Posted on 01/20/2013 5:12:26 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Bill Clinton on Rural Culture: 'All They’ve Got Is Their Hunting and Their Fishing' By Tom Blumer Created 01/20/2013 - 3:50pm
It's hardly news to those who have followed Bill Clinton for the past two decades, and it's probably even more of the same-old, same-old for those who had to endure having him as governor during the 1980s in Arkansas.
Nonetheless, something Mr. Clinton said in a speech at "a joint meeting of the Obama National Finance Committee and a group of business leaders," which was captured without even being deemed possibly offensive by Byron Tau at the Politico, should be noted as exemplifying the deep contempt this man -- and, it would appear, his audience, which had no reported negative reaction -- has for everday Americans (seen in bold after the jump; HT Instapundit):
Bill Clinton to Democrats: Don’t trivialize gun culture
Former President Bill Clinton warned a group of top Democratic donors at a private Saturday meeting not to underestimate the passions that gun control stirs among many Americans.
“Do not patronize the passionate supporters of your opponents by looking down your nose at them,” Clinton said.
“A lot of these people live in a world very different from the world lived in by the people proposing these things,” Clinton said. “I know because I come from this world."
... he said that he understands the culture that permeates a state like Arkansas — where guns are a longstanding part of local culture.
“A lot of these people … all they’ve got is their hunting and their fishing,” he told the Democratic financiers. “Or they’re living in a place where they don’t have much police presence. Or they’ve been listening to this stuff for so long that they believe it all.”
Yes indeed, millions of Americans, depending on how you want to parse Clinton's quote, either find their only meaning in life in hunting and fishing, or literally have no other interests.
Really? Do you mind if we take a look at those involved with the government and national media in Washington for a moment, especially those on the left? Would it be fair to say that the percentage of people there where "all they’ve got is their obsessions over poltics and power trips" is exponentially higher than the percentage of rural Americans who think about nothing but hunting and fishing? The overhelmingly likely answer is "yes." CNN correspondent Tom Foreman.
On a personal level, I would ask the political elites, if they can drop their sneering condescension for just a few moments, to get into real conversations sometime with people who they believe would fit the stereotype Bill Clinton worked to advance on Saturday. They would learn how interesting the vast majority of these supposedly boring, one-dimensional people really are. I have. I promise that you'll learn a lot of things you didn't know, and gain a greater appreciation of those for whom you're supposed to be working.
It will surprise almost no one here that a search at the Associated Press's national web site on Clinton's full name (not in quotes) returns nothing relevant.
The press and the left usually have to accuse Republicans and conservatves of "speaking in code" to conjure up accusations of elitism, racism, etc. Clinton's speech shows how no such creativity is necessary. Yet the press consistently finds such utterances on the left not newsworthy.
And what about that astro turf in the back of the El Camino?
We also like to be left the hell alone.
We also catfish ‘rassel,,, but i guess that falls under fishing.
And now that boy from Arkansas is an elite government whore- he is oh so sophisticated?
Bill Clinton has always been white trash. He has just bought his own press, thats all.
Hunting, fishing, family, church, neighbors, sports, farming, ranching, motorcycling, snowmobiling, hiking, camping, crafting, metalworking, woodworking, inventing, music, dancing, biking, rafting, boating....
Everything city people don’t have.
Case in point, "Sandy". New Yorker city type; dumpster diving withing 72 hours...Real resilient folk there I'd say..
Bingo; you have your freedom (or what’s left of it) compared to the many Americans stuck in blue states or big cities that are basically socialist but no one dare speak the word. To be left alone, without government interference, is truly freedom, and a rarity. Fight the good fight, it’s not over yet.
Tone deaf much?
And what have you got Billy “Cigar” Clinton, your interns?
/johnny
That said, I know doctors and lawyers and writers and accountants who all love to hunt and fish. And if the economy were to ever collapse (it has done so before), these men and women would be able to feed their families and the rest of us.
So FU Bill Clinton...all you care about is your next BJ.
Even AlGore is now richer than you (and that matters because you and Al count your worth in $'s...not in wisdom or Godliness).
As opposed to urban culture where all your have is drugs and crime.
They their lives are so much fuller than you Bill Clinton. They have a soul. Your soul Bill is gone. It has been taken.
What an idiot!
I live in the country, and an uninvited “guest” showed up at the gate one night looking for a ride back to the truck stop. I called the sheriff to come get the guy, as he was way odd acting. They offered that they were busy on a domestic dispute elsewhere in the county and it would be 45 minutes to an hour, IF they could make it.
So I told the guy to get walking and don’t show up at my gate again.
He got the message.
Seriously, there is no depending on police or sheriff for help when you live in the country. Drug cartel highway right through the center of our county, so We always have access to our own protection.
When seconds count, the law may show up, or may not.
I thought he came from one of the Blythe brothers of Sherman Texas?
via the Arkansas Mafia.
Just which Blythe brother, the single one or the one married to someone other than his mother, is not clear to this day. He probably doesn't know either.
And what does Clinton have besides putting his pecker in anything that moves
I'd take hunting and fishing over Hillary, or any of his floozie bimbos.
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