Clyburn: Clinton/Obama racial tensions in SC are … Huckabee’s fault? Update: Backlash against Billy Jeff among blacks?
posted at 10:07 am on January 25, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Yeah, turns out the month-long series of cracks about shucking and jiving and Obama dealing drugs was water under the bridge until Huck popped off a week ago about the confederate flag, a moment of jackassery so fleeting that it hardly affected the GOP primary (if at all) let alone the Democratic one. Granted, blaming Republicans for all the world’s evils comes with the territory of being a Democrat, and granted, Clyburn’s wise to worry about lingering hard feelings within his party after the nomination, but he’s not fooling anyone with this pathetic bit of scapegoating — not Obama, not the press, no one. Well, except for Joe and Mika, who politely declined to press him on it.
Update: Will it be Huckabee’s fault the next time Billy Jeff throws a tantrum, too? Note well:
Advisers to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton say they have concluded that Bill Clinton’s aggressive politicking against Senator Barack Obama is resonating with voters, and they intend to keep him on the campaign trail in a major role after the South Carolina primary…
Mr. Clinton is deliberately trying to play bad cop against Mr. Obama, campaign officials say, and is keenly aware that a flash of anger or annoyance will draw even more media and public attention to his arguments. He will continue campaigning full-time for Mrs. Clinton after South Carolina in states with primaries on Feb. 5 where he is especially popular, like Arkansas, California and New York, they say.
They also see benefits in Mr. Clinton’s drawing the ire of the Obama camp, predicting that there will be a voter backlash against Mr. Obama if the former president looks like a victim in the cut-and-thrust of the race.
Update: Clyburn had better start pushing this “blame Huckabee” meme a lot harder because blacks have a crazy idea that the fault lies mostly with Bill Clinton.
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Vizzini on January 25, 2008 at 10:09 AM
it’ll be interesting how, if Hillary is nominee, they get the Dem’s back together for the general. especially if Obama isn’t the VP choice
jp on January 25, 2008 at 10:11 AM
Jenny, you know I’d never hurt you. If it weren’t for this war and that lying son of a b**** Johnson.
lorien1973 on January 25, 2008 at 10:12 AM
You have gotta be kidding me.
KBird on January 25, 2008 at 10:14 AM
Wow, that’s awesome. These people can blame anything on the republicans. I am seriously surprised he didn’t try to wind Bush in with it as well.
BackseatDriver on January 25, 2008 at 10:18 AM
Clayburn is an idiot . . . but what else would one expect on a program chaired by that mindless dolt, Scarborough.
rplat on January 25, 2008 at 10:18 AM
To be honest, I’ve been very happy to have Obama in the race because he’s (mostly) above this crap. But blacks in general, and the Dems (Clinton’s especially) are all about it. I think the best hope for a black president is as a Republican, somewhere down the line.
peski on January 25, 2008 at 10:19 AM
Wasn’t Huck responding to someone asking him a question about it?
- The Cat
MirCat on January 25, 2008 at 10:19 AM
F**k Clyburn… He’s the same A-hole that admitted that progress in Iraq was bad news for his party. Actually, I guess he should be praised for at least having the balls to admit what we all know about the Democratic Party as a whole. Still, this SOB should have been tossed out on his ass the day he said that, and shouldn’t be available to comment on anything.
RightWinged on January 25, 2008 at 10:20 AM
Did they forget that he’s not a potential first LADY? Why would he look like the victim for attacking Obama and having temper tantrums when asked questions by reporters (many of them female)? Maybe I’m an old-fashioned TX gal, but I don’t think the big, scary, angry man is going to look like a victim!
TX Mom on January 25, 2008 at 10:23 AM
Once again, be the victim Billy. Don’t they ever get tired of playing the victim?
More importantly, how could anyone possibly fall for it again?
BacaDog on January 25, 2008 at 10:25 AM
Really? Is that what they think? If Bill keeps attacking Obama as the “bad cop” that somehow Bill is going to look like the victim of it all? Does that make any sense to anyone here?
Dudley Smith on January 25, 2008 at 10:26 AM
He must have got the DNC talking points fax before the interview and had to indite GOP somehow because they are the root of all that is wrong with… everything.
regal on January 25, 2008 at 10:26 AM
He says
but he is!
Remember when Clyburn said this?
Brat on January 25, 2008 at 10:30 AM
I always thought clinton did the thrusting and wasnt the recipient of it?
lorien1973 on January 25, 2008 at 10:35 AM
Come on Allah, you gotta give Joe credit. It’s not like he didn’t have any rebuttal.
I distinctly heard him say ……… “Hmm”.
fogw on January 25, 2008 at 10:37 AM
Bill Clinton knew exactly what he was doing. It is the Southern Strategy Part Deux. I think that his actions amount to one of the most blatantly racist acts by a politician since George Wallace’s inauguration speech. “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever!”
Obama, who commendably avoided race and gender politics even when pressed on it, has now been forced and compartmentalized into a racialized campaign.
