And here the final proof that Hillary Clinton is indeed shameless and will stop at nothing in her ill-fated quest for the office of President of the
For someone who has been in the public eye for over 35 years (or as she claims it has over 35 years of experience), Mrs. Clinton above all others knew what the appropriate answer to the line of questioning she was being subjected to during her interview. This is not a case where she can claim ignorance - she's out campaigning and she is aware of at least two incidents where her staffers were accused of fostering clearly inaccurate racial overtones into the current campaign. By not definitively shutting down that line of questioning, she leaves the door open to those on the fringe and others who need actually no motivation for their un-abiding hatred for anyone who is "different" or not "like them".
All that could have been alleviated by an appropriate answer. It is telling how quickly during the last debate that she emphatically insisted that Senator Obama repudiate Minister Louis Farrakhan. She made a point of making him publicly reject and denounce (double negative - anyone?) the minister on live television.
John McClain for all his issues IMMEDIATELY rejected comments made by a radio talk show host - Bill Cunningham
This coming from the "terribly bad and horrible republican candidate - one for whom we all should be shuddering in terror of the "vetting" that he will aim directly at Senator Obama come this fall - he had the understanding to know that he needed to outright reject the overtly racist behavior of someone seeking to perpetuate and encourage fears of Barack "Hussein" Obama as being some sort of secret terrorist by virtue of his middle name being Obama.
How then is it, that Mrs. Clinton could be unaware the ramifications of her responses to the questions posed to her. More importantly - an opportunity for her to display some of the "leadership skills" she is trying to lay claim to by setting an example of how that kind of questioning is not and will not be tolerated and instead she half answered her way out of it.
People it is not cool to do whatever it takes to advance yourself. This is one of the concepts that is destroying this country. That and racism. Hillary Clinton displayed complete irresponsibility in answering those questions in the manner in which she did. So reprehensible is the idea that she of all people knows all too well the truth of Senator Obama's religious beliefs and chose NOT to emphatically deny rumors, but signaled by the way she answered that it was ok for those kinds of questions to be asked in the first place.
ON SNL one night, on 60 minutes the next night feeding into rumors about Senator Obama's religious beliefs and or the possibility that he might be Muslim and therefore not elect able based on that?
Not a day goes by that I don't lose more and more respect for this woman and the kind of campaign that she is running. I have already lost all respect for her husband Bill but that was lost long ago when he was impeached for lying to congress about having a sexual affair with an intern. I think I and most women can stop feeling sorry for Hillary right now as being the "wronged woman." In this case the two of them deserve each other.
Birds of a feather definitely do flock together.
For those confused minds out there:
The TRUTH about Senator Obama and the American Flag Issue
THE TRUTH ABOUT SENATOR OBAMA'S RELIGIOUS BELIEFS
BARACK OBAMA and FAITH
Barack Obama is a committed and active Christian. He has been a member of the Trinity United Church of Christ in