Norma Rae Clinton: Hillary's Middle Class Hypocrisy

And so her suicide campaign continues.

Last Sunday, Barack Obama was speaking at a fundraiser when he said that some small town voters "cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

Hillary pounced on the remarks, calling them "elitist" and "out of touch." Now, we'll get to those remarks in a second. But first we need to address the epic hypocrisy of Hillary Rodham Clinton calling another human being "out of touch" with middle class Americans. I'd like to start by sharing an observation and a quote with you:

Observation: Hillary Clinton is a fantastically wealthy, union-busting, condescending corporate board member with a privileged background who's trying to convince you that she's more "in touch" than a guy whose relatives live in huts.

Second, a quote:

"You know, I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was fulfill my profession."

That was Hillary during her husband's 1992 campaign.

Here's what we can infer from those comments: 1) Hillary thinks homemaking is beneath her. 2) Hillary thinks that a woman who doesn't pursue a profession is wasting her life. 3) Hillary hates working class families. OK, maybe "hate" is too strong -- but she's certainly shown a willingness to work against them.

Take for instance her days as a union-busting board member for Wal-Mart, or her partnership in the notoriously anti-union Rose Law Firm. What can we infer from those associations? That Hillary Clinton hates union workers, naturally. Again, maybe "hate" isn't the right word. But she's certainly shown a willingness to suppress and litigate against them.

And now the pant-suited wonder is tossing back shots with the working folks of Indiana, making believe she's a gun-toting huntress -- as if we'd forget that she's been one of the most staunchly anti-gun politicians in Washington since the 1990s. Isn't it adorable? She's pretending to be one of the little people! The same little people she's belittled and screwed over in the past -- whether it was through NAFTA, Wal-Mart, or her own elitist, out-of-touch comments.

She's trying to paint Obama as aloof. Meanwhile she's swilling Pabst and bragging about all the bucks she's bagged in carefully-staged photo ops. Could there be anything more condescending? Does she really think we're stupid enough to believe that her fingernails have ever known the scourge of dirt? What's next, a quail hunt with John Kerry? The truth is, the closest Hillary Clinton's ever come to a dead buck is one of Huma Abedin's deerskin handbags.

Now, onto Obama's remarks. Were they stupid? Absolutely. He screwed up. He sounded less like the kid who was raised by his grandparents, and more like the editor of The Harvard Law Review. But do those stupid remarks reflect his values and history? I don't believe so. As a matter of fact, unlike Hillary, Obama actually has experience living as a working class American. Unlike Hillary (who grew up safely ensconced in Chicago's upscale Park Ridge), Obama got his fingernails dirty trying to better the lives of the working poor in inner-city Chicago.

And by the way, very few people are talking about the most important part of this story: that Obama was right (even though he made his point arrogantly). The people of Pennsylvania -- just like those of Ohio, and Michigan, and Indiana, and the rest of the United States -- are angry about seeing their jobs go overseas, their wages stagnate, and their retirement funds dwindle. Many of them turn to their faith to get through hard times, and rightly so. The question is, who's the best person to address their needs -- the guy who grew up middle class, or the woman whose efforts to appear middle class begin and end in a bar?

In the past week, we've seen Bill Clinton brazenly lie to cover up Hillary's brazen lies. We've seen her pander to the working class by painting herself as a "praise God, pass the ammunition" alcoholic. We've seen that there isn't a staged event she considers too insulting to our intelligence, or a story she wouldn't needlessly embellish to win our votes. She's become so mind-numbingly phony -- so completely transparent, that anyone -- even a stupid little housewife (her assessment, not mine) can see it plain as a duck in a rifle scope.

Don't be fooled, working people of Pennsylvania, Indiana, West Virginia and North Carolina. Don't be duped into eating out of Hillary's $109M hands the way the media is bound to do all week. Don't forget that while Obama may suck at bowling, at least he's no suck up. And above all, don't forget what Hillary Rodham Clinton really is:

A blueblood in blue-collared clothing.

