But wait, Obama said what?
At a fundraiser in San Francisco last week, Obama attempted to describe the plight of blue collar workers in bible belt states to "latte-sipping" Californians. He said that "jobs have been gone now for 25 years". He said that as a conseqence they've gotten bitter and turned to "guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentimant". (ABC News)
And, in the midst of a "dirt-less" week, Hillary jumped on this right away, claiming that everyone she encountered in Pennsylvania was "resilient", "optimistic", and "positive". In essence, she twisted Obama's words from one's that were meant to inspire to words that critique blue-collar workers. And the funny thing is, Obama is right. Blue collar workers have seen a dramatic decrease in available jobs in the last 25 years and the government has been hesitant to offer any assistance to laid-off factory workers losing their jobs to 3rd world countries because it's in the interest of big business. And there has been a corresponding increase in "the recruitment of hate groups such as KKK" (The Rail-Splitter).
Hillary's accusation of Obama's elitism is coupled with her announcement this week that the Democratic candidates in the past election (i.e. Gore and Kerry) were out of touch with their constituents. The Democrats lost in 2004 because they couldn't relate to voters? I find that hard to believe, considering the white-collared, Texan who did win.
Basically, Hillary claims to relate more to blue collar workers and the common man than Gore, Kerry, AND Obama. In the words of The Rail-Splitter, "Give me a fucking break". This, coming from the woman with +100,000,000 in taxable income (The Rail-Splitter). The same woman refusing to show tax records and ready to invest millions of her own money in a faltering campaign.
So congratulations Hillary. Way to stir up the pot and get people talking. Let's see how far this ludicrous accusation gets, how far the media blows up a simple speech to condemnation of working class families. If anything it's entertaining, right?
4 comments:
well after the Pennsylvania primary I wouldn't say it's totally faltering and who cares how much she makes. She pays her taxes like everyone else and the Clinton charity organization is something like 75% funded by the Clintons and includes efforts to retrain working class people after they've lost their jobs. If she wants to "twist" words and the Pennsylvanian people agree with her, then so be it. That's politics - if Obama can't take it from Hillary then I'd love to see him against McCain. Republicans are more direct with their attacks...
It's not that I don't think Obama can take it. I think it's more of the fact that Hillary Clinton tries to pull apart the Democratic party regularly and regardless of the resulting nominee, that does not look good for us. It will be interesting to see the outcome and the following presidential race after this drawn out primary and I think both potential candidates are responsible for trying to make this race as "unpolitical" as they can, in order to maintain the integrity of the Democratic party. To me, it just seems like Hillary doesn't care.
well I couldn't exactly blame her for doing that. It's no secret that the heads of the democratic party aren't Hillary supporters. Howard Dean is as anti-Hillary as it gets. Right now he's asking either Barack or Hillary to drop out of the race. Translation: Hillary, you should drop out cause you're behind at the moment. If I was Hillary right now, I would totally be giving the democratic party heads the biggest finger I could. Playing dirty is a good way to do that...
This is an interesting topic. I kind of agree with Daniel, in that I can't exactly blame her, either. But, Hillary definitely has some tug-of-war between her own best interests and what is good for the entire Democratic party.
Sometimes I'm still shocked that we've gone a whole semester with the same Democratic double-header on our hands! Haha.
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