News Brief: Hillary Goes Too Far

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damali ayo

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Jan 8, 2008, 3:43:55 PM1/8/08

I pass this along quickly (thus no fancy email format) via the Black Folks for Obama group from Lonnee Hamilton. Thanks Lonnee!

As I predicted, racism would come oozing out of every crevice as we watch Obama win the hearts of American voters. We have to be more vigilant than ever.

In an interview with Fox News, Sen. Clinton says, among other things, that "it took a President (Lyndon Johnson) to get things done," with regards to the civil rights movement. [her emphasis]

http://bourbonroom.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/01/07/clintons-candid-assessment/ the quote is about 3/4 of the way into the extremely boring interview.

That's a pretty demoralizing comment. It's not her direct dig on MLK and the complete ignorance of other leaders of that time, that stings me as much as it takes away from all the real people - citizens, who fought violence and degradation every day to get real change accomplished. Hillary makes herself very clear here as believing in a unilateral power of the President- something we've definitely had too much of lately.

damali

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