Clinton can't see the bitterness and anger of Americans because she's part of the problem.

[Drunken Irishman]

And when you're part of the problem, of course you can't see, or sympathize, with the ramifications of it. Since Ronald Reagan took over in 1981, the United States has not had a President that's cared about the working class. They have promised more jobs, better education, a more inclusive healthcare system and an economy that actually works for those who work the most. However, for almost 30 years now, through 4 presidents, that has yet to be delivered. In the past three decades we have seen an eroding of our cities and towns because all the jobs have left. We've seen educational systems buckle because of local economic issues and Washington does not care. Is it a wonder people are so apathetic to the political system? Why support a political system that will not support you?

The fact is, this country has been anti-working class ever since Carter left office and the Clinton administration was nothing more than just a spruced up version of what we saw in the 1980s and what we're seeing now. After all, the biggest issue we're talking about today is one Hillary and Bill both supported in the 1990s. A trade agreement that took American jobs in American towns where Americans worked the hardest and sent them to other countries. And with all the promises of a rejuvenated economy there, Detroit is still the same today as it was in 1988. Flint is still the same today as it was in 1988. Towns throughout Pennsylvania are no different today than they were in 1988. Those people, those Americans, who now make less because their steel mill closed down in 1999, the men and women who invested 40 years of their life at the town plant, only to find themselves jobless and almost moneyless, well they have right to be bitter and angry and fed-up with the system. They have every right to question and demand more from their government. And when it doesn't come and when all the promises are not returned, they have every right to become as apathetic and disinterested in Washington as they want.

You better believe Americans are bitter and angry over what their government has become the past 30 years. And I don't blame them one bit, because the government has failed average American citizens.

[anonymous171]

1. Obama should be using these kinds of talking points against her.

[ClayZ]

2. You have a well lighted eye!

Cause and Effect

"This world and yonder world are incessantly giving birth: every cause is a mother, its effect the child.

"When the effect is born, it too becomes a cause and gives birth to wonderous effects.

"These causes are generation on generation, but it needs a very well lighted eye to see the links in their chain."

~ Jalal ad-Din Rumi 1207 - 1273 CE


edit: K and R

[Eurobabe]

3. Seems to me that Hillary and McInsane are the elites in the race? n/t

[truedelphi]

4. I'd love to have Obama do a 3 Am commercial in which

The phone rings and it is a debt collector and Obama answers the phone and explains that he will re-introduce tariffs, un-globalaize and un-NAFTA America and get us all back on our feet.

That is what is needed at our house at 3Am.