Clinton Was For Characterization Of Working-Class Voters Before She Was Against It

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A few hours before the debate..... this comes out

Noteworthy Political Scientist Says Clinton Was For Characterization Of Working-Class Voters Before She Was Against It

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/13/noteworthy-political-scie_n_96436.html

Harvard University political scientist Theda Skocpol - also an elite, I guess! - provided Talking Points Memo with a following statement, which, in part, reads:

I have been in meetings with the Clintons and their advisors where very clinical things were said in a very-detached tone about unwillingness of working class voters to trust government -- and Bill Clinton -- and about their unfortunate (from a Clinton perspective) proclivity to vote on life-style rather than economic issues. To see Hillary going absolutely over the top to smash Obama for making clearly more humanly sympathetic observations in this vein, is just amazing. Even more so to see her pretending to be a gun-toting non-elite. Give us a break!...

This has to be one of the few times in U.S. political history when a multi-millionaire has accused a much less wealthy fellow public servant, a person of the same party and views who made much less lucrative career choices, of "elitism"! (I won't say the only time, because U.S. political history is full of absurdities of this sort.) In a way, it is funny -- and it may not be long before the jokes start.

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1. K&R

All the dirt is now going to come boomaranging back on her!

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2. I hope tonight Obama asks if hillary agrees with what BIll said in 1991....

In 91 Bill said almost the exact same thing Obama said about wedge issue voters being distracted from their economic interests by race baiting and fear.

The only real difference is obama added some of the more recent wedge issues the right has used over the last 20 years. (God 91 was almost 20 years ago... I feel so old)


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/13/bill-clinton-flashback-al_n_96433.html

"The reason (George H. W. Bush's tactic) works so well now is that you have all these economically insecure white people who are scared to death," Clinton was quoted saying by the Los Angeles Times in September 1991.

A couple months later, Joe Klein, writing for the Sunday Times, reported that Clinton made the following remarks:

"You know, he wants to divide us over race. I'm from the South. I understand this. This quota deal they're gonna pull in the next election is the same old scam they've been pulling on us for decade after decade after decade. When their economic policies fail, when the country's coming apart rather than coming together, what do they do? They find the most economically insecure white men and scare the living daylights out of them. They know if they can keep us looking at each other across a racial divide, if I can look at Bobby Rush and think, Bobby wants my job, my promotion, then neither of us can look at George Bush and say, 'What happened to everybody's job? What happened to everybody's income? What ... have ... you ... done ... to ... our ... country?'"

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3. Harvard University IS pretty darn elite

Must be why she was with the Clinton campaign.

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4. I think this is going to sting her bad....

Insincere poutrage won't sell with the folks in PA.