Posted on 02/09/2008 9:28:04 PM PST by NormsRevenge
RICHMOND, Va. - The nation's first elected black governor said Saturday he is not ready to excuse comments former President Bill Clinton made about Barack Obama.
In campaigning for his wife last month on the eve of the New Hampshire primary, Clinton called Obama's opposition to the Iraq war "a fairy tale." Clinton suggested Obama had toned down his early anti-war fervor during his 2004 Senate campaign.
"Barack Obama is not a fairy tale. He is real," former Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder told reporters at a Democratic fundraiser as the former president spent the day campaigning for Hillary Rodham Clinton in Richmond and three other Virginia cities.
The grandson of slaves, who was elected in 1989 in what was once the Confederate capital, endorsed Obama last month. Now Richmond's mayor, Wilder's comments still get the attention of the state's black voters, though his influence has waned since he left office 15 years ago.
Clinton also implied that an Obama victory in South Carolina would amount to a reward based on race, like the Rev. Jesse Jackson's 20 years earlier.
Wilder said the former president's comments stung him and other black voters and diminished their respect for Clinton.
"It's not just me (who) feels that; any number of people feel that," Wilder said. "A time comes and a time goes. The president has had his time."
Clinton spokesman Mo Elleithee said Bill and Hillary Clinton both "have tremendous respect for Governor Wilder. He has been a trailblazer who made it possible for both Senators Clinton and Obama to run for president."
In stops across Virginia, Clinton was careful Saturday to avoid any comment remotely critical of his wife's rival for the Democratic presidential nomination. Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia hold primaries Tuesday.
I think Hillary will order Robert Byrd to burn a cross on Wilder’s front lawn.
Fairy Tale - or nightmare? Better ask the witch.
Santa Claus still shows up every year in spite of his doubters. Be afraid, Hillary. The fairy tale might be ending... but not as you saw it.
They needed a news article over his feelings hurt on something from weeks ago??
Bubba being in town may have rekindled the flames.
Wilder sounds like he is still pretty ticked.
It seemed worth a post seeing as how ap was kind enough to report it.. and it’s kind of nice that the Clintons don’t get a free pass everytime they act up of late.
No, there is a point. Clearly the Clintons have alienated their good will with blacks.
Nonetheless, I can't help but take some delight in him having his words twisted. Its kind of a sweet irony if you ask me.
Ol' Sheets makes an appearance.
If he thinks he’s sore now,wait til Obama gets to the convention with a majority and all those racist Clinton machine “super delegates” hand the nomination to Hillary.
If the majority of black folk still vote Democrat after this election season,it means they hate Republicans more than they love themselves.
They sound sorta like the Palestinians—I’m only glad they are not as murderously recalcitrant.
Also from the article, Wilder said: Barack Obama is not a fairy tale.
Is Wilder as stupid as this makes him seem? Calling somebody's opposition "a fairy tale" is not the same as calling that person "a fairy tale".
No. Wilder is many bad things, but stupid isn't one of them. He is distorting what X42 said in order to get his followers (who are stupid) to vote for a bro. In short, he is a typical democrat
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