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jasmine621 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-28-08 04:11 PM
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What "racially divisive comments" from Bill Clinton?
I am dumbfounded! Ted has bought the MSM propaganda on HC.

I will still fight for her nomination but with so much stacked against her, she can't win the nomination. And we all know that Obama can't win. I guess the RW and media is happy.

Also, Toni Morrison's endorsement of Obama was shocking.
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jasmine621 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-28-08 04:18 PM
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1. I'm calling Ted Kennedy out to explain how Bill Clinton's comments
about Jesse Jackson are racially divisive. Or even HC's comments about LBJ and JFK?
I think there must be some kind dynastical envy at play here.
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R_M Donating Member (425 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-28-08 04:37 PM
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7. Maybe he wants to keep his dynasty alive?
:shrug:
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Medusa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-28-08 04:21 PM
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2. Denial ain't just a River in Egypt
amongst the Clintonistas apparently.
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sfam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-28-08 04:21 PM
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3. Perhaps ted is actually astute enough to see the truth...
Even Hillary supporters agree with this assessment. The only people who don't are HRC surrogates who are on message. CLEARLY Bill's comments have been divisive.

But um, the crocodile tears when Hillary is still clearly the front runner in every way that matters (superdelegates, current polling, etc.) is a little strange. As is the comment that clealry Obama can't win. Perhaps there again, Teddy might have a more informed assessment...
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bellasgrams Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-28-08 05:30 PM
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11. I watch the news all the time. I have NEVER heard BC say
anything divisive. He has only answered BO's hate filled propaganda.
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sfam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-28-08 06:42 PM
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18. You have different news filters than I do then...
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pampango Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-28-08 07:01 PM
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20. Apparently there are quite a few Democratic politicians and party strategists
who heard some of BC's statements differently than you did. I realize that they may all be tools or fools, but they may also be calling things as they see them because they are concerned for the party, not the electoral success of individual candidates.
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Kittycat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-28-08 04:25 PM
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4. "And we all know that Obama can't win"
I disagree, as does quite a few supporters - oh, and Kerry, Kennedy, need I go on?
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DemGa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-28-08 04:26 PM
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5. Bill Clinton mentioned Jesse Jackson!!
*sigh* *gasp*!!

We know what he meant!!
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robbedvoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-28-08 05:55 PM
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14. And?
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DemGa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-28-08 06:41 PM
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17. Guess I should have used that sarcasm thingy
I'm pointing out the attacks on Clinton are based purely on supposition. Of course, they run, run with it, as though it were fact.

For me, it's the perfect corollary to the intangibility of the Obama message.
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robbedvoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-28-08 04:28 PM
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6. Sharptonizing is the name of the game. The memo, doncha now. What truce?
Edited on Mon Jan-28-08 04:29 PM by robbedvoter
Buit please. don't remind anyone Obama is black! Just imply that anyone running against him must be racist.
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StevieM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-28-08 04:51 PM
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8. It's all fiction. Shame on the media and Obama for smearing them (eom)
x
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goodgd_yall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-28-08 04:55 PM
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9. Hillary can do it
Don't despair.
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robbedvoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-28-08 05:53 PM
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12. No one is despairing. Just frustrated.
:banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
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_Wayne_ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-28-08 05:04 PM
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10. It's the biggest non-story story of the whole campaign
Even the most wicked Hillary Hating Arianna Huffington clones here on DU can't produce a single shred of evidence that the Clinton's have "inserted race" or used racial differences as a tactic or any of the nonsense I once heard on AM radio, but am now hearing from hacks like Al Sharpton, a guy who stopped being interesting four years ago. People like him make gigantic leaps in exaggerating and misinterpreting comments from both Bill and Hillary, who have done infinitely more for miniorities than Al Sharpton or Barack Obama.
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robbedvoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-28-08 05:54 PM
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13. But like "Gore invented the internet" - makes the rounds
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Bake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-28-08 06:08 PM
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15. I think a lot of people are making way too much out of South Carolina
One little state. In the SOUTH, fer cryin' out loud. Obama wins SC and suddenly he's unstoppable for the nomination. Really? I'll wait for California, Ohio, NEW YORK, and a few other states ...

Bake
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jackson_dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-28-08 06:09 PM
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16. Hillary Clinton said she needed to "solidify white support" and Bill said whites would "wake up"
Oh wait. Wrong celebrity candidate couple...
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Maven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-28-08 06:44 PM
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19. I'm still waiting for an answer on this as well.
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