Bill Clinton Blames Millennials For Anger, Economy, Congress

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Source: Huffington Post

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Millennials, there’s a reason Americans are so anxious and angry in this election, Bill Clinton says. It’s you.

It’s no secret that Hillary Clinton’s campaign has been frustrated that younger people are flocking to Bernie Sanders, a septuagenarian democratic socialist.

But in a speech on Thursday to about 1,000 people in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the former president, who was stumping on his wife’s behalf, betrayed yet another frustration with younger Americans. He said the country would be in a much better place now if the youth had not been so apathetic and had voted six years ago, when the tea party wave put Republicans in charge of the House of Representatives.

Clinton got to that point by first praising the job President Barack Obama has done in bringing the country back while noting that incomes have stagnated for most people.

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Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bill-clinton-blames-millennials_us_57191d13e4b0d0042da88c9f

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Wow is all I can say.

[msongs]

1. not lbn it is an opinio piece nt

[silvershadow]

3. No, did you read it? It is reporting from a speech Bill gave. nt

[JDPriestly]

6. Horrible speech. It is not inspiring to young people to tell them to shut up and stop

complaining.

It's the Clintons who need to shut up and stop complaining.

Hillary Clinton is the most negative, can't do Democratic candidate I have seen in my lifetime.

It's not just millenials that don't like her.

This is one septagenearian who is turned off by all her can'tdoism. Just complain, complain, complain.

Meanwhile Bernie dares to think big. And he knows where the money is buried. He served on the banking committee in the House for some time and is now, I believe, on the Budget Committee.

The Clintons should just go away and take their outdated, 20th century can'tdoit attitude with them.

[silvershadow]

9. I'd like to help them out. Which way did they come in? nt

[Carolina]

49. So true, JD

What a way to unite the party and woo the Millenials and others to unite in November!

I'm with you... a Bernie Boomer who will never vote for a Clinton again. The 1990s are over and the Clinton Administration legacy (DLC, NAFTA, Telecommunications Act, Crime bill, Welfare Reform Bill, overturning Glass-Steagall) plus HRC's wake at State (Honduras, Libya, Syria) and her prior IWR vote have all been disastrous for the people of this nation and beyond.

In 1992, the Clinton-Gore campaign had a refrain about Bush-Quayle: "It's time for them to go."

Well, that fits the grifting, outdated, bought and paid for Clintons in 2016. They need to slither off

[Skittles]

2. bullshit title

[silvershadow]

4. How so? It accurately reflects the reporting about Bill's speech and it's exact content.nt

[Skittles]

5. he said Millennials?

[silvershadow]

8. Why? What have you heard? I'm all ears...

[Skittles]

12. it was a simple question

[silvershadow]

14. I was typing as you were, check the thread again. nt

[Skittles]

17. there's no question we'd be better off if 'the youth' HAD voted

but at that time, Obama had not impressed them

[silvershadow]

11. You didn't reply so I double checked. He blamed Millennials, yes. The headline on the report was

entirely accurate.

[Skittles]

15. he SAID Millenials?

[silvershadow]

16. I don't know, I wasn't there. You can check with the field reporter if you like. I don't work for

HuffPo. I just post news articles here from the media and beat reporters.

[Skittles]

18. with bs titles

OK

[silvershadow]

19. LBN. Must use exact title, as you well know. nt

[Skittles]

21. it's not LBN either

[silvershadow]

23. Yes it is. nt

[leftofcool]

44. Good! I think we are all tired of the entitled youth of this country whining but not voting

[silvershadow]

46. lousy candidates in gerrymandered districts

lousy candidates in gerrymandered districts are what's causing the voter apathy

[Carolina]

50. Exactly

But so many want to play a blame game without examining the systemic reasons you cited and to which I would add disenfranchisement by assorted means (purge lists, closed polling places, etc)

[mac56]

52. You kids, get offa my lawn

[Scootaloo]

20. There's video. And direct quotes.

“If all the young people who claim to be disillusioned now had voted in 2010, we wouldn’t have lost the Congress, and we’d probably have our income

Maybe read the article?

[Skittles]

22. where did he specify MILLENNIALS

[Scootaloo]

24. Don't be obtuse, Skittles

In recent elections, "young voters" and millennials are the same thing. His own context makes it even more clear.

[Skittles]

25. it is a bullshit title

and I remember a lot of upset on DU regarding that lack of younger voters

[Scootaloo]

27. No, it's not.

He's directly blaming - quote - "young people" for losing congress in 2010. These are the same "young people" who he had just described as people who "feel like they’ve played by the rules, went to school, they’re gonna graduate with debt they can’t repay, or they’ve already graduated with debt they can’t repay, and they may not ever get to do what they really wanted to do with their lives."

