Shockingly enough, while Hillary was demanding that Barack Obama "denounce and reject" the unsolicited support of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, her husband was an avid supporter of a Farrakhan-led initiatives like the "Million More March".
In a May 2005 interview with the black weekly newspaper the New York Amsterdam News, the former president said that he supported the efforts of Louis Farrakhan and the Revs. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson to organize a Million More March in the nation's capital that fall....
"Jesse [Jackson], and Mr. [Louis] Farrakhan and Rev. [Al] Sharpton probably have internal domestic political differences," Clinton is quoted as saying, "but they've agreed on this, and I think it's a good thing."
Clinton said: "I like the idea of a march, but I think it would also be good at the march for them to say, 'We want to call your attention to this problem, and here's something else you can do. And that it's fine to be concerned about [homeland] security, but we also have to keep trying to make America strong and better here at home."
Post-White House Clinton found no fault with Farrakhan's leadership. There was no mention of Farrakhan's "malice and division" during the interview.
There was also no mention of a Farrakhan speech given that year, on Feb. 26, in which he reportedly told a Chicago audience: "Listen, Jewish people don't have no hands that are free of the blood of us [blacks]. They owned slave ships. They bought us and sold us. They raped and robbed us."
No matter. Bill Clinton, sitting with the Amsterdam News and enjoying his first full day in the office since his second operation, was good to go with Farrakhan's leadership of the Million More March -- a fact he was willing to share with . . . a black audience.
If the Hillary campaign put BHO through the ringer over unsolicited support from Farrakhan, what will they say to this new revelation that her husband avidly supports NOI-led initiatives? Stay tuned...
link added: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/07/AR2008030702825_2.html?hpid=opinionsbox1|
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