Hillary 'FJB' Clinton: Bush Ran Racist Primary Campaign

NewsMax.com ^ | Dec. 21, 2002 | Carl Limbacher

[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.

[wingnuts'nbolts]

This is why Hillary just got the job of Dem Assasin. It is her field of expertise. Truth has nothing to do with anything she will say or do from now on....it is total war.

I agree with Kristol, she is looking to be drafted by the Dems to run for the Presidency in 2004. That way she can justify not keeping her promise to fill her elected time in the senate and look good. It is going to be something! The Clinton Machine is still in tact. In 2008 it wouldn't be. She has to run in 2004.

[marajade]

Its going to backfire on them... it already has... Pelosi may have to name a black to a house leadership position when she in fact wanted someone else...

I mean heck... don't you think Spike Lee knows by now that he was in error and was talking about someone who belonged to his party and was fourth in line to the Presidency?

[Paul Atreides]

[eeriegeno]

"I mean, what [Lott] did was state publicly what many of them have stated privately over many years," Clinton charged.

Hillary FJB Klinton needs to learn a lesson with this statement. By 'them' I assume that she is talking about republicans? Which one of 'them' have made similiar comments, publicly or privately, Hillary FJB? If you can't prove the words that comes out of your meddling mouth, ya ought to keep the damn thing shut. It is simply unbelievable that this thing is actually a US senator......

[solo gringo]

Mccain sold our fighting men and women out to the north.He sat at the table with the north like he was one of them.He weighed more when he came home than when he was shot down.Imho the reason he stayed five years was he was scared to come home and face the navy review board.

[wingnuts'nbolts]

I seem to remember that Bill may have had a dark skinned son for real. Hillary is asking for it, isn't she? Bill denied it, but we never got the results of the DNA test, really. The shame is that the father was married to the mother of Chelsea at the time.

[wingnuts'nbolts]

Other Vietnam vets don't much like McCain. Ever wonder why?
It just tickles me when Clinton apologists call W. a Lowroader. Takes nerve.

[TLBSHOW]

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:

CARL/NEWSMAX

[Paulus Invictus]

And if you really need another view of the RATS in history, read the book "The New York Gangs." (written in 1928 and now a new motion pic).

During the horrendous Draft Riots in the 1860's, the leading rioters, lynchers and killers of all blacks they could find were RAT street gangs related to the corrupt Tammany RATS. Any black appearing on the streets at the time was a target for the murderous gangs. RATS were also the perps of most of the lynchings in the South in the 20's and 30's.

The black-hating Dixiecrats broke away from the Democratic Party, not from Republicans. Why African Americans (PC tag here), love and vote for RATS is an absolute mystery.

[marajade]

Let them... I didn't think Lott should have gone over what he said but he was a weak ML... Its hard to survive when you have conservative writers like Krautheimer (Sp?) and Will saying you have to go...

Are you always so focused?

[TLBSHOW]

have conservative writers like Krautheimer (Sp?) and Will saying you have to go...

true, the right writers showed their true color.

[marajade]

Really? What color is that?

[TLBSHOW]

"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."



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[TLBSHOW]

democrat helpers...........

[visualops]

I thought Bush handled that whole incident exceedingly well. He came off as a real gentleman and made the departing idgits look even worse. Especially in the wake of his comments on bringing dignity back to D.C.! I think that was the first step towards the people realizing that they had done the right thing electing him.

[Howlin]

Since you appear to be so dense

[visualops]

Well, I can vouch for at least one Democrat who started out for McCain but then went for Bush when it became clear McCain wasn't gonna make it(and no, I'n not talking about me lol).
However, McCain was appealing early on, because Bush at that point was seeming rather weak, and McCain came off as strong and tough and an "I mean what I say" kinda guy. This was so refreshing after Clinton.
I went to a McCain rally here (upstate SC), and he was very impressive. His wife is also quite articulate and I think was a big plus for him at that time. But, IMHO, Bush just really grew into the job, and got better every day as the campaign progressed. I think it's fair to say he's now surpassed everyone's expectations, and certainly historically is the right man at the right time.

[Texas Eagle]

I've heard that before. I guess only McCain, his captors and God know for sure.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

The few of us South Carolinians who did hear that McCain slam heard about it the day after the election. It wouldn't have mattered because most of us just didn't like him and would have found such information not important at all. But Hill thinks we're all just a bunch of stupid racists who can't decide who to vote for without mud that some Clymer printed up. Thanks for the compliment you cow from Chicago, wait, I mean Arkansas, er....... New York. I'll have to get back to you on this one. She's from somewhere, possibly the sixth circle of hell.

[pray4liberty]

Someone please go on the offensive with that witch.

Maybe Mrs. Jeb Bush will give it a whirl. If I were her, I would appear before the cameras with my half-white children and state for the record that I was deeply offended and insulted over Hillary's racist remarks, and demand an apology.

Seems Hillary has forgotten all about us 'living diversity' (i.e. mixed-marriage, interracial) couples. But we will remember.