You Can’t Hide Your Lyin’ Eyes


You can't hide your lyin' eyes
And your smile is a thin disguise
I thought by now you'd realize
There ain't no way to hide your lyin eyes
(Don Henley/Glenn Frey, Lyin' Eyes)

It's all so familiar. A contrite look, a little bit of a lip quiver and then the big gun comes out - biting the lower lip and turning up the soulful, lying eyes to full wattage. Bill Clinton's going to lie to the people again tomorrow at a series of appearances at black churches across the Los Angeles area.

On Sunday the former president is scheduled to visit black churches in South Central Los Angeles, where he's expected to offer a mea culpa to those who "dearly loved him" when he was their president, Rep. Diane Watson (D-Calif.) says.

Watson, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus who has endorsed Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), tells us she'll usher the former president to more than half a dozen churches in her district where she says he needs to "renew his relationship" with congregants who were turned off by his racially tinged comments in the days leading up to and following the South Carolina primary. (Such as when Clinton compared Sen. Barack Obama's landslide victory to Jesse Jackson's wins in 1984 and 1988.)

The four-term congresswoman said she asked Clinton to write a letter to each congregation they'll visit on Sunday "explaining his commitment to civil rights and equal rights." She says the letter "is in development" but that "he knows what needs to be in it: He needs to renew his relationship with the South Central community."

Watson is among the half of the divided black caucus supporting Hillary Clinton instead of Obama for president. She remains loyal to the Clintons, she says, despite her own uneasy feelings over Bill injecting race into the primary campaign.

She says she warned Sen. Clinton that the acrimony in South Carolina could have a backlash in California, one of 24 states voting on Super Tuesday. "I said, 'Hillary, you have enough you can be proud of. This is not the first time they have seen or heard of you. Your husband was in our community, they love you, we must recapture that passion. Do not get involved in the immature squabbles.'"

She says while Clinton will probably not be allowed to speak at the churches, he will at least be introduced and his presence made known by a publicly elected official from their own community "who they have known for decades."

Yes, yes. He did not have sex with (There's that familiarity again) He did not play that card, that race card. Only he did. If the people buy his empty apology this time, they are allowing themselves to be played like a cheap violin by a master of the cheap violin. Joe Gandelman has some thoughts about this blatant hypocrisy. He observes that Bubba has managed to steal the limelight away from his wife once again. The media will doubtless drench itself gushing over the Clintonian mea culpa and Hillary will be effectively drowned out in the ensuing tidal wave of stories about it.

categories Politics | Gaius Saturday, 2 February , 2008

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