Harlem Offers Mixed Reception for Hillary
by Aaron Bruns
While Barack Obama delivered a barn-burning speech at Ebeneezer Baptist Church in Atlanta — where Martin Luther King once presided over the congregation — Hillary Clinton commemorated Dr King’s upcoming holiday with muted remarks at Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem.
She was in the neighborhood to pick up the endorsement of the church’s influential pastor, Rev Dr Calvin Butts III, who echoed the campaign’s case for her candidacy. “The rhetoric of change in which we are presently engaged must also be accompanied by the experience and ability necessary to succesfully and resourcefully accomplish it,” he said.
Butts said he’d received a number of calls wondering why he would support a white woman over a black man. “This was not and is not and will not become a race-based decision for me,” he said, “and I hope that it has not and will not become a race-based decision for you either.”
Sen Clinton then waded into the crowd to deliver coffee to supporters who’d been waiting in the cold nearly an hour longer than her schedulers had originally anticipated — but ran into a group of heated Obama supporters, who’d been outside waving signs and chanting for their candidate. Let’s just say they weren’t interested in a cup of Joe.
“We don’t want your coffee,” one said. “Stay out of Harlem.” As the chants of “be a part of something great, Obama ‘08″ continued, the man commanded Clinton to stop trying to “steal the black vote.”
http://embeds.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/01/20/harlem-offers-mixed-reception-for-hillary/
by Aaron Bruns
While Barack Obama delivered a barn-burning speech at Ebeneezer Baptist Church in Atlanta — where Martin Luther King once presided over the congregation — Hillary Clinton commemorated Dr King’s upcoming holiday with muted remarks at Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem.
She was in the neighborhood to pick up the endorsement of the church’s influential pastor, Rev Dr Calvin Butts III, who echoed the campaign’s case for her candidacy. “The rhetoric of change in which we are presently engaged must also be accompanied by the experience and ability necessary to succesfully and resourcefully accomplish it,” he said.
Butts said he’d received a number of calls wondering why he would support a white woman over a black man. “This was not and is not and will not become a race-based decision for me,” he said, “and I hope that it has not and will not become a race-based decision for you either.”
Sen Clinton then waded into the crowd to deliver coffee to supporters who’d been waiting in the cold nearly an hour longer than her schedulers had originally anticipated — but ran into a group of heated Obama supporters, who’d been outside waving signs and chanting for their candidate. Let’s just say they weren’t interested in a cup of Joe.
“We don’t want your coffee,” one said. “Stay out of Harlem.” As the chants of “be a part of something great, Obama ‘08″ continued, the man commanded Clinton to stop trying to “steal the black vote.”
http://embeds.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/01/20/harlem-offers-mixed-reception-for-hillary/
