What Hillary supporter Robert L. Johnson, founder of Black Entertainment Television, said
Update: Hill gets a less-than-enthusiastic reception at the MLK event in NYC today.
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Over the weekend, Black Entertainment Television founder Robert L. Johnson took the stage next to Hillary Clinton and smeared Barack Obama twice. (Video of Johnson’s comment here.) The Clintons–she and The Big He–and their operatives have been under fire for their race-baiting tactics and suggestive remarks about Obama’s admitted drug use.
Judging from Johnson’s remarks, the down-and-dirty Clintons have no intention of backing off.
Johnson’s obvious allusion to Obama’s drug use got the most attention yesterday, but there was something else:
Dr. King had led a “moral crusade,” Mr. Johnson said, but such crusades have to be “written into law.”
“That is the way the legislative process works in this nation and that takes political leadership,” he said. “That’s all Hillary was saying.”
He then added: “And to me, as an African-American, I am frankly insulted that the Obama campaign would imply that we are so stupid that we would think Hillary and Bill Clinton, who have been deeply and emotionally involved in black issues since Barack Obama was doing something in the neighborhood – and I won’t say what he was doing, but he said it in the book – when they have been involved.”
Moments later, he added: “That kind of campaign behavior does not resonate with me, for a guy who says, ‘I want to be a reasonable, likable, Sidney Poitier ‘Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.’ And I’m thinking, I’m thinking to myself, this ain’t a movie, Sidney. This is real life.”
Hillary’s black supporters are old-school race-hustlers–not embarrassed to show bigoted contempt for non-militant, achieving blacks. Whatever you think of Obama’s politics and qualifications to be president, he is a successful person and he has led an impressive campaign.
Without having to bow and scrape at the foot of racial demagogues like Al Sharpton and his ilk.
Which is apparently what earned him the Sidney Poitier remark from Robert L. Johnson. This is how they view Obama–as the unbearably, too perfect, too presumptuous, accomplished black doctor character in “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.”
If Obama is Poitier, then Johnson and Hillary’s black demagogues are the real-life analogies of Spencer Tracey and Katharine Hepburn’s racist black maid, Tillie, who derides Poitier and treats him as a traitor to his race.
A bit of movie trivia:
The film also attempted to touch upon black-on-black racism, as when both the doctor’s father and the household cook Matilda ‘Tillie’ Binks, played by Isabel Sanford in a small but memorable role, take the young man to task for his perceived presumption…
…The original version of this film that played in theaters in 1967 contained the sarcastic one-liner “The Reverend Martin Luther King!”, issued by the sassy black maid Tillie in response to the question, “Guess who’s coming to dinner?”, which is the key line of dialogue from which the film got its title. However, after the assassination of Martin Luther King on April 4, 1968, this line was removed from the film, so by August 1968, almost all theater showings of this film had this line omitted. As early as 1969, the line was restored to many but not most prints, and the line was preserved in the VHS and DVD versions of the film as well.
Late yesterday, Johnson issued a disingenuous press release about his remarks–laughably claiming that he wasn’t referring to Obama’s drug use:
My comments today were referring to Barack Obama’s time spent as a community organizer, and nothing else. Any other suggestion is simply irresponsible and incorrect.
“When Hillary Clinton was in her twenties she worked to provide protections for abused and battered children and helped ensure that children with disabilities could attend public school.
That results oriented leadership — even as a young person — is the reason I am supporting Hillary Clinton.”
Obama’s response: “Unfortunate” and “ill-advised.” More:
“His tortured explanation doesn’t hold up against his original statement,” said Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton. “And it’s troubling that neither the campaign nor Senator Clinton . . . is willing to condemn it.”
Forget about the Bradley Effect.
It’s the Clinton campaign’s exploitation of the Tillie Effect that’s news.
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Condescending She of Forked Tongue:
An hour after slamming Sen. Barack Obama’s voting record on national television, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton went positive and declared herself “proud” of him.
The shift might have had something to do with the audience. After appearing on Meet the Press from Columbia, she spoke at Northminster Presbyterian Church here, a small African-American congregation — part of her ongoing effort to court a group of voters who have to choose between Clinton, a politician they like and admire, and Obama, who would be the country’s first black president.
Talking about the historical significance of a woman and black man competing for the presidency, she said, “I am so proud of my party, I am so proud of my country and I am so proud of Senator Barack Obama.”
