Letters to the Editor
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Sorry - not interested.
I'm really just not interested in hearing it already.
We all know what happened.
The same old tired, intolerant "liberal" leftists, one-note Johnny's whose only concern on God's green earth was anti-war protesting, these are the whites who always insist on snatching defeat from the jaws of victory for 40 years joined together this time with blacks they frenzied up to take the nomination from Hillary, who would have beaten McCain handily and put up someone who wouldn't.
I have no sympathy for the black community at all at this point. YOu turned like rabid dogs on the Clintons, who have been extremely black-friendly and sympathetic throughout ALL of their governing ranging from appointments to blacks seeing the first real reduction in poverty since abolition. (median income gains of 17k annually, 22% reduction in blacks behind the poverty line, etc).
In the end the black community opted to lockstep behind a guy who had never done a damned thing as a legislator except line his own pockets because he happened to be black (well, at least when it was convenient).
Then you called, of all people, Bill Clinton a racist and screamed into a victory in SC, and thereon "winning" states that are solidly Republican and crying and bullying Hillary out of the race despite the fact that she was handily winning areas and constituents Dems had lost for 3 or 4 elections like the elderly and blue collar workers, and a solid hispanic margin that beat John McCains.
You could have been a valuable part of the constituency : instead you supported an inexperienced, self-serving charlatan with vague promises about "change" he'd never delivered and who was stealing Hillary's plans and still couldn't even bother to know what his proposed policies were.
Don't cry to me now. My kids and grandkids are going to be stuck with a solidly rightwing Supreme Court for the rest of their lives, high taxes with no services back for it, and generally a 3rd world equadorian hellhole.
And it's YOUR fault.
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Why is no one saying
Ummm.... scoreboard?
How exactly does Hillary argue a "broader base" of support when she's lost the popular vote?
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Geez Shawn
If you think shipping jobs overseas is something that is done by an extremely "black friendly" president, I guess we can put you down as agreeing with Hillary about the work ethic of black Americans, huh?
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Rip the scab don't cut the wound deeper!
So quickly we tag an ethnic group as a monolithic host of lemmings who can't make decisions for themselves. How clear it is that in tackling "race" loose language and emotional baggage lead to sweeping statements and indictments that are baseless and woefully baron of intellect. As though "all" "blacks" vote en bloc and that portrays a betrayal. Or "all" "non-educated whites" vote in block and that dismisses another candidate. This is a dialogue, not a diatribe. We all have a part to play in the situations as they unfold, and however they do unfold in this, truly remarkable circumstance of history-making, primary and later candidacy, incendiary rhetoric distracts, upends and destroys any attempts to build coalitions and address micro and macro issues. As soon as someone can show me how to live in someone else's shoes, field their perspectives and inherit their psychology, a "white person" will remain that, a "black person" will remain that, a "Chinese person" will remain that and across the ethnic and racial board.
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Wallace progressed..!
George Wallace became rather more enlightened as he aged and suffered due to his disability...
Hillary is doing the inverse..
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No justice no sympathy
I have no sympathy for the black community at all at this point. YOu turned like rabid dogs on the Clintons, who have been extremely black-friendly and sympathetic throughout ALL of their governing ranging from appointments to blacks seeing the first real reduction in poverty since abolition. (median income gains of 17k annually, 22% reduction in blacks behind the poverty line, etc).
I understand the voting monolith. I even understood cheering an OJ Simpson acquittal. But turning like dogs on the Clintons puts me in the "no sympathy" category too. LIke you said, Barack Dukakis and his vulgar wife will be just fine after their November landslide defeat. So fine they won't even have to let Rezko buy their houses anymore. So will the other part of the Barry Dukakis coalition, stale old 60's acadmeic relics in midlife crisis.
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clinton banishment not enough
Perhaps Bob Herbert said it best. "What kind of people are the clintons?" (NYT, 1-26-08, post-SC)
It's not sufficient for the Democrats to renounce--banish--the clintons, as some Democrats are now urging.
The Left is beginning to understand what most of us knew long ago: The clintons are woefully unfit. Dangerously self-serving. Psychopathic, actually.
It's more important--it's critical, in fact--to revisit all the charges lodged against the clintons, charges that the Left had dismissed out of hand. (The outrageousness of the clintons' crimes, actual and apparent, has always worked to the clintons' advantage, making the disabling of these flagrant psychopaths all the more challenging. But disable them we must.)
