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Clinton did apologize for racism
There’s a meme going around Clinton did not apologize for racism in the campaign. She apologized at least three times for her husband’s, Ferraro’s and Shaheen’s remarks. Ferraro and Shaheen resigned. Bill is permanent. When will Obama apologize for sexism in the campaign?
CNN: Clinton apologizes to black voters, March 13, 2008:
Sen. Hillary Clinton did something Wednesday night that she almost never does. She apologized.
Her biggest apology came in response to a question about comments by her husband, Bill Clinton, after the South Carolina primary, which Obama won handily. Bill Clinton said Jesse Jackson also won South Carolina when he ran for president in 1984 and 1988, a comment many viewed as belittling Obama’s success.
“I want to put that in context. You know I am sorry if anyone was offended. It was certainly not meant in any way to be offensive. We can be proud of both Jesse Jackson and Senator Obama.”
“Anyone who has followed my husband’s public life or my public life know very well where we have stood and what we have stood for and who we have stood with,” she said, acknowledging that whoever wins the nomination will have to heal the wounds of a bruising, historic contest.”
Earlier in the day, Hillary Clinton supporter and fundraiser Geraldine Ferraro gave up her honorary position with Clinton’s campaign after she said in an interview last week that Obama would not have made it this far if he were white.
Of Ferraro’s comment, Hillary Clinton told her audience: “I certainly do repudiate it and I regret deeply that it was said. Obviously she doesn’t speak for the campaign, she doesn’t speak for any of my positions, and she has resigned from being a member of my very large finance committee.”
The fallout is still measurable from Senator Hillary Clinton’s apology to Barack Obama yesterday morning at Reagan National Airport for comments made by a top adviser relating to Mr. Obama’s adolescent drug use, which he had disclosed years ago in his memoir. Katharine Q. Seelye, detailed the resignation of the adviser, William Shaheen, Mrs. Clinton’s New Hampshire co-chairman.
But the story didn’t end there: On Thursday afternoon, Mrs. Clinton’s top adviser, Mark Penn, appeared on MSNBC with Mr. Obama’s top adviser, David Axelrod, and John Edwards’s top adviser, Joe Trippi. They argued with one another, and it was there that Mr. Penn dropped the word “cocaine,” saying that the Clinton campaign had not raised the issue of “cocaine use.”
That seemed to infuriate the others. “This guy just said ‘cocaine’ again,” Mr. Trippi said.
And yet, the campaign for Mr. Obama, an Illinois senator, has been using the Shaheen comments as part of a fund-raising appeal, keeping the issue alive because Obama advisers say they believe it will backfire against the Clinton campaign.
Clinton campaign website: Shaheen’s formal apology and resignation
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I’m in complete agreement with Princeton historian, Sean Wilentz, who has argued it has been the Obama people who have playd the race card in repeated attempts to smear the Clintons as racists, despite the fact that it’s common knowledge that the Clinton record on civil rights issues has long been above reproach.
Keep in mind that after the infamous memo from the Obama camp, Obama hung his head at a subsequent debate and publicly admitted, “The Clintons are not racists.”
For more about Sean Wilentz’s thoughts on racism in the Democratic primary, go here: http://katalusis.blogspot.com/2008/03/obama-teams-strategic-use-of-race-card.html
She has to apologize for stuff other people say. He doesn’t even have to apologize for the crap he says. Wow, I wonder what could possibly be going on there.