Posted on 01/24/2008 10:14:55 PM PST by george76
For nearly two decades, Yvette Wider, an African American, adored Bill Clinton, once described by a famous black novelist as the nation's first black president.
But now, after Clinton's "fairy tale" remark about Sen. Barack Obama ...in New Hampshire and a statement in South Carolina that Obama had put a political "hit job" on him, Wider said she feels she hardly knows the former president.
"I was surprised to hear him make a comment like that, because I thought he understood our people better," said Wider, who said she will vote for Obama in Saturday's South Carolina primary. "It made me think he's been playing us all this time."
Wider's sentiments are echoing across black America -- on blogs, Web chats and talk radio, where Clinton is being attacked as never before.
It is a significant turnabout for Clinton, who throughout most of his presidency counted black people as his staunchest supporters. Less than eight years ago, African Americans gave the former president a stratospherically favorable rating -- higher than those for Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
With his attacks on Obama, however, that appears to be changing, causing some strategists and observers to wonder whether Clinton's behavior will alienate black voters whom his wife... will need should she win the nomination.
"The tone of some of the things he said just crossed a line," ...
Clinton's tone toward Obama "was demeaning," Toomer said ...
"He was calling him a boy, a kid, living in a dream land. I don't think he deserves the title of being a friend or being the first black president."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Black american compulsive democrat/Clinton supporters = certifiable morons. Sorry, guys, but wake up!
D'ja think?
if a white democrat with obama’s exact experience wanted to run for president, the democratic party would pat him on the head and tell him to come back when he had more experience.
Wow. Rumpelstiltskin awakes!!!!!
They will vote for Hillary in the general, no matter what she does or says between now and then. She knows that, so for now she is casting this as a black/white fight. In the general, it will be "let's all pull together to beat the evil Republicans
If Hillary gets the nomination by beating up Obama, she’ll lose a lot of the black vote.
If Hillary gets only 80% of the black vote instead of the usual 95%, she is 100% toast.
Good answer!
The light bulb goes on. Meet the sociopath, Bill-ze-Bubba. This is great!
Your head hurts when you sober up, doesn't it?
Heck Lady! I'm still sorry he was ever President at all!
Yup. I have no doubt you are correct, Graybeard. This "race war" thing will be long forgotten by the time November rolls around...
They are still not sure.
Amazing.
“It made me think he’s been playing us all this time.”
I was wondering that too...
“It made me think he’s been playing us all this time.”
“Some are born to move the world
To live their fantasies
But most of us just dream about
The things we’d like to be
Sadder still to watch it die
Than never to have known it
For you, the blind who once could see
The bell tolls for thee...” - Losing It, Rush
It takes a Socialist Villager to keep the blacks on the Democrat Plantation.
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