I am appalled at the wholesale abandonment of the Clinton campaign by Black Americans. The Clintons have been working on issues of race and equality and health for minorities their entire public careers, and when they need support and an acknowledging vote, black folks are nowhere to be found.
1 - In March 1998, Bill Clinton paid the first visit to sub-Saharan Africa by a U.S. president in more than 20 years. The groundwork for Clinton's trip had already been accomplished by the recent highly successful visits of Hillary Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
2 - U.S. Department of State - President Clinton's Visit to Nigeria, Tanzania, and Egypt August 26 - 29, 2000.
3 - President Clinton visited six African nations July 17-23, 2005 to focus attention on the AIDS crisis in Africa and the fact that many nations are in peril, unless the epidemic can be reversed. Each day about 6,000 Africans die from AIDS, and another 11,000 are infected, according to the United Nations.
4 - Hillary wrote her Yale Law School thesis on the rights of children. She worked with underprivileged and abused children at the Yale-New Haven Hospital.
5 - "I am very glad that Miss Adams made it clear that what I am speaking for today is all of us -- the 400 of us". Opening words of her Wellesley College 1969 Student Commencement Speech
6 - SCHIP - President Clinton announced a plan to expand health coverage to as many as 5 million children in his 1997 State of the Union address. "The children's health program wouldn't be in existence today if we didn't have Hillary pushing for it from the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue," Kennedy told The Associated Press.
7 - The Clinton administration enabled the most powerful successes of Children's Defense Fund to date. A deep commitment to children's issues was shared by Hillary Rodham Clinton, a college friend of Marian Wright Edelman, who is president and founder of the Children's Defense Fund.
8 - Shirley A. Chisholm - Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton sponsored a Senate resolution in her honor. Senator Clinton's resolution calls on the United States Senate to pay tribute to her service to the Nation, her work to improve the lives of women and minorities.
9 - Senator Clinton co-sponsored legislation enacted in 2004 to extend tax credits to communities in regions designated as Renewal Communities.
This list took about an hour to google and really doesn't cover her legislative initiatives, sponsoring or enactment of law. It does touch on the Clintons caring and concern for people, and not necessarily based on their skin color but on their needs and a sense of justice, an essential ingredient in what makes us human. This list doesn't even touch President Clintons legislative successes for minorities as president, do you think that was done in a vacuum?
In stead what has happened is the "vote by color" mentality of Black Americans, and not on the issues, or the "content of their character", but the color of their skin! Haven't we learned anything, you're not given a job based on skin color?
Obama didn't take office until 2005 and then took his antiwar stance and proceeded to vote for every Iraq war supplemental and against timetables, withdrawals and everything that would have stopped this war! Google the facts.
In a Democratic event from Sunday, Nov. 16, 2003, then-state senator Obama told a cheering crowd that it was wrong to vote to fund the war. Sen. Obama said he would have 'unequivocally' voted against war funding because it was the only way to oppose Bush on Iraq.
But until he ran for president, U.S. Sen. Obama then proceeded to support every funding bill for the Iraq war! [2005 Vote # 117, HR1268, 5/10/05; 2005 Vote # 326, S1042, 11/15/05; 2006 Vote # 112, HR4939, 5/4/06; 2006 Vote # 239; 2006 Vote # 186, S2766, 6/22/06, HR5631, 9/7/06]
If you take away Sen. Obamas Iraq war stance what are you left with, someone who gives good speeches, is that who we need for president? Choose wisely.