“I thought about voting for Hillary at the beginning. I don’t care that she is a woman. I need more than that. Neither [Obama’s] race, his gender, her race or her gender was enough. I needed something else, and the something else was his wisdom.”
And, on her remark that Bill Clinton was the first black president:
“People misunderstood that phrase. I was deploring the way in which President Clinton was being treated, vis-à-vis the sex scandal that was surrounding him. I said he was being treated like a black on the street, already guilty, already a perp. I have no idea what his real instincts are, in terms of race.”