The Left must reexamine the following:
1-The death of Ron Brown mere days before he was to testify about clinton Commerce-Dept. corruption and mere days after he told clinton, "I will not go down alone."
(Brown was alluding to hillary clinton's central role in engineering the scheme to sell trade-mission seats.) Brown's conveniently fatal Croatia trip that wisked him out of the country post haste... and out of the court system permanently... was scheduled immediately after that statement. (Recall clinton's jubilant air at the Brown funeral-- until he spied the camera.)
NOTE: The call by Jesse Jackson and the Black Caucus for the requisite autopsy of Brown, whose head contained what a govt pathologist (who voted for clinton twice, btw) said looked like a bullet hole (photo at deletehillarydotcom), was shut down by a payoff made right under our collective nose: the clintons' Wall Street Project. The WSP yielded millions over the years for Jackson and his cronies.
2- The 120 redacted pages of the Barrett report.
'An abiding theme in the redacted pages, insiders say, is the Clinton camp practice of using the IRS to punish its enemies. Mr. Clinton plainly did not leave this illegal practice behind in the Oval Office. By all accounts he has maintained a tight grip on a number of government departments and agencies, notably the Justice Department and the IRS, the folks who can deal the deadliest damage.'
Entire commentary by Mark Goodman at deletehillarydotcom
3- The rape of Juanita Broaddrick by bill clinton and the threatening of her 2 weeks later by hillary.
'HILLARY THREATENED JUANITA BROADDRICK 2 WEEKS AFTER RAPE' - YouTube
"There's not a sex act mentioned in the book. What is important is Hillary savaging the women." (Carl Bernstein)
4- Why the clintons ignored terrorism for their entire tenure. See 'Virtual Kill'-YouTube.
5-And, oh yes, Rwanda. ('Destroying Obama'-YouTube)
THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT? clinton legacy of lynching update
by Mia T, 7.23.05
"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important." (Martin Luther King)
Ironically, the logic of this pronouncement by Martin Luther King would, in short order, be refuted by the reality of his own lynching. King's hope was misplaced and his reasoning was circular. The resultant rule of law relied on by King presumed an adherence to the rule of law in the first instance.
Adherence to the rule of law is not something normally associated with the clintons. Moreover, racial and ethnic disrespect, intimidation, exploitation and hate have always been a fundamental clinton tactic and the reflexive use the "N"-word and other racial and ethnic slurs, an essential element in the clinton lexicon. When the "first black president" and his wife ran Arkansas, the NAACP sued them for intimidating black voters at the polls.
Conversely, the clintons' refinement of the DNC drag and drop is, arguably, one of the more insidious and repugnant applications of their special brand of race-hate politics.
Calculating a black man's worth to be 5/3 of a vote is no less racist, and arguably more so, than calculating his worth to be 3/5 of a white man; the latter is demeaning, but the former is dehumanizing.
But it is even worse.
Listen to Randall Robinson in this video ( hillary 'a monster' (Samantha Power, clinton and Genocide)-YouTube), read below about Rwanda. Only one conclusion is possible: A clinton legacy of lynching.
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Bill Clinton felt their pain. Retrospectively. In 1998, on his Grand Apology Tour of Africa, a whirlwind tour of whirlwind apologies for slavery, the Cold War, you name it, he touched down in Kigali and apologized for the Rwandan genocide. "When you look at those children who greeted us," he said, biting his lip, as is his wont, "how could anyone say they did not want those children to have a chance to have their own children?"
Alas, the President had precisely identified the problem. In April 1994, when the Hutu genocidaires looked at the children who greeted them in the Tutsi villages, that's exactly what they thought: they didn't want those Tutsi children to have a chance to have their own children. So the question is: when a bunch of killers refuse to subscribe to multiculti mumbo-jumbo, what do you do?
"All over the world there were people like me sitting in offices," continued Bill in his apology aria, "who did not fully appreciate the depth and the speed with which you were being engulfed by this unimaginable terror."
Au contraire, he appreciated it all too fully. That's why, during the bloodbath, Clinton Administration officials were specifically instructed not to use the word "genocide" lest it provoke public pressure to do something.
Documents made public last week confirm that US officials knew within the first few days that a "final solution" to eliminate all Tutsis was underway.
SteynOnAmerica CLINTON, CLARKE AND RWANDA: TEN YEARS ON