Comments

[dadumdee]

The public is not responding to Obama's comments because they are true, lol. The whole point of the second amendment was that when Government gets out of control, as we are seeing, that the states keep a well armed militia to protect its citizens. Pennsylvanian's know the signs of fascism. We know what it means when Blackwater employees are treated better than our voluntary servicemen. That means you're undermining the military. We know what happens when you weaken the Constitution and civil liberities. That means you plan on violating ithem. We know what it means when the Fed floods the economy with fiat money. That means the dollars value will fall. We know what it means when gas, grain, and other essentials prices go up. That means we have to live poorer. Why do you think Ron Paul is doing so well in PA? Oh, maybe you don't know because it doesnt get reported. Anyway, the people Obama was speaking of are the people who feel they've seen the signs for years. These are the people who know that when gas hits $10 a gallon, we have no infrastructure, Blackwater starts detaining natural born Americans, and our families feel hunger pangs, you better have God, a gun, or both, because shit is about to get ugly.

[Jimbo62]

Keith Olbermann replayed some of Hillary's comments last night, her outrage over Obama's remarks......SHE WAS READING THEM FROM A SCRIPT. She was so outraged, she had to read them from a script. She kept looking down at her notes to find the next outrage and deliver it with her concerned tone, she's so concerned she has to read her own outrage. Why doesn't someone else point this out. It is so blatently fake.

[zjr909]

Someone needs to address the larger issue: is it really necessary that presidential candidates present themselves to the working class as "one of us"? and, if so, why? Has anyone taken a poll, specifically asking Americans if they consider this kind of role playing essential in a president? All but a couple presidents - at most - have come from at least somewhat privileged backgrounds. Yet every candidate seems to feel this pressing need to possess "the common touch." But you know what? No matter how privileged your background, there's one absolutely foolproof way to show the people you're one of them: by genuinely caring what happens to them. Granted, it's probably as difficult as the biblical camel's passage through the eye of a needle for a child of privilege to care about others in anything but the most superficial way - but it is possible. And if they do care about ordinary citizens, then they don't have to go hunting, or bowling, or drinking - or any other mindless activity - just to prove they've got "the common touch."

[liz]

Very well said. To be yourself, to be honest, to be authentic, to be respectful is the best way to honor other people. If you respect yourself and really respect others, you have no need to fake, or flip-flop, to pander, or to lie. To blatently try to deceive is the most condescending thing a politician does. It assumes stupidity and gullibility on the part of the electorate in direct contradiction of the underlying values of the founding fathers (some of them anyway). On these criteria, I decided to vote for Obama rather than Billary. Obviously, Karl Rove and his ilk are on to something, or we would not have had 8 years of W. Surely almost everyone can see where that has gotten us. If only we could turn back the clock and better support the elitist Al Gore.

[vippy]

People will hear what they wish to. Either you like Obama, if something bothers you, one normally
does a little research. Those who find fault with what he said never liked what he had to say
anyway. They go for the honey dripping Hillary, who says exactly the opposite of what she voted on,
I guess they don't mind that she voted TWICE for the Patriot Act, condoned torture by voting for the
Military Commission Act, on the board of directors who were against unions at WalMart, for NAFTA
yet lies about it. A surely curious bunch of people who will get what they deserve again.

[JedReport]

If you want to see video of her "cookies comment" I've posted it here:

http://www.jedreport.com/2008/04/hypocrite-hil-1.html

It's pretty breathtaking -- she's become the very right wing that she was once supposedly a victim of.

[Manx]

In Pennsylvania, Hillary Clinton has been portrayed to the blue-collar workers as Rosie The Riveter.
Outside of the campaign, I wonder when is the last time multi-millionaires and Hollywood groupies, Hillary and Bill invited a blue-collar worker to their home for dinner???

[Hollyse]

Before entering the Clinton's house "Blue-Collar Workers" are asked to take off their shoes not to bring 'dirty' in. May I now ask the Clintons to wipe their feet on a mat before leaving home when entering the Blue-Colla­red-Worker­'s world! We don't want them to dirty up the land under our feet! We should check the copyright date of Hillary's manual she's using thinking she's so called 'common man' in 2008.

