Reverend Wright vs. Lani Guinier

[Cheney Killed Bambi]

I couldn't agree more:

Some of us remember how Lani Guinier, a long-time friend of HRC and WJC, was left twisting in the wind when the hounds of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy started baying. There's a stark contrast to how Obama treated his long-time friend Rev. Wright today. There was nothing that Prof. Guinier wrote that was half as controversial as anything that Rev. Wright said today, yet Obama went out of his way to place Wright's comments in a favorable context. Neither WJC nor HRC did anything similar for Guinier.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/3/18/125610/396/836/479190

[LSparkle]

1. Thanks for the reminder! Yes, I do recall that ...

It was a TERRIBLE start to the Clinton Administration and I'm afraid it presaged other
disappointments to come. Ran as a Democratic populist, governed as a Repug...

[Cheney Killed Bambi]

2. Yup

I wonder who Lani Guiner is supporting for President?

[LSparkle]

3. Yes, I do wonder ...

:)

[Liberal Veteran]

4. Not to mention Joycelyn Elders.....Clinton threw her under the bus for responding logically....

...to a question about masturbation as an alternative to more risky behaviors to stop the spread of HIV.

Another example of when the going got tough, the Clintons roll over.

[Eric J in MN]

5. Rev Wright isn't a nominee in need of Senate approval.

Completely different situation.

[Liberal Veteran]

6. What about Joycelyn Elders?

[Eric J in MN]

8. I didn't like how Jocelyn Elders was handled by the Clinton administration.

They should have quietly asked her to resign instead of publicly humiliating her by making a big deal out of something she said which sounds strange out-of-context.

[Liberal Veteran]

9. I disagree. They shouldn't have thrown her under the bus at all.

They caved. What she said wasn't wrong and they didn't stand up for her.

[redqueen]

7. I don't remember that...

thanks for the link, I'll give it a look.