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Leaving SC Obama Takes the High Road, Bill Clinton Takes the Low Road

Posted by: Mike's America @ 10:23 pm in Barack Obama, The Clintons

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And Obama will be in Alabama afore ye!

Here’s what Obama said after his blowout landslide in South Carolina:

“The choice in this election is not about regions or religions or genders,” Obama said at a boisterous victory rally. “It’s not about rich versus poor, young versus old and it’s not about black versus white. It’s about the past versus the future.”

Barrack Hussein Obama
Remarks in Victory Speech
Columbia, SC

But Bill Clinton wasn’t about to let it go at that. ABC’s Jake Tapper files this report as Clinton left the state:

Said Bill Clinton today in Columbia, SC: “Jesse Jackson won South Carolina in ‘84 and ‘88. Jackson ran a good campaign. And Obama ran a good campaign here.”

This was in response to a question about Obama saying it “took two people to beat him.” Jackson had not been mentioned.

Boy, I can’t understand why anyone would think the Clintons are running a race-baiting campaign to paint Obama as “the black candidate.”

In a later report, Tapper relays the email he received from a friend of his who is black. He writes: “Of all the things Bill Clinton has said, that comparison to Jesse Jackson is the most obvious — and odious — race baiting that he’s done.”

Again, if a Republican President or any senior GOP leader used overt racial messages in this way there would be a firestorm of media criticism. Remember what happened to Trent Lott? And Lott wasn’t trying to influence the outcome of the presidential nominating process by dividing voters over the issue of race.

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7 comments so far

jainphx

Yea but you see the media gives Dems a pass, but we all know that. The media is trying to anoint a Hillery, Mcinsane, contest, I hope we are smart enough to see through the sham.

January 27th, 2008 at 7:50 am

norm

i don’t agree with much on this site but this is spot on…bill needs to go away…and take hillary with him

January 27th, 2008 at 10:51 am

Mike's America

Norm: Who are you supporting for President?

January 27th, 2008 at 7:06 pm

fester

I think Bill is slipping. While I disagree with him politically almost always, he is an extremely intelligent person. So, why would you reference a race-baiter like JJ to take a poke at obama? Bad PR move, Bill! Now the big talking point in the media is: will the hillary presidency be with an over-influential co-president. I know … DUH! but now it is a national talking point.

January 28th, 2008 at 7:21 am

Mike's America

Fester: You are correct when you say Bill is an intelligent person. His remarks are part of a deliberate strategy to marginalize Obama and cause white Democrat’s with anti-black prejudices to vote for Hillary.

By necessity Hillary has tossed away any notion of being a candidate independent of her husband. That being the case, it’s fair game to remind people what it was like during the Clinton years.

January 28th, 2008 at 9:03 am