Hillary Clinton's Disgraceful Campaign: Racism and Hypocrisy

Only this past weekend, as Clinton continued to reference Reverend Wright in her stump speeches, the filmmaker Michael Moore reminded us that in 1998, Reverend Wright had actually been a guest at the Clinton White House, for a "prayer breakfast," after Bill Clinton's rather tawdry affair with intern Monica Lewinsky had been made public.


"Thank you so much for your kind message," Clinton wrote Wright after his visit. "I am touched by your ... Full Story »

Posted by Dwight Rousu
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Subjects: World, U.S., Politics, Religion
Topics: Racism, Presidential Election 2008, Democrats, Religion and Politics, Democratic Nomination, Hillary Clinton
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Jack Dinkmeyer
4.5
by Jack Dinkmeyer - Oct. 1, 2008

Don't you just hate it when things don't go according to well-thought out plans? Like the plan that Hillary should easily be the Democrat's candidate by now? Desperate times require desperate measures--thus, out come race and religion. Two polarizing emotions that don't need substantive issues, just good old fashioned hate and bias. Of course the media are ignoring it. Given the amount of energy they're expending on free passes for McCain, they don't have to squander extra energy doing what the Clintons are willing to do for them.

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Dwight Rousu
4.6
by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 1, 2008

The litany of relevant events is capped by the fact that Jeremiah Wright counseled President Bill Clinton along with Hillary at a prayer breakfast following the Lewinsky affair. The opinion piece shows a somewhat convincing pattern. The thirst for power corrupts?

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Chris Finnie
3.9
by Chris Finnie - Oct. 1, 2008

A strongly worded opinion piece that, nevertheless, rates high on the accuracy scale. While the author's minority "bitterness" is obvious, he backs up his contention with enough facts to substantiate his arguments.

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Rory O'Connor
3.4
by Rory O'Connor - Oct. 1, 2008

A fiery pro-Obama opinion piece that says Hillary Clinton will stop at nothing to be elected--including lying and racism.

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Peter Henry
4.6
by Peter Henry - Oct. 1, 2008

A short story which demonstrates Clinton's hypocricy in her unceasing hammering at Obama's connections to Rev. Jeremiah White. This is truly a racial issue because she is attempting to raise racial innuendo against Obama based on guilt-by-association.

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David Dresser
3.6
by David Dresser - Oct. 1, 2008

It is so easy to overlook a certain quality of American behavior. It would not matter so much what Hillary or her advisers say it it were only hypocrisy, but the unfortunate reality is that we are a racist people. We twist and we turn and we deny and we spin, but the slightest thing can be blown out of proportion to continue a racist policy or a certain religious perspective or whatever thing may be at hand. The sad thing is that when these things are seized upon and shouted out, it works.

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Connie Deady
3.8
by Connie Deady - Oct. 1, 2008

Mainstream media has been too afraid to take the racist tactics of the Clintons head on. I'm not the first to scream racism, and it is overdone, but one has to really be unable to look reality in the face not to see what is happening.

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Roland F. Hirsch
1.5
by Roland F. Hirsch - Oct. 1, 2008

This opinion piece has little journalistic merit. The author does not present the information in a balanced way, and did not adequately research the facts. The author does not recognize that Obama's problem is his total lack of executive experience and absence of any Senate accomplishments, so that the only way voters have to judge him is by whom he associates with. The author even attempts to make the presence of Rev Wright at one prayer breakfast at the White House equivalent to spending 20 years in his church, when many of his most hate-filled messages came after the White House visit.

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pratip chatterjee
4.0
by pratip chatterjee - Oct. 1, 2008

Yes . It is relevant and contextual in the light of the Clinton campaign trying to trawl up the issue of racial divisiveness that is implicit in the electorate. The general modus operandum seems to be to point to some past associates of Senator Obama and to make insinuations. The article , by recalling how Bill Clinton himself had been endorsed in his troubled time by one such prominent associate , gives a factual lie to Hillary Clinton's campaign issue.

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