Clinton's Racist Roots

Rush Limbaugh ^ | November 11, 2001 | Rush Limbaugh

[spycatcher]

Clinton's Racist Roots

he really troubling thing about this Bill Clinton speech at Georgetown University - in which he said Americans have some responsibility for the September 11th attacks - is that I have no clue what his purpose is. You could say that he's legacy building or shining the light of attention on himself or being provocative or what have you. But I think it really just proves the guy is a liberal. I think this really just indicates what he actually thinks of this country. To him, this country is full of faults - and everyone today is guilty for the sins of slavery and even the Crusades. He thinks that this country is the reason for much of the suffering and pain that people in the world experience today.

Now, I want to address something key about what Bill Clinton said during his speech, because he is not and has never been a great champion of civil rights. In fact - and this is something you never, ever hear about - the young Clinton studied at the knee of well-known segregationists. His political career in Arkansas demonstrates a complete lack of understanding and sensitivity about those people with whom he now claims to sympathize.

You want some hypocrisy? Let me give it to you. I've said it before, and it's appropriate to say it now as well. Bill Clinton's political mentors in Arkansas were segregationists! That means they didn't want white people and black people living together. They were active members of the stay-in-the-back-of-the-bus crowd. J. William Fulbright, the late Arkansas senator, and the Arkansas governor Orville Faubus, were among them. Those were the men Clinton idolized. Those were his mentors. Fulbright even hired Bill Clinton at one point.

These were the men Clinton hung around, tried to learn from - and they were passionate, committed segregationists. Think about what this means: Had they lived during the time of the founding, Bill Clinton's idols would have been enthusiastic slaveholders. Had they lived at the time of the Civil War, they would have fought and killed for the right to keep Africans enslaved. These are Bill Clinton's idols! These are the guys that Bill Clinton is running around taking leadership ideas from. These are the men that Clinton reached out to in order to start his political career.

Slavery Was Not Enshrined In Our Constitution!

Slavery is a chapter in American history that never seems to get mentioned by those who question the very essence of this country and its righteousness. The framers who wrote and adopted our Constitution understood that they couldn't resolve the slavery issue at the time. But they didn't ignore the issue. In fact, they punished slave states by limiting their representation in the House of Representatives. That's why slaves were counted as three-fifths a person for purposes of representation. That's why we fought the bloodiest war in our nation's history to end slavery about four score and seven years later.

It was not because the majority of the framers thought they were property. It was because they didn't want southern states to have it both ways, claiming they could count their slaves as people when it meant getting a bigger voice in government, but not in their day-to-day lives. An amendment process was put in place to right wrongs like slavery which needed fixing. That amendment process was used after the civil war to address or correct issues that could not be revolved during the Constitutional Convention.

In fact, amendments were adopted after the Civil War that dealt directly with the issue of slavery. This, too, is part of our history, and to ignore it is to distort our founding and to distort our history. Provisions were put in place to deal with slavery! It wasn't thought to be a great institution worthy of preservation. If it were, don't you think they'd have written a guarantee of slavery into the Constitution? Do you think Thomas Jefferson wrote the words "all men are created equal" without knowing it's full meaning?

Clinton's Mentors Were Racists and Segregationists

Now, if we judge Clinton as he would have us judge the history of America, we would look at his career through his association with outspoken and powerful racists and look no further. Bill Clinton has a history of association, respect for, and mentorship with powerful racists and segregationists! Yet he stands up and gives that speech. It wouldn't matter what he said or did as governor or president. All that would tell us about the measure of the man is that he embraced these segregationists rather than speak out against them.

But I am willing to look beyond that for a moment, and examine his presidency. And when I do that, I find a man who did nothing to improve race relations in this country. I find a guy who hailed those who promoted this notion of segregation. Clinton promoted discord between the races. This silly business about claiming he saw church burnings in his home state when it's proved that no such attacks ever, ever occurred prove he's trying to stir up racial hatred. He and his party used race to try to divide this country for crass political purposes.

So to come out and give this speech yesterday is the height of selfishness. This is a pathetic man screaming, "Don't forget me! Don't forget me! Don't forget me." We would love to find a way to.

[pollwatcher]

At least the Clintons don't have dozens and dozens of offsprings to take the future reins like the Kennedys. :-)

[spycatcher]

It's not just Clinton of course, the Dems are rife with racist tendencies. But he's still the leader of their party, unlike Lott. And his Jew-hating wife is their future presidential nominee.

[spoiler2]

Absolute PROOF that Clinton is a racist, is demonstrated in his directing that the pre-existing building on the Arkansas presidential lie-brary property, a historical building honoring the Black underground railroad, not just be moved out of the way, but be completely torn down, to make way for his pile of crap.

Our first Black president? I don't think so, at all!

[spoiler2]

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[goldilucky]

I can just see Hillary now..standing in front of the mirror saying to herself, "Mirror, mirror, on the wall. Who is the fairest of them all?" Over and over again.

[Joy Angela]

Don't forget about the SS men who conceived children with unmarried German Women to give Hitler a generation of perfect children...

Those children should be in their 50's or more...

Surely some of them would be willing to step in as Offspring...for the cause!