Posted on 08/12/2007 7:02:48 PM PDT by mcenedo
The question usually aimed at her darker opponent from Chicago triggered a burst of laughter from Hillary Rodham Clinton. She recovered from the barb and proceeded by not answering it.
This campaign moment occurred Thursday before the Las Vegas convention crowd of the National Association of Black Journalists. CNN White House correspondent Suzanne Malveaux pinned back the former First Lady to explain how she could "sustain black support " while running against an African-American. Ironically, thanks to Sen. Barack Obama's mixed white and Kenyan parentage and campaign mischief, it is he who usually gets to field the "black enough" question.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...
Clinton said the problem is not a "moral crisis but an economic crisis," rejecting the "broad-brush" notion that paints the young black male "as a threat, as a headache or as a lost cause. I reject it as a string of disappointments, failures and casualties of a broken system. That's not who they are and that's not who they can be." She would call for expanding Headstart programs, increasing funding for schools and rehabilitation projects and tackling the excesses of the criminal justice system that tracks many of these young men into prisons.
Not a moral situation? No mention of the 70% illegitimacy rate among blacks.
Solution to the problem? Cut down on the criminal justice system.
Convention of Black "journalists" (in Las Vegas) - no chance of any of them seeing the elephant in the room. (and no, I'm not referring to Hillary.)
Just check her heart.
Well, baby does got back. Shudder.
Your guess is good as mine. Her hubby was the “first” Black President...
just ask the Black Panthers that she worked so hard to defend
Where would that be?
What do you mean could she be a black leader? If my memory serves me correctly she served as a leader and a legal advisor to the Black Panthers charged with the murder of Alex Rackley in New Haven, Connecticut in the early 70s.
No she can’t. She is not a leader. That should settle that.
She doesn't have one.
Hillary is black enough! Look at all the African Americans in key posts during her husbands 2 term Presidency. Can we expect the same from the hilda beast? I think transgender, lesbians and homosexuals have a better chance! The circus is in town everybody line up for a job in the greatest country in history!
In her wallet.
Suzanne Malveaux??!! ROFLMAO this giant-headed beotch Malveaux has more caucasian DNA than Hillary does.
how she could “sustain black support “ while running against an African-American...
Thank God someone is asking these questions. We certainly wouldn’t want the Race issue to be forgotten by the Democrats...
In her wallet.
Thanks (heh, heh)
So this is a Newday article that is on the net at a non-rightwing site and there were tons of comments there ....I was surprised at how many people agree with our point of view...maybe there is hope after all....
http://www.topix.net/forum/source/newsday/TDGMIEKLOPQVTLV8D
Yes, she would be the second male black president.
Well shes as black as Obama is.. he is just a little more nappy headed..
Very good!
And, it will be incumbent upon folks like you and me, to make sure that information like this that is made public if she gets the nomination; which she probably will.
Hillary and Looter guy have alot in common.
No, but she is definitely a HACK leader.
Why on earth would Newsweek give the black community, who by the way does have some impressive male leaders who don’t make the news, a white woman who sounds like a Southern nanny?
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