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Thursday, 8 May 2008
Let's play "spot the insinuations"!
I\'m wishing ass cancer on you!

She really has no class, does she?

"I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article "that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."

Apart from the obvious racial "work ethic" implication in that quote (resentment? pandering to racists?), the final phrase is curious. It sounds like she was attempting to invoke the (typically right-wing) specter of anti-intellectualism, yet worded it so artlessly that it ended up sounding somewhat contemptuous of her own supporters. (Not to mention that college students - who, obviously, have not yet "completed college" - tend to be strong Obama supporters.)


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