Clinton: "During the 1990s..average Americans didn't have to go around looking for someone to blame"

[sabra]

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1688794,00.html

Immigration: The Hottest Issue
Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2007 By JOE KLEIN

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There are signs of festering intolerance even among Democratic audiences, noticeably in Iowa, which has seen a surge of Latino immigration in recent years. The Democratic candidates are uniformly in favor of comprehensive immigration reform, including a path to citizenship for those who have entered the country illegally. But they receive sharp — pointed — applause when they say illegals should "have to speak English" before becoming citizens. When I asked Hillary Clinton about that, she said she'd noticed it too and added, "During the 1990s, I cannot remember being asked about immigration... Why? Because the economy was working... And average Americans didn't have to go around looking for someone to blame."

[scheming daemons]

1. What? She's such an elitist......

[bellasgrams]

3. scheming-You are so funny,

[redqueen]

2. Yeah and NAFTA didn't have *anything* to do with the upsurge in immigration.

Nope... not a thing.

Really.

[MojoMojoMojo]

5. How did Nafta effect immigration?

[redqueen]

6. Not exactly breaking news... sickening that she ignores it to slam Obama.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/07/AR2006020701272.html

http://www.coha.org/2007/07/18/free-trade-and-immigration-cause-and-effect/

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/18/weekinreview/18uchitelle.html



But then at this point, nothing she says can surprise me.

[tularetom]

4. Isn't she saying what she criticized Obama for saying?

average Americans are bitter and looking for someone to blame?

Somebody more eloquent than I should expand on this theme.

[JasonHill]

7. Of course she is

not just saying they're bitter, but that they're actually placing "blame" on immigrants as a scapegoat.

Now, i wonder if she will come out and apologize for her characterization of Obama now that there is a source showing she forgot that, well, "she was for it before she was against it"

[anonymous171]

8. Such a fucking elitist.

:rofl:

[Armstead]

9. K&R -- Hillary's hypocracy is so transparent

[raffaello]

10. by the way, Obama lied about PA jobs during the Clinton years

[SoonerPride]

11. Didn't we change the way we count the unemployed?

I'm pretty sure we now just count those who are looking for work. Those who have given up become invisible.

[Zodiak]

13. Is that chart for manufacturiong jobs?

No?

Then is it not germaine to the argument.

The argument is about high-paying factory jobs that went away, not the Wal-Mart jobs that replaced them.

[Debi]

18. Yup - unemployment vs underemployment

Lose a job at a manufacturing plant but replace it with a job at the local car wash and say things are just fine? :shrug:

[smiley_glad_hands]

12. Now she tows the republican line and blames progressives. eom

[ClassWarrior]

14. She's damaging our cause by advancing RW frames.

NGU.

[anonymous171]

15. Elitist! KICK!

:kick:

[Alter Ego]

16. More of that "See? See all the great things my husband did?"

"Don't worry, though...I totally disagree with all the bad stuff that happened."

[Bad Thoughts]

17. Yep

Temporary economic fixes to deep social and cultural problems, all left to fester.