Ms. Clinton met with the “Rev” Al Sharpton, who is a local race merchant, demagogue and protegee of “Rev” Jesse Jackson, in a publicly televised event in Harlem. There she extolled DR King and said how much he had changed her life after meeting him. No one seems to recall any such meeting, except her. It seems like an obvious pander and a pointed injection of race into her Senate run.
So far, she has spent more time AWAY from her Chappaqua, NY residence and more time probing race issue around NY. Is this the ugly work of the ugly James Carvelle? Your thoughts on this opportunist woman?
Things are not what they seem to be; nor are they otherwise.
[lankavatara Sutra]
I can pretty well guess why she met with Sharpton, but why did she refuse to attend a meeting of the Congress of Racial Equality?
“You are entitled to my opinions, and I will fight to the death for your right to agree with them.” — heard on January 18, 2000 at 4:32 PM Eastern Time from the movie Weapons of Mass Distraction, 1997, with Gabriel Byrne and Ben Kingsly that aired in the 4:30 PM to 6:15 PM time slot on HBO-C by Time-Warner Cable, thus documented this eighteenth day of the first month of the two-thousandth year of our Lord.
There isn’t much more to tell. There was a meeting of the Congress of Racial Equality; she was invited; she did not attend. That is according to Bill O’Reilly, who did attend.
She met with Sharpton because she decided that it was politically expedient. She knew that it was an easy spin.
I think she’s doing it because Giuliani has the rep of being a racist, and I’d be willing to bet a large number of minority voters would be willing to vote against him JUST to vote against him.
One must have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star. -Nietzche
I guess I don’t understand how any of this constitutes “playing the race card”. I don’t like Sharpton either. Hillary met with him. Big deal. Senate candidates meet with countless interest group representatives and they probably never remember half of them.
Any similarity in the above text to an English word or phrase is purely coincidental.
What she is doing, and I should have pointed this out, is pandering to the lowest possible person in this area on race issues. You’d have to know this guy to appreciate what a marginal character and race baiter he is.
Hillary is also inflaming a situation that has run smoothly for a while now. She just doesn’t know the landscape here in NY.
Things are not what they seem to be; nor are they otherwise.
[lankavatara Sutra]
Al Sharpton is a divisive, muck raking, clownish, race instigator and her meeting with him gives him credibility and the forum he craves. He is to race relations what gasoline is to fire.
Things are not what they seem to be; nor are they otherwise.
[lankavatara Sutra]
“Sherlock Holmes once said that once you have eliminated the
impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be
the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.
The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it that the merely improbable lacks.”
– Douglas Adams’s Dirk Gently, Holistic Detective
Hillary has a reputation for being involved in Foster’s death and the cover up afterwards. Does that mean she did have somethhing to do with it? She has a reputation for being dishonest - Rose Law Firm billing, commodty futures. Is she? Hillary also has a reputation for being a lesbian. Does that mean she is one?
Reputations are not always built on fact.
Things are not what they seem to be; nor are they otherwise.
[lankavatara Sutra]
Actually, in the last Mayor’s race, Sharpton got 126,799 votes , or 32%, in the democratic primary, forcing a runoff against Ruth “the only person in the world more annoying than Mark Green” Messinger. He also got the endorsement of El Diario, NY’s largest Spanish newspaper.
And that is why any serious democratic candidate in NY has to put a clothespin on the nose and go kiss Sharpton’s ring.