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| Democrat fratricide: Hillary on Southern working class whites: "Screw 'em" |
| 2008-04-16 |
| Having exposed The Obama's elitism for all to see, the Huffasnuffaluffagus Post gives Hillary equal time: . . . a telling anecdote from her husband's administration shows Hillary Clinton's attitudes about the "lunch-bucket Democrats" are not exactly pristine. In January 1995, as the Clintons were licking their wounds from the 1994 congressional elections, a debate emerged at a retreat at Camp David. Should the administration make overtures to working class white southerners who had all but forsaken the Democratic Party? The then-first lady took a less than inclusive approach. "Screw 'em," she told her husband. "You don't owe them a thing, Bill. They're doing nothing for you; you don't have to do anything for them." The statement -- which author Benjamin Barber witnessed and wrote about in his book, "The Truth of Power: Intellectual Affairs in the Clinton White House" -- was prompted by another speaker raising the difficulties of reaching "Reagan Democrats." It stands in stark contrast to the attitude the New York Democrat has recently taken on the campaign trail, in which she has presented herself as the one candidate who understands the working-class needs. . . . But those who were at the event say the 1995 episode fits into her larger viewpoint. "Surprise meter reading off-scale low, Captain." "Thank you, Mister Data." |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #1 Ah. So they both suck. I knew that. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-04-16 22:52 |