Just when we’re seconds away from realizing Dr. King’s dream of Black’s and Whites standing side-by-side, instead of putting on boxing gloves, it looks like the Clintons are putting on their white sheets. As a descendant of slaves, I was always taught to watch the White folks who smile in your face and try to convince you how “Black” they are. I respect people who are honest and admit to certain prejudices. If they don’t like me, they have that right. To be honest, I have a few prejudices of my own. I prefer tall men.
As for the Clintons, now that their campaign is beginning to unravel, seems their true colors are coming to light. Here we are, ready to celebrate the birth and life of a global icon, and Senator Clinton finds it appropriate for a presidential candidate to diminish the work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a man admired by people of all races and nationalities.
Seems Mrs. Clinton thinks Dr. King merely had a dream, but Lyndon B Johnson got it done.
I wonder what Ambassador Andrew Young has to say about Mrs. Clinton’s “rhetoric vs reality” approach.
According to Fox News
Clinton said “Dr King’s dream began to be realized when President Lyndon Johnson passed the civil rights act of 1964… That dream became a reality, the power of that dream became real in people’s lives because we had a president who said ‘we’re going to do it,’ and actually got it done.”
Just for Mrs. Clinton’s information, I doubt that LBJ would have done much but for the work of Dr. King and other civil rights leaders including the late, great Congressman Adam Clayton Powell.
On the Bill Clinton front it gets sadder by the minute. According to the New York Times (The Clinton Camp Unbound), the twice-elected president of the free world said of his wife’s opponent, Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign, “This whole thing is the biggest fairytale I’ve ever seen.” I have to agree with writer Gene Byrd, “It can be argued that Bill Clinton knows a thing or two about tail."
Bill Clinton Rips on Barack Obama: 'Fairy Tale'
By Gene ByrdJan 8, 2008
It can be argued that Bill Clinton knows a thing or two about tail. But does the former president know anything about 'Fairy Tales'? He certainly believes so and he is furious that he is not on his way back to the White House with his wife Hillary Clinton leading the way. new hampshire was supposed to be Hillar's second big win and they would dump that pesky Obama. But right now, it certainly looks like Hilary is down 0-2 to Barack Obama. No one has yet called New Hampshire for Obama but he should win by at least five points. Byrd continues:Bubba ripped this off with a microphone in hand. "It is wrong that Senator Obama got to go through 15 debates trumpeting his superior judgment and how he had been against the war in every year, enumerating the years, and never got asked one time, not once, well, how could you say that when you said in 2004 you didn't know how you would have voted on the resolution, you said in 2004 there was no difference between you and George Bush on the war, and you took that speech you're now running on off your Web site in 2004, and there's no difference in your voting record and Hillary's ever since?"
Poor Bubba! He sounds like a fool and is such a poor example of how an ex-president should behave. Read the full story here Oouch!
I can't understand why a former president would want to taint his legacy by reducing himself to a campaign manager. An angry one at that. I can't imagine that any other president in history would run around the country slinging insults in order to get back into the White House. You have to wonder if he and his wife suddenly remembered something they failed to take with them when the vacated the premises at the end of their reign.
Although I don’t think President Clinton did the Black community much good while he was in office, I must admit that I found him to be a likeable fellow. He couldn’t get my vote, but he got my sympathy with his adultery scandal. But right now, President Clinton and his wife come off as very desperate and it's not a pretty sight. Certainly not presidential.
Whether Sen. Clinton's tears were real or not, I don't want a woman who cried her way into office. The fact remains, a large section of the population believes women are too emotional to be leaders. Please Ms. Clinton, don't reinforce that stereotype to gain sympathy from voters. It's degrading.
I compared it to a former NBA player coming out of retirement, but now I think they’re more like Mike—Mike Tyson that is. I just hope the other candidates are packing earmuffs on the campaign trail, there’s a couple of biters on board.
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