“A few years ago this guy (Barack Obama) would have been getting us coffee.”
Quite a comment from the so-called “first black President”
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If you do not view this statement in a racial context it is a fair assessment from Clinton. I still don’t understand how or why the national media and the DNC declared Obama to be ready and qualified.
Obama is more “staff” material vs holding the highest office in the land. Palin was (and is) far more qualified but that did not fit the agenda of the media who gushed over Obama and immediately went after Palin.
I don’t think Clinton meant anything racial in the statement (if true, I am always a little suspicious of these books) and he nailed it.
Agree with you 100%.
I would LOVE to see him as press secretary for Hillary. "Uh, uh, I can't respond to that interrogative with sufficient specificity, so, uh, next question, s'il vous plais."
Nonsense. Clinton absolutely meant it is the racist sense, but not like you think. He wasn’t saying Obama wasn’t qualified, he was saying it was a miracle he had come so far in the land of the right wing oppressors.