Topic subject Hillary Clinton tells ABC NEWS: racial accusations "baseless and divisive"

Bravo Sen. Clinton!--Hit em hard--


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Topic subject Hillary Clinton tells ABC NEWS: racial accusations "baseless and divisive"
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4039154, Hillary Clinton tells ABC NEWS: racial accusations "baseless and divisive"
Posted by Herman Munster on Fri Jan-11-08 09:10 PM

Obama supporters really screwed the pooch on this one. Hillary will not take being called a racist lying down.

http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com /

In turn, the Clinton campaign has accused the Obama campaign of artificially ginning up the controversy. Clinton aides seized on reports that an Obama press aide, in response to a research query from a prominent activist, included remarks by the Clintons in a compilation of racially insensitive remarks. Hillary Clinton said the accusations about her comments were "baseless and divisive," ABC News reported tonight.


Edited to add Hillary comments

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=4122927&page=1

"Well, I think its regrettable because both of these accusations are baseless and divisive and any fair reading of what both of us said would be clear and I think it's regrettable that these are being in a way used to try to divide people in our country during this election and I'm not going to have any part of it," Clinton told ABC News. "I personally find it offensive."

"You know," she continued, "I was inspired by Dr. King when I was a young girl. I considered him one of my heroes, a global symbol, an icon of everything that is the best about America and he worked his entire life to make the changes that we enjoy today so I hope that this kind of unfortunate political activity really just ceases because I don't think this is what we want this election to be about."

Clinton made her comments to ABC's Eloise Harper while campaigning in East Los Angeles, Calif. She was asked if comments she made about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and remarks her husband made about Obama receiving "fairy-tale" treatment from the press might hurt her standing with African Americans.