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Date Posted: 11:18:49 12/23/02 Mon
Author: BFIH
Subject: Flotsam and Jetsom
In reply to: bfny 's message, "c'mon BFIH" on 09:09:22 12/23/02 Mon

Here's Hillary's remarks... as per the NY Post. I comment on some more things after the article...
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/27578.htm

HILL: REPUBLICANS
STILL HAVE LOTT OF
EXPLAINING TO DO

By CLEMENTE LISI
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SEN. CLINTON
Turns up heat.

December 21, 2002 -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday charged that Sen. Trent Lott is an example of the Republican Party's "constant exploitation of race" - and she dredged up accusations that President Bush played the race card during the 2000 presidential contest.
In her most heated remarks on the Lott debacle, Clinton warned she would not let the GOP "put this behind them" just because Lott resigned as majority leader.

"I mean, what [Lott] did was state publicly what many of them have stated privately over many years in the back roads and back streets of the South," she told Fox News Channel.

"I'm looking to see what kind of new leadership the Republican Party will have not in terms of names and faces, but in terms of commitment of equal justice under the law," Clinton said.

The former first lady ripped the Republican for suppressing the black vote in Arkansas and several other Southern states and using the Confederate flag to win elections in the South.

She even blasted Bush for allegedly playing the race card when he ran against Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) in the party's primaries in 2000.

The former first lady referred to leaflets that said McCain's wife adopted a "black baby" during a trip to Bangladesh. The Bush campaign denied any connection to the leaflets.

"The campaign for then-Gov. Bush in South Carolina had a huge outreach effort to say they [the McCain's] adopted a black baby," Clinton charged.

Some of Clinton's attacks on the GOP over Lott were almost identical to her husband's remarks two days ago. Bill Clinton said, "They try to suppress black voting, they ran on the Confederate flag in Georgia and South Carolina, and from top to bottom, the Republicans supported it."
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I guess maybe I'm just dumb, but I took what Lott said at face value. I don't belong to any kind of wild far right bring back the Confederacy style organizations so I'm not to up to speed on all that I guess. Of course I'm no power pundit in the Republican party either, I'm just a guy who doesn't even consider where he really has a party.

No doubt I lean Republican, but there are many aspects of the Party that rather disturb me -- for example, I understand Bush plans to cut aid to the poor and elderly to heat their homes - I type this as about a foot of snow is falling outside. Not good.

So with plenty of legitimate areas of criticism I'm not sure why Dems like Hillary and Bill go for what I consider to be the cheap shot instead of an issue with real meat that would resonate with the average American such as picture a little kid crying because Grandma froze to death.

As for Sharpton, his name comes up because I saw him on tv blasting Lott and you bet the subject of his Presidential run as a Democratic candidate came up during the course of the same show.

No doubt Sharpton was trying to USE Lott to get PR for himself and his run, but I didn't hear any prominent Democrat saying anything to separate the Democratic party from Sharpton's remarks.

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