Bill, Hillary Clinton: "White Voters are more important"

In a desperate attempt to drive up the margins in West Virginia and Kentucky, Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton resort to sleazy race-baiting: "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."
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When you hear her inflection, it comes off even worse than it does in print. She begins to say that Obama is losing support among "working" Americans, then pauses to specify what she is actually referring to is "hard working Americans," then pauses and specifies even more precisely "white" Americans. She then continues, noting that "whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."

OK, Hillary, we hear you. As opposed to all those lazy blacks and do-nothing white college grads, you've got the support of the people who actually work hard in this country - uneducated white people. That is, in essence, exactly the appeal made by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton after the Civil War: the same argument, made to mobilize the same constituency.

The first time around, this agenda created a split in the movement for woman suffrage that would hobble the movement for 50 long years until American women finally won the right to vote in 1920. The whole sordid history is a painful chapter in American feminism that causes American feminists discomfort even today, nearly 150 years later. Some feminists have promoted Anthony and Stanton as historical heroines and role models, and in the 1970s Anthony became the first woman to appear on American money when the Susan B. Anthony dollar was minted. Other feminists strongly object, arguing that ignoring the racist legacy of these women only exacerbates the racial divisions that have plagued feminism in America.

But racism was not the only appeal on which Clinton based what Faludi sees as her effort to "remake the political world for future female politicians." The other was war. In order to convince those uneducated white voters that she had sufficient testosterone to be Commander-in-Chief-from-Day-One, she flatly stated that she would have no qualms about "obliterating" another country, leading her confidant James Carville to state that if Hillary gave Obama one of her balls, "they'd both have two."

Full article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-ostertag/hillary-clintons-legacy_b_101145.html

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[politicalfarce]

Hillary Cinton is not racist, but she is definitely a calculative ruthless person, deliberately playing on middle America's latent subconcious prejudices which make it hard for them to vote for a black man. Shame on her for making it harder for the democratic nominee to compete against McCain. Shame on her for her unforgivable treason.

[iamisraelpramirez]

Republicans for OBAMA!!! Enough is enough! I voted for Bush and his Dad four times and now I realize while Bush Sr was ok Bush Jr is a dork...

[BOXCHEVYBOY350]

Obama Kicking a** and taking names four more years!!!!!!!!!!!

[BOXCHEVYBOY350]

@Nettegen ha ha!!!!!!!!! you were wrong!!!!!!!

[FlankerVT]

i voted for her. We would be better off if she won.

Its funny. They would put a black man as president before they would put a woman. This race was racial.

And those moronic liberal white voters voted for obama.

Whites are the reason why obama won.

well at least racism is not prevelant anymore, who cares about women right?

[DONUTBUZZCUT]

@imissyesterday what was that about the Bradley effect sucker!

[nddavi58]

u know what i don't get? is when white liberals talk about how "white ppl are racist" or talk down of their race--and there white too!! it's like if a father and his toddler are taking short walk down the street and he's harassed and hated on by--- other fathers!! its a wtf moment... it baffles me. i being of color would never say something like "ya know there r too many black ppl voting for obama!!" it is disrespectful to my race. Why not to u whites? plz respond..

[OoohLaLaLamour]

Olbermann is a shabbos goy. He has no shame. Olbermann needs a Jena 6 style beat down. He needs a edumacation in race relations.

[kiwikroger]

boy were you proved wrong!

[modonaut]

Sorry, Keith O., I'll have to disagree with you on this one. Simply stating a fact isn't a racist mistake.

[Nettegen]

You're right. Senator Obama...oh, I'm sorry President-elect Obama has no chance. Yep, no chance at all.

[imissyesterday]

The Bradley effect is what will happen Nov.4th. When the curtain is pulled and no one can be called a racist for saying what they believe the vote will be posted for the white canidate. Sorry always was and always will be that way when you have a majority race in control.