my friend tony morrison made and the observations she made in 1998. if you look back, you see that bill clinton had five secretaries in his cabinet of color. five. then you had a director of the management and budget. then you also had the, what we call the drug czar. of those seven positions, these people have budgets, they were able to hire and to bring in people to stay in state government for long after the president is gone. now, we haven t seen that with reference to this president. we ve had vacancies on the supreme court and this is where the access for civil rights has been stressed for so many years, thor good marshall spent his life fighting for it and eventually on the court. convincing other people on the court with a sensitivity to that view. i don t believe with all the
a new opinion piece compares bill clinton and barack obama asking which president has the better for the african-american community. it s been more than 13 years since writer tony morrison famously called bill clinton the country s first black president. former governor douglas wilder now writes by birth and life experience, clinton cannot lay claim to the title of first black president as morrison knighted him. obama need to work harder to make it less obvious. deserves it more than the 44th president does. i m joined by douglas wilder. who wrote this piece. he s the former democratic governor of virginia and the first african-american to be elected governor in the united states. welcome back to the program. good to see you. good morning. alec, always good to be with you. good morning to you. i want to hear a bit more, sir, about why you say the president should look closer at the clinton template. first of all, strongly disagreed with that notion that
the president advising him to the extent of recognizing what all americans are looking for, not just some. now, once president obama was elected, we all talked about this post racial america. isn t that, though, the ultimate achievement of president barack obama? president clinton, he never had to overcame racism to be elected. how can you give him the nod as being the first black president? that is not achieved. there is no post racial environment. all you ve got to do is look at the people who are railing against a president now. every conceivable thing that he does is wrong they re saying. anybody but obama. look on your program this morning. you had the des moines register who four years ago, no, they couldn t touch mitt romney. today, hey, he s okay. guess what? he s fine. this is what you re going to
former virginia governor douglas wilder will be our guest. could it be that former president bill clinton has been better for african-americans than president obama? we ll have that interview for you in about ten minutes. the gates are closed and the last american troops are officially gone from iraq marking the end of america s involvement in a controversial, nearly nine year long war. the final military convoy rolled over the border into kuwait hours ago. richard engel has about there for all of it. thank you very much. it is now evening and the troops are settling in here. a lot of them have been living on mre s. these are backaged meals as the chow halls were closed down. bases handed over to iraqis. behind me, you can see the last american vehicle to leave iraq. here in kuwait it is basically a giant weapons and vehicle and troop depot as these troops are processing out of the country.