She added later in the speech, “I am standing here, Senator Obama stands before you, as a result of the generations of men and women who protested and picketed.”
…“We are all in this struggle together,” Clinton said.
Where is Hillary headed today? An MLK birthday celebration.
Here’s the Obama campaign’s memo on the Clinton race card strategy.
Michelle Obama strikes back.
Question: What will Oprah do?
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The latest poll…
The first contests of the 2008 presidential campaign have led to a dramatic shake-up in public opinion nationally, with Sen. John McCain now leading the Republican field and Sen. Barack Obama all but erasing Sen. Hillary Clinton’s once-overwhelming advantage among Democrats, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll published Monday.
Clinton had dominated in national polls from the outset, holding a 30- point advantage as recently as a month ago, but the competitiveness of the first two contests appears to have reverberated among Democrats across the country.
In the new poll, 42 percent of likely Democratic voters support Clinton (New York), and 37 percent back Obama (Illinois). Clinton’s support is down 11 percentage points from a month ago, with Obama’s up 14. Former senator John Edwards (North Carolina) held third place with 11 percent.
Victor Davis Hanson weighs in on Hillary’s LBJ/MLK race ploy:
She and Bill obviously think that they’ve so cemented the issue of the Clintons as our first Black Presidents that their racial fides is above suspicion. It isn’t; and the Obama the soul speaker vs. Hillary the brainy insider is a lose / lose / lose /lose proposition. I’m surprised that her handlers haven’t muzzled altogether the Clintoni on this issue.
Obama and the old civil rights guard: No love.
The most amazing thing about the 2008 presidential race is not that a black man is a bona fide contender, but the lukewarm response he has received from the luminaries whose sacrifices made this run possible. With the notable exception of Joseph Lowry, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference veteran who gave a stirring invocation at Obama’s Atlanta campaign rally in June and subsequently endorsed him, Obama has been running without much support from many of the most recognizable black figures in the political landscape.
That’s because, positioned as he is between the black boomers and the hip-hop generation, Obama is indebted, but not beholden, to the civil rights gerontocracy. A successful Obama candidacy would simultaneously represent a huge leap forward for black America and the death knell for the reign of the civil rights-era leadership — or at least the illusion of their influence.
The most recent example of the old guard’s apparent aversion to Obama was Andrew Young’s febrile YouTube ramblings about Bill Clinton being “every bit as black as Barack Obama” and his armchair speculation that Clinton had probably bedded more black women during his lifetime than the senator from Illinois — as if racial identity could be transmitted like an STD. This could be dismissed as a random instance of a politician speaking out of turn were it not part of an ongoing pattern.
Last spring, Al Sharpton cautioned Obama “not to take the black vote for granted.” Presumably he meant that the senator had not won over the supposed gatekeepers of the black electorate. Asked why he had not endorsed Obama, Sharpton replied that he would “not be cajoled or intimidated by any candidate.” More recently Sharpton claimed on his radio show that the candidates’ recent attention to issues of civil rights was a product of pressure from him.
Although Jackson is not entirely unfamiliar with the kind of thing that’s happening to Obama — Coretta Scott King endorsed Walter Mondale over him in 1984 — he also got into the act. He criticized Obama for not championing the “Jena Six” cause — the case of six young black men in Louisiana charged with beating a white classmate — vigorously enough. After Obama’s Iowa victory, Jackson demanded that the senator bolster “hope with substance.”
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So, a black Hollyweird surrogate steps up to the plate for Hillary. Typical.
Exactly right.
It is such a shame that the more the average American tries to move away from the prejudices of the past, whether based on race or any other type of discrimination, the more the real racial bigots holler and scream.
I pray for the day that the Al Sharptons, Jesse Jacksons and Robert Johnsons of this world will be cast aside by those they purport to be trying to help … while we all know they are really leeches on the black community … sucking the hopes of yet another generation downward in their own egotistical quests for continued power and relevance.
As for this specific occasion it is just another of the obsessed puppets speaking for their Clinton masters.
I get it.
Elections here too are based on Race, Sex and Color.
Hillary is just plain shady and rotten a panderer of the third kind. Obama is to green’ how can anyone be in his camp when he never voted on key issues in the senate and just shouts change and soundbites for the press. they’re both scary and wrong for America.
green’ meaning “not ready” not that PC crap version.
