Big Dog tries to cover his tracks on Sharpton's Radio Show (AUDIO)

[jefferson_dem]

"He’s put together a great campaign. It’s clearly not a fairy tale, it’s real. He might win."

http://i.timeinc.net/time/2007/thepage/clinton_sharpton.mp3

[Barack_America]

1. Okay, I listened to it. But why does he start talking about POVERTY...

...When he's specifically asked why African Americans should vote for him? Sure, poverty disproportionately affects blacks, but he really seemed to equate black with poor there. I don't know about you, but I know many African Americans that don't fit under that label. Why should THEY vote for Hillary? He didn't answer that.

[jasmine621]

2. He wasn't covering tracks. He was setting the record straight. nc

[flpoljunkie]

15. TPM poster sets the record straight on Bill's unfounded accusations

(How long, by the way, did it take for Hillary to "find her voice" and speak out against the unending occupation in Iraq, i.e., call for a timetable for withdrawal?)

Keith wrote on January 11, 2008 4:22 PM:

In a recent interview, he declined to criticize Senators Kerry and Edwards for voting to authorize the war, although he said he would not have done the same based on the information he had at the time.

''But, I'm not privy to Senate intelligence reports,'' Mr. Obama said. ''What would I have done? I don't know. What I know is that from my vantage point the case was not made.''

But Mr. Obama said he did fault Democratic leaders for failing to ask enough tough questions of the Bush administration to force it to prove its case for war. ''What I don't think was appropriate was the degree to which Congress gave the president a pass on this,'' he said.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9407E2DF153DF935A15754C0A9629C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2

In an interview with the Chicago Tribune, Obama noted that once the war
began, "...There's not much of a difference between my position and George
Bush's position at this stage."

WHAT OBAMA SAID

"Obama, the U.S. Senate candidate from Illinois, said he believes the Bush
administration has lost too much credibility in the world community to
administer the policies necessary to stabilize Iraq.


'On Iraq, on paper, there's not as much difference, I think, between the
Bush administration and a Kerry administration as there would have been a
year ago,' Obama said during a luncheon meeting with editors and reporters
of Tribune newspapers. "There's not that much difference between my position
and George Bush's position at this stage. The difference, in my mind, is
who's in a position to execute.'

The problem, Obama said, is the low regard for Bush in the international
community. 'How do you stabilize a country that is made up of three
different religious and in some cases ethnic groups, with minimal loss of
life and minimum burden to the taxpayers?' Obama said. 'I am skeptical that
the Bush administration, given baggage from the past three years, not just
on Iraq. . . . I don't see them having the credibility to be able to
execute. I mean, you have to have a new administration to execute what the
Bush administration acknowledges has to happen.'"

http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2007/03/sweet_blog_special_at_harvards.html

http://tpmelectioncentral.com/2008/01/bill_clinton_obamas_candidacy_isnt_the_fairy_tale_but_his_war_opposition_is.php

[terisan]

3. The fairy tale comment referred to Obama claiming he was always against iraq war.

Clinton made that clear and cited when Obama agreed with Bush on war (2004) a ndhow he has voted for war since reaching Senate.

[jefferson_dem]

5. He made clear that Hillary has some fence-mending to do with the African-American community...

He talks of "fairy tales" in NH and about "that doesn’t have anything to do with my respect for him as a person or as a political figure" in SC. Slickmeister strikes.

[terisan]

6. Sounds like a very positive comment . I heard him make it earlier also.

[jefferson_dem]

9. Earlier...

he talked of a "risk," a "roll of the dice," and he lied about Obama's political experience.

[Kahuna]

16. They'd better do it fast. I"m hearing rumblings in the AA community..

We will stay home next year rather than vote for Hillary if they keep up these attacks. It seems to me that they are purposely pitting white women against blacks as a deliberate strategy. Heck! Look at the numbers. There are way more white women than there are blacks. We know that. We also know that they (the Clintons) cannot win if blacks stay home. So they'd better fight fair and stop with the smears and whispher campaigns.

[DivorcingNeo]

4. He's so disgusting

*sighs*

[Proud2BAmurkin]

8. That's why he's in the Arkansas African American Hall of Fame

:rofl:

[DivorcingNeo]

17. Who gives a fuck!

An award doesn't mean anything. Someone can give me an award saying I'm this or that...does it make it emphatically true? Halle Berry got an Oscar...can she act? Hell no!

It's all political and it's not working for the everyday American (especially Black American)

[flpoljunkie]

7. It's very unbecoming of a former president, so am not surprised he's trying to repair the damage--

Bill on Obama: "Big Fairy Tale" Video from ABC News

http://www.abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=4102345

[1corona4u]

11. When will JJJ repair his damage?

[goldcanyonaz]

14. Sorry, he gets a pass, it would be racist to go after him.

That's the tone of this board, from what I have been reading around here.

[Catherine Vincent]

10. You're spinning just like CNN. nt

[jefferson_dem]

12. Missed that. What did they say on CNN?

n/t

[Bonobo]

13. So the "Kid from Hope" believes in Fairy Tales after all. Awww....