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Roland, Your remarks about Bill Clinton on CNN continue to amaze and disgust me. Your shallow understanding of who he is and what he has done indicate so much about your lack of political education, practical experience and knowledge. You would be a terrible campaign manager or political consultant because you look at everything from a Black perspective rather than a pragmatic perspective. Moreover, you would be a horrible legislator and/or executive. Bill Clinton told it the way it was regarding Jesse Jackson and South Carolina and you and your chattering cohorts turned him into a raging KKK'er and you are all still playing that game. You are on the verge of causing him to tell Obama and the Democratic party to kiss his ass. I wouldn't blame him....and it is not just because Hillary didn't win the Dem nomination that he pissed and disgusted. I am disgusted too and I was a Ralph Yarborough Democrat without "prefix, suffix or apology" before you were born and I'll probably be one long after you grow weary of the scene. You do know that Bill will probably never run for office again but if he did (for US Senator or governor or whatever, he wold win and have the last word. Hillary was totally correct in giving LBJ a lions share of credit for getting voting right, civil right and open housing through a house and senate committee system controlled by southerm senators and congressmen. You really should know that for all the great things he did, Martin L. King had no sway with the southern committee chairs in the House and Senate. He had no way of getting a bill in, much less out of, a committee and onto the floor of either body for a vote on. That is where the politician, LBJ, came in. It was he who bargained and dealt those important bills through the congress and on to his desk, not because he needed MLK but because the nation and MLK and all MLK represented needed him. I can tell you a very interesting story about how he worked that legislation through the congress from first hand experience if you are interested. Contrary to what Jamal Simmons said, LBJ did a helluva lot more than just sign the bills. Hillary was right and y'all made it look like she was right beside the killer of MLK in Memphis after all was said and done. That was ignorant, stupid and totally exposed your lack of knowledge regarding the legislation LBJ worked through congress which made it possible for Obama to be where he is today. Geraldine Ferrero told it the way it was and is by saying that Obama was having success in the primary process because it was the best and right time for a Black candidate with the characteristics of Obama to be running given the rules of the election and caucus process and given the demographics of the Democratic party primary voters in significant and important primary states. Again, you and yours painted her with that racist brush and you lost her and many of her friends forever. You and yours tried to do that with Biden when he called Obama clean and articulate. He meant it as a major compliment that could hardly have been paid to some of the white candidates in the primary race. You and some of yours did all you could to nullify him from that point on. That was idiotic and very counter-productive in the short and long term. You and yours seem to think you have licence to play the race card with impunity if anyone else even says the word "black" in a context that isn't totally pleasing to you from your very narrow perspective but you rarely speak out when Black people use the "N" word. Is that a lack of character or courage on your part? The "N" word is out of place from any lips..black, white, brown, yellow or mixed. I know you are an "Aggie" but that is no excuse. Well, I guess it could be. You, Jamal and a few others of the chattering class from the right and left need to grow up, politically pragmatically speaking. At least you need to learn what political and intellectual pragmatism means. You and some of your Black chatterers are Obama's worst enemies. With friends like you and some of the others I have in mind who are always on CNN & MSNBC every friggin' day, Obama doesn't need any enemies. Harley Spoon 12304 Owl Cove Austin, Texas harleyspoon@yahoo.com 512 250 1775..you can call collect

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Any person of color with an iota of self esteem should consider Affirmative Action as INSULTING. As for AIDS as it effects anyone, Black or otherwise, the answer is responsibility. Your atatement is pure and simply old fashioned 'reliance upon the Government to help and solve what you create upon yourself', typical.