How Hillary Clinton sold out working women & then never apologized

[gobears10]

By contrast, examine Hillary Clinton’s comments defending welfare reform, assembled by Buzzfeed, in the late 1990s and early 2000s: Clinton wrote that 'too many of those on welfare had known nothing but dependency all their lives.' She suggested that women recipients were 'sitting around the house doing nothing.' She described the 'move from welfare to work' as 'the transition from dependency to dignity.' Or a 'substitute dignity for dependence.' Put more simply, she stated, 'these people are no longer deadbeats—they’re actually out there being productive.'

In sum, she has frequently validated a pathologization of poor black women that has often served as a pretext for Republican assaults on the social safety net. She has not repudiated these remarks...

And so Clinton now deflects her record on welfare reform and wants to turn the discussion to purportedly perceived slights against her as a woman. It will apparently be a consistent theme of this campaign. The Clintons are experts at abstracting gender from the question of gender justice. The same goes for race. In 2008, the wife of America’s 'first black president' brazenly stoked racist sentiment in her failed efforts to stop Obama.

Full article: http://www.salon.com/2015/11/02/the_betrayal_that_should_haunt_hillary_clinton_how_she_sold_out_working_women_then_never_apologized/

[bravenak]

1. I saw this earlier

[NanceGreggs]

2. Already posted ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251757740

... and in the Top 5 on the Greatest Page. I guess you didn't - uh, yeah, you probably didn't see that.

No offense, but you guys need some new material. Recycling the same old/same old has become tiresome when it's spread out over a week. Posting the same BS on the same day really smacks of desperation.

[JustAnotherGen]

3. +1 n/t

[saturnsring]

4. kkkarl rove thanks you for doing his work for him - with so many dems bashing dems he's got

a lot of free time

[UglyGreed]

5. K/R