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'Hard-Working Americans, White Americans'
May 9th 2008 9:15AM
Filed Under:eHillary Clinton, Democrats, 2008 President, Gaffes

"I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," she said in the interview, citing an article by The Associated Press.Does Hillary Clinton believe that white Americans are the hard working ones, and all of Barack Obama's supporters are lazy blacks and college kids? Of course not, but that's how it sounds to unfriendly ears.
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.
Now, I know what she meant, but the longer this goes on, the more hits Hillary stands to take. Yesterday, Countdown reported that Clinton communications director Howard Wolfson is in talks for a book deal (Wolfson denies this), and Time had an embarrassing revelation about Mark Penn. I think Barack Obama should do whatever it takes to get Hillary on the ticket right now. Seat Michigan and Florida? Fine, seat the delegation from Brigadoon, for all I care. Let's just get on with it.
Ironically, I think she was actually trying to pitch herself as the best pick for VP, essentially telling Barack that she can deliver older white voters that have eluded him. As for the pattern? It is clear that the Clinton campaign has been campaigning heavily on Hillary's appeal to working class white folk, especially since just before Pennsylvania, but the campaign has had a "tin ear," as Geoff Garin puts it.
They haven't figured out a way to appeal to their base without trashing everyone else. First, it was the idea that small states don't matter, caucus states don't matter, now the liberal base doesn't matter, black people don't matter, those throngs of new, young voters don't matter. The significant numbers of working class whites who already support Obama don't matter.
Being able to deliver old-school white swing voters is important, and I hope that Obama is listening to the true message here, however clumsily delivered. It is the same one I delivered in March, and again yesterday: Obama might win without Hillary, but with her, he can't lose.
Recent Comments
(Page 1 of 5)Bill9:59AMMay 9th 2008
yea she is right we do need a hard nose president and Clinton is it
tfitz101710:05AMMay 9th 2008
This post from Brutuss100 (et2MF?) is so typical of the Hillary argument. Brutuss accuses the writer of playing the 'race card' but then goes on to say, "get over it! The blacks ARE stacking the deck, because they have a dream, which will be the whites' nightmare."
Really? Whatchagonnadowhentheycomeforyou!?
jpgoodrow10:07AMMay 9th 2008
Why do my posts keep getting deleted? Does free speech only apply to Obama supporters?
When Obama has pandered to black voters it's called "loyalty." When Clinton panders to white it's insinuated as racism.
CLINTON or MCCAIN '08
America Needs A REAL President, Not Another Feelie-Good Obama Sermon
tfitz101710:09AMMay 9th 2008
JPgoodrow, go to mozilla.com and download Firefox. AOL software just doesn't work very well on AOL.
Always good to revisit that Brigadoon article, T.
Did you see the McCain ad that DK posted. It's called 'Scotch and Beaver', I think.
Jo Ann10:26AMMay 9th 2008
What would she know about hardworing people>>>>
Donald Smith10:28AMMay 9th 2008
I truly believe that Hillary studied under David Hannum, who uttered the phrase "there's a sucker born every minute." And that is exactly what Barack Obama would be if he even considers Hillary as a potential VP candidate.
All of the Hillary faithful who threatened to vote for McCain if Obama became the nominee may very well line up behind him now. But, all of the Obama faithful...including the expansion of the Democrats voting base ignited by his candidacy... will see it as just another Clinton-style sell-out and vote for McCain, myself included.
It just seems like too much to lose, just to placate a whining Clinton campaign. If the Democrats can't capitalize on what they've accomplished, they will deserve to lose the White House in 2008.
Harry P. Snyder Jr.10:38AMMay 9th 2008
Hillary and Billary Clinton are beyond pale. They both lie like rugs. Voters are not fooled by them in spite of the fact they think they can fool voters. Those illicit money-grabbing crooked political dogs who have been seen arm in arm with shady characters have met their Waterloo in the form of an African American named Barack Obama and have ran themselves dry trying to keep up with him while nipping at his heels from behind the curtains useing their watchdogs to make the attacks. They are BRUTAL. All the while play so innocent. They have taken on the wrong person at the wrong time in history. They can not take Obama down. He is too smart to fall into their traps, he sees their old political tricks for what they are and rides the wind out. He has sailed on in spite of the mud-slinging Clintons and their mud-slinging followers. Obama has shown the guts and staying power that spells leadership with a capital L. The fall of the Clintons is welcomed by many many insiders in DC and voters in all states who are soured by Clinton tactics and dishonesty ; the Clinton's ill reputation is no secret.
Paul Kessler10:43AMMay 9th 2008
Get off the WHITE SUPREMACY KICK ALL YOU UNEDUCATED SKINHEADS! BLACK IS BEAUTIFULL. WHITE IS BEAUTIFULL. RED IS BEAUTIFULL. YELLOW IS BEAUTIFULL. RACE-MONGERING WILL GET YOU NOWHERE. IT ONLY SHOWS YOUR IGNORANCE.
neil10:44AMMay 9th 2008
i had enough of this mess..obama got 90% of the black vote..'so what'..guess who got 90% of the black vote also.bill clinton,al gore ,john kerry..so whats your freakin point..blacks always vote for dems 90%..no matter who the person is...so whats your freakin point here..that blacks only vote for obama 90%..guess what u all are so ignorant..do so freakin research before u open your mouth..
lulu10:44AMMay 9th 2008
The core of America is exactly who supports Hillary...white, blue collar Americans. Americans whose own parents couldn't afford to send them to college, but who worked their butts off to make sure THEIR kids went to college. They've given them a roof over their heads, food in their stomachs, and a lifetime of love and support. True Americans who watch their kids join the military and fight for their country. True Americans who will give the shirt off their backs to help a friend, neighbor or community in need.