Why is it always “progressives” who act as if they’re still living in 1962?
This doesn’t surprise me. Hillary will do and say anything - and I mean anything - to accomplish what she sees as her “manifest destiny.”
I would have no problem with a black president or voting for a black politician if his platform and ideologies were ones I believed in and supported.
Unfortunately, Obama - the supposed “great uniter” - votes 100% down the Democrat party line and I cannot, will not vote for someone who votes that way.
It has nothing to do with his race.
But don’t expect Hillary to rise to that same level of civil discourse.
“we would think Hillary and Bill Clinton, who have been deeply and emotionally involved in black issues since Barack Obama was doing something in the neighborhood ”
Now all he has to do to prove they are not that “stupid” is name one thing the Clintons ever actually did for black people…go ahead…I’m waiting…nothing? You’re right! GWB has done more for the black community than any other president in recent memory, but he’ll never get credit from anyone but Colin Powell, Dr. Condeleeza Rice, or perhaps Michael Steele!
If some of the members of the black community that are Republicans were running right now for President I would not have a problem with that. In fact, I would have no problem voting for Republicans like Michael Steele, J.C. Watts, Condoleeza Rice and maybe even Colin Powell, although I know less about his values and beliefs than the others.
The left always says “We want to talk about issues!” and then pulls a Hillary.
We know who the real racists are - they are the ones who continually scream racism! at everyone else.
People just can’t figure out that Shillary will say & do ANYTHING that will get her elected. to her, we’re just votes, nothing more.
The Clinton’s political machine is kickin’ it up a notch. They will be turning more and more heat on Obama as things move forward. All the while, they will follow up with some sort of half-hearted correction of slanders used to derail him. He is getting now, what she would give the Republican nominee in the run up to the general election in November.
I’m still trying to figure out her “25 years of experience”. Can anyone help me with her math. I am even giving her credit for her time as first lady of Arkansas and first lady of the U.S., along with her U.S. Senate time. Where is she getting the 35 years?
Dang! Another typo. Should have been the “35″ noted later.
Not enough coffee in the system, yet.
If we end up having a Dem as Prez (I surely hope not but lets play the what if game…) I would much rather have Obama in there than Hillary. He may be green but at least he has the charisma and personality for the job. Granted he’d be a Dem Stooge for 4 years until he is gone but he still would not be Hillary…
Vote for ABC
Anyone
But
Clinton
Let the fratricide begin! Bwa-hah-hah-ha!
Irony Bonus: Fratricide is the act of murdering or killing a brother.
Ah yes, the Clinton’s profoundly positive influence is detected yet again.
/sarcasm off/
Indeed, the slime machine is a Clinton trait.
Bob Johnson is really only interested in himself. He is the one who bought the Charlotte NBA team and named them the ‘Bob’cats.
I’ll give you three guesses as to why they are named that and the first 2 don’t count. People only listen to him because he has money. If Obama wins the nomination, he’ll be stumping for Obama too. He’s just happy to have the spotlight.
His team is crap even though he has Michael Jordan to help him with it. None of the locals are getting behind them because they are so bad, and we love basketball here.
“She who must not be named” has no problem speaking out both sides of her face at the same time and I have yet to see anyone in the MSM call here on it. The Clinton War Machine and their surrogates are playing a very dangerous game trying to play the race card on Obama and it could back fire in their faces badly splintering the Democrat party. They could very well lose their guaranteed votes from the Black Community if they continue their attacks. I believe America is ready to vote for a person of any race or sex that is best qualified to lead. I just don’t see a qualified candidate to lead this country through these perilous times from any of the Democrats or most Republicans pandering for votes.
Michelle, I got everything you were saying up until the Oprah the comment. Is she supposed to publically come out against Robert Johnson? Or announce to America that she won’t support Hillary?
Tough call, because they’re both so very, very liberal in their views. However, I’d much rather listen to Obama’s voice than Shrillary. Ugh. I cringe every time I think of that.
And that cackle!
In military textbooks fratricide is the name used for “friendly fire” and anyone that has experienced it can tell you it is anything but friendly.
She has been spewing her left-wing platitudes for 25 years and that is what is what really counts. To the libs concrete, verifiable results are not important, just being for the right things.
