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• Tuesday, April 15, 2008 09:05 PM

  I am going to keep posting this until someone actually picks it up

  Obama's remarks have always sounded familiar to me, and behold:

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

  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 [Bush] 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?'"

  So, people get scared and frustrated, and they focus on what they control, and they vote for whoever says that they're going to protect what it is that they feel they can control, and can give them someone to blame for their troubles. Even though the people that they're voting for screw them over pretty much every single time. But they play on their fear that someone is going to come along and take away whatever it is that they have left. Fear leads to people voting against their own self-interests.

  You know. WHAT OBAMA SAID.

  So, there this quote is, picked up by Huffington, out there on the internet, in the PRESS, and "bittergate" has been going on for a week now, and has anyone confronted Clinton on this? Was her husband talking down to poor people, or was he telling the truth? And no one has has so much as mentioned this quote. A little scary, don't you think? Pro-Obama media bias, my ass.

  —YellowDogDem Read YellowDogDem's other letters
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