Excerpted from Larry O’Connor’s piece at hotair.com, in which he notes Hillary Clinton’ first statement about the massacre of Dallas police officers…and then the second one, presumably to be used if anyone calls her out on the first one:
Her first response was to condescend, pander and insult.
“I will call for white people, like myself, to put ourselves in the shoes of those African-American families, who fear every time their children go somewhere, who have to have the talk about … how to really protect themselves, when they are the ones who should be expecting protection from encounters with the police. I’m going to be talking to white people. I think we are the ones who have to start listening to the legitimate cries that are coming from our African-American fellow citizens, and we have so much more to be done, and we have got to get about the business of doing it. We can’t be engaging in hateful rhetoric or incitement of violence. We need to bring people together.”
Sometime Friday afternoon, hours after her “white people need to learn from me” brilliance, a brave campaign staffer had to deliver the message to the greatest American since Thomas Jefferson that blaming “white people’s” ignorance is probably not the most unifying and powerful message from a person who wants to sit in the Oval Office, despite Don Lemon’s assurance that this is exactly the kind of pandering required to “win over” the black vote.
So that night, Clinton had a new message, this one delivered to the congregants at the African Methodist Episcopal Convention in Philadelphia. (That’s right, unlike Trump who cancelled a political appearance out of respect for the tragic events in Dallas, Clinton took full advantage of the tragedy and appeared before an important special interest group)
“We cannot, we must not vilify police officers. Remember what those officers were doing when they died. They were protecting a peaceful march. They were people in authority making sure that their fellow citizens hat the right to protest authority, and there is nothing more vital to our democracy than that. And they died for it.”
I often point out that, for all her years in the public spotlight and all the positions she has held, Hillary Clinton is astonishingly unaccomplished.
Allow me to amend this: when it comes to pandering, Hillary Clinton is not just accomplished, she has a black belt in it.
