Posted on 01/19/2015 2:29:17 PM PST by maggief
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Good-naturedly referencing his friend Andrew Young—who marched with King and is prominent in the film—early in his speech, Clinton told the sold-out crowd, “I saw Andy earlier today and I said, ‘Andy, I just watched Selma. Were you ever that thin?’ (eliciting thunderous laughter) and he said yes, he was, that they were dodging so many bullets in droves they all used to be thin.”
As he continued to speak, he got decidedly more serious. “If you haven’t yet, go see the movie Selma,” he insisted, “and you will see the enormous pressures imposed on the King family and friends.” Clinton made it clear, however, that it was King’s philosophy of a “beloved community” that Selma most affirmed for him. “I was reminded all over again when I was sitting through Selma,” he shared.
“You know it wasn’t like I didn’t live through it,” the 68-year-old Clinton confided, “and I swear [it was] just like it was the first time. And, when they went across the bridge the second time, I stood up and started cheering all by myself and I roared like it was a surprise. But I was just evidence to the fact that we all want to live in a beloved community. We all want to think that we can have a home. We all want to think we can do great things because we have a launching pad,” he preached.
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You bet Bub a stood up and Cheered. He gets
Confused as to why.
It was actually when he bombed a Aspirin Factory making immunization drugs in Sudan, to distract the public from his deposition in the P.J. civil case.
Bill Clinton, protégé to Senator J. William Fulbright, a segregationist and one of the more vocal Southern Democrats who fought against the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Hillary went to the movie and didn’t fall asleep, she ain’t no ways “ti’ard”!
I thought he finishes up in the sink.
If only one guy liked it, how moving could it have been?
The syphilis is strong with this one.
Anything to deflect from his romps with the pedophile Epstein.
The Left wants soooooooo bad for this clunker to go boffo. Instead, the ticket sweepstakes is going to a movie they loathe.
Boo hoo.
UH-OH!
Sounds like he needs to go to the men’s room and try to get a hold of himself.
Standing up and cheering does not seem appropriate for a movie like that. Quiet reflection would seem more appropriate for someone that actually cares about the awful things that happened to black Americans. Obviously that doesn’t apply to Slick Willie
Great Bill. At the end of "American Sniper" I stood up quietly with a tear in my eye - only I wasn't alone, not by a long shot.
“Sired then abandoned a black boy...”
When did he do that and where is the boy?
That’s why he is known as “The Sink Emperor.”
This from a guy who as a kid backed Governor Faubus in Little Rock and a little while later got his political start under the mentoring of Faubus.
Yes, and that’s why he went on to work for William Fullbright, segregationist diehard.
Bill is DESPERATE to undo the damage he did between Blacks and Hillary with his 2008 anti-Obama rants in South Carolina. It will probably work. They are electoral idiots.
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