Bill Clinton: Will respect Jewish holidays, then ‘hustle up … cracker vote’ in Florida
In an interview with CNN’s Larry King airing tonight, Bill Clinton offered a slightly unusual reason for postponing his campaigning for Obama: The Jewish high holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, which he’s not known to observe.
“When [the Clinton Global Initiative] is over, and after the Jewish holidays, which follow close on it, I intend to go to Florida, to Ohio, to northeast Pennsylvania, and to Nevada at a minimum,” he said. “I may do events in Arkansas depending on what the Democratic Party does down there. And I’ve agreed to do some fundraising for them in California and New York.”
“Are you kind of feeling Jewish that you’re waiting until after the Jewish holidays?” King asked, according to a CNN transcript.
“No. But I think it would be — if we’re trying to win in Florida, it may be that,” Clinton began, before discussing his real Florida target: “You know, they think that because of who I am and where my politic[al] base has traditionally been, they may want me to go sort of hustle up what Lawton Chiles used to call the ‘cracker vote’ there.”
“But Senator Obama also has a big stake in doing well in the Jewish community in Florida, where Hillary did very well and where I did very well. And I just think respecting the holidays is a good thing to do,” he said.http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0…
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clinton was our first black president, so he probably should be careful with the cracker remarks.
As someone who has spent every winter in Florida for his entire life, I can attest that native Floridians often refer to themselves as “crackers” or “Florida crackers”. One of my best friends is a 5th generation Florida native and she says it all the time. It’s very common and not intended to be insulting or racial.
I don’t know about all that other jibberish you’ re talking about but Obama doesn’t want the election to be racist at all, his mother is a white and his father is a black man so what would he have to gain injected racism in the election..Don’t try to put your sick notions in people’s head…