Letters to the Editor
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@ micro ms. -- Look at the comma!
Seriously, can anyone truly tell me that Clinton's "found how 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." comment doesn't smack of both classism and racism? Apparently, the only hard working Americans out there are now those who are white without college educations. I wish I'd known that earlier. Here I've been busting my ass, when I should be lying around drinking cappucino or something.
A comma divides the list that Clinton gives between the words "hard-working Americans" and "white Americans." She is not saying that hard-working Americans excludes black Americans. There are some black Americans who support Clinton. All she is doing is discussing demographics the way politicians always to. I haven't noticed you calling racism when Obama supporters point out that Obama is getting the overwhelming majority of black voters. This isn't racism. It's a simple fact. Both arguments are electability arguments and both sides have every right to make those arguments.
As to people without college educations, I wish more people would speak up for them instead of denigrating them. Their votes are just as important as those of college educated people. Clinton is not saying that people with college educations do not work hard. She is talking most probably about physical labor. She would know something about this since she once had a job cleaning fish (this is true!).