Clinton, Obama Clash Over Race Issue

I'd say the response from Obama's camp on Hillary and Bill Clinton's desperate but not so clever use of race is fully justified. Explanations from Camp Clinton cannot be believed at this point. They are what one's gut tells one they are, a power-couple willing to do anything, fight anyone, demean anyone, in the path to ultimate power and power of the pardon.

He's black, she's a woman... never before have we had a President who was either. Does it mean that they're any less qualified for the job? No. End of discussion.

Lets move on to some real issues...

According to a post on Huffington Post, yes, there is a memo which apparently started inside the Obama campaign, which highlights, out of context, the comments made by Bill Clinton about "fairy tale" re:Obama. I have read that entire transcript, now, and he was basically saying that the way the media treated Obama on his inconsistencies re: his record on Iraq was poor. In terms of how the press coverage of the depth of these variations on the part of Obama over time, compared to Hillary's, and Obama's constant barrage against Hillary's war votes, it WAS a "fairy tale." Google the Clinton statements IN CONTEXT. When I did, I reversed myself. Re: Hillary's comments, she said that while Martin Luther King, Jr., was THE preeminent orator and visionary of the 1960s Civil Rights era, the Kennedys and Lyndon Johnson were the legislators who brought the dreams into politcal reality. Martin Luther King had plenty of cold blooded political calculation in some of his actions (such as carrying out a march in Selma, AL, led by children, which knowingly put them in harm's way), and which caused a Kennedy intervention to try and avert bloodshed. Lyndon Johnson was a master legislator. His committment to enacting significant, and meaningful legislation to break the status quo on Civil Rights, took "the Dream' forward into history. If Obama-ites are simply too young to remember these realities (that MLK didn't make the legislation happen) that confirms they need to read more. If IObama has changed his views on Iraq enough to warrant a call for better press coverage, deeper press coverage, and hard questions aimed at his inconsistencies, then it's too bad his followers can't handle that. Obama risks the absolute kiss of death, if he continues to accuse the Clintons of racial insensitivity. It has been to Obama's credit he's so far transcended using the "race card." If he pursues this, and the Clintons prevail in their calls for a deeper look see by the Press, and a revisiting of Lyndon Johnson's role in legislation of Civil Rights bills, then he will have confirmed for a segment of the electorate that a part of his movement IS about ... "it's my turn as a black man." If Hillary Clinton does that regarding her gender, then she runs the risk of a blistering (even more than current) backlash by man men who are looking for any excuse to not vote for A WOMAN. These are potential historical candidates. Obama needs to walk lightly. And, while I respect Donna Brazille, she, too, over reacted and made a tactical error to intimate that the Clintons were showing racial insensitivities when they called for accurate reporting and recording of history. Obama will lose a lot of white supporters if he pursues this line of attack. He should drop it and move on, use his eloquence, his gifts, and let the chips fall where they may.

It's black people that are angry and I can see why. Boiled down, her comments sound like she is saying it takes a white man to finish a job a black man starts. They don't like feeling as though the whites are patronizing them. It goes back to Southern slave holders treating their slaves like children to keep them in bondage and from revolting.

Why are the Clintons acting unworthy of themselves?

If Hillary gets to the White House she'd better keep Bill on a short leash otherwise it's fun and games all over again and the GOP retakes Congress and nothing good gets done for the long-suffering American People.

Is the Clinton Campaign imploding?

Are the Clintons racist?

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At least the campaigns are about issues this time around.

I think it's absolutely hilarious that the Clinton campaign is now interjecting race into the issue and bringing in the guy who runs BET basically just to say "One of our best friends are.. you know.. African American!"

And of course, he goes out and starts attacking Obama for prior drug use.

Clinton 08! How could you not be excited about that?

Well, for starters, Johnson may be the founder of BET, but he is no longer the owner of BET! In addition, he has no room to call anyone out in public about their so-called indiscretions, especially when he did not give owners of Black Enterprise, or any other known black-own publishers of magazines a first crack into buying his company! I saw what he had said on the television during a news segment, and he portrayed himself as a beaten down crumb-snatching black slave who loves his massa'! So as far as Johnson is concerned, he's mute in my eyes, and believe it or not, in a lot of people's eyes because BET no longer holds water in the eyes of many black Americans.

Now, as far as salty-tear Hillary's accusations are concerned, SHE is the one who is FEARFUL of a man who has already exude common sense, poise, articulation, revealed specific plans for America's growth, and sadly, mainstream media has not given him the respect, nor AIR TIME to him. Instead, it's Hillary, Hillary, and some more damn Hillary! The blatant bias that has already exceeded upstream regarding Sen. Clinton's high exposure in the news is a CLEAR indication that a Caucasian woman is better to win than a Black man, whom so happens to have had a Caucasian mother who conceived, carried, birth, and raised in life, become President of the United States of America! THAT'S THE ISSUE MAINSTREAM MEDIA IS BOTH OVERTLY AND COVERTLY DOING! The filtering of what is news worthy versus race is so evident that it is sickening!

