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They don’t call him Slick Willy for nothing. Bill Clinton, in an attempt to re-write history, tries to claim that his statement in South Carolina was not playing the race card. Funny thing is, he just can’t resist the temptation to do it again:
(CNN) — Former President Bill Clinton defended his role in his wife’s presidential campaign in South Carolina, disputing claims he made race a campaign issue.
“What happened there is a total myth and a mugging,” Clinton told CNN’s Sean Callebs in New Orleans, Louisiana, over the weekend.
“Wink wink nudge nudge people of Pennsylvania! What happened in South Carolina was I GOT MUGGED! BY THE BLACK GUY! I went down to South Carolina and I got mugged! Did I mention Democratic voters in that state are 55% black? Wink.”
It’d be funny if it weren’t so sad. You played the race card, Bill. Seriously. There was no other reason to mention Jesse Jackson than to paint Obama as “the black guy”. We get it. Now please just STFU already!
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These folks are unbelievable. Literally!
What do you do when you are getting thumped long after you thought the election would be over and you are unable to make up any significant ground?
Offer your opponent a VP slot in a disingenuous strategy to make yourself look like the uniter and not the divider that you are:
Hillary and Bill Clinton are again teaming up on Barack Obama — this time saying the first-term U.S. lawmaker, whom they have derided as inexperienced, would be a strong running mate on a Democratic presidential ticket headed by the former first lady.
LOL. Their bullshit apparently knows no bounds! One little teenie weenie problem with this whole strategy. It shows definitively that they are both liars. They are either lying when they say Obama is inexperienced or they are lying about this ticket thing. You simply can’t have it both ways. Unless, of course, they would like to admit that Hillary would pick a woefully inexperienced Senator as a potential running mate.
I think Tom Daschle has it about right:
“It may be the first time in history that the person who is running number two would offer the person running number one the number two position,” Daschle told “Meet the Press.”
ROFL. Hilarity!
I do agree that the force of both of them would be unstoppable and could probably get behind a Hillary VP. Maybe.
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Dowd pretty much nails it:
But Hillary is not the best test case for women. We’ll never know how much of the backlash is because she’s a woman or because she’s this woman or because of the ick factor of returning to the old Clinton dysfunction.
So can we stop making this about her being a woman? It’s never been about her gender, but about HER. I’d say the ick factor is pretty strong and it’s not about being woman, but this woman, with this history in this time.
I got an interesting email from a friend the other day (female). She said she was for Hillary at first because in her words “she had a uterus”. She’s going to vote for Obama on March 4th because her kids persuaded her. I’m sure they used more than anatomy to do so. She changed her mind because in her kids she probably saw the future and Obama embodies hope for the future like no other.
I get perspective on this daily being married to a feminist and OSU graduate in women’s studies. She thinks using “first woman President” is absolutely silly and likens that being the reason women would vote for her to skinhead racists that might vote for McCain because Obama is bi-racial. She also came up with a great word: Feminine Supremacists. Those who would completely ignore any other evidence of suitability simply because the candidate is a woman. The moment she said that I smiled knowing how much I’d enjoy writing that down. You don’t have to be a woman to be a feminist. Obama is capable of advancing women’s issues just as much as Hillary is. It would indeed be nice to point to a woman President and say to my girls “You see? Anything is possible for you.” I can make the same point with Barack in a different way. It’s not about wanting to prevent a woman from being President of treating her any different than male candidates. It’s about wanting the best for us as a nation and providing us with a path forward and trusting in a leader with vision and the ability to inspire.
In the end, women’s issues and feminism are too narrow a measure to select our next President. It is true. Hillary is not what women want if they want to prove we are at a point where we can have a female Commander in Chief. We can’t separate out all the reasons for people not wanting Hillary to be President so we can’t get a real good measure on where we are with that right now. My guess though is that it has VERY little to do with her being female. VERY little.
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The big news, of course, is going to be that the person who started the “Bill Clinton was the first black president” meme is not endorsing his wife’s opponent:
The woman who famously labeled Bill Clinton as the “first black president” is backing Barack Obama to be the second.
That is not her focus, as expected, and I believe her. The best part of all of this is admiring her brilliance with the English language:
“In addition to keen intelligence, integrity and a rare authenticity, you exhibit something that has nothing to do with age, experience, race or gender and something I don’t see in other candidates,” Morrison wrote. “That something is a creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom. It is too bad if we associate it only with gray hair and old age. Or if we call searing vision naivete. Or if we believe cunning is insight. Or if we settle for finessing cures tailored for each ravaged tree in the forest while ignoring the poisonous landscape that feeds and surrounds it.
“Wisdom is a gift; you can’t train for it, inherit it, learn it in a class, or earn it in the workplace — that access can foster the acquisition of knowledge, but not wisdom,” Morrison wrote.
Brilliant. Refreshing. Inspiring. Thank you Toni!
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