Posted by Damozel | Don't get me wrong. In my opinion --- and as a Clinton supporter, I followed the exchanges extremely closely while they were happening--- Bill Clinton has every right to be angry about the way Hillary was treated by the Obama campaign. I don't think his anger is productive, mind you; and I think he is undermining Hillary's chances. But if Hillary values her political career, she needs to give Bill a time out.
Hillary, as a mature woman, knows the best way to prove someone wrong is just to prove them wrong. You don't get there by sulking in your tent or complaining; you get there by rising above the slurs and gossip, as Clinton-supporter and lifelong civil rights activist Maya Angelou advised Hillary to do in this poem. Bill used to know how to rise above the fray. Why isn't he doing it now?
To accuse someone of being a racist -- a vile thing for a person to be --- is, by definition, to accuse them of vileness. It is a grave insult. It seems to be these allegations that are fueling Bill Clinton's outrage and wounded feelings. Most of us would feel just the same.
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