This looks like a good time to rehash this picture - don't you think. Because of this mistake, poor Jim Clyburn had to stay out of this year's race. Sort of. This year's race has been a little ugly on the Democratic side. Anytime race is a major issue in a political campaign, it's ugly. I don't vote for or against anyone because of their sex or the color of their skin, but because of their stance on the issues.
In the last couple weeks, the Democratic race, it got so ugly, especially after the debate, that even the candidates chilled out a little. They said it was time to take responsibility for the ugliness, and try to end it. Jim had other ideas.........
In an interview yesterday, Jim said the reason that race became an issue was because of the discussion of the Confederate Flag in the Republican primary by Mike Huckabee. According to Jim, no one brought up race here until about the 16th or 17th when that came up. All I can say is "Jim, you are friggin' senile, crazy or full of shit"...
It's pretty sleazy when someone can't blame his own party for the ugliness that they caused. The flag issue didn't bring up the race card - the whole Hillary/MLK/LBJ discussion is what brought up race - at least a full week ahead of the flag question. Hillary said that Martin Luther King needed President Johnson to fully reach equality for blacks (stupid), and that's when Rev. Al Sharpton, and YOU, JIM all started jumping on her for it. You must have forgotten about that, but when you start getting old, things slip your mind I guess....
I'm sure that's not it. The real reason is that you're a politician , and you'll do anything to deflect the truth away from your own party, and yourself for making it worse... Luckily, most people have an idea of how this whole thing went on, and no one is taking you seriously. The more you talk, the more the press and the public realize that you're not that honest or trustworthy. And you can always count on us here at SC6 to remind you of it........
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In a way it is sad to see the Democrats go at it about race. LBJ did get the Civil Rights bill passed but mostly because of the JFK asasination it would had passed sooner or later anyway and it was probably a good thing it did pass. I grew up in those times in the South and believe me the Blacks had it tough. Of course so did the White Trash or poor white folks but the blacks had it much worse and to some extent the mixed and Indian. Obama has been playing this race thing way too much. Hillary is not a racist and neither is Bill. I could be wrong of course.
I agree, I don't think the Clintons are racist at all, but I do think they took the black vote for granted, and they are freaking out over it. Hillary may have been right about the MLK/LBJ thing - there always has to be some political will to make change - but some things you just don't say.
I don't think Obama brings up race too much. He has decent white support as well. I think the media brins it all up to differentiate this SC Primary from the others. No other state has 40% minority votes, so it is unlike all the others, but it doesn't always bring out the best in politics..
Obama doesn't bring up race, except in answer to the assumption that, just because they're being pandered to by Bill and Hill, that any and all races and ethnicities are assumed to be beholding to the Clinton largesse. Any uppity {insert particular minority or intrest group fragment here} that doesn't acclaim one of the narcissists fit to be the "avatar" of the second coming is a jealous racist or part of a vast (insert right wing or particular minority or intrest group fragment here} conspiracy.
Clinton ego could kill Jim's seat in the sixth, if there were a credible candidate in the primary, though this weeks early endorsments would find Jim making sure tha Kennedy has a driver to keep him from running the campaign off the bridge in Santee.
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