I suppose a lot of people are going to make the accusation that Sen. Hillary Clinton traded money for an endorsement from one of South Carolina’s most influential black politicians, but much like a lot of things that the Clinton’s have done, it might not look good, but I don’t think that any laws were broken. In an interview with the AP, Hillary Clinton answered questions about a consulting contract given to SC state senator Darrell Jackson’s media consulting firm. Last week, Jackson endorsed Clinton instead of her main rivals John Edwards and Barack Obama.
“Senator Jackson was someone who was involved in my husband’s campaigns. He was someone we turned to for political advice and counsel and I’m proud to have him on my team,” Clinton told the AP. An Clinton spokesperson said that Jackson’s firm will advise the campaign on, ”political matters in South Carolina, outreach, organizing issues and purchasing advertising. I am no Clinton apologist. In fact, I will not be supporting Hillary Clinton in 2008, but I don’t think that her campaign did anything wrong. The practice of intermingling paid campaign work and endorsements happens all the time in both parties.
Usually, contracts get funneled to a person who would support the candidate that they end up working for anyway. Could a campaign cross the ethical line? You bet, and to me this represents another symbol of how dirty and corrupt our entire campaign finance system has become. Political campaigns are a billion dollar business. I think that campaigns aren’t about issues anymore. Instead, they are all about money. Candidates want to win in the early primary and caucus states, because victories their provide an boon for fund raising.
Even if a candidate has the best ideas, those ideas will never be heard without money. Hillary Clinton understands this and is assembling a fundraising and media promotion machine that may even be greater than the one put together for the last two Bush campaigns. Whether all of this is ethical or not, it is the way the way the game is played, and we can expect to hear lots more of these types of charges leveled against the Clinton campaign in the months to come. Because of the previous Clinton administration ethical lapses, even if everyone else is doing it, some will attempt to demonize the Clintons for the same thing. None of this is right, but you reap what you sow, and we also will also will get the president that somebody pays for.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackOf all of the places in the nation, before any black candidate supports Hillary Clinton, he/she should take a look at the poverty, illiteracy, incarceration, mental illness, health related issues like strokes, heart attacks and HIV. South Carolina ranks high for a small population of 5 million or so folk.
Take an intellectual look at the Clinton administration, and Clinton is no black president.
When taking an accurate look at the Clinton record, you will find he set up policies which destroy the black family, raised issues of same-sex marriage (when it was a non-issue) enumerating the current policy of the gay marriage diabolical condition and incarcerated more black men than ever, not to mention that he created a situation where black men are/nor will ever be able to make black families, have employment. In fact when you look at the “child support” crisis they must handle, you will find many of them are “slaves.”
The proof of exists, specifically in SC. Go to Columbia, SC bus depot and find homeless, illiterate, hungry, enraged and formerly if not current incarcerated black men that scare anyone into oblivion.
SC closes polls between 5 and 7pm. Blacks that vote, usually are at work and not allowed to leave to vote. Those with white collar positions are in the middle class, and many do not want to see anyone get ahead of him/her. The poor, indigent are unimportant and elected black officials are just as bad as Democrats who just don’t give a rip.
The Democrats have taken the black vote for granted in much of history since the Civil Rights movement. Bill and Hillary, included have taken that black vote for granted. Hillary should not have voted for the war, she represented a majority of constituents in NY who did not want a war. Blacks did not want the war. Now she has made a bed, and those of us looking at the issues know this woman made her bed, now she must lie in it.
Jackson, a senator from SC may have supported her husband, but I bet any amount of money, Jackson lives in a nice neighborhood, drives to a nice office everyday in his expensive car, and he has a chicken if not steak a few days during the week for dinner, socializes with those like him. He like many black Americans that are a portion of the upper middle class do not care about the people you see at the bus depot.
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