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Home Front: Politix
Bill Clinton: Whites without college degrees '€˜need to be brought along to the future'
2016-06-03
[Wash Times] Former President Bill Clinton told a New Jersey crowd Wednesday that non-college educated whites "need to be brought along to the future."

Mr. Clinton campaigned for his wife in Crandford by tearing into Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s comments on illegal immigration. He then implied that Mr. Trump’s supporters cling to a vision for America that is better left in the past.

"We have been told over and over again in this election we ought to build a wall against Mexico, we ought to stop the Muslims from coming in, we want to do all this stuff," Mr. Clinton said, Yahoo News reported. "Let me tell you, all those people who want to do that -- and one in particular -- forget what the real security challenges we face are."

The former president then turned his attention to non-college-educated white Americans. Exit polling in early April showed roughly half of Republican primary voters with high school diplomas or less support the real estate mogul.

"We all need to recognize that white, non-college-educated Americans have seen great drops in their income, have seen great increases in their unemployment rate, have seen drops in their life expectancy, and they need to be brought along to the future. But they can’t live under the illusion that you can reclaim a past which is just that -- past. This country is always about the future," Mr. Clintonsaid.

Recent polls pitting Mr. Trump against Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton for the 2016 U.S. presidential election show the race as a tossup. A recent ABC News/Washington Post poll suggests the billionaire would win by two percentage points, while an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll gave Mrs. Clinton a three-point victory.

"We are looking at ... the most disliked candidates in a single election," said Jennifer Dineen, a University of Connecticut polling expert and director of the school’s joint poll with the Hartford Courant newspaper, The Hill reported Thursday. "You’re not determining who’s supporting a candidate; you are trying to determine how strongly someone opposes a candidate."
Posted by:Besoeker

#21  One thing the alt-right doesn't quite seem to get is that a lot of the leaders of the anti-right are lily-white anglo-saxon types who went to private schools and the ivy league and really do believe in aristocracy and inequality-among-people. The John Kerrys are a lot better than the rest of the country at being ancient regime. Hell, look at Ms. Rodham and Mr. Clinton for more examples.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2016-06-03 15:58  

#20  "some muscle over here"

We whimsical rulemaking elves
Who fill up law library shelves
Need plenty of fodder
For when it get hotter --
You thought we would fight you ourselves?
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2016-06-03 14:53  

#19  Apparently if you spent the last twenty years working in the oilfield you're strangely ineligible for the jobs-that-are-going-to-be-automated-any-day-now.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2016-06-03 13:48  

#18  The whole Minimum Wage/Roboticized Wendy's argument seems very very absurd when you find out that you can't get hired there to save your goddamn life.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2016-06-03 13:46  

#17  Go to college so they can do what?

The proper pronunciation of 'Do you want fries with that?'.

Prerequisite: Remedial English
Advanced Course: "How about a soft drink?".
Graduate Course: "I deserve the same income as a brain surgeon!"
Posted by: CrazyFool   2016-06-03 13:15  

#16  Go to college so they can do what? Work at Starbucks? Spend the rest of their lives paying off student loans?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2016-06-03 12:53  

#15  #14 That muscle would be under coordination of La Raza, Black Lives Matter and the American Muslim Association coordinated by Barack and Jarrett and the DNC.
Posted by: Unelet Protector of the Sith2424   2016-06-03 12:34  

#14  The left needs "some muscle over here".

Never heard of Vortigern?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-06-03 11:54  

#13  That was me, btw. I don't know what happened.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2016-06-03 11:49  

#12  Venezuela is going to drop from supplier status, the Chinese are working to tie up russian and central asian oil as a replacement, Libya's offline, and the only thing keeping things this low _anyway_ is Saudi Arabia's status as the swing producer. Which the Russians can't afford to tolerate for much longer, but if they encourage the Iranians to start bombing now it's not going to look good for a Clinton Victory. So they need to balance their long term needs with their short term needs.
Posted by: Omolumble Crash5580   2016-06-03 11:35  

#11  #4 Why does the "future" involve so many illiterate, hate-filled Third Worlders bringing their feuds to the US?

The left needs "some muscle over here".

Can't count on the neckbeards and baristas for that.
Posted by: Glenter Snaith1397   2016-06-03 11:31  

#10  A society with a place for everybody, where everyone is in their place?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-06-03 11:28  

#9  Oil prices are returning to what we have come to recognize as normal. I'd say $55. to $60. pb before the end of the year.
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-06-03 11:18  

#8  They spent two and a half decades wheeling out the Big Hydraulic Penis of a bureaucracy for anyone who dares try to make a living building anything physically, and now, at 5 seconds to midnight, he wants to say, 'Hmm, maybe we should do somethng to help these people?' Maybe he and his ilk shouldn't have been spending 25 years trying to hurt us, and succeeding.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2016-06-03 11:17  

#7  Funny thing is, I had gone back to college part time and was getting good grades before the latest round of Oilfield Collapses. Everyone's happy to give it to the arabs and iranians and whisper to me on the side about how we're really kicking their asses while I'm losing my lease.

Y'know what, fuck this fucking asshole dick and the floozies that (er) kiss up to him.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2016-06-03 11:14  

#6  ...non-college educated whites "need to be brought along to the future."

aka... Are in danger of having their own thoughts and views and need to be sent back to the reeducation camps.
Posted by: DarthVader   2016-06-03 10:25  

#5  Maybe if you didn't have a 'professional' education system designed as a feeder system to only college and universities overstocked with humanities and arts studies (heavily subsidized by the federal student loan indentured program).
Posted by: Procopius2k    2016-06-03 09:22  

#4  Why does the "future" involve so many illiterate, hate-filled Third Worlders bringing their feuds to the US?

Could it be that they are greeted with such open arms? And what a wonderful distraction and crisis for the peasants, as well as an opportunity for corruption and graft.
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-06-03 07:55  

#3  Why does the "future" involve so many illiterate, hate-filled Third Worlders bringing their feuds to the US?
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2016-06-03 07:49  

#2  ....non-college-educatedAmericans have seen great drops in their income, have seen great increases in their unemployment rate, have seen drops in their life expectancy, and they need to be brought along to the future.

All in accordance with the plan.
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-06-03 07:16  

#1  The presumptive first lady speaks. Will he claim transgender status and hang out in the WH women's restrooms?
Posted by: JohnQC   2016-06-03 06:35  

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