Sunday, January 27, 2008

Truest statement of the week II

Peter Hart: Now Obama, you've mentioned Obama's comments to this Nevada newspaper about the Regan legacy, and the odd part about it I guess -- or maybe it's not so odd -- is that the corporate press seems to be coming down on Obama's side saying Clinton's been unfair to him because Clinton characterizes it as praise for Reagan and if you look at the words that Obama used you don't see the word "praise" in there anywhere so it must be that Clinton's lying about this.



Glen Ford: No, you see every positive word that one could image which any reasonable person understands as praise and you see his reference to the excesses of the sixties and seventies which he says "caused the American public" -- and he means White people because that's who voted for him -- "to elect Ronald Reagan." And he does all of this in a very positive fashion as if saying by his judgement this was a good thing or at least that was the timely thing given those excesses for the American people to do. There's no mistaking the effects that he wanted to create as he struggles for conservative Democrats and Republicans. And we're talking White people here.



-- Black Agenda Report's Glen Ford speaking with Peter Hart on this week's CounterSpin which began airing Friday.
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