Bill Clinton told Ted Kennedy that Obama'would be getting us coffee'a few years ago: 'Game Change'

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

Bill Clinton helped sink his wife's chances for an endorsement from Ted Kennedy by belittling Barack Obama as nothing but a race-based candidate.

"A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee," the former president told the liberal lion from Massachusetts, according to the gossipy new campaign book, "Game Change."

The book says Kennedy was deeply offended and recounted the conversation to friends with fury.

After Kennedy sided with Obama, Clinton reportedly griped, "the only reason you are endorsing him is because he's black. Let's just be clear."

The revelations in "Game Change" are guaranteed to reopen the 2008 Clinton racial wounds that had been scabbing over amid his post-election public silence and his wife's high marks as Secretary of State.

Laden with potent pass-the-torch symbolism, the January 2008 endorsement of Obama by Kennedy and his niece, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg was a pivotal campaign moment that allowed the Democratic establishment to abandon the Clintons.

Bill Clinton wasn't the only one to bungle handling the Kennedys - the book says Hillary Clinton managed to alienate Caroline by fobbing off a key request on staff instead of calling personally.

When a group of prominent New Yorkers headed to Iowa to campaign for Hillary Clinton, Caroline "dreaded" getting a call to join them because she "would have found it impossible to refuse," the book says.

When Hillary Clinton's staffer called, someone "who sounded awfully like" Caroline said she wasn't home.

Bill Clinton, whose stock with black voters was so high he used to be referred to as "America's First Black President," severely damaged his rep in his overheated drive to help elect his wife.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2...l#ixzz0cKiGGBSH

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Bill Clinton helped sink his wife's chances ...

Yes, he did.

Thanks Bill!

[Nagishkaw 510]

Let the dead bury the dead.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

I like my coffee with cream and sugar. The lighter the better.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Where's the double standard?

[Ban Hammer 13,877]

I like my coffee with cream and sugar. The lighter the better.

lightweight. i like my coffee like i like my women. black, strong, and not sweet at all.

[Nagishkaw 510]

I like my men like my brand of coffee....Choc Full o' Nuts. 'Tis the heavenly coffee.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

lightweight. i like my coffee like i like my women. black, strong, and not sweet at all.

If I disagree with your choice of coffee am I considered a racist?

[Ban Hammer 13,877]

If I disagree with your choice of coffee am I considered a racist?

absolutely!

[mawilson 2,133]

Where's the double standard?

Presumably a Democrat can get away with racist commentary, whereas a Republican

would have been branded a racist and forced out of his job.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Yeah I've heard that old chestnut. I think its a BS kneejerk thing people say to make themselves feel that they are being somehow victimized.

[Scott & Lai 12]

Yeah I've heard that old chestnut. I think its a BS kneejerk thing people say to make themselves feel that they are being somehow victimized.

Of course, because double standards are mythological, like unicorns.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Merely saying it, doesn't mean that it is present.

What is evident to me is that:

1. Politicians say a lot of dodgy things in private. They aren't nice people - ambitious people in cutthroat careers usually aren't.

2. Racist policy is infinitely more important than racist rhetoric.

3. More attention is given to rhetoric than policy (ie. the thing that actually affects peoples lives).

4. The reason that more attention is given to these things is because a lot of people are whores to the machinery of partisanship, are told what is important by the mass media - and because they can't, or simply refuse to see the wood for the trees.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Ted Kennedy would have been having girls bring his booze (not coffee). He was no racist like Clinton.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Merely saying it, doesn't mean that it is present.

What is evident to me is that:

1. Politicians say a lot of dodgy things in private. They aren't nice people - ambitious people in cutthroat careers usually aren't.

2. Racist policy is infinitely more important than racist rhetoric.

3. More attention is given to rhetoric than policy (ie. the thing that actually affects peoples lives).

4. The reason that more attention is given to these things is because a lot of people are whores to the machinery of partisanship, are told what is important by the mass media - and because they can't, or simply refuse to see the wood for the trees.

Yeah, of course, unless you are a Republican like Trent Lott. But I am with you Gene, there is, and should be, NO TOLERANCE in the Republican party for racism, it is entirely (and always has been) the policy of the Democrat party and we should not do anything to remove racists and make them look better.