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Behind the Scenes With America’s ‘Honorary Soul Brother’
When author Toni Morrison called Bill Clinton “America’s first black president,� she wasn’t kidding.
I have seen Clinton campaign before black audiences, and he was electrifying. His roots in the black community run so deep that I am convinced that had Al Gore allowed him to campaign at his side in 2000, Gore and not George Bush would be president.
Dick Polman, the most excellent national political correspondent for the Philadelphia Inquirer, has posted an interesting piece at American Debate on the “honorary soul brother� calling in his markers on behalf of wife Hillary.
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6 Responses to “Behind the Scenes With America’s ‘Honorary Soul Brother’”
It’s all well and good that bubba connected to the black community but, like a rep from my state asked a few weeks ago “how long do you owe them”
He employed and gave the start to many black politicans but, the black leaders must realize that A) Hillary is not Bill and B) When do the Clintons acknowledge that they owe the black community for voting for them.
I am sick to death of people being such chickens as to only hanging on to the past and being afraid to move on to the future. When do the clintons finally take a back seat and let the new people come forward. They may offer alot more than Clinton ever did but, how would they know if they cling to 20 years past and won’t let themselves move forward.
Clinton had his eight years in the sun and Hillary is not bill. She is nothing like Bill. We have had enough of this clinging and endless looping of bush and clinton.
When is the black community going to allow themselves to brace thier backbones, say thanks alot Bill, and look forward to new possibilities and a new and better way.
one other thing: those politicians in S. C. were paid to give endorsements. They were paid 10,000 a month it support Hillary. There is something sleazy in that you have to bribe people to throw their support and then crow that you are the queen.
Hillary is sleaze
vwcat said: When do the Clintons acknowledge that they owe the black community for voting for them
That sentence confounds me. Acknowledge how? “Owe” for votes? To be paid in what way?
Polimom makes a good point that I’d like to elaborate on as someone who has met and reported on the Clintons and covered the impeachment trial:
Some, perhaps many, blacks feel a kinship for Bill Clinton because they know persecution when they see it and believe that he was persecuted by Kenneth Starr and the conservative Republican troglodytes who insisted that lying about sex was an impeachable offense.
Every black preacher and public official to whom I talked and to whom reporters working for me talked during the Lewinsky scandal and its aftermath spoke with one voice: Bill Clinton is one of us.
I hasten to add that this does not, in my view, automatically translate into support for Hillary, but there simply is no more adept a campaigner out there today than her husband. In fact, no one comes close.
I don’t think anyone will label Rush Limpbaugh or Glen Beck the “black pundits” anytime soon.
Sorry wrong thread, but still good snark.