SD> Typical liberal politician: when all else fails, blame skin
 SD> color!

 Blame skin color for what? It would be absurd to deny there is
 some racial antagonism.

 ...

 SD> WASHINGTON — House Assistant Democratic Leader Jim Clyburn,
 SD> the highest-ranking African-American in Congress, on
 SD> Wednesday blamed most of President Barack Obama's political
 SD> problems on racism.

 No, he didn't. I suggest you read the transcript. He did not
 specify political. If you read it, what he specifically
 references is not political at all. They are personal attacks.

 **************************************************************************

  Clyburn protests article on Obama, race

  By JAMES ROSEN
  McClatchy Newspapers


    U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn objected Thursday to coverage of his
    views on the impact of President Barack Obama's race on
    assessments of the president's performance in the White
    House.

    ...

    In his letter, Clyburn noted his interview hadn't been
    arranged to discuss the influence of Obama's race as the
    first black president.

    'there were four people in the room when McClatchy reporter
    Jim Rosen came to interview me regarding my position on the
    Vice President's deficit-reduction committee," Clyburn wrote
    in the letter.

    Clyburn answered questions about his role on that panel for
    15 minutes. The interview then turned to several other
    issues, which he addressed without objection.

    Clyburn was asked for his views on Obama's re-election
    prospects. After saying "They're improving every day,"
    Clyburn said Obama had "been a good president, a great
    commander in chief."

    Without any prompting or further questioning, Clyburn then
    brought up Obama's race. Clyburn said "the president's
    problems are in large measure because of his skin color."

    In his letter, Clyburn didn't retract or otherwise repudiate
    anything he was quoted as saying.

    "I do believe President Obama faces challenges other
    presidents have not due to the color of his skin," Clyburn
    wrote in his letter to the editor. "To think otherwise, I
    believe is naive and fails to consider our nation's historic
    struggle on the issue of race. But it's not the only issue
    that defines him, or the only issue for which I relate to
    him."

       *PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT*

    A transcript of the relevant portion of the McClatchy interview
    Wednesday with U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-Columbia:

    ... I'm 70 years old. And I can tell you; people don't like
    to deal with it, but the fact of the matter is, the
    president's problems are in large measure because of his skin
    color. All you got to do is look at all the signs they're
    carrying out there and look at the mail that I get. As I
    said, I'm 70 years old, I been going through this kind of
    stuff all my life. I know what kind of mail I get, I know
    what kind of phone calls I get, I know what people are saying
    who call the office.

    QUESTION: How does that relate to the president?

    CLYBURN: We have the same skin color; that's how it relates to him.

    QUESTION: So they're willing to say these things to you, you're a
    congressman, they're maybe not as willing to say them as directly to
    the president?

    CLYBURN: Well, who said that? I'll tell you about the president. The
    president can read. I read the (unintelligible), he can read the
    same (unintelligible) as I'm reading. When he sees his face being
    put on a chimpanzee's body, do you think he didn't see that? And I
    suspect they send the same faxes to his office they send to mine.

    QUESTION: Do you agree with his decision to release his full-form
    birth certificate?

    CLYBURN: Well, yeah, I agree with that. I don't know why anybody
    didn't ask for John McCain's. He wasn't even born in this country.
    Nobody asked for his birth certificate.


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        Reserved. http://www.thestate.com

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 ...

 SD> Clyburn, who met his wife at a 1960 court hearing after
 SD> spending a night in jail for having engaged in a civil
 SD> rights protest in Orangeburg, S.C., then brought up Obama's
 SD> race as the first black president.

 SD> "You know, I'm 70 years old," he said. "And I can tell you;
 SD> people don't like to deal with it, but the fact of the
 SD> matter is, the president's problems are in large measure
 SD> because of the color of his skin."

 That portion is obviously taken out of context, as you can see
 above.

    ...

 SD> Marilyn Davenport, a member of the Orange County Republican
 SD> Central Committee in California, forwarded an email to
 SD> friends last month that displayed a photograph of a
 SD> chimpanzee with Obama's face superimposed on its head.

 SD> In response to the immediate uproar, Davenport apologized
 SD> but rebuffed demands from the California NAACP that she
 SD> resign her GOP post.

 SD> Clyburn suggested that the "birther" movement of Americans
 SD> who say Obama wasn't born in the United States is fueled by
 SD> racism.

 This is also clearly distorted. You can see, above. Rosen asked
 about the birth certificate. Clyburn did not even mention race.
 Though ascribing it all to race would not be far fetched either.
 George Romney was born in Mexico, not on a US military base, but
 nobody asked for his birth certificate when he tried running for
 president.

 SD> "I don't know why anybody didn't ask for John McCain's"
 SD> birth certificate, Clyburn said. "He wasn't even born in
 SD> this country."

 SD> The Republican senator from Arizona, whom Obama defeated in
 SD> the 2008 presidential election, was born at the Coco Solo
 SD> Naval Air Station in the Panama Canal Zone, where his
 SD> father served as an officer who'd later become an admiral
 SD> and commander of the U.S. Pacific Command.

 Then authored the report that let Israel off the hook for the
 attack on the Liberty, but that's another matter.

 SD> White House spokesman Adam Abrams declined to comment on
 SD> Clyburn's remarks.

 SD> Clyburn said he agreed with the president's decision last
 SD> month to release his long-form birth certificate from

 And this is out of order. This came before the above remarks
 about Obama's birth certificate and McCain's.

 ...

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