This was what the Clinton’s wanted. They are done with African-Americans and don’t care about the lost demographic, because Latinos will make up for the losses.
Republicans on the other hand wish they had a black candidate to represent their platform.
Next time some Democrat spouts off to you about racist Republicans, remind them that their favorite US President reanimated Jim Crow just so he could find a new intern.
Bill Clinton is a racist mother****er. I’m spitting blood and fire right now.
The Race Card on January 25, 2008 at 10:55 AM
Rep. Clyburn is trying to do an end around stunt play because he knows the damage has been done. I get that…but he’s lying by omission to invoke Huckabee’s name.
Huckabee’s a Rep, he has no bearing on the chicanery and disgraceful episodes happening on the left.
You will never see an African-American Democratic President of the United States.
The Race Card on January 25, 2008 at 10:58 AM
Ah, the vast right wing conspiracy.
lan astaslem on January 25, 2008 at 11:01 AM
So says Peggy Noonan as well in today’s very good column.
JiangxiDad on January 25, 2008 at 11:41 AM
“I think the best hope for a black president is as a Republican, somewhere down the line.”
A black, evangelical– like, say, Alan Keyes.
brian e. on January 25, 2008 at 11:51 AM
I am black and since Reagan was elected, I have recognized that the Democratic Party has only used the presumed black vote for the Dimwits to their advantage; the average black voting Democratic has received nothing back for their vote. They actually have benefitted more under the Reagan, and the two Bushies Administration. Even Sharpton, Jessie and Andrew young are Democrats first over being black and have used used the black vote to their personal political clout and enrichment. My flesh people, stop being ignorant and answer “What have the Clinton’s or the National Democratic Party done for you personally?” What have they done for you since 1992?
apostle53 on January 25, 2008 at 12:15 PM
Divide and conquer. Read the link below on how the Hill and Bill show is really a racist campaign. Brought to you by a former inside guy to the Despicable Duo - Dick Morris.
Zorg on January 25, 2008 at 12:31 PM
Whenever the Clintons are attacked, accused or even questioned, they are portrayed as victims, and their opponent is stigmatized as a bully.
When the Clintons go on the attack,no matter how vicious, they are portrayed as bold, aggressive and smart.
whitetop on January 25, 2008 at 12:34 PM
Congressman Clyburn needs to be publically reminded that a former South Carolina Republican governor was allowed by the black leadership to twist in the wind when he proposed taking down the Confederate flag from governmental buildings. The leadership was more interested in the opportunities offered to the Dems by the governor taking an unpopular stance than in removing a hated symbol from the public arena.
Clyburn’s private pleadings to Hillary to cut out the racially coded cr*p shows he knows nhw race got introduced in a toxic fashion into the campaign.
ptolemy on January 25, 2008 at 12:47 PM
Idiot. I don’t like huckster but I’m sure some dumb statement about a flag btought race into the democrat primary. From the numbers I have been seeing in SC and Florida, black voters don’t even know the republican party exists. It’s only the mice white folks like the clintons and the bad white backs who don’t like the clintons.
peacenprosperity on January 25, 2008 at 1:22 PM
nice white folks
peacenprosperity on January 25, 2008 at 1:23 PM
The Clintons are the ONLY people, and I use the term loosely, who can fall into a barrell of s#$t and come out smelling like a rose. I think I need to puke now…
kcd on January 25, 2008 at 3:14 PM
This is the Democrats idea of “moving on”.
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They have moved from blaming Bush…to blaming Huckabee.
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subbottomfeeder on January 25, 2008 at 3:25 PM
Dick Morris says this is the Clintons’ plan… To get a black backlash… a blacklash, if you will, which is then supposed to get all the white liberals to band together for the Clintons. I heard this theory elsewhere too, but Morris laid it all out on O’Reilly last night.. I would say it sounds like a dumb idea, but we’re talking about Dems here, so it just might work.
RightWinged on January 25, 2008 at 3:25 PM
Joe, you are not a Republican. You sold your soul to the MSLSD.
RobCon on January 25, 2008 at 3:51 PM
“huh.”
That’s all Joe Scarborough can muster any more. Morning Joe needs to switch from decaf.
gabriel sutherland on January 25, 2008 at 4:44 PM
The Clintons’ show their true color–me, me, me.
Dr. Charles G. Waugh on January 25, 2008 at 10:42 PM
It is bizarre and disheartening, in a way, to watch the MSM do to Obama what they have done to us for so long.
I watched a few minutes of the Today show this morning.
They had staged Hillary! supporters behind the anchors. They had Lester Holt out shilling for Hillary! - saying things like “even a win here for Obama is a loss, because of all the black voters”
The really frightening thing is not that the Clinton’s or the MSM are slime…but that their transparently disgusting tactics work.
Why would anyone respond to this kind of crap???
I think I’ll move to France, where things are starting to make sense.
Dorvillian on January 26, 2008 at 10:43 AM