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Thread #101088   Message #2234539
Posted By: Azizi
12-Jan-08 - 01:58 AM
Thread Name: BS: Popular Views on Obama
Subject: RE: BS: Popular Views on Obama
In case Mudcatters aren't familiar with Bill Clinton's "fairy tale" remarks ,here's a link to a YouTube video of former President Clinton's comments:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1Ytbr-7VaE
Bill Clinton on the campaign trail, January 8, 2008 (more)


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I haven't found the video of the New Hampshire campaign event where Hillary Clinton compared the relative importance of Martin Luther King, Jr and LBJ {former President Lyndon Baines Johnson}'s to the Civil Rights movement. However, here is a link to an interview that Hillary Clinton made about her comments:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9LhWUsrJnM

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Bill Clinton apparently recognizes that Hillary's campaign needed to do some damage control among African Americans because of our reactions {and others' reactions to} his comments and his wife's comments since he {Bill Clinton} called in to at least 4 national Black talk radio shows today to talk about these comments.

I happened to hear one of these interviews today. It was interesting to listen to Bill Clinton trying to back pedal his "fairy tale" comment and his wife's remarks about Martin Luther King, Jr, President John Kennedy, and President LBJ.

Unfortunately for Bill and Hillary, their remarks have "gone viral" {meaning they're all over the Internet and all over the talk radio/Black media circuit].

I can't speak for anyone else, but I didn't buy Bill Clinton's explanations of his and Hillary's remarks.

The results of the South Carolina Democratic primary may show whether people accepted Bill's explanations for those comments.