Hillary Clinton Equates Being A Hard Worker To Being White
posted in Politics | | EMail This Post | View blog reactions | Print This PostIn yet another race-bait moment in her national “southern strategy” campaign, Clinton said this to USA Today:
“I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on… Sen. Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me.”
This reminds me of a statement by Vicente’ Fox, then President of Mexico; when pushing illegal immigration as the Mexican government always does, said that:
“There is no doubt that Mexicans, filled with dignity, willingness and ability to work are doing jobs that not even blacks want to do there in the United States,”
Yes, Mexicans have dignity, as opposed to those undignified, lazy Blacks who won’t do the work.
As the Wretches of the Earth, we continue to get it from all sides.
In a post where Jack and Jill Politics refers to the comment as Hillary “remind us again that our votes don’t actually count:”; they highlight a great piece of fact that gets in the way of Clinton and the media’s “blue collar, white working class’ myth:
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Steve M. points out that her husband didn’t win this group in the general yet won the election:
According to CNN’s 1996 exit poll, Bill Clinton lost the white vote (Dole 46%, Clinton 43%, Perot 9%). He lost the white male vote by an even larger margin (Dole 49%, Clinton 38%, Perot 11%). And he lost gun owners badly (Dole 51%, Clinton 38%, Perot 10%). However, Clinton won the popular vote overall
In 2000 — when Al Gore won the popular vote by half a million votes — he lost white males to Bush by a whopping 60%-36%, according to CNN’s exit poll. He lost men overall 53%-42%. He lost whites overall 54%-42%. He lost gun owners 61%-36%. He lost small-town voters 59%-38% and rural voters 59%-37%. He lost the Midwest overall 49%-48%.
I’m not saying these are goals to aspire to. I’m saying it’s a myth that Democrats had Joe Sixpack in their back pockets until that snooty arugula-eater Barack Obama came along, and it’s a myth that they suffer crushing defeats when bowlers and boilermaker-drinkers aren’t on board. 49%-41%-8%, and he won 70% of the electoral votes.
So it doesn’t matter. For a democrat to win you have to expand past the factory worker class, and get votes from the rest us, you know us college educated elitist, semi-professional and professionals of other kinds, Blacks and Latinos, services workers, etc.
There aren’t enough Pennsylvania rednecks across the country, who won’t vote for a Black guy for Hillary to win in November.
“At this point any abstract metric besides votes or delegates that Clinton can use as a rationale for her candidacy becomes the only appropriate one to use.”– Jack and Jill Politics
Man, I better stop working hard at my blog; apparently I’m acting white. Just like working hard to get my college degree makes me an elitist.
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