Typical liberal politician: when all else fails, blame skin
color!

Blame skin color for what? It would be absurd to deny there is
some racial antagonism.

...

WASHINGTON ù House Assistant Democratic Leader Jim Clyburn,
the highest-ranking African-American in Congress, on
Wednesday blamed most of President Barack Obama's political
problems on racism.

No, he didn't. I suggest you read the transcript. He did not
specify political. If you read it, what he specifically
references is not political at all. They are personal attacks.

**************************************************************************

Clyburn protests article on Obama, race

By JAMES ROSEN
McClatchy Newspapers


U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn objected Thursday to coverage of his
views on the impact of President Barack Obama's race on
assessments of the president's performance in the White
House.

...

In his letter, Clyburn noted his interview hadn't been
arranged to discuss the influence of Obama's race as the
first black president.

'there were four people in the room when McClatchy reporter
Jim Rosen came to interview me regarding my position on the
Vice President's deficit-reduction committee," Clyburn wrote
in the letter.

Clyburn answered questions about his role on that panel for
15 minutes. The interview then turned to several other
issues, which he addressed without objection.

Clyburn was asked for his views on Obama's re-election
prospects. After saying "They're improving every day,"
Clyburn said Obama had "been a good president, a great
commander in chief."

Without any prompting or further questioning, Clyburn then
brought up Obama's race. Clyburn said "the president's
problems are in large measure because of his skin color."

In his letter, Clyburn didn't retract or otherwise repudiate
anything he was quoted as saying.

"I do believe President Obama faces challenges other
presidents have not due to the color of his skin," Clyburn
wrote in his letter to the editor. "To think otherwise, I
believe is naive and fails to consider our nation's historic
struggle on the issue of race. But it's not the only issue
that defines him, or the only issue for which I relate to
him."

*PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT*

A transcript of the relevant portion of the McClatchy interview
Wednesday with U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-Columbia:

... I'm 70 years old. And I can tell you; people don't like
to deal with it, but the fact of the matter is, the
president's problems are in large measure because of his skin
color. All you got to do is look at all the signs they're
carrying out there and look at the mail that I get. As I
said, I'm 70 years old, I been going through this kind of
stuff all my life. I know what kind of mail I get, I know
what kind of phone calls I get, I know what people are saying
who call the office.

QUESTION: How does that relate to the president?

CLYBURN: We have the same skin color; that's how it relates to him.

QUESTION: So they're willing to say these things to you, you're a
congressman, they're maybe not as willing to say them as directly to
the president?

CLYBURN: Well, who said that? I'll tell you about the president. The
president can read. I read the (unintelligible), he can read the
same (unintelligible) as I'm reading. When he sees his face being
put on a chimpanzee's body, do you think he didn't see that? And I
suspect they send the same faxes to his office they send to mine.

QUESTION: Do you agree with his decision to release his full-form
birth certificate?

CLYBURN: Well, yeah, I agree with that. I don't know why anybody
didn't ask for John McCain's. He wasn't even born in this country.
Nobody asked for his birth certificate.


⌐ 2011 TheState.com and wire service sources. All Rights
Reserved. http://www.thestate.com

**************************************************************************

...

Clyburn, who met his wife at a 1960 court hearing after
spending a night in jail for having engaged in a civil
rights protest in Orangeburg, S.C., then brought up Obama's
race as the first black president.

"You know, I'm 70 years old," he said. "And I can tell you;
people don't like to deal with it, but the fact of the
matter is, the president's problems are in large measure
because of the color of his skin."

That portion is obviously taken out of context, as you can see
above.

...

Marilyn Davenport, a member of the Orange County Republican
Central Committee in California, forwarded an email to
friends last month that displayed a photograph of a
chimpanzee with Obama's face superimposed on its head.

In response to the immediate uproar, Davenport apologized
but rebuffed demands from the California NAACP that she
resign her GOP post.

Clyburn suggested that the "birther" movement of Americans
who say Obama wasn't born in the United States is fueled by
racism.

This is also clearly distorted. You can see, above. Rosen asked
about the birth certificate. Clyburn did not even mention race.
Though ascribing it all to race would not be far fetched either.
George Romney was born in Mexico, not on a US military base, but
nobody asked for his birth certificate when he tried running for
president.

"I don't know why anybody didn't ask for John McCain's"
birth certificate, Clyburn said. "He wasn't even born in
this country."

The Republican senator from Arizona, whom Obama defeated in
the 2008 presidential election, was born at the Coco Solo
Naval Air Station in the Panama Canal Zone, where his
father served as an officer who'd later become an admiral
and commander of the U.S. Pacific Command.

Then authored the report that let Israel off the hook for the
attack on the Liberty, but that's another matter.

White House spokesman Adam Abrams declined to comment on
Clyburn's remarks.

Clyburn said he agreed with the president's decision last
month to release his long-form birth certificate from

And this is out of order. This came before the above remarks
about Obama's birth certificate and McCain's.

...

⌐ 2011 TheState.com and wire service sources. All Rights
Reserved. http://www.thestate.com


BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

... Race is an idea whose time has passed. <New People Magazine>
--- Via Silver Xpress V4.5/P [Reg]
* Origin: Since 1991 And Were Still Here! DOCSPLACE.TZO.COM (1:123/140)