Clintons Start Dem Race War: “MLK Dreamed, But LBJ Got It Done” - Vid
Clinton’s race remarks may cost her black votes in South Carolina.
Politico:
A series of comments from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, her husband and her supporters are spurring a racial backlash and adding a divisive edge to the presidential primary as the candidates head south to heavily African-American South Carolina.
The comments, which ranged from the New York senator appearing to diminish the role of Martin Luther King Jr. in the civil rights movement — an aide later said she misspoke — to Bill Clinton dismissing Sen. Barack Obama’s image in the media as a “fairy tale” — generated outrage on black radio, black blogs and cable television. And now they’ve drawn the attention of prominent African-American politicians.
“A cross-section of voters are alarmed at the tenor of some of these statements,” said Obama spokeswoman Candice Tolliver, who said that Clinton would have to decide whether she owed anyone an apology.
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Washington Post:
Clintons Move to Ease Racial Friction
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Former president Bill Clinton worked yesterday to smooth over comments from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign and its allies that have raised hackles in the African American community, a week before Democrats will vote in the South Carolina primary, their first test involving a heavily black electorate.
The comments have come from Clinton (D-N.Y.) and several of her most prominent surrogates, including New Hampshire ally Billy Shaheen, who made insinuations about Sen. Barack Obama’s admission of past drug use, and Clinton’s husband, Bill Clinton, who appeared to dismissively describe the campaign platform of hope and change offered by the strongest black presidential contender in history as the “biggest fairy tale I’ve ever seen.”
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It was a Republican congress that caused LBJ to sign it.
January 12th, 2008 at 5:56 amIt’s ironic that blacks tend to be democrats and seem to “forget” that it was the southern democrats that did everything possible to thwart any Republican efforts to pass civil rights legislation. All the way from the Civil War it wasn’t until Truman desegregated the military after WW2 that it looked as though they were having a change of heart. Kennedy received a lot of criticism for not getting on board with anymore civil rights legislation. Lincoln was a Republican. So many blacks jump on board with islam and they “forget” that it was SOP during the caliphate to gather up blacks and sell them as slaves. All the problems blacks have are caused as they believe by white Republicans.
democrats are masterful at re-writing history. I think it’s called lying. I started noticing it in the middle 70s.
January 12th, 2008 at 6:06 amHehe, who is going to win the elections ?
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/080110/aqth083.html?.v=32
January 12th, 2008 at 7:54 amWasn’t it J. William Fullbright and Robert Byrd that was the chief nemisis of LBJ in his quest for civil rights? And wasn’t it a coaltion led by a guy named Robert Dole that saved LBJ’s ass?
Funny thing how revisionist liars like Shitlery fail to give credit where credit is due.
It was the Repub party that ended slavery. It was the Republican party that ended the Jim Crowe society. Without their votes, that legislation would have died in the Senate.
What a lying ass bitch.
January 12th, 2008 at 8:17 amHildebeast needs a freakin’ history lesson. She flatly stated that no other president before Kennedy even tried to pass civil rights legislation. What a dope. Dwight Eisenhower signed a civil right bill back in ‘58, I believe. It is the Republican Party, since its founding, that has stood up for civil rights. From the slavery issue to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and until today, the only party to oppose these progressive measures was the democRat party. When are black people going to wake up and see the light?
Here’s a link that all you Republicans and democRats should visit to learn about the history of the GOP:
http://www.grandoldpartisan.typepad.com/
Michael Zak is great.
January 12th, 2008 at 12:38 pmThe Clinton’s have done this before. Where is the outrage at the arrogance Bill Clinton displays when he claims to have been the first black president? I would think the leaders of the African-American community would find this offensive.
January 12th, 2008 at 1:17 pmI am constantly amazed at how well the Democrats can twist history. Kinda like a life long Michael Moore story. Pulling partial truths and facts from history.
My favorite is the use of JFK. One of the beloved kennedy’s, democratics love to take bits and pieces of his legacy and try to tie it to them. But for some reason democrats seem to forget in fact try to supress some of his ideas that are contrary to their agenda. Such as:
A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today’s military rejects include tomorrow’s hard-core unemployed.
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
Of course I don’t expect anyone in MSM to bring up any of the above part of JFK’s legacy.
As an active duty service member Hillary scares the hell outta me. She shows the same tendacies as “Slick” Willy when it comes to foriegn policy, which is do whatever looks good on CNN.
January 12th, 2008 at 7:29 pm