Subscribe by RSSBill Clinton Cries Race Card
By CHARLES BABINGTON, Associated Press Writer
Thu Jan 24, 3:04 AM ETDILLON, S.C. - Bill Clinton said Wednesday he expects blacks to vote for Barack Obama and women to vote for Hillary Rodham Clinton, and the dynamic may cause his wife to lose the South Carolina Democratic presidential primary Saturday.
The comments by the former president — who also lashed out at Obama and the news media — mark one of the starkest commentaries yet on the possible role of race, although it has been a subtext of the Obama-Clinton rivalry for months. The comments also furthered the Clintons’ bid to play down Sen. Clinton’s chances of winning in a state where Obama seems to be ahead.
Voting for president along racial and gender lines “is understandable because people are proud when someone who they identify with emerges for the first time,” the former president told a Charleston audience while campaigning for his wife.
Once again Bill sticks his foot in his mouth removes his foot from his mouth momentarily to make yet another stupid remark. Could Bill cost Hillary the election with such comments? I see a developing trend that absolutely can’t be good for the Clinton Campaign machine. Things are definitely getting interesting….
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I think it’s hilarious that the President who introduced the ever irritable term “PC” (politically correct, not personal computer) into American nomenclature is now being harassed for not being “PC”.
I’m glad these comments are occurring in an open forum. Otherwise the media twists regular dialogue into racial slurs and gender bashing. Seems to m that the candidates are damned if they talk about it, damned if they don’t.
Things are definitely getting interesting….
good new America, I hope!
former monica boyfriend…..i mean president bill clinton, by this kind of tactics he will cost the democrats the election, i mean obama become his everyday story, he is talking about him more than his wife…..whats the point of doing that
Bill Clinton’s “attacks” on Obama are legitimate campaign points unless you buy into the spin that many cable channel news outlets have tried their best to do.
Obama is the favorite among such idiots as Chris Matthews and most of MSNBC/NBC as well as 2nd rate columnists like Maureen Dowd (who has always hated the Clintons).
As James Carville noted on a recent network news channel much of what has been seen and heard are those in the Obama campaign boasted by the cable channels whining and complaining about Bill Clinton.
If Obama can not handle criticism from members of his own party during this nomination run how is he going to handle the type of swiftboating lies he is surely going to get from the Republican candidate if he does happen to get the Democratic nod?
I would vote for Obama over any of the Republicans since we don’t want another Bushie in the White House but he isn’t ready to lead this nation but Hillary Clinton is.
What i find interesting is the drama being used by the Clintons to win support. The whole talk about the Clinton camp “thinking of giving up” prior to the New Hampshire primary might have pulled more supporters out of their homes to vote for her. This may be a ploy right now in South Carolina, since there is only a 4% difference at this point between Obama’s lead in South Carolina and the lead he had right before the New Hampshire primary.
I don’t see the media being slanted toward Obama. If anything, the most attention throughout the entire process has been the Clintons (including Chelsea, see if you can catch her video clip as she addresses students).
I think its a very poor argument to say that ANY of the candidates are not ready to lead this country. They all have had a wide variety of leadership positions and have gotten to this point through skill, leadership, and intelligence. The question you might want to raise is who is BETTER to lead the country.
I don’t see any “race card” aspect to this comment. He’s just giving a voting analysis as any professional pol would see it. He didn’t even spin it. Just: African americans more likely to vote for Obama and women more likely to vote for Clinton. A simple, likely, prediction.
Also, where did you, Dem in MN, get the notion that Bill Clinton introduced “PC” as a term?
People, wake us and smell the coffee. This is his same old story only about a different race. Look what he says about ‘SCARED WHITE” folks
“The reason (George H. W. Bush’s tactic) works so well now is that you have all these economically insecure white people who are scared to death,” Clinton was quoted saying by the Los Angeles Times in September 1991.
“You know, he [Bush] wants to divide us over race. I’m from the South. I understand this. This quota deal they’re gonna pull in the next election is the same old scam they’ve been pulling on us for decade after decade after decade. When their economic policies fail, when the country’s coming apart rather than coming together, what do they do? They find the most economically insecure white men and scare the living daylights out of them. They know if they can keep us looking at each other across a racial divide, if I can look at Bobby Rush and think, Bobby wants my job, my promotion, then neither of us can look at George Bush and say, ‘What happened to everybody’s job? What happened to everybody’s income? What … have … you … done … to … our … country?
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Why is Bill talking about the racecard today. It’s for the voters in PA. It’s one of his polytricks!