Hillary’s middle class hypocrisy

[babylonsister]

http://www.hillaryproject.com/index.php?/en/story-details/hillarys_middle_class_hypocrisy/

Hillary’s middle class hypocrisy
By Kathy Miller | The Hillary Project

By: Seth Grahame-Smith

And so her suicide campaign continues.

Last Sunday, Barack Obama was speaking at a fundraiser when he said that some small town voters "cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

Hillary pounced on the remarks, calling them "elitist" and "out of touch." Now, we'll get to those remarks in a second. But first we need to address the epic hypocrisy of Hillary Rodham Clinton calling another human being "out of touch" with middle class Americans. I'd like to start by sharing an observation and a quote with you:

Observation: Hillary Clinton is a fantastically wealthy, union-busting, condescending corporate board member with a privileged background who's trying to convince you that she's more "in touch" than a guy whose relatives live in huts.

Second, a quote:

"You know, I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was fulfill my profession."

That was Hillary during her husband's 1992 campaign.

Here's what we can infer from those comments: 1) Hillary thinks homemaking is beneath her. 2) Hillary thinks that a woman who doesn't pursue a profession is wasting her life. 3) Hillary hates working class families. OK, maybe "hate" is too strong -- but she's certainly shown a willingness to work against them.

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In the past week, we've seen Bill Clinton brazenly lie to cover up Hillary's brazen lies. We've seen her pander to the working class by painting herself as a "praise God, pass the ammunition" alcoholic. We've seen that there isn't a staged event she considers too insulting to our intelligence, or a story she wouldn't needlessly embellish to win our votes. She's become so mind-numbingly phony -- so completely transparent, that anyone -- even a stupid little housewife (her assessment, not mine) can see it plain as a duck in a rifle scope.

Don't be fooled, working people of Pennsylvania, Indiana, West Virginia and North Carolina. Don't be duped into eating out of Hillary's $109M hands the way the media is bound to do all week. Don't forget that while Obama may suck at bowling, at least he's no suck up. And above all, don't forget what Hillary Rodham Clinton really is:

A blueblood in blue-collared clothing.

[NJmaverick]

1. Dead on accurate!

[babylonsister]

2. Yep. I'm sure there are many more instances of her hypocrisy if

anyone cares to look into it. It doesn't seem as if the talking heads care to. Maybe KO will.

[mntleo2]

3. She Also Hates Poor Women

I know personally of some low income women and their kids who have literally been standing under her office window in NY literally begging her to hear them and she has purposefully turned a deaf ear. Low income women have been used as the "canary in the mine" as to the enslavement of women. Much of this is because of her and her husband's touting of Welfare DEformed, which codified into law that parenting and the work women have done since the beginning of time, taking care of family and weaving Community, has officially been made into "doing nothing" to contribute to Community. How much less of a feminist and humanist can you get?

Here is an expert of what Robert Reich wrote on his blog:

...We’re heading into the worst economic crisis in a half century or more. Many of the Americans who have been getting nowhere for decades are in even deeper trouble. Large numbers of people in Pennsylvania and across the nation are losing their homes and losing their jobs, and the situation is likely to grow worse. Consumers are at the end of their ropes, fuel and food costs are skyrocketing, they can’t go deeper into debt, they can’t pay their bills. They aren’t buying, which means every business from the auto industry to housing to even giant GE is hurting. Which means they’ll begin laying off more people, and as they do, we will experience an even more dangerous downward spiral.

Bitter? You ain’t seen nothing yet. And as much as people like Russert, Carville, Matalin, Schrum, and Murphy want to divert our attention from what’s really happening; as much as HRC and McCain seek to make political hay out of choices of words that can be spun cynically by the mindless spinners of the old politics; as much as demagogues on the right and left continue to try to channel the cumulative frustrations of Americans into a politics of resentment – all these attempts will, I hope, prove futile. Eighty percent of Americans know the nation is on the wrong track. The old politics, and the old media that feeds it, are irrelevant now.

posted by Robert Reich | 11:26 AM m

http://robertreich.blogspot.com/2008/04/obama-bitterness-meet-press-and-old.html

I think bittergate is stupid. If anyone is being elitist, it is Clinton and McCain who seem to be so out of touch they do not realize how angry we are out here. I am mad as hell and I am not going to take it anymore!

Cat In Seattle

[truedelphi]

4. Agree 100% and thank you for these comments. n/t

[babylonsister]

5. Wow. We need a video of those women and their experiences

trying to get help from Clinton. I also think bittergate is ridiculous. How can anyone possibly think she represents the commoners like myself up against Obama? Some of the m$m have noted the stark difference, but too many have let it slide.

[KAZ]

6. K&R

[hfojvt]

7. I think Hillary's quote there is being twisted a little

but hey, what's good for the goose ...

Also, having teas does sound kinda like a frivolity, but I have been baking cookies for years while working on my career. Why would anybody wanna disparage cookies or the people who bake them even a little?

I think the stronger case is made by looking at the ways Hillary has worked against working families and the hollowness of her claims to help the working class. It seems to be mostly tax credits which mostly benefit people above the median income.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

10. "...mostly tax credits which mostly benefit people above the median income"

Exactly. The biggest tax "cut" was the child tax credit. So basically parents with good incomes got to buy a pair of JetSkis after they got their nice little refund. People with no kids or families who didn't earn enough to pay income taxes got bupkis.

[southern_belle]

8. K & R

[KAZ]

9. Nudge.

[OhioChick]

11. K&R

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[Scurrilous]

12. K & R

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