Remember when Hillary was the candidate of "hard-working whites"?

[jfern]

Because non-whites obviously aren't hard working.

“I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on,” she said in the interview, citing an article by The Associated Press.

It “found how Senator 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.”

“There’s a pattern emerging here,” she said.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/08/clinton-touts-white-support/?_r=0

[AtomicKitten]

1. I remember

[Warren DeMontague]

2. LA LA LA LA LA

[BeanMusical]

10. Lol!

[Juicy_Bellows]

3. Anything to win.

It's not that Hillary is doing anything another seasoned politician wouldn't do. It's that Sanders doesn't fucking play the game. He is running, and I hope will win on, genuine policy and progressive ideals. Go Bernie!

[tularetom]

4. If she gets the nomination we won't have to remember it

All the stuff she's been spouting about criminal justice reform? Once she thinks she's sewed up the African American vote, you'll never hear a word about that again.

And the fake accent she used when she spoke to black audiences will exist only on YouTube.

[LuvNewcastle]

6. She ain't no-ways tired!

[Catherina]

20. +1000~! n/t

[magical thyme]

5. did you mean this?

[BeanMusical]

8. +1

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

7. Yeah, there was a pattern emerging there, and it was a pretty ugly one.

That was when I swore she'd never get a vote from me.

[Garrett78]

9. Nixon-esque

Typical Southern Strategy. Yet somehow a majority of Dems think she's the best candidate. The party has moved so far to the right over the years that it's to the right of Eisenhower and even Nixon in many ways. But labels/party affiliation are a potent force. People follow the label no matter how far to the right it goes.

But lefties have to take responsibility. As Bernard Chazelle wrote years ago, "America has lefties but no left." Until lefties get organized, starting at the local level (take over PTAs, city councils, etc.), the neoliberal faction will continue to dominate at the national level.

[Vattel]

11. I honestly think that sentence just came out wrong.

I think she was trying to say that Obama's support among working class white Americans was slipping, but first she forgot to put the "white" in and then when she did it sounded like she was equating hard-working Americans with white Americans. It's not plausible to think that Clinton deliberately wanted to equate hard-working Americans and white Americans. It would have been obvious to her that saying something racist like that would not help her win the nomination.

[Garrett78]

12. Even if you give her the benefit of that doubt...

The fact remains she was employing the Southern Strategy (as Nixon did, as Bush did against McCain) by suggesting Obama was not electable on account of his race. She was in desperation mode after thinking she'd breeze to the nomination.

[GoneFishin]

13. You could be right. My beef is the disparate treatment and fake outrage that would have

occurred if that sentence had come out of Bernie's mouth, regardless if it was just a slip or a misquote.

They would have put that quote on a billboard in Times Square with Bernies face next to it.

[Vattel]

14. I agree. Many of those who have been trying to portray Bernie

as weaker than Clinton on issues related to race have shown no interest in fairness or honesty or integrity.

[ibegurpard]

15. Oh yeah

And now she's the Great White Savior. This is the most revolting development so far in the campaign.

[cali]

16. but it's Hillary, so her supporters here who do so love to

run around screeching about Bernie being insensitive to PoC or worse and love to tell us we are white supremacist elitists, have a million excuses for St. Hillary having run a dog whistle campaign.

There's hypocrisy and then there's that shit- hypocrisy on steroids

[John Poet]

17. Hillary, The Great White Hope

(Ironic, isn't it-- because Bernie happens to have a lot of white supporters, suddenly that's a "sin"-- while Hillary was BRAGGING on her white support last time around).


“I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on,” she said in the interview, citing an article by The Associated Press.

It “found how Senator 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.”

“There’s a pattern emerging here,” she said.

“These are the people you have to win if you’re a Democrat in sufficient numbers to actually win the election. Everybody knows that,” she said in the interview.

[jeff47]

18. Ancient History!! Yawn!!

Just thought I'd help out the Clinton support team.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

19. But..but..she's EVOLVED!

Or, has hired more expensive advisers to tell her "DON'T SAY THAT!"

[Doctor_J]

21. I remember when she wasn't sure if Obama was a Muslim

A very unpleasant personality