It’s amazing, after watching Mr. Johnson’s comments many times, that he has the audacity to claim he wasn’t talking about Obama’s drug use. Give me a break! How stupid does he think we are? Maybe the average Dem voter won’t notice because they’re blinded by the Clinton star power. I’m so sick of this already, I don’t know if I will make it to November.
Boomer:
Exactly. Friendly fire is an oxymoron…like Democrat principles.
The democrats have gone so far left, MLK wouldn’t be welcome today. He would be too conservative. The same with JFK, who would be booed off the stage,today. What disgusted me is Clinton talking about how the democrats passed the Civil Rights Bill of 64. Excuse me? The dems were the ones who filibustered (second longest. Thanks, Sen. Byrd)! Only when it failed, did it end up on another dem’s desk-President Johnson-who needed to sign it to prevent political suicide. The democrats have always been the ones to keep the poor…poor. The successful Blacks are vilified.
This is only the Democrat primary and the “Big Tent” people and the media are flogging everyone in sight with the race and gender card. They scream that they are offended by each other let alone the Republicans. Wait until the general campaign begins; every speech, phrase, statement, proposal, comment, and idea presented by the Republican candidate will be offensive to some group of clowns cavorting under that big tent. I can’t speak for anyone else, but I am in great need of a dictionary of words and phrases that can not be used by a male of non-color. I know enough not to use girl, gal, Miss, Mrs., lynch, noose, hang, tree, rope, scaffold, “illegal immigrant”, “shuck and jive”, “clean and articulate” and welfare. But I suspect that there are many more offensive things in the English language that I might use in front of a Democrat through ignorance that are now unacceptable. I now stammer at the lady, (no, no) make that woman, at the A&P and I don’t talk at basketball games or in the cafeteria. I am terrified of being an insensitive lout. Over the next 10 months, those race and gender cards are going to evolve into clubs. Wait, wait, is it okay to say “club”?
As far as I’m concerned, this is nothing more than a fight between two snakes - a cobra on one hand, a rattlesnake on the other.
They’re both dangerous.
The question is, which one we gonna’ let slither in, under the door?
If the nominee is Clinton I won’t make it. She lies every time she opens her mouth and the media rarely ever call her out on it. Its nauseating. Only a few bloggers have mentioned her taking credit for the success of the surge on MTP yesterday, the MSM isn’t covering it.
When is Obama going to start giving it back to her?? Did she really “create” the SCHIP? Come on there’s got to be lots of stuff to challenge her on, never mind the scandals of the nineties.
Better make that womyn, or the femi-nazis might be offended and run to the bathroom, vomit and faint.
mngirl You have a stronger stomach than me. I couldn’t bear to watch her, but did she really take credit for the surge? I must check that out.
I didn’t watch the show, but you’re saying Shrillary is taking credit for the success of the surge??????
WHAT??????
Yes, it’s because they’re afraid of her withdrawing troops? Give me a break. She does pull Obama and Edwards into this too, but she’s full of it.
http://radiovice.blogspot.com/2008/01/hillary-i-am-reason-surge-as-worked.html
I wouldn’t worry if I were Obama, I would point to this guys programing judgement. “Hot Ghetto Mess” This guy called for the firing of Imus because of young black women, then offered up this awful “Hot Ghetto Mess” i.e. Shirley Liqour as an example of black women,
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/headlines/bet716
Screw Robert Johnson. He has a hell of the nerve, having made his millions off the exploitation of rump-shaking young black women, foul-mouthed rappers, the ‘keepin it real’ black kids, and dumb white wannabes who love that crap.
And who the hell is Hillary to claim ‘pride’ in Obama? Condescending sow.
After Obama’s Iowa victory, Jackson demanded that the senator bolster “hope with substance ABUSE.”
Much better.
The day a Black becomes president, then the racebaiters are out of business. They would no longer be able to cry that the whites are holding them back if one can reach the highest job in the land.
I don’t know why black people would buy what the Robert Johnsons are selling though. If I was a black and there was finally a chance to elect a black president I would. (if it was Micheal Steele)
Madchef
The Dems wouldn’t count Michael Steele or any black conservative as being a legitimate black candidate. The real racists come out when a strong, black conservative runs for office. Michael Steele was called a “lawn jockey” in a magazine article during his Senate campaign, among other things.
Since when is pointing out a Presidential candidate’s past record an “attack”?
These people are running for the highest office in the land, and their past records, warts and all, need to be vetted by the American people.
