Hillary Clinton On Southern Working Class Whites In 1995: "Screw 'Em"
politics, elections, Democrats, left wing, philosophy, liberalism

April 16, 2008, by Sam Stein

During the past week, Sen. Hillary Clinton has presented herself as a working class populist, the politician in touch with small town sentiments, compared to the elitism of her opponent, Sen. Barack Obama.

But a telling anecdote from her husband's administration shows Hillary Clinton's attitudes about the "lunch-bucket Democrats" are not exactly pristine.