"Well, we don't really need these working class people to win"

[keep_it_real]

“Today her opponent's campaign strategist said, 'Well, we don't really need these working class people to win. Half the time they vote for Republicans anyways,'" the former president said while speaking from a flatbed truck on a baseball field in Hillsborough, N.C. "I will tell you something — America needs you to win, and therefore Hillary wants your support.”

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/9863.html

Is Bill Clinton lying saying this? Where does he get such an idea?

[Rosa Luxemburg]

I wonder why Hillary said screw 'em a few years ago

[NJmaverick]

1. If a Clinton's lips are moving you can be pretty sure they are lying

[LakeSamish706]

2. Nope he is telling the truth.. What they need to win is to cheat anyway they can....

If they could talk the SD's onto there side they could steal the nomination.

[Deja Q]

3. WHY do people vote the other side?

Half the time they vote (R). The other half for (D). "Why" seems a logical question, surely?

[kentuck]

4. If we lose the "working class people"..?

We are no longer the Democratic Party, the Party of the People. We are something else... alien.

[bunnies]

5. The original Obama Camp quotes are right in the article

(snip)
“The white working class has gone to the Republican nominee for many elections, going back even to the Clinton years. This is not new that Democratic candidates don’t rely solely on those votes,” his chief strategist, David Axelrod, told National Public Radio.

“The vast majority of these Democrats are going to come home,” said Obama campaign manager David Plouffe, saying the question is who would pull younger, independent-leaning Republicans away from Arizona Sen. John McCain.
(snip)


Once again, Bill is twisting words and making shit up. Big surprise there. :eyes:

[NatBurner]

6. wow

[PoliticalAmazon]

7. She must be planning massive vote fraud...

...She has repeatedly insulted Obama supporters, said that voters in states who voted majority for Obama aren't important, the good ol' boys in the south ("screw 'em") aren't important, and now that working class people aren't important.

It looks like she is saying she can win without a majority of the Democratic Party voters.

The only way this can occur is if she is planning massive vote fraud. Otherwise, she would not be so eager to discard millions of Dem voters.

[RBInMaine]

8. SPIN SPIN SPIN. THAT IS NOT WHAT WAS SAID !! Team-Obama needs to slam him on it !!

[keep_it_real]

11. Exactly, they should not let this go by without saying something

The Obama campaign should check this fast.

[FrenchieCat]

9. and so?

Hillary Clinton On Southern Working Class Whites In 1995: "Screw 'Em"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/16/hillary-clinton-on-workin_n_97017.html

My Recollection of Hillary Clinton at the 1995 Camp David Meeting
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theda-skocpol/my-recollection-of-the-19_b_97291.html

Additional links on the matter: http://www.jedreport.com/2008/04/hillary-clint-7.html
http://althouse.blogspot.com/2008/04/screw-em-hillary-said-about-working.html
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/04/17/907891.aspx
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/04/hillary-on-working-class-white.php

[bowens43]

10. Bill , like his spouse ,is a shameless liar.

these two are unfreaking believable. they want to regain power so badly that they are willing to sacrifice the last shred of integrity they have to get it.

[dkf]

12. OMG, was he doing this shit when he was President?

I didn't realize.

How stupid was I?

[PoliticalAmazon]

13. It's been a rude awakening, but in all honesty...

...I think a switch got flipped in Hillary when she ran for the Senate. She was no longer the "little helpmate" that conservatives wanted her to be, but SHE was the candidate and, by gawd, SHE would have her way.

She has always had a ham-fisted way of getting what she wants, which is why her one attempt at health-care reform failed. This ham-fisted approach has turned many people against her, especially Republican politicans.

Maybe it will take Hillary supporters another 8 years to get it. Many of the ex-Hillary loyalists took that long.

Unfortunately, we can't afford another 8 years of Bush/Rove politics, policies and destruction of America, which is what we would get if Hillary was in the Oval Office.