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CHARLESTON, S.C. - Bill Clinton angrily denied Wednesday that his wife's campaign was engaged in any dirty tricks and declared that it was Barack Obama's side - not the Clintons - who injected race into the contest.
"She did not play the race card, but they did," he charged, saying he was quoting Clinton backers and civil rights leaders Andrew Young and John Lewis.
That statement means that Clinton did not consider Obama an equal. That is racist.
Tone of voice and body language is EVERYTHING when someone makes a statement like that attributed to Clinton. He could have (and probably did) mean it in a complimentary way as in "look how far black men have come in such a short time." Unless you've seen a video tape of him saying it, you can't possibly judge this to be racist, or not.
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Originally Posted by AnUnidentifiedMale
I don't get it. How was that a racist statement? You must be assuming that getting coffee for someone is a stereotype of black people. Seems like an odd assumption.
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Obviously, Politico thinks it is "newsworthy".
You don't like it - don't post.
It'd be much more likeable if it truly was blatant action by a party as you've alleged rather than typical back-room politicking. Your consistency in distorting reality is quite amazing.
Tone of voice and body language is EVERYTHING when someone makes a statement like that attributed to Clinton. He could have (and probably did) mean it in a complimentary way as in "look how far black men have come in such a short time." Unless you've seen a video tape of him saying it, you can't possibly judge this to be racist, or not.
According to the source, it was THIS comment that so incensed him, that he turned away from Hillary.
Obviously, Teddy took it that way.
With the "racial" overtones of the democratic primary, it is clear Clinton hurt Hillary's campaign.
Tone of voice and body language is EVERYTHING when someone makes a statement like that attributed to Clinton. He could have (and probably did) mean it in a complimentary way as in "look how far black men have come in such a short time." Unless you've seen a video tape of him saying it, you can't possibly judge this to be racist, or not.
He also could have meant that more in an elitist way than a racial way.
According to the source, it was THIS comment that so incensed him, that he turned away from Hillary.
Obviously, Teddy took it that way.
Bingo! The left can deny it all they want but Bill Clinton screwed things up for Hillary by his blatant dislike of Obama. I think Ted Kennedy endorsed Obama because he disliked Bill Clinton's attitude towards Obama.
A reasonable interpretation. After all, don't interns and assistants fetch coffee? It may have been a jab at his inexperience.
But I don't know. I wasn't there and nothing in the OP's link that proves this did or did not have racist undertones.
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