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Monday, 05 March 2007
Pandering in Selma

Hillary, Obama Fulfill Dr. King's Dream in Selma
Scott Ott

(2007-03-05) — During yesterday's commemoration of the 42nd anniversary of the Bloody Sunday voting rights march through Selma, Alabama, Sen. Hillary Clinton and presidential rival Sen. Barack Obama each told the congregation of an African-American church that they represented the fulfillment of Dr. Martin Luther King's prophetic “I Have a Dream” speech. ...

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Pandering in Selma
Michelle Malkin

Drudge is headlining Hillary's new Southern twang adopted during a speech in Selma, Alabama to commemorate Bloody Sunday. But even more noteworthy: Obama's truth-stretching speech the same day. Allah caught two truthy assertions by The Messiah:

1) His claim that a Kennedy-sponsored airlift in Africa was responsible for bringing the Obama family to the U.S.

2) His claim that events in Selma led to his parents getting together--and Obama being born.

Allah questions the timing.

1) JFK didn't take office until two years after Obama's arrived in the U.S.

2) Obama, Jr., was born four years before Bloody Sunday in Selma.

It's like the legend of Hillary-Sir Edmund Hilary all over again!

The New York Times helps Obama spin: ...

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Chicken-Fried Hillary
John Hinderaker

Hillary Clinton is taking a lot of grief for the awful Southern accent that she affected (some of the time, anyway) when speaking in Selma, Alabama over the weekend. Just for fun, listen to this brief audio clip of Hillary speaking, in her own voice, to the Human Rights Campaign, which came from the YouTube video Scott posted last night: [audio link]

Now compare it to excerpts of the same Senator Clinton speaking in Selma: [audio link]

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Hillary Running for Panderer in Chief

Posted by Bill Faith on March 5, 2007 at 11:14 AM in Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Politics | Permalink

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