Americans who do not have an education, but are the backbone of this country...and I'm proud to be one of those Americans, and proud to be a supporter of another true American...Hillary Clinton.
David S.10:46AMMay 9th 2008
Hillary may be able to deliver white voters more, but she has shown she cannot deliver swing/moderate voters well at all. Obama does better there; and against McCain, who also does well with that group, you have to have a contender. The undecided folks wil deliver the election in November.
As to Clinton being the VP, fine with me.
wlcn.johnson10:47AMMay 9th 2008
Barack Obama's supporters ARE lazy blacks and college kids...
HillaryMccain0810:47AMMay 9th 2008
Leave it to the people of the Democratic party to select a radical,racist, hate-filled, pandering,, corrupt, unpatriotic smooth-talking snake oil salesman to the highest office in the land. This country is in big trouble and we don't need an inexperienced arrogant rookie President in training wheels.Where is the DLC when you need them?
Thankfully he will go down big-time in the general election where the black vote is very small.and the DNC can hang their heads in shame once again.
I fear for this country and if Hillary is not the nominee my support will go to McCain as the lesser of two evils
Bill Clinton, First Black Pres..10:54AMMay 9th 2008
Hillary and Bill Clinton have a short memory; as most liars do. We all recall that Bill Clinton bragged about how he could get the BLACK VOTES. Clinton's husband, former president Bill Clinton, was called the first black president years ago. Now, they want to change their tune. How anyone could throw a vote to a Clinton is beyond reason. We are geeting rid of one lying Pres. Why would anyone want to replace him with another lying first lassie and laddie with the last name Clinton? I don't have stupid written on my forehead.
OBAMA 200810:59AMMay 9th 2008
Honestly, I do not understand why so many people are up in arms about blacks supporting Obama, when they supported Billary until HE showed his true colors in SC. Thanks to Bill, Hillary lost her black pass. But pro-black is NOT anti-white.
I don't see anyone screaming its racist, sexist, and ageist that Hillary has the support of white woman over 65!
Terrance 8911:02AMMay 9th 2008
wlcn.johnson.. racist pig.
Jerry Keating11:06AMMay 9th 2008
neil 10:44AM May 9th 2008 YOUR POST IS RIGHT ONE, SOCK IT TO THE BRAIN-DEAD BRO.
i had enough of this mess..obama got 90% of the black vote..'so what'..guess who got 90% of the black vote also.bill clinton,al gore ,john kerry..so whats your freakin point..blacks always vote for dems 90%..no matter who the person is...so whats your freakin point here..that blacks only vote for obama 90%..guess what u all are so ignorant..do so freakin research before u open your mouth..
neil11:13AMMay 9th 2008
this is AMERICA..we ought to shout down any racist pigs that still exist ,,,say no..tell them to crawl back into their holes..this is a new day,..a new america..and your racist mindset is not wanted here..we love all americans white brown ,red ,yellow,black..we love u all..this world and country was built off the backs of everyone..so any citzen has the right to be president..and if u don't like them..don't vote for them..but not because of their color...it only shows how ignorant u are
Duane Martin11:21AMMay 9th 2008
lulu @ 10:44AM May 9th 2008 types this:
"The core of America is exactly who supports
Hillary...white, blue collar Americans".
Come to the Party! The core of American voters just made Barack Obama the Democrat nominee. A core in American politics is called the majority and the majority ruled Clinton out. We do not elect by CLASS nor is the winner announced by CLASS. Nor do the delegates and superdelegates nominate by CLASS. Nor does the ELECTORIAL COLLEGE operate by CLASS.
Get over it! CLASS is not what makes or breaks an election. The voters see Clinton as unelectable and that si why Barack Obama leads in states won, delegates won, popular votes won and why after Tuesday's downfall of the HUN Superdelgates are rushing to him. Don't forget to count those Superdelegates that have already pledged their support to Obaam behind the shades and will go public one by one and openly endorse Obama in the days to come. That is how politics works with the BIG BOYS. Hillary does not have a pot to pee in left or a chance in hell left to compete with Barack Obama. IT IS OVER. Clintons are history. Nothing will change hereon out. Obama will be seated in the White House and all the Clinton whiners will be left holding their bag of dirty tricks.
Where ya been?
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Brutuss1009:43AMMay 9th 2008
WAKE UP PEOPLE!!! Hillary didn't initiate those things she said, she was quoting an AP Poll which had already stated those facts. You can't start this race-baiting BS again (like before) and expect that we are buying it. Don't tie Hillary to starting rumours when it was the AP Polls that brought this all up. Besides, is it really so far off the truth? If OMGbama was a white man, he'd be done by now and we wouldn't even be having these racially charged arguments!! The black vote ONLY came out to vote for the black candidate... get over it! The blacks ARE stacking the deck, because they have a dream, which will be the whites' nightmare.