Bill Clinton is scheduled to speak Friday at a Democratic Party-sponsored event named after prominent slaveholder Thomas Jefferson and genocide advocate Andrew Jackson. The controversial Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner will take place in Charleston, West Virginia, a state where President Obama almost lost the 2012 nomination to Keith Judd, a convicted felon and 2012 Free Beacon Man of the Year.
Democrats have been struggling to come up with a less problematic name for the dinners, which have been a part of the party's history for nearly a century. However, Bill Clinton might not be the best spokesman for the modern, socially conscious Democratic Party. Here he is in 1993 not only praising the Washington Redskins, but also telling a young boy that he wished he had been named after Confederate president Jefferson Davis.