Huffpo: NEVERMIND! WJC Flashback: "All These Economically Insecure White People Are Scared to Death"

[flpoljunkie]

Bill Clinton Flashback: "All These Economically Insecure White People...Are Scared To Death"

April 13, 2008 02:41 PM

As the rumination continues over Barack Obama's comments about economically-depressed small town voters, statements made by Bill Clinton on the same topic -- uttered while he was running for president in 1991 -- have now surfaced.

"The reason (George H. W. Bush's tactic) works so well now is that you have all these economically insecure white people who are scared to death," Clinton was quoted saying by the Los Angeles Times in September 1991.

A couple months later, Joe Klein, writing for the Sunday Times, reported that Clinton made the following remarks:

"You know, he wants to divide us over race. I'm from the South. I understand this. This quota deal they're gonna pull in the next election is the same old scam they've been pulling on us for decade after decade after decade. When their economic policies fail, when the country's coming apart rather than coming together, what do they do? They find the most economically insecure white men and scare the living daylights out of them. They know if they can keep us looking at each other across a racial divide, if I can look at Bobby Rush and think, Bobby wants my job, my promotion, then neither of us can look at George Bush and say, 'What happened to everybody's job? What happened to everybody's income? What ... have ... you ... done ... to ... our ... country?'"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/13/bill-clinton-flashback-al_n_96433.html

[berni_mccoy]

1. The Blowback is about to go to Hurricane levels.

[TLM]

3. Category 5 blowback? I like it... n/t

[cliffordu]

9. Me, too.

[TLM]

2. I hope Obama brings this up tonight....

and uses it to expose hillary for her hypocrisy and dishonesty.

30 minutes till....

[tridim]

4. 30 minutes till what?

[NJmaverick]

5. What a shock! Hillary being hypocritical and insincere!

[EffieBlack]

10. Can you IMAGINE the reaction had Obama said that? n/t

[EffieBlack]

6. Wonder if this will make it into the "why is Obama an elitist" analysis?

[Coexist]

7. but cheap theatrics were gotten, so its all good

[johnnydrama]

8. and the blowback

Won't be that either Obama or Bill Clinton said anything that was incorrect. It's that the Hillary campaign couldn't keep their mouths shut, when they should have known that Bill has said very similar things over the years.

[EffieBlack]

11. K&R

[SunsetDreams]

12. K&R

I'm so sick of the hypocracy!