It could only have reinforced Sen. Kennedy’s disgust when Bill Clinton insinuated that Jesse Jackson could have done just as well after Obama won a landslide victory in the South Carolina primary. Because it was lost on no one that Bill was trying to foment racial resentment amongst whites and Hispanics against Obama to get them to vote for Hillary.
In fact, what he was really saying to blacks in South Carolina, and implicitly to blacks all over America, is “ya’ll can kiss my white ass cuz we don’t need you to win!” And, given that Hispanics now outnumber blacks, he might be right….
It took them long enough, but even “neutral” black leaders are now becoming disgusted with the Clintons. And no one has expressed this disgust with more dignified indignation than Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC), the so-called Dean of black Democrats.
The final straw seems to have been Bill’s recent pot-calling-the-kettle-black tirade in which he insisted that “Obama played the race card on me.” And, when challenged about the patent falsity and absurdity of his claim, Bill exacerbated his delusion as he fumed to an aide:
I don’t think I should take any shit from anybody on that, do you?
This, in turn, prompted Clyburn to call Bill’s tirade “bizarre,” and he admonished the former “first black president of the United States” (brother to “brother”) to “chill.”
Unfortunately, Bill and Hillary couldn’t care any less how blacks feel about them playing the race card or taking “the low road to victory.”
Nevertheless, they are such craven opportunists that once Obama gets the nomination, the Clintons will act as if they ordained it. Moreover, they will work fiendishly on his behalf to ensure access to the White House once Obama is elected the next president of the United States.
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