Check this out, y’all. I just saw Bill Clinton on Larry King Live, and I think that Bill Clinton has got this whole race thing figured out perfectly. That man is a genius when it comes to figuring out social issues that involve real people. I was so excited to hear a respected Democrat articulate the race issue so perfectly, that I took the time to write down what he said verbatim.
“I believe that some of the right wing extremists who oppose president Obama are also racially prejudiced and would prefer not to have an African American president. But I don’t believe that all the people who oppose him on health care and all the conservatives are racist. And I believe if he were white, every single person who opposes him now would be opposing him then. I understand why it was frustrating with Joe Wilson because the congressman was from south Carolina and south Carolina is noted in the republican party for having other racist issues but I really think that we should desegregate lingering problems of discrimination from the attacks to which the president is subject. The ones that have an obvious racial overtone, you can see that’s coming from an extreme right winger who also has racial prejudice. I respect President Carter for his concern on this, but I think there is no wrong or right on this. I think that if you are a white southerner, and you’ve been involved as long as jimmy carter has, if civil rights was essentially the cause of your life that drove you into politics, you’re exceedingly sensitive to anything that sound racially prejudiced. But if you’re president, you have to be exceedingly sensitive to the fact that not everybody who disagrees with you on health care has a racist bone in their body. some of the extremists do, but most of them don’t. Let me put it this way. If Barack Obama were a white president I believe virtually 100% of the people who oppose him on health care today would oppose him on health care anyway. So I don’t want to say that president carter is wrong about there being some still racial prejudice involved in the opponents of president Obama. But this fight is a fight which would exist no matter what the color of his skin is because of the; look what happened in 93 and 94 to me. The right has never wanted; they didn’t want medicare, they didn’t want Medicaid, they didn’t want children’s health care programs, they didn’t want social security.”
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