Obama’s people have been very effective at calling everything reflecting negatively on him as an “attack”. And that attack is the entree’ to a charge of racism.
Obama admitted his illegal drug use in his own book; purportedly to tone it down as a potential issue. A candidate’s admission of a crime is certainly something relevant to his or her character.
What about Obama’s association with the Kenyan opposition in Africa? The man in question is essentially a terrorist. Yet not a peep.
Or Obama’s affiliation with a church that talks at length about “Black” Christianity and improving life in Africa, but never mentions the United States?
Or Obama’s murky dealings with an individual in his home state who has his share of criminal issues? The guy Obama bought a house from?
And other issues. If the American people got a whiff of Obama’s real character, they would think twice.
I know the Dems wouldn’t, I’m just saying that is why the so called black leaders don’t like Obama. If he was to win then blacks would have to admit that the only ones holding them back are them selves. People get out of life what they put into it. They can be thugs or they can be achivers, every one has the same opporunities.
So Jesse criticizes Obama for not coming out in support of the Jena Six and Al warns Obama not to take the black vote for granted, proof positive that these two want to the status quo to remain. This is the only way they will remain relevant[in their eyes]. Another reason not to trust Hillary Clinton, as she is a willing participant in perpetuating the so-called relevance of Jesse and Al. The fact that Obama took a large percentage of the young vote in Iowa, shows that eventually Jesse and Al will wear out their welcome among young educated people of color. I applaud Obama for not caving in to the race card, even though I do not agree with his politics.
I will say two things: There is no such thing as a black issue and Obama is not black , he is bi-racial. Unless Obama and the Democrats get these facts straight I will continue to rant them!
Although I don’t need any more reasons not to vote for Hilldebeast, Robert Johnson’s endorsement would certainly be one.
The Clinton’s and Race Baiter’s are mad because if Obama was to get elected POTUS Bill would lose his status of the first Black President.
Comment #38…Thank-you, for backing my comment #27.
#32 navywife91,
Thank you for this MTP link, it is an absolutely astonishing piece of tape.
“To reiterate, on 1/14/08’s MTP, Hillary just said:
Yet on 9/11/07, just 4 months previous, Hillary made the following outrageous senatorial statements to General David Patraeus:
Question: If Hillary believes that “30,000 of our finest, young men and women” can “no doubt” handle the bad guys and the violence in Iraq, then why in the world didn’t she have the guts to tell this to General David Patraeus during his 9/11/07 testimoney before the US Senate??
Answer: Because she is a liar, and a horrible one at that.
Obama is a “success”? How so? What has he really done? Oh! he went to Harvard, whoop dee do! Affirmative action anyone? Seems to me he followed the liberal ideology of success to “T”.
He turned down Wall Street. Oh really? Maybe they turned him down and this is spin. After which he went on to do the required liberal time in the “inner city”.
Next he trots off to be elected. Oh wow! awesome accomplishment. Not really. I don’t consider being an elected official to be an accomplishment. Sorry, but winning an election is like winning a Beauty Pageant. Yes there is hard work involved. It takes a lot too look good, say the right things, and have some type of talent to appear more than 1 dimensional.
“I want to campaign the same way I govern, which is to respond directly and forcefully with the truth,”
~ Barack Obama, 11/08/07
What has he governed? His day planner?
Mr. Johnson on the other hand has achieved some measure of success. Yes his channel is misogynistic, racially charged, and for the most part devoid of any intellectual thoughts what so ever; but it is “entertainment” for some. He makes payroll in the “real world” — such as it is — Obama has never had much responsibility beyond getting dressed and making his way to his seat in the chambers.
That is what scares me about him — and Hillary — neither have any experience at anything useful.
Prove it.
I knew it would eventually start. Let the mud-slinging begin!
Two pigs in a slop-fight, to see which one can become Commander-in-Chief, and Leader of the Free World.
I’m impressed
Dick Morris was asked if he thought Bill & Hillary were racists & said he did not think so, but then added they would not hesitate to use race to get Hillary elected. His take was they will do or say anthing to get her elected. Looks as if he hit it square on the head.
Our hostess got it right again, as usual. As much as we may disagree with Obama’s politics and policies, he has led a classy campaign. Certainly, far more classy than Hillary, who feels the need to authenticate her bona fides in the Black community with an endorsement by a cynical media mogul who made his fortune purveying hip hop videos degrading Black women as bitches and hos.
