Black Leaders Question Clinton Remarks

This is starting to get a lot of Media Attention.


WASHINGTON (Jan. 12) - The Clinton campaign moved Friday to try to quell a potentially damaging reaction to recent comments by Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton that have drawn criticism from African-Americans just as the presidential primary campaign reached Southern states with significant numbers of black voters.

In a call on Friday to Al Sharpton’s nationally syndicated talk radio show, Mr. Clinton said that his "fairy tale" comment on Monday about Senator Barack Obama’s position on the Iraq war was being misconstrued, and that he was talking only about the war, not about Mr. Obama’s overarching message or his drive to be the first black president.

“There’s nothing fairy tale about his campaign,” Mr. Clinton said. “It’s real, strong, and he might win.”

Mr. Clinton’s fairy tale line and a comment by Mrs. Clinton that some interpreted as giving President Lyndon B. Johnson more credit than the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for civil rights laws have disturbed African-Americans, who saw them as unfair and diminishing the role of civil rights activists. The frustration comes as a Jan. 26 Democratic primary looms in South Carolina, where up to half of the Democratic electorate could be black.

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:puke:

Who stuck that dagger in Kerry's back when the GOP claimed that a joke of his was a smear of American troops?

They assume being Black is a power position for the black race..they are shoving it into the election. It will backfire.

Experience will then take lead because the candidate of Hope is letting ethnic race become a "thuggery" position to the voters.

.......what?

:popcorn:

You don't have any right to assume what "they" think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmUUYo9o9eg&feature=PlayList&p=B03F10C0072F4762&index=3

and a cigarette dangling from his lips, and dropped that Obama icon that he/she used to use as a cover for stealth Obama attacks.

they will only get worse. they are right to call clinton on it.

"They assume being Black is a power position for the black race".

It's a repugnant statement. So is the attempted linkage with thuggery. You are treading in some ugly waters.

Hillary was the first to use it(of the two)

At the fundraiser hosted by Dr Rajwant Singh at his Potomac, Maryland, home, and which raised nearly $50,000 for her re-election campaign, Clinton began by joking that, 'I can certainly run for the Senate seat in Punjab and win easily,' after being introduced by Singh as the Senator not only from New York but also Punjab.

So it seems that being D-Punjab is acceptable to Hillary as long as it has a close to 50k bag of money alongside it

:kick:

will stand with Representaive John Lewis of Georgia who endorsed HRC back in October 07. I await to see what his comments are about this over blown race baiting attempt by the obama campaign.....