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To: frank ballenger
LOL I missed that meme. Sounds like a classic. :)

About my meme, let me note that it didn't come out of thin air. Bubba inspired it with his own words.

Bill Clinton told Ted Kennedy that Obama ‘would be getting us coffee’ a few years ago: ‘Game Change’ Daily News - January 10, 2010

Bill Clinton helped sink his wife’s chances for an endorsement from Ted Kennedy by belittling Barack Obama as nothing but a race-based candidate. “A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee,” the former president told the liberal lion from Massachusetts, according to the gossipy new campaign book, “Game Change.”

The book says Kennedy was deeply offended and recounted the conversation to friends with fury.

After Kennedy sided with Obama, Clinton reportedly griped, “the only reason you are endorsing him is because he’s black. Let’s just be clear.”


42 posted on 05/16/2024 10:14:04 PM PDT by TigersEye (Our Republic is under seige by globalist Marxists. Hold fast!)
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To: TigersEye

I never heard the stories but love them. Good ol’ Bill wasn’t the true champion of black people despite being “the First Black President.”

Part of that phrase’s popularity was because many black people were said to empathize with Clinton being railroaded in the legal system by enemies and framed and impeached. They say that is one of the reasons Trump is slowly gaining popularity with black people, too.

“In 1998, Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison in The New Yorker called Clinton “the first Black president”, saying, “Clinton displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald’s-and-junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas,” and comparing Clinton’s sex life, scrutinized despite his career accomplishments, to the stereotyping and double standards that blacks typically endure.”

So, except for the saxophone playing, Trump does have that appeal she listed. Even the Big Macs and fries.


43 posted on 05/17/2024 12:25:18 AM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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