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Thread #107610   Message #2246486
Posted By: Azizi
27-Jan-08 - 05:21 PM
Thread Name: BS: South Carolina - Whole new ballgame
Subject: RE: BS: South Carolina - Whole new ballgame
Here's a link to a YouTube video of Bill Clinton's Jesse Jackson comment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqd2dfjl2pw

There are 369 comments to date for this video. Those comments make interesting reading.

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Imo, Bill Clinton referance to Jesse Jackson in response to the reporter's comment was definitely a case of both minimizing the importance of Obama's huge win in the South Carolina primary and continuing the Clinton campaign's framing of Obama as a "Black candidate". If Bill Clinton wanted to just refer to a Democratic candidate winning the South Carolina primary and not receiving the Democratic nominee for president, he could have referred to John Edwards, who won the South Carolina primary in 2004.

And fwiw, in case folks haven't sensed it, I'm just too through with the Clintons. If Hillary does get the Democratic nomination for President, I won't vote for anyone in the Presidental slot.

Unfortunately for the Clintons campaign, there's a whole lot of Black folks {and non-Black folks} who feel the same way I do.