Democratic sources supportive of and regularly in touch with the Clinton campaign describe what one calls "a huge wave" of sentiment that Bill Clinton "needs to stop."
The sources — who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject — act as either unpaid advisers or surrogates for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. Interviewed separately, they agreed that the former president's recent headline-generating statements "hurt more than helped" his wife's South Carolina campaign.
His comments criticized as racially insensitive, the verbal sparring with Barack Obama, and his "scolding" of the media are "distractions," say these Clinton supporters. Hillary Clinton, says one, "needs to take and be the lead."
What I find rather odd is the lack of "offendedness" coming from Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson.
ABC News' Rick Klein Reports: Rev. Al Sharpton on Monday weighed in on the raging debate inside the Democratic Party over former President Bill Clinton's advocacy on behalf of his wife's campaign, with two choice words for the former president: "Shut up."
On ABC's "The View," Sharpton said voters are hearing "race charges, race-tinged rhetoric" in the Democratic primary campaign, and called on the former president to cease.
So Bill Clinton gets a pass for bringing up race in his own unique way about the Presidential nomination, but people like Don Imus get rung through the ringer? Even Don Imus, whom I'm no fan of, took notice:
Don Imus got into an animated discussion this morning about former President Bill Clinton's comparison of Obama's South Carolina primary victory over Senator Clinton to Jesse Jackson. ''If I had made that comparison to Jesse Jackson,'' I have a feeling that I'd be talking to Al Sharpton again,'' Imus told Michael Graham of Boston's WTKK.
This is the exact problem I've been telling you all about. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are nothing more than opportunists who claim "I'm offended" whenever they need their names in the paper and a few bucks in their pockets.
Just remember, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson don't represent black people as a whole, so when an issue of race comes up, the offending person doesn't need to say "sorry" to either of these two "men".
Let's not forget that Jesse Jackson was the one talking about "Hymie-town" and preaching "morality" to everyone while he was nailing his secretary behind his wife's back and got her pregnant.
But back to the original point, when you have your inner circle telling you that you "need to stop", things are going to get worse before they get better. People are simply sick and tired of dirty politics, and the Clinton's excel in this area. Unfortunately for Bill and Hillary, times have truly changed since the 90's when the Internet was in it's infancy and you couldn't look up everything about a candidate in a few clicks of a mouse. Now the light's being shined on them much more intensely and the public doesn't like what it sees.
Travis
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