Comments on: Clinton: Obama “Would Have Been Getting Us Coffee”

By: mike

mike — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 01:15:02 +0000

Well said.

By: Mane

Mane — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:02:01 +0000

You, my friend, are a developing racist. What the heck is wrong with you?

By: chris whited

chris whited — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:39:14 +0000

Also remember Obama has been a professor and politician for many many years. So the idea of "just a few years ago" being related in some literal form is just an apologist's excuse.

By: chris whited

chris whited — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:37:10 +0000

It is a racist statement. Remember he's a Rhode scholar as well. Look up Cecil Rhodes and who and what he was. This is why many black folk reject the scholarship offer.

By: Fre

Fre — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:33:58 +0000

You have more substantive public office experience than Obama did? So you have held a more prominent and relevant position than State Legislator of a fairly large state for more than 10 years? And prior to that you were a Professor of Constitutional Law I take it?

By: Roger

Roger — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:56:09 +0000

Given that Bill Clinton was a product of the deep south–and is of the age that had personal memories of the apartheid of segregation there–remarks about Obama "getting us coffee" could not have been ANYTHING but racist. Had he grown up in Maine or maybe Hawaii, one could imagine the comments were merely about coming from nowhere. Besides that Bill himself came out of nowhere…and arguably Obama's family were of a higher social status than Bill's.

I think people forget that THE party of segregation and even slavery was the Democratic party. Every slave owner in the old South was a Democrat…

By: Thomas Shea

Thomas Shea — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:56:19 +0000

Obama has proved beyond all doubt that he is a partisan hypocrite.

By: Jack

Jack — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:40:22 +0000

An experienced person will continue to make the same mistakes. Young fresh ideas will move this country forward.

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:07:03 +0000

“The President however, did not forgive former Republican Majority Leader Trent Lott and radio host Don Imus when they made similar insensitive remarks.”

Reid said, in awkwardly dated language, that the electorate was more willing to vote for Obama because he doesn’t speak with an ethnic or regional dialect, and because his skin is fairer. If anyone has grounds to be insulted, it would be white voters whom Reid has essentially accused of racism.

Trent Lott said the country would be better off if we’d elected a segregationist President. Don Imus contrasted a predominantly white basketball team and a predominantly black one, saying the latter was composed of “nappy-headed ho’s.”

The comments aren’t similar at ALL.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 18:48:53 +0000

Matt,

Much of what made this country great was centuries of free labor and a world system that use people in "developing countries" for cheap labor and goods. And from what I can tell, the system is failing miserably. (Bush year? depression? failed banking system? Frustrating and inequality between "developing" and developed countries leading to increased frustration with America and terrorism? lax environmental controls ?)

We've had 8 years of NO government control. things have to change.