The RACIST, Bill Clinton:

[in_cog_ni_to]

How soon we forget.:(


Harlem street jam welcomes Clinton to new office
CNN

July 31, 2001

Harlem native and mistress of ceremonies Cicely Tyson welcomes Clinton.

Proclaiming Harlem as his home Monday, former President Bill Clinton said he wants to help revitalize the largely African-American district and use his new office there as a base for a global initiative to fight AIDS and poverty.

"What I'm going to do here is to try to help promote economic opportunity in our back yard, in our country and around the world," Clinton said in a speech that resonated with political undertones.

Political leaders from the African-American community and the New York area praised Clinton throughout the lengthy outdoor rally, celebrating the former president's first day in his Harlem office.

"Now I feel like I'm home," Clinton said as the crowd cheered. The celebration got under way Monday morning, just blocks from Clinton's new office on 125th street.

Clinton explained that his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, New York's Democratic junior senator, and daughter Chelsea were not at the ceremony because of a family illness.<snip>

<snip>
"It was very significant that ... former President Clinton would have his office located here in central Harlem," said Terry Lane, president and CEO of the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone. "His being here helps to budget the economic fiber of urban America."<snip>

<snip>
"I want to make sure I'm a good neighbor in Harlem," Clinton said. "I'm glad the property values are going up, but I don't want the small business people to be run out because I'm coming in."

Clinton : "I want you to know that I want to be a good neighbor ... on the best days and the dark days, for all the people here in Harlem."<snip>

http://www.angelfire.com/rant/pearly/htmls1/bill-harlem.html

[Thrill]

1. Another Clinton supporter bringing up Race. Unreal

How pathetic can you be?

[Bobbieo]

9. Brent - What are you doing to fight AIDS and Poverty?

[bigtree]

12. beautiful

[flordehinojos]

14. pathetic for a clinton supporter to bring up race when it is the obama people who are complaining

about the clinton's race card? isn't that bringing up race a la reverse?

and the fact of the matter is ... race is a fact in this election. obama is black ... hillary clinton is white.

don't blame the clintons for a country which has a long history of race baiting and race hating.

they did they best to bring equality among people and perhaps because they believe in equality and think in equality they feel free to treat obama as an equal...referring to him by the names he does deserve to be treated.

how often have i myself referred to bush as the bushitboy? and how often do i stop myself from referring to obama as boy and not because he does not deserve to be called "boy". His immaturity and constant whining fully warrant it. i stop myself because he, his surrogates, and his posters here on DU would immediately be claiming something about racist, racism and who knows what.

what is good for the goose is also good for the gander. not so in obama's case. he runs to mommy (the press) and they step in to save his day.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

2. Looks like Clinton has a lot of black friends.

:shrug:

[jakem]

3. i judge him by what he has done lately.

i liked him as president. now, not so much...

[HughMoran]

4. It's too bad

This one turned on such a sour note - there will be bitterness about this for years. The worst pushers of this hateful rhetoric here will never be taken off ignore.

[beachmom]

5. Nobody thinks Bill Clinton is a racist. nt

[ProSense]

6. Who is calling Clinton a racists? Race-baiting is a political tactic Bill used, that is different

from calling him a racist. It's a political tactic used by Hillary's campaign.

[cali]

7. Did you realize that Harlem was NOT his first choice at all

He wanted digs in some pricy part of Manhatten but got so much shit for it that he backed off.

[Heidi]

8. I'm sorry to feel compelled to say this, but your OP says more about you than it says about

former President Clinton and/or, by extension, Sen. Clinton.

I'll have to hold my nose to vote for Sen. Clinton, but when I see posts like this that work to defeat a Democrat, I have to ask, "Why on earth is the OP doing this?"

But thanks for the flamebait.

[incapsulated]

11. Why, why you ask?

MAYBE BECAUSE WE DON'T SUFFER FROM SORT TERM MEMORY AND REMEMBER THE "RACISM" SMEAR AGAINST THE CLINTONS.

FFS.

[Heidi]

13. I've never considered the Clintons racist.

I still don't. And a million threads would never convince me they're racists. They're politicians, opportunists and many other things, but they're not racists. I was born in Arkansas, raised in Oklahoma and come from a long-ass line of proud Democrats. My memory isn't short. The Clintons (especially former President Bill Clinton) are far right of me, but they're not racists.

[incapsulated]

15. You may not have

But not only do many Obama supporters believe it, tell me this, and the media was repeating it for weeks.

And I won't forget.

[Heidi]

18. It's bullshit.

Sen. Clinton wasn't my first or second choices, but I know for damn sure that neither she nor her partner are racists. That's outrageous, and I seriously doubt that Sen. Obama would EVER endorse such an allegation.

[RaleighNCDUer]

21. No one (at least, no one who wasn't a repuke troll) called Clinton racist.

But many of us accused him of being a cynical opportunist who is not above USING race as a divider.

Face it, if Hillary had been running against Edwards in SC, instead of Obama, race would have never come up except to HIGHLIGHT how popular Bill was with blacks in the 90s. But facing Obama, SC had to be dismissed as not representative of how REAL democrats vote - it had a history of being supportive of LOSING BLACK CANDIDATES.

Not racist, maybe, but very cynical and shortsighted.

[pampango]

23. Anyone who thinks that Bill is a racist needs his head examined. Anyone

who thinks that Bill could not see that Obama, if perceived as a Black who could transcend race and appeal to white voters, posed a threat to Hillary's nomination, does not give him sufficient credit for political acumen. By linking Obama with Jackson and Sharpton, past Black presidential candidates who did not transcend race in their appeal to white voters, Bill subtly sought to weaken Obama's transracial appeal.

If anyone wants to believe that Bill was, of course, smart enough to recognize the danger to Hillary's candidacy, but too ethical a campaigner to inject race, even obliquely, into a campaign, they are entitled to their opinion. I believe that he, and Hillary, are tough "no-holds-barred" campaigners (something that many Hillary supporters are quite proud of and list as one of the reasons they think she should be our nominee). I cannot even imagine that Bill had any racist intentions. He just wanted to marginalize a political adversary of his wife, who had gotten off to a good start in the campaign.

The only one who knows for sure is Bill and maybe a handful of others.

[Iceburg]

20. Well someone in command of Obama HQ thought it was a good idea to paint Clinton as racist.

And a whole hord of BO supporters piled in on the dirty trick.
Having neuralized Bill, they then pounced on the Hispanics and created divisions there.
And only last week did we not see the BO folk enmasse rush to support the mysogyny offered up by MSNBC
In the Obama camp, the end justifies the means.

[Eurobabe]

10. Stop already incog

Truce.

[gaiilonfong]

16. OLD NEWS

Too bad he ruined all that good will, JUST to have a 3 rd term


NO SALE

[Catherine Vincent]

17. Anyone here that think either of the Clinton's as racists are just idiots. nt

[woolldog]

19. Clintons aren't racist

I don't believe the Clintons are racist one bit. But that's precisely what made their use of the "southern strategy" in South Carolina so troubling to me.

It shows a degree of cynicism and a willingness to sell out one's own core values to win an election that, imo, is worse than racism--which is often simply a product of ignorance or upbrining.

[Egnever]

22. Not Racist ...Ruthless