with all due respect, who appointed the rep as the spokesman for anything. face it, he is the product of gop gerrymandering, providing s.c. with a safe black seat, with a district that looks like an octopus.

i respect rep clyburn, he is a good guy, but his comments about the clintons trying to make sure obama cannot be elected in the general election indicate the poor man must be smoking something good.

it is his right to criticize the clintons if he wishes, he has already done so. the bottom line is this: bill clinton does not owe black people a duty to not support his own wife vociferously in this campaign.

as for this kitchen sink line, big freaking deal, that phraseology has been around in politics for a long time, it simply indicates a campaign is frustrated cause it is not getting traction...so you change your strategy.

throwing the kitchen sink simply means throwing a bunch of stuff up in the air and hope....it is not bill clintons fault that obama has ties to a pastor who is still, to this day muddling the waters, terming obama's distancing of himself from reverend wright as just politics....huh? i thought it was new politics?'

it was not the clintons that made obama make really dumb comments in california about pennlyvania voters.

it was not the clintons who made obama associate with an unrepentant former bomber and play stage terrorist asshat ayers...as a grizzled old dude who lived in those days, i feel only pity for a person who can pretend to be a revolutionary then plays middle class games yet yearns to have killed more, bombed more...it was not bill clinton who created this.

it was not bill clinton during the debate asked obama uncomfortable questions, it was not bill clinton that made obama look uncomfortable while hillary looked presidential\

look, listen up, word up...we are seeing a first, a real live strong black candidate...and we are witnessing a dynamic which has never been seen. words that may have been used in the past suddenly develop baggage, and once tarred with the racist, extremist, radical, whatever label, somehow life and events and misfortune lead people to say stupid stuff sometimes they wish they had phrased better, but once said, well it sits.

bill and hillary clinton are not racists, having lived in south carolina almost all my life i know what racism is...i am old enough that i recall as a young boy driving on a light rainy night passing an area where a cross was burning, the klan was meeting. i have seen racial deprivation and bigotry closer than most white people, not a pleasant thing to say, but its true. i have seen gray haired black men have to lower their eyes and kowtow to young moronic white boys.

as a long time democrat, a southerner who has tried in his life to strive for equal treatment for all, i do not think i am a racist, though no doubt my heritage does leave a mark on me...the clintons are not racists

they are politicians struggling, striving, fighting, scratching and clawing towards a goal...this is what running for president is about...you either go all out, or you need to go home, the fire in the belly is another phrase, old politics, but its a truism nonetheless.

facing an attractive, eloquent man like obama is not an easy task, but eventually its a brutal experience, do not blame the clintons for the atmosphere in which we now find ourselves, but like any politician, when given weapons, they will use them, but that does not make the public concerned about these issues that haunt obama, the public decides what is important...throw it up in the air and guess what? obamas own associations and comments helped them stick.

so, representative clyburn with all due respect, you should know better...as a good politician..but i think, as my comments might infer, that the obama folks are getting pissed off at the wrong person.

blame obama, its his past and words that are harming him, not bill clinton...you know, its, hmmm, what? oh, i know, its a distraction.