hillary keeps stepping in it huh?
lol
I can’t wait to see the next Dim debate!
Why do civil rights heroes cheer ‘Rezko card’?
Obama’s what they fought for, but they’ve got Clintons’ backs
January 24, 2008
BY MARY MITCHELL Sun-Times Columnist
COLUMBIA, S.C. — I happened to catch a piece of the round-the-clock primary campaign coverage, and who did I see in the front row at the recent CNN debate?
Georgia U.S. Rep. John Lewis shaking his head in agreement when Sen. Hillary Clinton gave Sen. Barack Obama a real tongue-lashing.
Surreal.
How did an iconic figure from the civil rights era, a man who was beaten upside his head by out-of-control police officers in Selma, Ala., end up carrying a white woman’s water in a race against a black man who epitomizes everything civil rights activists worked to gain?
Clinton had lambasted Obama for legal work he did for Tony Rezko, a now-disgraced Chicago developer who contributed generously to a lot of Illinois politicians, including Obama. Rezko is set to go on trial for public corruption and fraud charges Feb. 25. The Obama campaign has given about $84,000 of tainted Rezko donations to charity.
During the debate, Clinton accused Obama of having done legal work for “your contributor ... in his slum landlord business in inner-city Chicago.”
Given that the Clintons presided over a scandal-plagued White House, seeing Lewis co-signing Clinton’s in-your-face attack on Obama’s character was mind-boggling.
Really, if Obama had done in the Illinois General Assembly what Bill Clinton did in the Oval Office, white folks would have chased him out of office and barred the door.
Curious contradiction
But former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young, himself a foot soldier in the civil rights movement, can now “clown” about “Bill being every bit as black as Obama” and probably having ‘’slept with more black women than Obama.” And black luminaries such as Earvin “Magic” Johnson, Vernon Jordan and U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) are using their iconoclastic status to put the Clintons back in the White House.
Hillary, a lawyer herself, knows full well that an associate doesn’t call the shots when it comes to fat-cat clients. They file appearances and stay up all night writing briefs that the firm’s partners take credit for.
The truth is, over several years early in his career, Obama did “five to seven hours of billable work” on projects linked to Rezko — not Rezko himself, according to Obama’s former law firm.
What galls me the most is not Hillary’s remarks, but the fact that so many powerful black men have lined up behind her despite her reputation for playing loose with the facts.
For instance, on March 12, 2007, after Hillary’s speech in Selma, Sun-Times columnist Robert Novak noted a curious contradiction.
“[T]he real problem with her visit there a week ago concerned her March 4 speech’s claim of her attachment to Martin Luther King Jr. as a high school student in 1963,” Novak wrote.
“How, then, could she be a ‘Goldwater Girl’ in the next year’s presidential election? The incompatibility of those two positions of 40 years ago was noted to me by Democratic old-timers shocked by Clinton’s temerity in pursuing her presidential candidacy. Barry Goldwater’s opposition to the 1964 voting rights bill was not incidental to his run for the White House but an integral element of conscious departure from GOP tradition that contributed to his disastrous performance.
“What Clinton said at Selma is significant because it betrays her campaign’s panicky reaction to the unexpected rise of Obama as a serious competitor for the Democratic nomination,” Novak concluded.
So, who is spinning fairy tales?
‘Crabs in the barrel’
Although the Clintons have the support of influential blacks, African Americans know the “crabs in the barrel” syndrome when they see it. That’s why Hillary Clinton’s distortions will likely backfire.
Since the Clintons are seasoned campaigners in the black community, the only reason I can think of for Clinton to distort Obama’s connection to Rezko would be to turn off Obama’s white supporters.
Wednesday, former South Carolina Democratic Party Chairman Dick Harpootlian, an Obama supporter, called the Clintons’ campaign strategy “reprehensible.”
And it is. Hillary isn’t only playing the “Rezko” card and the “gender” card. She seems to be going for every card in the deck.
So while I can appreciate Obama’s vow to keep personal attacks out of his campaign ... maybe it’s time for him to turn over the Lewinsky card.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/mitchell/756858,CST-NWS-mitch24.article
http://weblogs.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/politics/blog/2008/01/hillary_promises_more_rezko_di.html
Precisely what this country needs, A President with total recall. /s
So one stlinest is busted that means we all cheer for the other stalinest ? we all know they are liars why the hell are people cheering for either one of them ?
Let the Drudge Clinton smear-a-thon begin!
Drudge is just awesome!
Whatever that guy and that b**ch are accused of, they will ALWAYS wiggle out of it.
They must have Satan on their side.
At times I think the only justice the Clintons will ever get for their sins will not be in their or our lifetimes here on earth, and that they are destined to avoid punishment under Man and will have to be dealt with finally under another Authority. They will not escape justice forever, that is the only relief.
Let's see, posing with contributors or other VIPs for ten pictures a day for ten years equals 36,525 photos, far short of 100,000. ...but hundreds of thousands?!!! Something does not add up here, methinks.
You are right. This is very funny. But we could show a 100 people who Clintons have taken pictures with who have since gone to jail. Someone should start a blog.
Also there is a web-site that has all the people that Clinton pardoned. That one is pretty good as well. People forget the trashy families that both Hillary and Bill came from who needed to be pardoned to keep them out of jail.
They just don’t make enough popcorn for me to take all of this fun in at once.
I can’t get why Obama didn’t just turn to her and say, “Mrs. Clinton, if I were you I wouldn’t got there. I don’t think you want to discuss the character of people whose donations would have returned who now sit in jail. Nor would you wish to discuss donations and pardons given during the administration which you claim has given you the ‘experience’ to run for the presidency.”
*****when you were practicing law and representing your contributor, Rezko,*****
She just lost the trial lawyers!!!!
Now’s the time to ask about her legal representation and how many cases she won. The brilliant one!
A slumlord and his friends.
Why is it absurd to believe that Clinton might not remember the guy?
Klintoons busted again.
it is funny.
However, I agree. Most politicians don’t know all the folks that ask for pictures.
I think Carter had one with the suicidal cult leader Jim Jones.
...but who knows.
Are there more despicable people than the clintons? I loved Romney’s comments about Bill being loose in the White House with nothing to do...
“I’m sorry, I don’t recall...”