Hillary Clinton Equates Being A Hard Worker To Being White

May 8th, 2008

In 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:

    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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2 Responses to “Hillary Clinton Equates Being A Hard Worker To Being White”

  1. MorganLighter on May 9th, 2008 1:21 am | link

    I knew it! I just knew you were a white dude masquerading as a black person. You can’t fool me!
    HRC is obviously deranged. We knew that before her comment, but to come out and exclude an entire race of peoples is like committing political suicide. What an ass.
    One good point though - HRC is picking up the stupid white vote while BHO is getting all the brainy white folks.
    Nice info from J&J.

  2. D. Yobachi Boswell on May 9th, 2008 4:01 am | link

    Morgan, apparently blind ambition makes you do and say crazy things.

    I’m glad intelligent white people can see through her shit; now could you all go educate you’re not so informbed brethern who don’t seem to understand anything that is not in simple sound bite form.

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