[moodpost]

Over the last couple of weeks I've made comments to the effect that voters just want to be on the winning side. They don't care if their candidates lie and they even expect it, because they know the lying will fool enough people to enable their side to win. It just now occurred to me that I should be using this argument to convince independents and HRC supporters that now is the time to see the light and start supporting Obama. Not because he lies, but to be on the winning team. There will be some initial grief at having "lost", but this will be replaced rather quickly by the realization that you are on the winning team. And the bonus is, that you can get back your sense of national pride and start to feel as if there is some hope that you can visit a foreign country without being hated by everyone who sees that you are an American. Join the winning team! It feels good!

[jfor]

HuffPost's Pick

This election isnt about teams, give me a break it is about saving this Nation, it is about giving some kind of chance at a future for my children and grandchildren. I am not a republican or a democrat but I am a proud American and that is the only team I want to be on.

[lapinbrim]

I'll start by saying that Hillary's spin on, a snippet of, Obama's comments provide the most glaring example of her pathological willingness to distort the wordspositions of her opponents. My revulsion at her tactics is only exceeded by my exponential revulsion of the media perpetuating the distortion.

Most of the shows I watched opened by spending several minutes repeating HRC's comments and analyzing them before playing what Obama actually said. Worse yet, Joe Scarborough and others chose to paraphrase Obama's remarks in the most inflammatory way. For example, how does Obama's mentioning that sometimes people develop antipathy towards those unlike themselves morph into Obama calling folks bigots?

Furthermore, was he not dead on in pointing out that the Republican M.O. for the past 40 years has been to nurture such antipathy, if not flat out racism?

Yes, HRC has sullied the discourse but the media has made it impossible to have an intelligent discussion about issues that matter because of their they believe doing so would lower their ratings. Perhaps we need to bring back the fairness doctrine.

[WAstateliberal]

Finally someone quotes the "Tammy Wynette" interview!! If you ever needed proof that the MSM gives Clinton a free-ride, you need only look to the fact that no outlet has pulled this interview out. This was big news at the time.

[mcnairbo]

Yeah, Hillary's had nothing but a free ride her whole time in Washingto.­..........­.!!!! Snark, sorry. just shot a bunch of coffee out my nose.

[drblack]

Hillary is only worth $109,000,000. She is just like you and I.

[mcnairbo]

Yes, and Abraham Lincoln Obama purchased a mansion with the help of his slumlord buddy just like you and I have both done. Isn't that the kind of fresh new politician we need in Washington?

[Lucille]

mcnairbo,

You don't know what your talking about. The gentlemen who sold Obama that property is not a slumlord as Hillary falsely stated on one of the previous debates. You are just repeated her proven lies.

Obama did nothing wrong in the real estate transaction, and it's not his fault that that man is now having problems with the law, which has nothing to do with Obama. As you are aware, if Obama could be dragged into it, the Clintons would have made sure of it by now, but because Obama is not involved in anyway, their peddling the slumlord lie.

If you really want to slam Obama, at least try to come up with something original and true, if you can find it.

[iheardthisbefore]

Seth....they would love to hear from you at the_________(fill in with most any
supermarket check out rag).

[AsaNisMasa]

We're bitter about the price of gas out here in the Midwest too. Although I presume that's shared throughout the US.

[RRonin]

I, for one, applaud Senator Clinton's strong stand against elitism. Now to prove that she's just not exploiting the non-elites of this nation for her personal political advantage, she must immediately reject the support all her super-delegates. After all, what is more elitist than a "super" delegate?

[Janney]

Great observation!

[Hollyse]

Im for one, applaud you RRonin as Hillary's dictionary of 'elite' m mrans something entirely different tyhan Websters. Thank you for that silver bullet!

[funnyguy]

Great post, but I suggest an alternative title: Tonya Harding Clinton.

[S1m0n]

Her face in the chug-a-lug photos of the other day was the dead spitting image of Tenniell's depiction of Alice in Wonderland's Queens of Hearts: http://www.cartoonstock.com/lowres/csl2993l.jpg

I'm sure she'd be excellent at yelling "Off with their Heads!"

[OSUMercutio]

Great article. Just wondering, was that last line a pun? blue collar = blue collar worker, but also her blue-collared pantsuits...hehe