Hillary Clinton, Working Class Whites, & Barack Obama…Oh My!
As I write this, helicopters are circling over head and police are conducting house to house searches in my Black working class neighborhood… Yet I’m writing about this…but there is a method to the madness.
Hey Hillary, what do you know about Compton? I know you snuck in and out and got your 90220 shirt before Super Tuesday, but what do you really know about Compton? How will you address the issues in my community? Will you just build more prisons like your husband did. Bill is known as the “incarceration president.” Hmmm, thats how he was able to help create all of those new jobs in the 90’s, right? Under his watch prison became big business, costing tax payers what? $70 Billion+ per year? Considering what you said about southern White working class folks in ‘95 (“Screw ‘em” that is what you said right?) If you felt that way about them, I am almost certain that what goes on in Compton is the least of your concerns.
There’s all this hoopla about Barack Obama’s“problem” connecting with working class white voters. Interestingly, there has been no talk about Hillary Clinton’s problem connecting with Black voters.
Barack Obama does not have a problem with connecting with working class white voters, some just have a problem connecting with him. We don’t hear about it that much, but its a known fact that there are some white people that have indicated that they will not vote for a Black person and that race is a factor in their voting decision period. (I’m sure there are some Black folks that feel the same way).
I just wonder if the people, especially the working class white people we hear about in the media every day… believe that Hillary Clinton has their best interest at heart because she’s white. I also wonder what other decisions they make based on race and why.
I know that Hillary’s campaign has done a great job of trying to paint Obama as an uppity elitist negro, while making her seem like the “home town” beer drinking gun shooting white working class every day woman trying to get by! People are actually believing this nonsense. It’s ridiculous.
Umm hello… That’s not who Hillary Clinton is at all, she may have some Scranton roots, but she hasn’t really lived the life of a ordinary working class white woman! More folks have more in common with Barack Obama than they do with Hillary Clinton.
Lets take a look at some not so ordinary facts about the Former First Lady:
1. Hillary Rodham Clinton is married to Bill Clinton (The 42nd US President).
2. Hillary Rodham Clinton was America’s First Lady for 8 years.
3. Hillary Rodham Clinton has been a Senator since 2000.
4. Hillary Rodham Clinton was Arkansas’ First Lady.
5. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s family made $109 MILLION just last year!
6. Hillary Rodham Clinton graduated from Yale Law School.
7. Hillary Rodham Clinton graduated from Wellesley College.
She can throw back as many beers and rub elbows with as many locals in working class communities as she wants to for the cameras, but Hillary Rodham Clinton is not the the girl next door. Most working class white voters have more in common with Barack Obama than they do with her.
In 2008, its shameful that any American would base their voting decisions on the race and ethnicity of a candidate. It doesn’t surprise me, but it certainly disgusts me.
We have a woman who lied about being under sniper fire and God only knows what else she’s lied about… She voted for a war that has cost the lives of young soldiers and is costing us ###
SEE: Iraq War Cost. Didn’t her husband dodge the draft?
Hillary, with plenty of help from Bill, has run a dirty campaign throughout this contest. Her husband, is also a known liar (I did not have sexual relations with that woman… I didn’t inhale… I didn’t say that…). Can we believe anything that comes out of his mouth?
Bill Clinton has used race and has himself played the race card, while accusing others of playing HIS game. Speaking of playing games, Bill Clinton played golf at an exclusive WHITE ONLY country club in Arkansas, what was that about? (I’m sure he’d say but that was a mistake, my office is in Harlem now).
This 90’s power couple wants back in the white house at all costs.
Working class white folks how can you believe Hillary? How can you trust her and her husband? Working class white folks that will only vote for a white candidate, why is that?
We live in the United States, but are so divided. At some point, we must all see reconcile our issues, read between the lines, and acknowledge who is doing the dividing and why?
Together We Stand, Divided We Fall!
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May 15th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
I’ll have to wholeheartedly agree with your perspective on Hillary…I’ll put it even more bluntly, though–the Clintons SUCK. They’ve been dirty for a long time. As far as who is doing the dividing, I think the media is primarily responsible…it’s getting more obvious as this election year rolls on.