Oof! Hillary Has Real Problems Now

You need to appreciate Democrat politics to really understand how significant this could become, even beyond Hillary if she gets the nomination. Video here. It sounds like Obama's camp is going to run with it and it could destroy Hillary in South Carolina, where fifty-percent of the electorate is Black.

"Dr. King's dream began to be realized when President Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act," Clinton said. "It took a president to get it done."

There's already an undercurrent of hostility among Blacks against the mainstream Democrat establishment. Creating a bigger rift is not in the party's interest and would take an Obama nomination to avoid a bigger split.

As far as political instincts go, Hillary apparently just doesn't have them. Playing down the roll of King in the Civil Rights movement while heading into South Carolina next week is simply dumb.

At the very least, it puts her squarely on defense in a race she's already losing.

Comments

[DonnaInMichigan]

As I said, she was going to end up having a "dean moment"...

This is just one example of her putting her foot in her mouth. But yet the day is not over with yet.

It didn't take a President to get it done. Presidents do not initiate legislation (of course that is how it will be done under a dictatorship w/ Hillary at the helm).

She should read some history books. The southern dixiecrats wouldn't vote for the Civil Rights Act. It took the majority of the Republican house to pass this into law. President Johnson had nothing to do with this legislation becoming law. He just signed his name to it.

When she keeps her mouth shut, her poll numbers go up. When she opens her mouth, her poll numbers go down. Keep on talking Hillary. That's if you can talk with that foot in your mouth.

[Scrapiron]

Good to see that someone else keeps up with 'real' history. The Republicans had to ram the Civil Rights Act down the Dhimmi's throats with a stick, a big stick.

[Terry Gain]

She's now so desperate she's slighting the father of the civil rights movement. She could have at least claimed Ladybird inspired LBJ to sign the Civil Rights Act. The way she's carrying on you'd think boob was her campaign manager.

But I think the NYT won't give it big play, as otherwise it's over.

It will be interesting to see whether those photoshopped pictures of Obama with a goat help to stall his campaign.

[Greg Jones]

NEWS FLASH: Blacks Learning
'Goldwater Girl' Hillary Was AGAINST
the Civil Rights Act of 1964....Feel Deceived !

A March 12, 2007 article written by acclaimed Washington columnist Robert Novak sheds a very revealing light on the true sentiment of Hillary Clinton during the peak of the Civil Rights Movement. Clinton recently was found to have minimized the great and monumental strides taken by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by stating that it was Lyndon B. Johnson, then president, who should receive the credit for civil rights progress including the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

In an attempt to attract black support Hillary Clinton regularly shares her 'civil rights experience' during every speech given to blacks audiences. Novak writes of one such speech at Selma's First Baptist Church on the 42nd anniversary of the "bloody Sunday" freedom march there, where Sen. Clinton declared: "As a young woman, I had the great privilege of hearing Dr. King speak in Chicago. The year was 1963. My youth minister from our church took a few of us down on a cold January night to hear [King]. . . . And he called on us, he challenged us that evening to stay awake during the great revolution that the civil rights pioneers were waging on behalf of a more perfect union." But Novak's article states that there's a big problem with her statement.

The fact is, in 1963, the same period of time she speeks of at all black church appearances, not only was Hillary Clinton a republican, but she was also a staunch supporter of republican Senator Barry Goldwater, well known as a segregationist and one of the most vocal senators adamently against the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which is why he lost in his presidential bid to Lyndon B. Johnson. Novak writes "...how then could she be a 'Goldwater Girl' in the next year's presidential election?" He continues, "...she described herself in her memoirs as 'an active Young Republican' and 'a Goldwater girl, right down to my cowgirl outfit.' (Hillary worked on Golwater's presidential campaign)
Novak adds, "As a politically attuned honor student, she must have known that Goldwater was one of only six Republican senators who joined Southern Democratic segregationists opposing the historic voting rights act of 1964 inspired by King. Hillary headed the Young Republicans at Wellesley College.

The incompatibility of those two positions of 40 years ago was noted to me (Novak) by Democratic old-timers who were shocked by Sen. Clinton's temerity in pursuing her presidential candidacy." Novak adds, "What Hillary Clinton said at Selma is significant because it betrays her campaign's panicky reaction to the unexpected rise of Sen. Obama as a serious competitor for the Democratic nomination.
Clinton's plans were transformed by the advent of Obama, an African-American threatening the hard allegiance of black voters forged by Bill Clinton. On one hand, the Clinton campaign has attacked Obama and his supporters. On the other hand, she has sought to solidify her civil rights credentials.

While Clinton was re-inventing her past, her road to the White House is not going as planned. Instead of a steady procession to coronation at the Denver convention, she is involved in a real struggle against credible opponents led by Obama. No wonder she and her handlers were tempted to imply the existence long ago of a young lady in Chicago's suburbs who never really existed."

Blacks are stating their feeling of betrayment now that these truths are being exposed as they come to the conclusion that the fact is, Hillary was AGAINST the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that Dr. King died for and as a 'Goldwater Girl' she was even against Lyndon B. Johnson, the very person she now gives the credit to for Dr. King getting to the mountaintop. !

Greg 'Peace Song' Jones

[Peggy McGilligan]

Not only was Hillary Clinton AGAINST the passing of the Civil Rights Act, for which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. died – as a Goldwater Girl, she was against Lyndon B. Johnson – the president she credits for Dr. King getting to the mountaintop. To make matters worse, as a New York Senator, Hillary was also the FIRST of the 2008 presidential hopefuls to invoke 9-11 on Super Tuesday – during her loosely paraphrased speech, taken straight from the base of the Statue of Liberty. It was as if Hillary had never even visited the White House from 1992 to 2000. Hillary's current interpretation of the facts surrounding 9-11, parodies that of her Civil Rights stance(s): http://theseedsof9-11.com