Posted on 01/12/2006 9:19:36 AM PST by areafiftyone
The New York Observer is reporting that Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) will appear Thursday at a luncheon with Calypso singer turned Bush-bashing liberal activist Harry Belafonte.
The luncheon is an awards ceremony given by the Children’s Defense Fund, a liberal interest group.
Belafonte gained recent attention by calling President Bush the "world’s greatest terrorist” while visiting Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez.
Belafonte was joined on the Venezuela trip by a group of outspoken liberal Americans, including actor Danny Glover and Princeton University Professor Cornel West. "No matter what the greatest tyrant in the world, the greatest terrorist in the world, George W. Bush says,” Belafonte told Chavez, "we’re here to tell you: Not hundreds, not thousands, but millions of the American people ... support your revolution.”
Belafonte finished his appearance on Chavez’s television and radio broadcast with the shout in Spanish, "Viva la revolucion!”
It will not be the first time that Hillary Clinton has appeared with Belafonte after the 78-year-old singer has made controversial remarks. In September, Belafonte told the Congressional Black Caucus that the Bush foreign policy "has made a wreck of this planet.”
"I’m always in Africa,” Belafonte ranted, "and when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.”
Sen. Clinton was the next speaker at the event. Following up, she noted, "What Harry said is so important.”
As reported by Cybercast News Service, during a civil rights march in Atlanta last August, Belafonte called prominent African-American officials in the Bush administration, such as Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, "black tyrants." He has also compared the Bush administration to Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany and, in 2002, described then-Secretary of State Powell as a "house slave."
The Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, a conservative black leader, accused Belafonte of treason.
"Harry Belafonte's hatred of President Bush is causing him to embrace America's enemies," the Rev. Peterson said in a press release. "I also believe that his actions are treasonous as described by Article Three, Section Three of the U.S. Constitution, which says that 'adhering to our enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort' constitutes treason."
like her husband, Hitlery is the best thing to happen to the GOP...
and as long as she hitches her wagon to despicable traitors like Belafonte; she is guaranteeing that she will not be elected POTUS in 2008...and if NY had one conservative with a set of stones to run against her in November; the GOP might win the Senate seat from NY too!
Hillary - stop hanging out with leftwing nuts and get to the gym and start working out. You are obese and a poor role model for all Americans.
GODZILLARY will not run for President. If she was why would she be seen with a Marxist like Belafonte who pratically committed treason in Caracas. The RNC will be videotaping this event if she does show up.
I don't understand why these American haters don't just pack their bags and go to Africa and start their own government. Problem is they are blood suckers that use people for their own financial gain and idiots are willing to support them. Bad people never die, they just keep spreading their hatred .
Get pictures of this pair. Run them over and over...
Wasn't Hillary! romantically linked with Belafonte several years ago?
Because Africans do not want them.
No Hillary was involved with his daughter Sheri Belafonte. Hilarry the first GAY President??
It's amazing (to me anyhow) how all these commies seems to love money.
Any photos of this event?
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