Your coffee, sir. Milk? Sugar? Black, like me?
Posted on 01/11/2010 1:03:27 PM PST by lbryce
The Rev. Al Sharpton on Monday said he was disturbed by condescending remarks reportedly made by former President Bill Clinton about Barack Obama during the 2008 campaign.
Sharpton was referring to a passage in the new book, "Game Change," which recounts the conversation Clinton had with the late Sen. Ted Kennedy when he was trying to convince the liberal lion of the Senate to endorse his wife for president.
"A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee," Clinton told Kennedy, according to the book -- a comment that angered Kennedy, who later endorsed Obama.
Sharpton, speaking on Fox News, defended Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid over a passage in the book in which he said Obama doesn't have a "Negro dialect" unless he wants one. But the reverend would not give Clinton such a pass for his remark.
"I think that's far more disturbing because this is someone seeking to stop Mr. Obama's campaign and making a direct reference -- Sharpton and other civil rights leaders last took on Clinton during the Democratic presidential primaries, after the former president compared Obama's win in the South Carolina contest to Jesse Jackson's victories in the state two decades earlier. Sharpton brought up the South Carolina flare-up Monday in discussing the "coffee" remark.
"If someone said that he would have been getting us coffee like that in the context they said he said it, that would be very offensive to me, and I would definitely take Mr. Clinton on as I did in South Carolina," Sharpton said.
He said Clinton has not yet called him over the report, "So I guess I'll have to make the call."
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Your coffee, sir. Milk? Sugar? Black, like me?
Let’s see... Reid is about to get a bill passed full of freebies so his remarks are nothing. Clinton doesn’t have anything free to offer and his remarks are disturbing.
Anyone see a pattern here?
Good for Sharpton. Make Clinton crawl and eat poop!
The coffee comment was regarding Obama being a nobody.
Isn’t Ole’ Al being a little hypocritical here? He doesn’t really take issue with Reid’s comments and at the same time does take issue with Bill’s comments. I guess Slick Willy serves the Dems no purpose anymore so they will just feed him to the sharks. I imagine if somehow the roles were reversed with Reid and Clinton, it would be Reid taking the heat from Sharpy and not Clinton.
“He said Clinton has not yet called him over the report, “So I guess I’ll have to make the call.””
I hope Ol’ Slick tells him to go scratch his ass.
“He said Clinton has not yet called him over the report, “So I guess I’ll have to make the call.”
This is getting better by the hour. I’m sure glad I bought popcorn last week.
And?...
“I hope Ol’ Slick tells him to go scratch his ass”
Methinks Willy will be to far UP Rev Racists’ butt to do any scratchin’
Al Sharpton....the leader of the Black Ku Klux Klan.
http://i423.photobucket.com/albums/pp314/pauly_cy/negro20reid20clinton20kramer20smile.jpg
You forgot the comments Biden made about him being clean and well-spoken (or whatever it was he said)
Goodness Im getting a headache with all of this “what is more racist stuff.” Hilarious that they are ALL Dems!!!
tee hee
Clinton is quickly falling from grace as America’s first black president.
Correct, Sharpton is nothing but a black racist -
Everything to Sharpton is Black and White. Check out his past history; loaded with racists comments, actions, activities.
Its time to drive the ball well into the end zone - no time for slack. Hard as it seems after months of effort, lets reach down for one last surge of energy and put this one away!
MONEY BOMB FOR SCOTT at $503,000
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I won't be holding my breath waiting for the march on Clinton's Harlem pad, nor the public discredit Sharpton and all the rest of the *usual suspects* will be handing down to Billy Jeff.
Hypocrisy, thy name is Democrat.
I’m no fan of Slick’s, but he obviously meant that Obama would have been a minor figure a few years earlier and would have been in a gofer role for the real players. He could have been a member of any racial or ethnic group.
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