Down In The Gutter Politics from Hillary Clinton
Talk about ugly politics. Hillary Clinton supporter Bob Johnson made some terribly unfortunate remarks today while introducing the New York senator to a South Carolina audience.
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Robert L. Johnson, the founder of Black Entertainment Television, who is campaigning today in South Carolina with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, just raised the specter of Barack Obama’s past drug use. He also compared Mr. Obama to Sidney Poitier, the black actor, in “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.”
At a rally here for Mrs. Clinton at Columbia College, Mr. Johnson was defending recent comments that Mrs. Clinton made regarding Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. She did not mean to take any credit away from him, Mr. Johnson said, when she said that it took President Johnson to sign the civil rights legislation he fought for.
Clinton ought to be ashamed, but according to FOX News she isn’t:
Asked what Senator Clinton thought of a surrogate making a drug reference at one of her campaign events, Clinton Spokesman Jay Carson said “I don’t think that’s what he was referring to and her record on this issue is clear. She has made crystal clear to supporters and staff alike that no one should engage in negative personal campaigning.”
Senator Obama has been open and upfront about mistakes as a teenager (contrast that with a couple of other recent White House occupants...WJC, GWB). In doing so he has been a remodel for young people who have responded both to his openness and positive vision.
Unethical behavior plagued the Clinton years in the White House. America might have had universal health care if it hadn’t been for Mrs. Clinton insistence that the effort be secret and hidden from public view. She covered up repeatedly for her husband’s ethical lapses. Conservatives opposed to progressive values were able to exploit these personal weaknesses and paralyzed the government. Then she went to the senate and voted for George W. Bush’s war in Iraq.
Her recent comments about MLK have left voters confused and upset.
All during the 90s the Clinton’s decried the “politics of personal destruction” but now Hillary Clinton seems more than willing to engage in such politics. All of this should make voters stop and wonder whether or not Hillary Clinton has the moral fitness to occupy the White House.
