check
Why do American blacks identify with Obama? Obama is as white as he is black. He doesn’t even look black to me. He looks Arab, like an Egyptian. He has absolutely no history in American slavery, and his family in Africa are Muslims and there was intermarriage between his black African relatives and Arab Africans 2 generations hence. So Obama’s history is more likely to have involved slave OWNERSHIP, since the origin of black slavery is Muslim.
“Huma needs to get her into some relaxation training.”
After she has lost the election. Till then THE HEAT IS ON.
Imus makes a crack about black women using very common street language, “Ho” and they run him off the air. Saying a black man hasn’t done the spadework.. They word is seldom used and I have never heard it used in the context of foreign affairs experience.. It had to be done on purpose, every freaking word out of their mouths is scripted. The wanted to needle him, put in a subtle dig, remind white democraps he’s a black man...
These POS need to be run out of the country, what the hell is wrong with democraps anyway. These people have decimated your party, they are foul and continue to use dirty tricks, illegals campaign funds, negative vile mean-sprited attacks.
Wake the f#ck up and flush them. You have a young, dynamic man, who represents all the liberal ideas you want to thrust upon America, so support him and flush the sewage out of your party !!!
The same thing happened in Maryland, Ben Cardin beat Mfume, the former head of NAACP. Then Ben Cardin went in the general election against Michael Steele the most promising Republican candidate for the Senate in 2006, and guess what? The Black vote still went to Cardin. So the Democrats will continue to take the Black vote for granted.
MLK was killed after the Civil Rights bill passed, not before.
1964 for the Civil Rights Act, 1968 for MLK assassination.
I don’t believe the Democrats will be nominating an African American to run for President any time soon. Something will happen to exclude Mr. Obama from the ticket.
[I]...because the Democrat Party’s foundation is the African-American vote.”[/I]
Let’s nmot forget the illegal aliens and the dead - they get to vote too (as long as they’re Democrats, anyway.)
I have always contended that Obama needs to stay strong for the first few primaries so the Clinton Machine would panic and "shut him down".
The result of Clintonian hardball tactics would be to assure her winning the nomination, and a backlash of even higher negatives from within her traditional base (not just blacks, but all Obama supporters).
The overall result would be an assured win for the Republican nominee in the general REGARDLESS of who it is.
Copperhead alert time.
The inherent racism of Democraps is re-emerging publicly.
I would respectfully disagree. Since 1964, when they could no longer prevent African Americans from voting, the Democrats have sought to control the African American vote but the foundation of the Democrat Party is their wealthy donors and lap dog press. I think the Democrats will somehow find a way to block Obama without alienating the African American vote.
“Shuffle and jive” “plantation” “fairy tale” and on and on
How long will the bulk of African Americans maintain their tenuous depraved symbiosis with the dems?
I gues sas long as their socialist leadership tells them to.
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