1. "Prison Population Increased More Under President Clinton Than Under Reagan and Bush Combined"
Comets Hyakutake and Hale-Bopp appeared in the night sky under President Clinton, too. He didn't command the comets to appear, either.
The prison population explosion was largely the result of state laws and law enforcement. Federal laws also added to the number, but they are not made by the President. They are made by Congress, which was taken by the GOP in 1994, though a whole lot of current superdelegates for Obama helped pass more-punitive federal laws in the 1990s.
Clinton was big on rhetoric -- another source of the unending criticism from the
recherche left -- but his main contribution to the prison boom was his 100,000 police officer initiative, aimed at preventing crime, not punishing it after it took place. There were also a large number of White House social initiatives that failed to pass Congress; Democrats in Congress are never criticized for the defeats (let alone Republicans!), though Clinton
always is.
Finally, the
rate of increase fell off during Clinton's terms. That important statistic is never mentioned.
2. "Remember the NAACP sued Mr. Clinton under the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965,for black voter intimidation."
You actually don't have to remember. Right-wing mouthpiece
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/1/18/232405.shtml">Newsmax, which broke the story, will remember it for you -- eagerly.
However, when you read what actually took place, you will find that the NAACP sued the State of Arkansas and named the Governor and two other state officials as correspondents. This is S.O.P. in ALL public policy lawsuits. The actual charges involved gerrymandering, a product of the legislature that the executive was held responsible for enforcing. It was entirely appropriate for the NAACP to bring their complaints to the governor (Clinton) and INappropriate to accuse Bill Clinton himself (much less Hillary Clinton) of voter intimidation. So the image of Evil Bill and Hil rubbing their hands together in fiendish glee is just as much a lie from the Clinton-hating Left as it is from the Clinton-hating Right.
3. "So the notion that AA's are voting for Barack Obama simply because he's black is false."
92% of the Black folks in Pennsylvania voted for Barack Obama -- yet the "conventional wisdom" holds that any white person who voted for Hillary is a racist. Someone is playing the Race Card. Black folks make no excuses for voting for a Black president in order to achieve an historical foothold, nor does anyone blame them -- except for real racists, not racists according to Internet pundits.
So why are the anti-Clinton white yuppies making such a fuss? I guess, as the OP cited, they want to improve the African-American electorate by providing a good example.
For that matter, why does the post purport to be about racism, but then recycle old Newsmax garbage about Bill Clinton and the prison explosion during the GOP Congress? Is it because they believe that black people = criminals?
The Clinton haters are a remarkable bunch. They believe they can change history if they scream loud enough and throw as many confused accusations as they can cram onto a single page or screen of information. Clinton's actual record isn't dramatically gruesome enough, so sexy fictions have to be written. And like most low-grade porn, it lives and breeds on the Internet.
--p!