Clinton, in a nutshell, don't want to lose her black enslaved-minded people in South Carolina whom she and her adulterer husband, Bill, both become and are considered "Good White folks" among the Negroes! THAT is what they are fearing - they fear that an upstanding MAN who has been ordained by a HIGHER POWER to have had parents where he can BENEFIT from both worlds, which makes him a great candidate for change because HE knows what it is to be Black, Caucasian, and since his sister is part Indonesian who's married to an Asian man, Senator Barack Obama is not your "run-of-the-mill" man!

And as far as anyone, particularly many Black folks who continues with this nonsense about Bill Clinton being the 'first' black president can laid that crap to rest. NOW, there IS a REAL Black man running for President of the United States of America!

THAT IS HILLARY'S FEAR. THAT IS BILL'S FEAR! AND QUITE FRANKLY, THAT'S MAINSTREAM MEDIA'S FEAR, or they would not continue this bull@!$%# about race, and who said what to whom!

Never underestimate the Clintons. They had to find a way to criticize Obama without appearing to be racially prejudiced, and now they've found it: slur Obama on every occasion and then blame him for reacting to it. Brilliant! Sheer brilliance by our next president and first gentleman.

Did I mention that Hillary voted giving authority for military force against Iraq? Oh and guess what? Obama voted against it. She has also voted to give Bush a blank check ever since. Not Obama.

The reason he gave for voting against it was that he knew Saddam wasn't a threat, that it would strengthen the terrorists recruiting efforts, we would have to occupy the country for years and that it would cost us dearly. She claims that he doesn't have the experience to be president. What is her experience, and why with all of her experience was she so wrong?

I'm just saying.

Hello People, it is Natural thing, when Obama took allure of winning, starting with IOWA. That made Clinton mad, to see a black guy advancing so popular for the first time in American history. Clinton to get momentum in NH. she had to create a strategy and expose herself to the people looking sad and pitiable, she even cried to draw mass s attention of her disparate mood and emotional distress that night. It was a great shock for her seeing loosing again from the same guy for second day! But women are always heartfelt beings they associated themselves with that night and gave her a marginal winning over Obama. Every intelligent person understood what happen that night. From that day, the feelings of white and black started, Mrs. Clinton prayed hard and wants America to look after her because she is one of them(white) they should not let a black to become a president, she is so scary about that and the Husband is using tactics as well in same light of white and black. The Media started interfering as well passing one sided view, promulgating Clinton. I know for sure, Obama had chances to win these elections, but the knot is here, the public can vote whom they want to vote, at the end of everything, the situation will result a matter of life and death, very complicated and difficult to put Obama in the White House. If that is the question, someone will do what it takes to use Clinton of whom men will discriminate against her. GOP may play dirty card to regain the white house again which will bring a situation, unprecedented situation not known in the US before. The National Guard Forces will interven in this; 2008 Presidential Election.
I wish I were those elites to decide on elective president, I could SIT Mrs Clinton as a first woman president of the US. She can do the job better than may previous presidents of this country. Consider this encountering for the future reference. Mufuta Mulongo/. Decatur ,Georgia.

Senator Obama, you've done what you could, but do not forget that the blackman is still a protective class in the US, blacks still face separation on the regular small positions in the Governmental jobs as well as in the private secters. You have made history that can not be revoqued from the books. we accept whatever will be the outcome of these 2008 presidentiak elections in America.

I repeat that Mr. Bob Johnson what he has done against Senator Obama was wrong, that does not exonerate him, it does not make great, but it inferiority him complexly in the eyes of people of other
cultures than his. Clinton's, are now scare of you believe it or not, they said interior that if you can do that to your black brother, what can you do us....white!? You will end up regretting that why did you that, the feelings that going inside you is ugly, he looks like an hypocrite or worst than that.
Bob you have levelled yourself to a low rank, a low class completely. It was better to introduce Mrs. Clinton politically without denigrating anybody. SC population is not going to follow you, you'll see different. You mentioned that Senator Barack was doing stuffs in Chicago neighborhood and you don't know what he was doing? The way you put it was dirty. Using drugs in America is not a problem, how many Governmental, officials recognized, and accepted of using narcotics in their life time? Including Mr. Bill William, wasn't he accused that he used drugs while in High school, he ended up becoming a President of the US. What were you trying to tell Americans they don't know, Senator Obama according to you wrote about his drug problems in his book. This incident reduced your personality among well to do Americans; blacks and whites as well.
Mufuta/ Decatur, Georgia.

Mufuta Mulongo: his comments are a the end!! He is my father and he just recently PASSED AWAY On September 11,2008!! Let his soul Rest in PEACE!! He was also a big fan of Barack Obama and he did a lot of campaighns fpr President Obama!! I WISH he was here to see OBAMA in the White House!! Aww this is so painful!! Every Pleaase Pray for me to continue to make it!! He left a BEATIFUL family behind!!