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What Clinton allegedly told Kennedy re Obama: 'A few years ago he would have been getting us coffee'
Daily Mail UK ^ | January 10, 2010 | David Gardner

Posted on 01/10/2010 11:22:19 AM PST by La Lydia

Bill Clinton was at the centre of a race storm last night after he was accused of denigrating Barack Obama. The former president allegedly claimed during the hard-fought Democratic primary race: ‘A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee.’ He is said to have made the racist remark in a phone call entreating Senator Teddy Kennedy, the party’s vastly influential elder statesman, to endorse his wife, Hillary, in the delicately balanced 2008 nomination battle.

But the call so offended Senator Kennedy that it backfired and helped make up the veteran Washington power broker’s mind to throw his complete support behind Mr Obama’s historic bid for the White House, according to a new book...

...the ‘coffee’ controversy has opened old wounds from the campaign trail when Mr Clinton was accused of being racially dismissive about the underdog who went on to derail his wife’s White House dreams...

Last night, he was unavailable for comment about the new claim, which is featured in a new book about the presidential election called ‘Game Change.’ American political writers John Heliemann and Mark Halperin claim in the book, which is published in the US Monday, that Mr Clinton made the call on the day after Mr Obama won a key primary in Iowa....

The book also claims Mrs Clinton, now in Mr Obama’s Cabinet as US Secretary of State, was keen to seize on claims of her rival’s past drug use to try and press home an advantage.

She is depicted as being pleased when her New Hampshire campaign chairman Bill Shaheen mentioned that Mr Obama took drugs as a young man. ‘Good for him,’ she is quoted as saying. ‘Let’s push it out.’ She was later persuaded by her staff not to try and capitalise on the controversy...

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho44; bookreview; coffee; democrats; gamechange; hypocrisy; obama; politics; unintendedtruth; x42
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To: omega4179

Point. He would probablu be incompetent at serving coffee as well. Good point.


21 posted on 01/10/2010 11:45:07 AM PST by Psalm 144 (What did you think NEW WORLD ORDER meant? The Constitution? States' rights? Individual liberty?)
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To: F15Eagle

Not really. Just the regular old I-9.


22 posted on 01/10/2010 11:45:22 AM PST by La Lydia
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To: La Lydia
I can't stand Clinton, but I think this is more of a comment about elitism than it is about racism. He probably meant that Obama had paid no dues, was a lightweight when it came to experience etc., and wasn't far beyond the career stage at which he would have been a senatorial / congresssional assistant. Ironically, he is getting nailed by the same political correctness mafia that he used to his advantage when he was in office.
23 posted on 01/10/2010 11:45:42 AM PST by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: La Lydia

“....said to have made the racist remark ...”

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I don’t see this as Klintoon making a racist remark, I see it as Klintoon commenting on Zero’s staggering incapability to do anything right - short of fetching a cup of coffee.


24 posted on 01/10/2010 11:45:57 AM PST by HighWheeler
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To: La Lydia

25 posted on 01/10/2010 11:49:58 AM PST by HighWheeler
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To: La Lydia

I’m wondering why we hadn’t heard of this before now? I realize this is coming out in a new book, but still...there must be some reason this was never *leaked* before.


26 posted on 01/10/2010 11:50:30 AM PST by azishot
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To: seowulf

I thought the same thing... when I saw the title with the quote, my first thought was Obama’s complete lack of experience. which would make him the junior b****, or the suck-up who gets the coffee. (would saying brown-noser be racist?)


27 posted on 01/10/2010 11:54:28 AM PST by Svartalfiar
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To: La Lydia
‘A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee.’

How is that racist? Can only black people get coffee? I think Clinton would have been referring to the fact that Obama was a person who had never actually 'accomplished anything'.

28 posted on 01/10/2010 11:55:56 AM PST by fanfan (Why did they bury Barry's past?)
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To: azishot

Because the reporters were saving it for their book, which they planned to publish when it could do no political damage to their Democratic Overlords. One of the authors is a Time magazine editor and writer Mark Halperin. Does that tell you anything?


30 posted on 01/10/2010 11:56:35 AM PST by La Lydia
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To: BlessedBeGod

It’s ok, Eleanor Holms Norton says Bill Clinton
has plenty of “Racist Credits” built up to counter
any statements he might have made. Just watch.


31 posted on 01/10/2010 12:00:12 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: La Lydia
There are very few things I agree with Bill Clinton on and this is one of them. Obama is in way over his head and everyone who has an IQ over 50 knows it. Here’s a good example.

http://blogs.investors.com/capitalhill/index.php/home/35-politics/1136-obamas-green-jobs-program-135294-per-job

32 posted on 01/10/2010 12:01:06 PM PST by kempo
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To: seowulf

How does having someone get you coffee racist?

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Good point (though it pains me to take up for that scum Clinton).


33 posted on 01/10/2010 12:02:31 PM PST by Bigg Red (Palin/Hunter 2012 -- Bolton their Secretary of State)
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To: La Lydia

"Here you go sir!"



34 posted on 01/10/2010 12:03:01 PM PST by Bon mots
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To: null and void

You were doing good untile you put sugar and cream into it.


35 posted on 01/10/2010 12:03:20 PM PST by IMR 4350
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To: La Lydia

You’re right. Being personally racist was never one of Bill’s problems. He took the measure of Obama as a politician and decided Obama should be in charge of coffee.


36 posted on 01/10/2010 12:06:16 PM PST by donna (SarahPAC has donated money to...(wait for it)...Lindsey Graham!)
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To: La Lydia
>'A few years ago he would have been getting us coffee'

This statement is demonstrably false.

It implies that Obama would had to have held a real job at some point in his life.

37 posted on 01/10/2010 12:07:12 PM PST by NewJerseyJoe (Rat mantra: "Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!")
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To: azishot

I’m wondering why we hadn’t heard of this before now? I realize this is coming out in a new book, but still...there must be some reason this was never *leaked* before.

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Yeah, especially when Teddy can neither confirm nor deny.


38 posted on 01/10/2010 12:07:16 PM PST by Bigg Red (Palin/Hunter 2012 -- Bolton their Secretary of State)
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To: 2nd Bn, 11th Mar
Instead, he probably said “shine our shoes”, if I know my Clinton.

True dat.

Interesting that this comes out just as Clinton was being touted for going to Mass. to campaign for that 'rat woman. Wonder what he thinks about her behind the scenes?

39 posted on 01/10/2010 12:09:14 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: fanfan

Or perhaps these people think pointing out that BO was inexperienced and clueless is in and of itself racist. You are not allowed to criticize in any way whatsoever, or you are a racist.


40 posted on 01/10/2010 12:09:27 PM PST by La Lydia
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