Prove me wrong.
Oh and I was posing a question, not stating a fact.
However liberals have made it clear that the only way for Blacks to succeed is with help from the Government by way of set asides. So therefore he clearly has benifitted by those set asides. Their words not mine
That’s been their “way” for the past 35 years in pursuit of power
I agree with this comment, and think it’s ethical. An ethical journalist, has hell frozen over yet?
This is really interesting that he would throw Obama overboard like that….. I was listening to talk radio the other day and a black guy called in and said that he and everyone that he talks to in “the black community” doesn’t trust Obama because he is black. I guess this might be another example of that.
The radio caller said that no one he has talked to about Obama thinks that he will do anything for them if he wins, and that they all wanted someone to win that would actually give them something. He also said that he would still vote for Obama even though he doesn’t trust him because “he was down with hooking a brother up”.
Yes thats right - he doesn’t trust Obama because he is black, but he will vote for him because he is black. I don’t really know if this is a glimpse into how black voters will be with Obama, but I found it interesting none the less.
Talk about doing anything to get Hillary elected….. I would definitely hate to be president if Hillary were my VP. People around the Clintons always seem to end up dead and I wouldn’t put it past them when it comes to getting her into office.
Mark, the Chargers suck…Pats win by 17+.
BTW, you’re pretty off-base on Obama. He graduated near the top of his class at Harvard and was editor-in-chief of the Harvard Law Review. Facts are important when attempting to make a point bra.
For decades, white liberal Democrats have used racism as a tool to “protect” black folk against those mean and nasty Republicans. Anytime a Republican even used the word “black”, white liberals immediately went nuts and pointed out racism even when it wasn’t there - I note George Allen and Macaca.
This worked quite well for white liberal Democrats as long as the “blacks” were willing to be “protected and subservient. Now, all of a sudden, you have a legitimate “black” candidate for President and the white liberals are horrified. Maybe, and this is a really iffy maybe, “blacks” will understand that they have been had for decades and need to act in a manner that encourages Republicans and Democrats to compete for their votes. (At this point, with “blacks” voting 90%+ for Democrats regardless of what a Republican does, there is no competition and Democrat politicians take their vote for granted.)
it cracks me up 3 diffferent primaries and the way its being reported that others must win so far, 5 different winners if you count wyomming. lmao. seems like anyones ballgame to me…..
Madonna reference? lol it’s Brah..
That’s funny aj. Correction noted and appreciated.
I’m shocked I actually agree with dakine on something even the amount the Chargers will lose by 17.. better go take my temperature.
If Barack Obama’s Mentor is a racist, then what does that make him???
On the Sunday after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, Mr. Wright (Obama’s Mentor, his pastor, and the man who he says most influences his life) said the attacks were a consequence of violent American policies. Four years later he wrote that the attacks had proved that “people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just ‘disappeared’ as the Great White West went on its merry way of ignoring Black concerns.”
While Mr. Obama stated his opposition to the Iraq war in conventional terms, Mr. Wright issued a “War on Iraq I.Q. Test,” with questions like, “Which country do you think poses the greatest threat to global peace: Iraq or the U.S.?”
(Source: NY Times)
They don’t trust him because they’ve been brainwashed by Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and their ilk. If you don’t tow the “everyone is racist” and “there’s racism everywhere” line every chance you get, then you’re not really “black enough”.
Real Blacks are uneducated, on federal support, in jail or doing rap music. Real Blacks adore Jesse and Rev Al, and they will unthinkingly vote establishment Dem. How dare Obama run against a Clinton, one of the annointed Sisters! In the eyes of those who believe they are entitled to define Black, that makes him a traitor to the “race” and definitely not-Black. It’s all so…logical.
Good stuff aj. My guess is that we’d get along fine in the real world.
Having personally witnessed how BET portrays black women, I don’t understand why Hillary wasn’t intellectually honest and yelled, “Oh, the remnants of sexism, alive and well,” after Robert L. Johnson left the podium?
Johnson stole my schtick!
Good liberal Democrats are using racial attacks against a hard-working Black man? I’m shocked. Shocked!
My uncle once told my grandma that he had “no problem with black people,” as long as they “stayed in their place” and my grandma hauled back and slapped him across the face. He was about forty at the time.
The Democratic party needs to meet my grandma.
