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Peter Principle
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It's once again time to play Then & Now with the latest hypocritical words
from Hillary Clinton.
Now, she says Barack Obama is elitist and out of touch with rural working
class voters for saying they are bitter.
Never mind the patently absurd notion of someone who made more than $20
million last year alone calling anyone else "elitist." It turns out she's
directly contradicting herself.
Then, at a Democratic leadership conference in 1995, Hillary Clinton said of
Southern rural working class voters, known then as Reagan Democrats, "Screw
'em."
Seems a bit of a contradiction, no?
At first Camp Clinton tried to poo-poo the quote as merely rumor, despite it
having been published in a 2001 book, confirmed with other attendees and
never disputed.
The a steady stream of people who attended the event began coming forward.
ALL of them confirmed the Clinton quote.
"Screw 'Em"
At this point everyone who attended the event and has commented has
confirmed Hillary's words.
"Screw 'Em"
Gee, if I didn't know any better, I'd say Hillary Clinton is the candidate
that's pretty damned elitist...
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/16/hillary-clinton-on-workin_n_97017.html
Clinton On Southern Working Class Whites In 1995:
"Screw 'Em"
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.
"I don't think [Obama] really gets it that people are looking for a
president who stands up for you and not looks down on you," she said this
week.
But those who were at the event say the 1995 episode fits into her larger
viewpoint. As Harry Boyte, the director of the University of Minnesota's
Center for Democracy and Citizenship who was at the retreat, told The
Huffington Post: "[Hillary Clinton] sees herself as the champion of the
oppressed, but there is always a kind of good guy versus bad guy mentality.
The comment before that was that 'the Reagan Democrats are our enemies and
they weren't on our side,' and she was agreeing with that comment. She said
we should write them off: screw them."
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Un-****ing-believable. She sounds more like a Republidolt every day. It's
one lie after another with Hillary Clinton. She'll say or do anything to
win.
"Screw 'em"? No, screw YOU, Hillary.
For the good of the party and the good of the country, it's time for Clinton
to drop out of the race and fall in behind Barack Obama, the next president
of the United States.
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Welcome to reality. Enjoy your visit. Slow thinkers keep right.
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Why are so many not smart enough to know they're not smart enough?
http://www.apa.org/journals/features/psp7761121.pdf
from Hillary Clinton.
Now, she says Barack Obama is elitist and out of touch with rural working
class voters for saying they are bitter.
Never mind the patently absurd notion of someone who made more than $20
million last year alone calling anyone else "elitist." It turns out she's
directly contradicting herself.
Then, at a Democratic leadership conference in 1995, Hillary Clinton said of
Southern rural working class voters, known then as Reagan Democrats, "Screw
'em."
Seems a bit of a contradiction, no?
At first Camp Clinton tried to poo-poo the quote as merely rumor, despite it
having been published in a 2001 book, confirmed with other attendees and
never disputed.
The a steady stream of people who attended the event began coming forward.
ALL of them confirmed the Clinton quote.
"Screw 'Em"
At this point everyone who attended the event and has commented has
confirmed Hillary's words.
"Screw 'Em"
Gee, if I didn't know any better, I'd say Hillary Clinton is the candidate
that's pretty damned elitist...
------
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/16/hillary-clinton-on-workin_n_97017.html
Clinton On Southern Working Class Whites In 1995:
"Screw 'Em"
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.
"I don't think [Obama] really gets it that people are looking for a
president who stands up for you and not looks down on you," she said this
week.
But those who were at the event say the 1995 episode fits into her larger
viewpoint. As Harry Boyte, the director of the University of Minnesota's
Center for Democracy and Citizenship who was at the retreat, told The
Huffington Post: "[Hillary Clinton] sees herself as the champion of the
oppressed, but there is always a kind of good guy versus bad guy mentality.
The comment before that was that 'the Reagan Democrats are our enemies and
they weren't on our side,' and she was agreeing with that comment. She said
we should write them off: screw them."
------
Un-****ing-believable. She sounds more like a Republidolt every day. It's
one lie after another with Hillary Clinton. She'll say or do anything to
win.
"Screw 'em"? No, screw YOU, Hillary.
For the good of the party and the good of the country, it's time for Clinton
to drop out of the race and fall in behind Barack Obama, the next president
of the United States.
---
Welcome to reality. Enjoy your visit. Slow thinkers keep right.
------
Why are so many not smart enough to know they're not smart enough?
http://www.apa.org/journals/features/psp7761121.pdf
