Hillary 'FJB' Clinton: Bush Ran Racist Primary Campaign

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.

"Who trusts McCain? Not me. I believed at the time and I believe until this day , that either McCain or his supporters scraped the bottom of the political ploy barrel and printed those pamphlets about his daughter-or maybe the democrats did it. You only have to see who benefits most from such underhanded tactics, to completely exonorate the one made to look most guilty,Bush, only his enemies in this case, both McCain or Gore could gain from this.

Bill's clueless wife, what's her name, who like her spouse, has little or no recall of anything self incriminating-should have a credibility rating of zero among all except the self confessed damndest of damn fools. THe liberal media in this last celebration of demonrats lies and propaganda, is attending it's own wake and suicide. ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NY Times, LA Times, USA today,Washington Post.......rest in peace.

I hear Hillary will soon mass produce and market, the secret mouth wash she has used for years. Green persimmon and lemon juice with alumn-the Hillary look will soon be available to all.

Battered Republican Syndrome

President Bush, too, has repeatedly set himself up as the test case of what happens when you try to play nice with a Democrat. After the dignified staff of the dignified former president trashed the White House on their dignified exit, Bush downplayed the property damage, saying: "There might have been a prank or two. Maybe somebody put a cartoon on the wall, but that's OK."

Anyone who knew anyone moving into the Bush White House knew that it was more than a "prank or two." But instead of stopping while they were ahead, pocketing Bush's gracefulness and moving on, the Democrats aggressively attacked Republicans for having falsely accused the Clinton staff of trashing the White House. They cited Bush's magnanimity as evidence that this was a lie. Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., demanded an apology from the White House. USA Today ran a snippy article titled "Ex-Clinton staffers on vandalism: Got proof?" Former Clinton press secretary Jake Siewert insinuatingly asked why there were no records of the alleged damage.

And then the full GAO report came back: The Party of the People had done $15,000 worth of property damage to the People's House. Extend an olive branch to Democrats and they bite your hand off.

Bush has invited Sen. Teddy Kennedy to the White House for movie night (to watch the Kennedy hagiography "Thirteen Days"), brought him over to discuss education several times, named a federal building after one brother and gushingly praised the other.

The adulterous drunk who cheated at Harvard and killed a girl at Chappaquiddick responded to these overtures by attacking Bush. "It takes more than good intentions to make a difference," Kennedy said. Asked about Bush's intelligence (a meaningless concept in college admissions but a scientifically provable quality in the cases of Republican presidents and death-row inmates), Kennedy pointedly said only that he found Bush, "engaging and personable."

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., dismissed Bush's overtures toward Kennedy as calculated political gamesmanship.

(Pop quiz: Did a Republican or Democrat say this about a member of the opposing party – "Your thoughtfulness truly amazes me. ... Thank you, my friend, for your many courtesies. If the world only knew." Answer: That was Sen. Trent Lott on Teddy Kennedy.)

When Bush named the Department of Justice building after Robert Kennedy, Kerry Kennedy Cuomo displayed the renowned Kennedy graciousness by viciously attacking the Bush administration at a pre-dedication ceremony. Noting that her daughter was in the audience, Kennedy Cuomo said: "Kara, if anyone tries to tell you this is the type of justice system your grandpa embraced, you just don't believe it."

This is as we have come to expect from a family of heroin addicts, statutory rapists, convicted and unconvicted female-killers, cheaters, bootleggers and dissolute drunks known as "Camelot." Why would anyone want such people as their "good friends"?

http://www.anncoulter.org/columns/2002/082802.htm

CARL/NEWSMAX WROTE: "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."

CARL/NEWSMAX ADDED: "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."

CARL/NEWSMAX ADDED: "The clip may surface on Fox News but, due to circumstances beyond my control, not till after the first of the year."

You BETTER make COPIES of the video and have SEVERAL TRUSTED friends store a copy---just in case the Klintons send their goons out to try to help you with Arkancide.

F.J.MITCHELL WROTE: "I believed at the time and I believe until this day, that either McCain or his supporters...printed those pamphlets about his daughter-or maybe the democrats did it. You only have to see who benefits most from such underhanded tactics, to completely exonorate the one made to look most guilty,Bush, only his enemies in this case, both McCain or Gore could gain from this."

The Klintons did the SAME kind of thing to Ross Perot (actually his daughter), but made it LOOK like Bush 41 was behind it. The Klintons will stop at NOTHING to try to STEAL and election!

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