The latest pattern with the Clintons seems to be getting airtime for some
of their
outrageous/outlandish claims against their "enemies" and then explaining
what they
really meant to gain additional airtime. Remember Bill's eight years in
office? It
was a lot like this. Do people really want another eight years?.....AAC
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:30:16 -0500, "Patriot Games" <Patriot@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
>http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/edwards/2008/01/13/63982.html
>
>Edwards Criticizes Clinton Comments
>
>Sunday, January 13, 2008
>
>SUMTER, S.C. -- Democrat John Edwards on Sunday waded into a dispute
between
>his rivals, criticizing comments by Hillary Rodham Clinton and her
husband
>that some have considered disparaging to Barack Obama and black people
>generally.
>
>"I must say I was troubled recently to see a suggestion that real change
>that came not through the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King but through a
>Wa****ngton politician. I fundamentally disagree with that," Edwards told
>more than 200 people gathered at a predominantly black Baptist church.
>
>Sen. Hillary Clinton recently was quoted as saying King's dream of racial
>equality was realized only when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the
Civil
>Rights Act of 1964, while Bill Clinton said Obama was telling a "fairly
>tale" about his opposition to the Iraq war.
>
>Edwards did not name either of the Clintons in his speech, but turned the
>argument back on them.
>
>"Those who believe that real change starts with Wa****ngton politicians
have
>been in Wa****ngton too long and are living a fairy tale," he said.
>
>Speaking in his native South Carolina, where he hopes to win the
Democratic
>presidential primary on Jan. 26, Edwards said he was pleased with the
civil
>rights progress that's been made in the South and lauded Obama, an
Illinois
>senator.
>
>"As someone who grew up in the segregated South, I feel an enormous
amount
>of pride when I see the success that Senator Barack Obama is having in
this
>campaign," said Edwards. He the added, with a laugh: "Some days I wish he
>was having a little less success."
>
>Obama won the first contest in Iowa, and finished second last week in New
>Hamp****re. Edwards placed second in Iowa, third in New Hamp****re.
>
>A former North Carolina senator and trial lawyer, Edwards ran for
president
>in 2004 and earned his only primary victory in this state. He was helped
by
>black voter, who made up nearly half the primary ballots cast. But this
time
>around, those votes appear to be heading either to Obama, who is vying to
>become the nation's fist black president, or Clinton, whose husband's
>presidency is remembered fondly in the black community, surveys show.
>
>Edwards, who is touring the state by bus and hoping to again appeal to
black
>voters with his populist, working-class message, told the congregation
that
>the work of the civil rights activists needs to continue.
>
>"We are not being true to ourselves or the heroes ... if we do not
continue
>this journey to bring about real change," he said. "Real change started
in
>churches just like this. What the election is about is about building one
>America."
>
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