ontology.buffalo.edu - 12/13/2008
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Clinton as the First Black President
washingtonpost.com - 12/17/2008
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Emanuel Cleaver II - Obama Will Be the First Black ...
news.yahoo.com - 12/16/2008
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Former US President Bill Clinton (L) and his
daughter Chelsea Clinton listen to British Prime Minister Gordon...
Brown speaks at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) September 2008 in New York. Bill Clinton said he would back his wife Hillary if she ...
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Former US President Bill Clinton (L) and his daughter ...
chicagotribune.com - 12/13/2008
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Writer Toni Morrison famously dubbed Bill Clinton "the
first black president"—a title he fervently embraced. Abner Mikva,...
the Chicago Democratic Party stalwart and former Clinton White House counsel, offers a variation on that theme. "If Clinton was ...
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Barack Obama: The first Jewish president? -
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Chgo Trib: If Clinton Was 1st Black Prez, Obama is 1st Jewish Prez
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... But, this "first Jewish president" claim is the central foolishness here. In fact, to use Toni Morrison's example is not even an apropos comparison. In 1998, Morrison wasn't lauding Clinton as a "black" man as if he was the perfect representative of her fellows politically. It was no honorific. ...
Chgo Trib: If Clinton 1st Black Prez, Obama is 1st Jewish Prez
Stop The ACLU —
... . Any anti-Jewish sentiment that Obama has thus far shown in policy ideas and associates was given little notice by this Trib article in favor of the Jews pushing for The One. But, this “first Jewish president” claim is the central foolishness here. In fact, to use Toni Morrison’s example is not even an apropos comparison. In 1998, Morrison wasn’t lauding Clinton as a “black” man as if he was the perfect representative of her fellows politically. It was no honorific. Here’s the part in her piece in which she outlined why Clinton was “like” a black man in her opinion. ...
I’m not, not that there’s anything wrong with that
pandagon.net - we are the public option —
... admirer” was, or he doesn’t want you to know, or you might commit the greatest crime possible against wingnuttery, which is looking at a quote in context. Quotes are for taking out of context, in order to prop up illusions about an organized movement to oppress the white man. The admirer in question was Toni Morrison, and she wasn’t actually licking Clinton’s ass, as wingnuts would have you believe, but using metaphorical language, ...
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