He is absolutely talking about millennials, Skittles. He's blaming us for Republicans winning in 2010. it's right there, plain as day, out of the man's own mouth, on video.

[Skittles]

29. he is right

what he misses is the fact that nothing inspired.younger voters to vote in those midterms

[Scootaloo]

33. Oh, so it's no longer "bullshit"? Boy, that was a fast reversal!

it took you all of two minutes to go from "he never said any such thing, that's bullshit, how dare you" to "he is absolutely right about what he definitely said!"

[Skittles]

41. get some reading comprehension skills

HE IS CORRECT that young people (he NOT implicate ONLY MILLENNIALS) who came out in force for Obama for the most part DID NOT SHOW UP FOR THE MIDTERMS.

*DONE HERE; I DETEST WASTING MY TIME*

[Scootaloo]

42. Follow your own advice and RTFA.

'Til then!

[silvershadow]

47. gerrymandered districts and lousy candidate

[Gene Debs]

7. Bill Clinton's pissed off about voters putting Republicans in the House of Representatives? Is it

because Bill's thinking that Hillary could have implemented those Republican policies better?

Please fuck off and go away, Bill.

[Skittles]

10. LOL, you poor thang

[Carolina]

53. STFU, Bill

What about 1994, when repukes swept the House, Senate and state houses (ousting Mario Cuomo, Ann Richards, etc). Who ya gonna blame for that

Who initiated and co-founded the DLC. Whose administration pushed NAFTA and media consolidation through the Telecommunications Act, deepened poverty via Welfare Deform and with Wall Street buddies (Reuben, Summers, Greenspan) overturned FDR's Glass-Steagall ushering in the predicted financial collapse 10 years later?

Look in the fucking mirror! You and your Turd Way pals have been a disaster... a losing disaster

Now you and $hillary peddle the same swill: TPP, incrementalism, status quo. Trump will drag out all the old scandals and new ones about that slush fund known as the Clinton Foundation aka Whitewater on steroids!

STFU and go away

Signed a Bernie Boomer (your peer) who once supported you

[Geronimoe]

13. Bill's really good at demoralizing and blaming the voting public

Who wrecked the economy and shipped factories overseas Bill? Who as president for 8 years did nothing to address Global Warming?

The Milenials are smart enough to know bribed politicians are not going to work for them.

[Skittles]

26. did you forget Dubya?

[dchill]

28. Dubya just batted cleanup.

[Skittles]

30. You are confusing Dubya with Obama.....

....in your efforts to blame all-things-Clinton

[Cassiopeia]

36. No, 'Dubya' really did just slide in for the cleanup.

The heavy lifting was done by Bill Clinton. Bush was supposed to just sit down and follow orders,but the unexpected happened and a whole new frontier of wealth came about.

[Skittles]

40. gawd

is this the latest meme?

[scottie55]

31. Bubba They Don't Like Your Employer(s)

Goldman
Citi
You know what I mean.....

[scottie55]

32. Bush and Cheney Ordered Torture = A Crime

If Obama actually enforced the law, and had them prosecuted, maybe it would inspire some folks.....

[JackInGreen]

34. Billy?

I served under you, dealt with the shit you flung at the military while using it to further your aims, the homophobia I and my brothers and sisters withstood under your executive rule. Now it's our kids fault.
Fuck you, Bill, right in your fucking ear.

[840high]

35. Bill needs to zip it up.

[silvershadow]

38. x infinity. nt

[Earth_First]

37. More unity talk from the Clintons... nt

[pinebox]

39. Maybe if Bill Clinton wouldn't have screwed millions over

with welfare reform and the housing crisis......

[sendero]

45. I blame Bill Clinton..

... whose Glass-stegall repeal, Commodity Futures Modernization Act, NAFTA, "free" trade with China", the "end of welfare as we know it" and more and more and more have contributed more to get us into the mess we are in now than Ronald Reagan contributed.

So keep talking Bill and convince yourself that you are not to blame.

[A Little Weird]

48. +1

[silvershadow]

56. +1

[Nihil]

51. "... and get OFF my damn lawn!"

OK, Bill ... just go and sit down again and we'll bring you your meds ...

[apnu]

55. Yes Democrats and youth did not show up in the 2010 mid-terms.

Which is typical of mid-term elections, modern liberals and youth. However the Democratic Party did little bring out the vote, and didn't notice the Republican surge until October and then scrambled to blunt it, failing spectacularly.

Bill Clinton and the rest of the party leaders share the blame as the voters do for 2010.

[etherealtruth]

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