Posted on 01/21/2008 11:40:02 AM PST by jern
With former President Bill Clinton standing not 20 feet in front of her, Atlanta mayor Shirley Franklin took what appeared to be a political shot at the former president's comments about Barack Obama's candidacy.
Speaking at the 40th annual MLK commemorative service at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Franklin said the country is on the "cusp of turning the impossible into reality. Yes this is reality, not fantasy or fairy tales."
Clinton, in supporting his wife Hillary's bid for the Democratic nomination, recently took heat for using the term "fairy tale" to describe Obama's depiction of his stance on the war.
Franklin has endorsed Obama, who spoke from the same pulpit at Ebenezer on Sunday.
Today, after Franklin's remarks, the crowd of more than 2000 rose to its feet - except for Bill Clinton, who sat in his front pew seat and clapped politely.
Five seats to Clinton's left sat another former Arkansas govenor, Republican Mike Huckabee, also seeking his party's nomination as president. He stood at the end of Franklin's remarks.
During his address, Clinton responded to Franklin's remarks. "Mayor Franklin already took care of the political stuff. I wouldn't have said it quite the way she did but she got it all out there."
IMO, Bill Clinton’s “fairy tale” phrase was in intentional double-entendre.
That's because he probably had a woody or a semen stain on his pants.
How long ago? There are still plenty of WWII vets around, a lot more Korean War vets and segregation was still commonplace when both of those wars ended. You can tell our public schools do a pathetic job of teaching history because there is now a generation of Blacks who have no idea what their Grandparents went through. Unfortunately they also have no idea which political party was behind most of their problems.
;->
So Mike and Bubba campaign together at the same events? Is anyone surprised? Anyone?
Nahhh, just rude, crude, lewd in other words...just being himself.
Nice teeth!
The best part of all: he had to sit there and take it....HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAAAAA!
How long?
From my first hand observations, equality of opportunity has been a reality for at least 30 years. Failure to seize that opportunity remains the main problem.
So eloquent
“icely done, Mayor. Takin’ Bill to the woodshed right smack in the Capitol of the South. Send Bubba back where he came from.”
AMEN
First good laugh I’ve had all day!
RL kind of threw in today that Kennedy, among others are trying to rein wee willie in....at least telling him to ‘hush up....Like RL said, if he won’t behave now, think what he will be like if she wins.......
Please pass the popcorn.
I can’t stand the idea of that man back in power. He will probably be worse as “first lady” because he will have much more time on his hands, and less supervision. My hope is that Clinton and Obama will fight to the death for the nomination, leaving whoever wins with little money, and little respect from half of their party. They will be easier to defeat that way.
Unfortunately, I don’t have a strong candidate to do the defeating. Had Thompson for a while. Have to regroup on that one.
If the racism that is clearly present in most of black Americans is what it takes to finally drive a stake through the hearts of the Clintons and remove them from the scene - permanently — I will applaud them....
But the sad truth is that their running to the Obama camp, will guarantee another decade of their imprisonment on the DNC Plantation...
American blacks will one day HAVE to see their salvation is OFF of welfare rolls and onto the payroll..
Was McCain seated next to WJC?
The thing Rush didn't say, and I'm sure he knows, is that Hill won't be trying to reign him in if she is Pres. He will be saying things she can't and when criticized for it she will simply respond "I don't control what my husband says. I don't agree with everything he says. I haven't discussed that with my husband so I don't know his reasons for saying that." She has been doing that for years and getting away with it. It's part of their team approach.
It’s kind of funny to watch the libs run around and hoist each other on their own petards. The wheel has come around full circle.
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