Bill Clinton - "stealing cars" (re: Obama ad)

[ariesgem]

Run time: 00:40 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8xHgGc4zLM   Posted on YouTube: April 11, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: April 11, 2008 By DU Member: ariesgem Views on DU: 2058

 
Bill Clinton in a speech on 4/10/08 made a comment seen in the video about stealing cars.

[Zachstar]

1. A disgusting comment that hurts the democratic party in my view.

Shame on you Bill! How could you say such crap?!

Please Apologize ASAP!!

[raystorm7]

5. Black folks gonna eat this one up! To think we thought the Jesse Jackson Carolina comment was bad.

I would have liked to see the entire clip after he said the word "Cars", just so we don't start running to conclusions like the Republicans do and look at the whole speech in context.

[cloud75]

14. this is not being racist...only if you stereotype from what you see

in the movies will think this racist.

[Hugabear]

2. Oh, I'm sure once their pots-and-pans protest is done, they'll be in here to defend this

And they'll accuse US of starting an anti-Hillary thread by posting this video.

[bluestateguy]

3. Corporations are allowed to form PAC's to get around the 1907 campaign finance law

There is a very easy way around the law. Obama does not take money from such PAC's.

[Apollo11]

11. Thank-you for addressing the issue

Yours is a much better answer than saying that Hillary's husband is a racist, on the basis of taking small snippets of his comments completely out of context.

[dazzlerazzle]

4. two steps from oil to candidates

First they create a PAC, then they can legally move the money taken in to those loyal to their interests. It's easy when the audience he is in front of can't challenge what he says. www.opensecrets.org makes it easy to find.
http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/contrib.asp?Ind=E&cycle"2008

[MadAndy]

6. I dont like Slick and I do think he is a racist, but I dont see how this comment was racist.

[sasquatch]

7. Oooo.....Bill that wasn't a wise choice of words

[Zachstar]

16. In the least bit.

[odelisk8]

8. what

the hell is wrong with this man?

see...all his supporters are going to say, "oh, it wasn't meant to be racist."

ok...then WHAT THE HELL does it mean then? it just makes no sense...

hillary SHOULD say she's the only one in the race who doesn't get b jobs...

[crankychatter]

9. there he goes again - with the racially tinged imagery

putting out the image of "rooty poot, fast talkin, light skinned hustler"

Jackin Cars image now.... great Bill... so how much money you get for running your damn mouth?

[Apollo11]

10. IN CONTEXT this has NOTHING to do with race.

It is very clear from the clip that Bill Clinton is making the point that it is kind of sneaky for a candidate to claim that he does not take any money from oil companies, almost implying that maybe one of the other candidates (i.e. Hillary Clinton) does accept money from oil companies - when it would be illegal to do so.

So Bill's point is clear: "What's the deal with running ads that say I don't do X -- when X is illegal anyway?"

[thereismore]

12. That's good spin, but knowing Bill's history in this campaign, I am not giving him a pass. nt

[Hugabear]

18. Then he could have used a better example

Instead of saying "At least I don't steal cars" - which any reasonable person could construe as having a racial element to it - how about something like "At least I don't eat babies" or "At least I'm not a serial killer"?

[Eric Condon]

13. Taken in conjunction with the Jesse Jackson comment, this is starting to look like a pattern.

He might not have intended it to be racist, but in light of all the other race-baiting Hillary's campaign has openly engaged in (and the fact that they've been called on it), you'd THINK he'd choose his words more carefully.

This latest slip-up definitely smacks of this: http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1147

[JimboDem]

15. 'Pump Head' ?

A study from Duke University, published in the New England Journal of Medicine in February, 2001, confirms what many doctors have suspected, but have been reluctant to discuss with their patients: A substantial proportion of patients after coronary artery bypass surgery experience measurable impairment in their mental capabilities. In the surgeons’ locker room, this phenomenon (not publicized for obvious reasons) has been referred to as "pump head." http://heartdisease.about.com/cs/bypasssurgery/a/pumphead.htm

[Zachstar]

17. Bumping this up due to recent comments by Bill.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5615341