With all of the talk about "bitter-gate", it went unnoticed that Bill Clinton said almost the same thing while running for President in 1991! Read more below.
Bill Clinton Flashback: "All These Economically Insecure White People...Are Scared To Death"
The Huffington Post by Nico Pitney on April 13, 2008 02:41 PM
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"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?'"
There you have it. Bill Clinton made similar statements. So now, Hillary Clinton claims it's elitism? Can you smell the hypocrisy?
I understand McCain getting defensive about the Republican strategy for victory. However, it's inexcusable that a Democrat supports Republican tactics just to win a primary. Sadly, this is not the first (or likely the last time) that Hillary Clinton has done this.