Carol Moseley Braun: Clinton "An Outsider Supporting Another Outsider"

By Chuck Sudo in News on Jan 19, 2011 6:35PM

At this point the only people who think Carol Moseley Braun has a shot at becoming mayor are her and her campaign staffers. It's even worse when she decides to play the race card in attacking Rahm Emanuel, when there are more salient points she can make. Case in point, yesterday's endorsement of Emanuel by Bill Clinton brought swift rebukes from Gery Chico and Miguel del Valle, who both erminded voters of Emanuel's ties to Freddie Mac and the banking crisis. Seeing how Braun's own financial records resemble a tumbleweed at this point, it's probably the better part of discretion that she didn't slam Emanuel on Freddie Mac.

Instead, she played both the race and "outsider" cards in a statement denouncing the Clinton endorsement of Emanuel.

"President Bill Clinton does not live or vote in Chicago. He's an outsider parachuting in to support another outsider. For him to come on the day following Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday to insert himself in the middle of a mayoral race, when the majority of the population and mayoral candidates are African American and Latino, is a betrayal of the people who were most loyal to him. It's a mistake."

On second thought, maybe the better part of discretion would have been not releasing a statement.