PW's transcript, Bill Clinton, Charlie Rose show, December 15, 2007:
And so I think that the rise of this has sort of crystallized for a lot of people that -- I think doubling health care premiums has had a lot to do with this, the further loss of health insurance coverage in America, so there's a lot of economic anxiety. In the Republican Party, it expresses itself as this sort of -- [PW: here he moves his right hand about, searching for the proper words, hence the gap] very hard line against immigration. In the Democratic Party, it expresses itself as a very hard line against trade. But the real problem is, we haven't created enough good new jobs.
Oh, and as long as Hillary and her surrogates want to accuse Obama of picking on rural voters, she might want to hope that people don't get reminded of when she dissed the entire state of Mississippi last October:
http://apnews.myway.com/...
Clinton tries to revise Mississippi comments
Mar 8, 7:31 AM (ET)
By SARA KUGLER
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) - Democratic presidential contender Hillary Rodham Clinton tried to backpedal Friday from comments she made in October suggesting Mississippi was a backward place for women's progress.
Speaking to radio station WJZD-FM in Gulfport, Miss., the former first lady said the comments she made about the state in the run up to the Iowa caucuses "were not exactly what I said," even though they came directly from an interview she gave to the Des Moines Register in October.
http://www.politico.com/...
Hillary's Mississippi comments
By Jonathan Martin, Politico
October 25, 2007
I've been a little surpised that more GOP presidential candidates haven't jumped on the comments Hillary made to David Yepsen the other day in discussing her candidacy in Iowa.
In case you missed it, the third graf is key:
"I was shocked when I learned Iowa and Mississippi have never elected a woman governor, senator or member of Congress. There has got to be something at work here," she said, theorizing it may be the risk-averse nature of a state built around agriculture.
"I think not only do I have to bring people to me, I have to maybe reassure people here maybe more than I do in New Hampshire, which has had a woman governor," she said.
"I think Iowa poses a special burden, or a special obstacle to me because when you look at the numbers, how can Iowa be ranked with Mississippi? That's not what I see. That's not the quality. That's not the communitarianism, that's not the openness I see in Iowa."
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