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Article: The Race Ace.(President Clinton's race relations)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- March 8, 1999
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Clinton at his most shameful.
Did you know the House managers were white? Yes, they were. Lily. And if you were tempted to forget, you were reminded every two seconds by the Democrats and their cheerleaders in the media. As the ever-dependable Eleanor Clift put it, "All they were missing was white sheets." They were like "night riders." (Clift, mind you, is one of the whitest women who ever lived.)
So you hadn't realized the Clinton scandal was about race? You weren't paying attention. From the beginning, this affair was soaked in race, like everything else in America, no matter how far afield it would seem to the tranquil mind. Black political leaders ...