WSJ: Clinton Used Expletive In 'Unpleasant' Conversation With Clyburn

From a story in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal:

Among the party leaders Mr. Clinton alienated over time by his angry tirades was South Carolina's Rep. Jim Clyburn, the third-ranking House leader and a civil-rights-movement veteran.

Before South Carolina's primary, Mr. Clyburn admonished Sen. Clinton for suggesting President Johnson deserved more credit than Martin Luther King Jr. for civil-rights laws. On primary night, Mr. Clinton called Mr. Clyburn and they spoke for 50 minutes. "Let's just say it wasn't pleasant," Mr. Clyburn says.

Mr. Clinton called Mr. Clyburn an expletive, say Democrats familiar with the exchange. Mr. Clyburn's office would confirm only that the former president used "offensive" words. Some day soon, the congressman says, he'll write about the incident. On Tuesday, he endorsed Mr. Obama for president.

Comments

[Illinoissuburbanvoter]

I think Bill Clinton has finally lost his mind!

He has completely alienated the African American community and become a complete moron.

I can't wait for Clyburn to write his book so we can see the "true" side of Bill and Hillary Clinton.

Ambition is one thing, but pathological narcissism is another!

[TIMLHOWE]

oh another "deep thought" from another Obama "scholar".­..

DEEP!

[Illinoissuburbanvoter]

THANK YOU!!!

[JackLivigni]

Sad. O-bama needs to walk carefully because these people are not in it for the party.

[zizyphus]

Are you deliberately inserting hyphens into Obama's name,and if so, why?

I noticed that other commenters had put hyphens in his name on other articles, and am wondering what it all means to those that are doing it.

[ggmome]

They have 'code words' to connotate their ilk!

[veritasexmachina]

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[levibatgirl]

Stop squinting Bill.

[Mogamboguru]

One of Hillary Clinton's biggest supporters, Governor Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania, gave an interview to the television station New York 1, in which he warned Clinton against bargaining for the vice presidential spot:

Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell - one of Hillary Clinton's strongest supporters - today warned her: "There's no bargaining. You don't bargain with the Presidential nominee. Even if you're Hillary Clinton and you have 18 million votes, you don't bargain."

Apparently, It IS possible to grow a brain and a spine at the same time.

Obama will unite the electorate of the Democratic Party for November 4th behind him one way or the other - but it will definitely be a way which he will go WITHOUT the company of the Clintons.

In six months from now, the Clintons will be a mere footnote in the history books.

Somebody tell the Clintons the following, please: The coming GE is NOT about them. It's about the USA.

Thank you for listening.

[luvienne]

Are the Clinton's gone ? YES OBAMA DID!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!­!!! Obama 08 God bless Obama and his family

[kellygrrrl]

plenty of folks are getting tired of being Held HilBilly Hostage

[kellygrrrl]

Karma's a B!tch Bill

[hoodrat]

grrrl, so true - SO TRUE!

[ggmome]

My Grandmother always said: "What goes around, comes around' ... And Back at ya, is a bitch!... Now there is a TRUE STORY!

[ebbtide]

Ah the saga of the becoming ever so impotent Clintons. They arrogantly thought they ruled forg etting about the lowly people, the common man, who are now tuned in to their crap, with computers and internet, and know more of the truth faster than the corporate media wishes to inflict upon them to sway them one way or the other.

Now they behave like screaming banshees in their death throes.

[HowietheScreamer]

Hmmm... an "explative­"... would that be... the N word?

[sandman323]

Very doubtful. You shouldn't make assumptions. If that were the case, Clyburn would have used it a long time ago.

Do you think it's possible that Clyburn could have used some "salty" language, as well?

[findingthetruth]

Bill has done this throughout the campaign with several other leaders. Some refuse to allow Bill to come at them with ---- THE "you know who I am" attitude. Several will spew later. Right NOW the "fright" is stll lingering.

[shroomingnewman]

bill called clyburn a popinjay. dem fightin' werds!

[useyourbrain]

Imagine using an expletive to a black man. Imagining someone using it in a private discussion between long time friends. I guess if you use an expletive to a black man that makes you racist. Hmmmmm. This was in January of 2008 -- why bring it up now.

As for LBJ getting the voting rights act passed, that's just what happened. If you think MLK did it alone then you are ignorant and stupid. Without LBJ twisting arms in Congress (like he was famous for), that act would not have been passed then. It certainly wouldn't have been passed in a Nixon administration. MLK did the ground work and brought attention of it to the public, which did affect the Congress but there was the POLITICAL force and will of LBJ that got it passed. There cannot even be a debate on this. If Clyburn got his undies in a bunch for stating the obvious then so be it -- or is that racist?

[hoodrat]

You are correct, LBJ got it passed - under duress from what the world was seeing, and the enormous movement that MLK created. Personally think if mainstream America did not get involved - it might've took much longer. In the Black community, it's commonly said a problem for Blacks is not an American problem till it crosses into the White community. So technically you are correct. Have to wonder how this would've played out, if White America did not step up against those injustices. Either way, those people did the right thing and I'm grateful.

[sector1463]

I think you mean the Civil Rights Act of 1964! And yes Johnson did his thing with Congress to get it passed! He was a master at that. But the biggest shame of all of that is that it took the assisination of Kennedy to make it happen. Both of these men worked very hard for civil rights. Let's not let revisionist historians forget their remarkable work or the sacrifices of this country that brought about this historic moment forty-four years later.

[Shadowmann1]

Yeah, that's right. It was LBJ moving swifly out of his high sense of morality. We can just forget about the many years of people being jailed, bombed, hanged, shot, beat, bitten by police dogs, fire hosed, marching, praying demanding, huge rallies on the mall in DC, legal battles, etc. Oh and before that several CENTURIES of slavery.

All of that was just a sidenote to LBJ's historic moment.

Read a book.

[RichLiberal]

It's understandable that Bill would be miffed at Clyburn for launching the Clintons are racists campaign:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sean-wilentz/james-clyburn-happy-to-pl_b_99320.html

Clyburn is an expert at reverse race-baiting. He did this before in the 2006 election:

http://www.reason.com/news/show/121218.html

This was probably the main reason Hillary lost the election in addition to the cross over republicans.

[prscnt1]

Hillary's supporters - the hardcore feminists who seem to forget that Hillary set on her duff for more than a month - adds up to less than two percent of the national vote. When you add the tirades of bill into the equation - and not forget of his adventures - I don't know how many would be left.

The real problem for Hillary is that she is a stand-in for Bill Clinton's third term.

[NTO08]

I think Bill was exactly right to do it...

[Independent voter]

Why?

[joeinvt]

Why?

Because Hillary was making an uncontroversial remark about the role of government in the implementation of social policy and was in no way disrespecting Martin Luther King, yet Clyburn cynically and disingenuously portrayed the comment as such on behalf of the Obama campaign.