Some of the most racist people I have ever met are Democrats. They are either “classic” racist who plain-out hate Blacks or “compassionate” racists who think that Blacks are helpless without them. Either way, both kinds look down on Black people, but they are just smart/tricky enough to keep it under their hats or disguise it as social programs. The Clintons have to know this and are appealing to the hidden racism that they know is alive and well in their party.
Me too.
Here is the link to Barrack Hussein Obama and decide for yourselves if you want a person who believes what this church preaches.
BTW-Check out their latest issue of Trumpet magazine and see one of MM favorite admirer on the cover /sarc on hint-hint think o’reilly w***e comment.
GSP
Dhimitude or Freedom? Your choise!
29Victor
Your Grandma sounds like a great woman! Your post is spot on. How in the world did Republicans and Conservatives get the racist label? I’m not saying there aren’t any, but Democrats completely deny it, all the while having someone like Robert Byrd in charge.
I thought this article by Clarence Thomas, found on “Political Correctness Watch”, a good one:
http://pcwatch.blogspot.com/
#72
“My Grandfather’s Son” was a great book.
These people sure have some Big Brass Ones, don’t they.
My question is this. Why are we not hearing much about Hillary’s “spade work” comment about Obama?
Mike Gallagher at Townhall
navywife91
The Democrats have always been the party of racism and slavery and they haven’t changed much at all. They still use Blacks to gain wealth and power, they just changed their tactics. They still see Blacks People as inferior, they just express it differently.
There’s a great article on the subject here with commentary here.
Don’t forget, 29Victor, that President Wilson, a democrat, fired all the blacks in the federal gov’t. All kids learn is his Versailles Treaty, of course, not his racism.
From the Huff Post where reside the Obama campaign comments Michelle linked to:
While Obama won’t challenge Hillary on the reality of the timeline of attempts to pass civil rights legislation because he also is a Democrat, the facts regarding efforts to pass civil rights legislation go back well over a hundred years, and no, it doesn’t reflect well on the illiberal party that was born for the sole purpose of opposing liberty to the Black people. This link is a must read for anyone hoping to understand the reality of who has oppressed who:
One of the most amazing things you’ve never heard
Right thinking people opposed slavery from the start. The Democrat party was created to defend slavery, and to oppress those freed from it. While most of us conservatives that bear no animosity to Blacks and interact with them as any other people are continually scratching our heads as to how we could be continually branded as racists, the reality is even more bizarre than it currently appears, as our party was created to oppose and destroy slavery, and to liberate and bless the captives of that vile institution.
Hillary’s contention that it took a president to sign civil rights legislation makes my head explode in light of a century of her party’s opposing such. Obama will not call her on this, but Conservatives must. Republicans should too, but I’m losing my faith that current Republicans understand anything about Conservativeism.
BB
Very informative and interesting article. I only wish more people knew about the Republican party’s history.
Don’t mind me. I’m just eating popcorn.
This is way too precious and it can’t end well for the Clintons, Obama is already sitting in the catbird seat.
All he has to do is not join in the attack and then just point out all the various underhanded assaults the Clintons make, proxy or no.
the Clintons of course are forced to attack (they don’t have anything else) and at the same time their dirty tricks send them further and further down the well.
The liberal demagoguery they’ve propagated is cutting them down to size inch by inch and its all because one of the blacks that liberals like the Clintons would hold in subjugation dared to reach for the prize.
Demagogues, demagogue thyself.
BB
Great article. Thanks for the link.
The Clintons have played the race card so long and gotten away with it so often, that it has become a well-honed tool in their campaign arsenal; it has always worked to elect them, they’ve never been held accountable for its use, so why should they give it up now?
I’m not saying they are overt racists, but I do believe they have become so blinded by their Clinton-centric world view and drive to elect Hillary, that they can no longer tell when they have crossed the line between a racial and a political attack.
For example, while Bill may really believe his “fairy tale” remark was all about Obama’s stance on the war Iraq, it sounded more like he was sending a subliminal message to Democrat primary voters that Obama is an unelectable black man.
Likewise, Mr. Johnston also seems to have taken a page from the Clinton’s political machine play book on subliminal messaging, with his reference to Obama’s younger days on the streets of Chicago.
But whether this is all race-based politics or just politics as usual, it smacks of dirty politics to me.
I forgot to ask, does anyone know if NBC has gotten Tim Russert thawed out yet?
