Hillary's "Screw Southern Whites" comment recalled by only woman scholar present

[grassfed]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theda-skocpol/my-recollection-of-the-19_b_97291.html

quote:
But what is clear in both in my memory and my notes is that there was extensive, hard-nosed discussion about why masses of voters did not support Clinton or trust government or base their choices on economic as opposed to what people saw as peripheral life-style concerns. Hillary Clinton was among the most cold-blooded analysts in attendance. She spoke of ordinary voters as if they were a species apart, and showed interest only in the political usefulness of their choices -- usefulness to the Clinton administration, that is.

I vividly remember at the time finding it impressive that Bill Clinton (NOT Hillary Clinton) showed real empathy for the ordinary people whose motives and supposedly misguided choices were under analysis. Ironically, just as Barber reported, Bill Clinton was the one who combined analysis and empathy, much as Obama himself did in his full San Francisco remarks.

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Theda Skocpol is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology and formerly Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. She has also served as Director of the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard from 1999 to 2006.

Ms Skocpol was the only woman scholar invited to the January 1995 meeting convened by the Clintons at Camp David where Hillary made the "Screw the Southern Whites" comment.

[malik flavors]

1. If the Clinton camp continues to deny this it's just going to build and build.

[redqueen]

4. Maybe she was just tired.

[Hepburn]

5. Hillary has enough lies tagged on her at this point...

...the last thing she needs is to not come clean again. She is already seen as untrusthworthy and has very high negatives.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

7. She's putting of the inevitable until after the Pennsylvania primary

If voters there find out she really did say that and that her denial is just a lie it could be a disaster for her on the 22nd.

She has a win coming in Pennsylvania and she's not about to let a little southern white bashing keep her from her victory.

[Saturday]

2. Gee, something tells me she's an Obama supporter. nt

[jenmito]

8. Gee, why do you think THAT could be? Maybe because Hillary DID say, "Screw 'em"?!

Duh.

[Hepburn]

10. Oh, gee...let me think...what would be a reason to support Obama and not Hillary...

...Oh, yeah, if I had been somewhere and I heard Hillary dis'ing a certain group of voters by saying, "Screw 'em." Geee....whiz.... imagine that... it might have turned someone off to her.

:eyes:

[meow mix]

3. paired with "Clintons dont tell the truth" hillary loses on this one

[FlaGranny]

6. Makes sense to me. Bill Clinton

always seemed to be a warmer person than Hillary.

The thought that just entered my mind was that maybe Hillary DID play a larger part in his presidency (like she claims) and maybe that's why Bill's more compassionate ideas did not hold sway. He probably took too much advice from Hillary - NAFTA?, welfare reform?.

Bill Clinton just does not seem to be as hard-nosed as Hillary Clinton.

[Coexist]

9. uh oh

[ellacott]

11. The MSM isn't picking this up

The Clinton camp was asked about this in one of their conference calls but it hasn't gotten widespread coverage.

[FrenchieCat]

12. I wonder why?

or maybe I don't.