African American Sista Goes Head Up With Brotha Barack
"She ain't afraid to crack heads" is the headline. But it's actually incomplete. What the headline should say is She's A Black Woman That Ain't Afraid To Crack Heads."
Why is this distinction so important? Because In Camp Billary's inner circle, Maggie Williams is renowned as the ultimate Hillary loyalist, fierce and unwavering in her devotion for nearly 25 years. As the First Lady's chief of staff, her office was in the West Wing, right next to Hillary's.
Her title gave away the extent of her clout: assistant to the President as well as Hillary's gatekeeper and chief enforcer.
"She ain't afraid to crack heads" is the headline. But it's actually incomplete. What the headline should say is She's A Black Woman That Ain't Afraid To Crack Heads."
Why is this distinction so important? Because In Camp Billary's inner circle, Maggie Williams is renowned as the ultimate Hillary loyalist, fierce and unwavering in her devotion for nearly 25 years. As the First Lady's chief of staff, her office was in the West Wing, right next to Hillary's.
Her title gave away the extent of her clout: assistant to the President as well as Hillary's gatekeeper and chief enforcer.
Even detractors agree with her admirers that Williams would go to the mat for Hillary, unlike Patti Solis Doyle, the Latina that just threw in the towel... or was kicked to the curb.
Which is the only salvo that Hillary has in her attempt to deny the historic, unprecedented movement we know as Barack Hussein Obama. A Kansas City native, Williams, 53, was a central player in the Clinton damage-control machine during the White House years.
In 1995, a uniformed Secret Service officer swore under oath he saw her leave White House lawyer and Hillary confidant Vince Foster's office carrying documents after Foster committed suicide. Williams denied it.
She ran up more than $100,000 in legal bills defending Hillary in various investigations.
A former aide to Reps. Morris Udall of Arizona and Robert Torricelli (later senator) of New Jersey, Williams' ties to Hillary date to when they both were at the Children's Defense Fund in the 1980s. After the Clintons left the White House, Williams was named president of Fenton Communications, a leading public relations and consulting firm.
When Bill and Hillary Clinton made remarks before the South Carolina primary that offended African-Americans, the campaign put her on the airwaves to try to quell the uproar. "She's never run a political campaign, but she has run a staff and isn't afraid to crack heads," a Democratic booster said.
Put her up against Michelle Obama, however, and I think the Harvard trained lioness can hold her own, particularly when her man and the father of her two daughters have so much riding on this. Never before have African Americans been engulfed in such high stakes politics. The bottom line is we win either way, while my GOP party sits on the sidelines because we don't have a dog in this fight.And with rumors of Al Gore endorsing Obama, this party is on and popping family. Film at 11:00.