Those icy-cold daggers and stares she was shooting out at him yesterday on Meet the Press even had me reaching to turn up the thermostat.
The poor man!
but, but, china bill clinton was the first black president so that makes the first co black president - remember what they said, we got two for one.
I’m surprised “she who must not be named” (thanks Boomer) would even go on the show. Russert got the business after questioning her about drivers licenses for illegals during a debate.
Cowboy
I hear “first black president” thrown around a lot. I wonder how many people remember why Toni Morrison gave Clinton that title.
In the midst of this whiney scree about victimhood, my favorite line is
because America is just too darn racist to elect an actual black man.
How deliciously ironic is it that the greatest impediment to a Black Man obtaining the office of President isn’t American racism… it’s Clinton’s wife.
BB, good article, but I did see a couple of things of question. Democrats weren’t formed in 1792. In fact, the modern day Democrats came from the Jackson era. The original “democrats” were actually Republicans. Democratic-Republicans. Their leader was Jefferson, a man who would hardly accept the party today. Importation of slaves being banned in 1808 was a compromise after some (G. Mason, for one) wanted it abolished all together. It was largely ignored. Also, don’t forget, that Jefferson helped author the Northwest Ordinance (1st Civil Rights bill), banning slavery. Also, Jefferson always put in a bill to the Virginia Assembly, which never got out of committee, every session, banning slavery in the state. I am not a fan of Jefferson; many things, including his “treason X2″ involving France, I disagree with, but I give him credit where it’s due. Also, the article forgot Wilson. In Dred Scott, the Democrats didn’t so much support the decision as they forced it with help of CJ Taney. The 1876 Tilden-Hays election-compromise gave the Democrats control of the South, and the power to instigate the Jim Crow laws, etc.. Lastly, Jackie Robinson wasn’t the first black in major league baseball. He was the 1st after the Democrats segregated sports back in the early 1900s. There were some very good black players up until then.
And the author could have sited his sources.
The issue of Democrat racism could use its own website.
Is it time to change from “She Who Must Not Be Named” to “She Who Must Not Be Elected”?
This is too funny Monica Crowley must have been live blogging Imus in the Morning, when Rob Bartlett alias Bill Clinton, was doing his once upon a time schtick of the Clintons. This is in response to the “Fairy Tale” soundbite, geeze Bill, don’t you hate it when they take your words out of context! The bit Rob Bartlett did as Bill Clinton was funny, I hope they put a youtube up of the schtick.
http://monicamemo.typepad.com/weblog/2008/01/once-upon-a-tim.html
Hillary’s year in review. Not so pretty.
http://deathby1000papercuts.blogspot.com/2008/01/year-of-hillary-clintons-campaign.html#links
I wonder what Tom Joyner, Steve Harvey,Tavis Smiley, Michael Baidsen and other black talk show hosts and entertainers react to this.
The question is will they stand for Obama or bend over for the slickster and the cry-baby a–clown?
The Clintons use blacks like other people use toilet paper.
Everytime there is a crisis in the Clinton (either) camp, where do they run? To a black church, clutching a bible.
Instantly, the race effect puts blinders on whatever the Clinton offense du jour is, and they get off the hook.
Do the Clintons regularly attend black churches? No. Do they regularly hang out with blacks? No. Have blacks made it really high in the Clinton heirarchy? No. Bush was far better at this.
It is pure undistilled Formula Cliton.
They will crush, or attempt to crush, Obama in a manner befitting their attacks on Clarence Thomas. If the Obama crew is on the ball, they can turn this against the Clinton slime machine and to their advantage. Judging from the hysteria on the Huffington post, they are succeeding.
Funny how this split in the Dem party is never mentioned as such, yet the Evangelical/prolife/immigration issues are regularly posted as splitting the Republican party into unelectable pieces.
Well, the animosity between the Clinton and Obama camps may be even more devastating. I hope.
I just think it takes testicular fortitude on a geologic scale for the Clintons to try to “out black” Obama.
Sadly, I read that the two camps are trying to reach a truce. How does that help Obama? The Clintons will just ignore the truth through the “misstatements” and subsequent “corrections” of their flying monkeys (Wizard of Oz reference, nothing else), and Obama will not be able to counter the sex card played by Whillary (my spelling) unless his wife joins the fray, which she seems to be eminently capable of doing.
I hope the Republican candidates are taking copious notes.