Posted on 12/21/2002 12:59:14 PM PST by Carl/NewsMax
New York Sen. Hillary Clinton charged Friday that President Bush employed racist tactics during his primary battle against Arizona Sen. John McCain, while warning that the resignation of Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott would not "cleanse the Republican Party of their constant exploitation of race."
"The campaign for then-Governor Bush in South Carolina had a huge outreach effort to say [McCain] adopted a black baby," Clinton complained to reporters, a reference to leaflets that were circulated about McCain's dark-skinned daughter while Bush was fighting for his political life after losing the New Hampshire primary.
"I mean, what [Lott] did was state publicly what many of them have stated privately over many years," Clinton charged.
Though Bush's team denied any connection to the racist ploy, the McCain campaign was deeply angered by the effort - and the Arizona Republican is said to believe to this day that Bush sanctioned the race-based smear against his daughter, whom he and his wife Cindy brought to the U.S. from Bangladesh.
According to McCain biographer Paul Alexander, the GOP maverick was furious over the leaflets, which referred to his daughter using the "N"-word. "He believed that was over the line," the author told NewsMax in October. "But I think they were naive. If you're running a presidential campaign, these are the kinds of attacks you have to expect."
Alexander said that at the time, McCain was reluctant to fight fire with fire. But with eerie prescience in light of Sen. Clinton's complaint yesterday, he added, "I'll tell you what the Clintons would have done. They would have hired a private detective, they would have dug up all the dirt and they would have used it."
Hours before Bush's political team decided to give Sen. Lott the final push out the door, NewsMax warned that the decision to switch rather than fight would inevitably make Bush's South Carolina primary battle a target for Democrats seeking to tar the White House on race:
"Now that Jesse, Spike and the rest of the gang know they've got the GOP on the run, look for them to target the White House next," we predicted. "Since Jackson & Co.'s Election 2000 Florida 'disenfranchisement' conspiracy had to be abandoned due to lack of evidence, perhaps they'll move on to the president's 2000 South Carolina primary campaign, which still has John McCain's supporters grumbling over the Bushies' allegedly racist tactics."
And just as they failed to respond to the attacks on Lott with examples of Democratic Party racism, the Bush team isn't expected to counter Clinton's attack by citing her own record of anti-Semitism and racial insensitivity.
In 1996, for instance, Mrs. Clinton was criticized for using what the Los Angeles Times described as "a mock African-American accent" to portray San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown as ignorant for thinking that the Democratic fund-raising group Emily's List was an actual person. Videotape of the incident reviewed by NewsMax shows the then-first lady offering a lighthearted but derogatory impersonation of Brown's speech patterns.
In 1998, Mrs. Clinton campaigned for Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer, referring to his then-opponent, Sen. Al D'Amato as "Sen. Tomato," according the late Barbara Olson in her book "Hell to Pay."
In 2000, Mrs. Clinton was accused of calling Paul Fray, the campaign manager of her husband's losing 1976 congressional campaign, a "f---king Jew bastard" during a heated argument after the loss. Two witnesses, his wife and then-campaign aide Neil McDonald, backed Fray's account.
Prior to Fray's allegation becoming public, former Clinton bodyguard Larry Patterson told NewsMax that Mrs. Clinton used the phrase alleged by Fray on numerous occasions.
The mainstream press has declined to revisit their accounts in the wake of Mrs. Clinton's attempts to portray President Bush as a racist.
LOL! ! !....That reminds me....John McCain used a picture of himself walking towards the camera after just stepping off the plane that brought him home from Vietnam. In the original photo, McCain is walking towards his then-wife but in the campaign photo, McCain's wife has been airbrushed out.
If it's on videotape, I can only pray it shows up ALL OVER THE NET if she tries to run in 2008. I'd love to see that piece of trash tarred and feathered all the way back to the Arkansas woods!
And don't forget to save it carefully for that very purpose, please!
Yes, I have it on videotape. I'm not sure I'd agree with the LA Times that she uses "a mock African-American accent." But her Willie Brown impersonation does feature a change in her vocal mannerisms while she pokes fun at the mayor's ignorance.
A spokesman for Emily's List said at the time that she wasn't impersonating blacks in general but Willie Brown in particular. I guess I'd agree with that assessment.
The clip may surface on Fox News but, due to circumstances beyond my control, not till after the first of the year.
If they get there again, they will stop at nothing.
These attacks are further warning shots. Evil vests itself in willing participants like Bill & Hill every few generations, and they must be defeated.
Problem is, they HAVE been defeated, and soundly, yet they regenerate thanks to the liberal media--and the Evil Teensy Bent One's ruthlessness. This Lott horsesh*t (over far less than the Clintons themselves have done their entire careers) proves once again that we can never let our guard down.
"F'ING J#W BA$TARD$!"
... still censored, but you get what she REALLY thinks about those of us who may be jewish in background, when you quote the full banana, without the nice yellow peeling.
... get it straight, she is more perverse than just using the "J-B's" in a demeaning racist manner... hill and bill go for the gold when it comes to cursing and swearing out their hatred of minorities.
they make me want to puke, and then force feed it to them for dinner.
"I mean, what [Lott] did was state publicly what many of them have stated privately over many years," Clinton charged.
Though Bush's team denied any connection to the racist ploy, the McCain campaign was deeply angered by the effort - and the Arizona Republican is said to believe to this day that Bush sanctioned the race-based smear against his daughter, whom he and his wife Cindy brought to the U.S. from Bangladesh.
What's supposed to be wrong here?
How was McCain's daughter "smeared"?
Me neither. Sounds more like a Tawanna Brawley smear--stage an atrocity, then blame your opponent.
James Carville is famous for this sort of nastiness going back many years!
They've already gotten all the mileage they are going to get out of it, but replacing Lott as Senate Majority Leader is more of a victory for the Republicans than the Democrats, as they will soon enough find out.
Now the Democrats are only straining their already thin credibility as they hurl ever more fantastic charges at the Republicans.
They may as well dance and shout now, because in just a few short days the Republicans will be hogging the spotlights, and the 'rats will have to get used to being second fiddle throughout the federal government.
Instead of Tom Daschle's sanctimonious carping and moaning about being "concerned", we will have Bill Frist speaking on camera about a harmonious relationship between Capitol Hill and the White House. Hold on to your hats!
If the 'rats were deserving of pity, now would be the time to offer it.
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