:eek3:, "Hillary Clinton has never done nothing for us," said Sharpton

7960 · 03-19-2008, 12:28 PM

Between this

"I said, 'I'm gonna do whatever I gotta do to help you. Hillary Clinton has never done nothing for us,'" said Sharpton, recounting a conversation with Obama for his followers at his group's weekly rally.

and this

"'I won't either endorse you or not endorse you,'" Sharpton said he told the Illinois senator as the two made their way to a Nov. 29 dinner at Sylvia's Restaurant in Harlem. "'But I will tell you I can be freer not endorsing you to help you and everybody else.'"

It appears Sharpton is listening. With the kind of media whore he is, I'm surprised. But then again he managed to get his name in the paper for refusing to not endorse or endorse someone, so maybe his media whore title should stand.

Now my point........from '92 to '99 clintons could count on black support. Hell, bill opened an office in harlem! What did hillary do to lose that support so quickly?

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Phantom · 03-19-2008, 12:32 PM

Hillary Clinton doesn't care about black people ?

bheld · 03-19-2008, 12:41 PM

Hillary lost the black vote when she started using republican tactics to turn race into a wedge issue.

JaJae · 03-19-2008, 12:57 PM

Hillary Clinton is an empty suit pretending to be the most qualified person to ever run for president.

Look at what Laura Bush has done as First Lady:
Laura Bush - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

She's done just as much as Hillary Clinton. Is she just as qualified to be in the White House? How about Eliot Spitzer's wife? Is she now more qualified to be in the White House?

People were willing to suck it up and go along with her delusions as long as she didn't offend them and looked like she could win the primary and the national election. But the reality is she's been way too divisive and she's pushed buttons people didn't want pushed; especially for her self-serving interests at the detriment of their party, liberals and others. Al Sharpton is a media whore without a doubt, and with a black person running for president he has to get his punches in whenever he can.

But I think he's just saying what he's always been thinking. So many people go along with Hillary's delusions, but I think most people realize she's full of it when she starts talking about experience and getting results. When it's politically beneficial to them to go along pretending like a kid in Peter Pan thinking happy thoughts, they will. But when she goes against their interests they have no problems calling her out on it.

7960 · 03-19-2008, 01:14 PM

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It's just that bill owned the black vote. I can't wrap my head around how hillary fucked that up so bad so quickly.

RMNIXON · 03-19-2008, 06:46 PM

Sharpton is back peddling. On Fox today he said he was talking about his organization in New York. He now sheepishly says he will support Obama as a candidate but will endorse and campaign for whoever wins. In other words they still fear Hillary will pull this off and leave him and Rev Jesse out in the cold!

nbiggershaft · 03-19-2008, 08:23 PM

Originally Posted by 7960

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It's just that bill owned the black vote. I can't wrap my head around how hillary fucked that up so bad so quickly.

she's running against a front-running black candidate

7960 · 03-19-2008, 11:30 PM

Originally Posted by nbiggershaft

she's running against a front-running black candidate

I kind of get that. But I'm also seeing that black voters aren't going to obama because he's black, they're going away from hillary because she's, well, hillary. It's something I never would have guessed.

JaJae · 03-19-2008, 11:58 PM

Originally Posted by 7960

I kind of get that. But I'm also seeing that black voters aren't going to obama because he's black, they're going away from hillary because she's, well, hillary. It's something I never would have guessed.

That's right, initially Hillary had the black vote. But as time went on they ran from her like the plague. This was partly due to the realization that they had a viable black candidate, Bill Clinton's absurd remarks, and the hope that Obama will do more for the black community than Clinton did. The blacks loved Clinton, but he really didn't do all that much for them. Bill basically utilized the same three part strategy most Democratic politicians use regarding blacks... promise them the world, get their votes and then forget they exist. I think they're hoping that a black president might not do the same.