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.
I so despise Slick Willey, he is a liar and a rapist. I'll stop now...man this guy makes blood shoot from my eye sockets.
Scumbag!
Then leave us to our hunting and fishing. Get out of our lives!
"I know, because my congressional allies were routed just weeks after I signed the AWB. Tom Foley, the House Speaker, and Jack Brooks the judiciary chairman, all of them!"
Well, Bill (ya rapist), without those hicks, you don’t eat. Given your girth, that might not affect you personally for an extra day or two.
Yer right Slick.....they could be raping young interns!...../sarc
Guess what Bill, you prick. The rural folks can feed and sustain themselves regardless of whether you and your ilk are dead or alive. Unlike most of your constituents/slaves.
And that really gets under your craw doesn’t?
I second that.
Yeah, those stupid b@$t@rds like me that larned to read 'n rite and started readin' all that 'ere histry 'n stuff, 'n larned that dictators ARE mankind's history - not self government. What a fool I was to learn all that stupid stuff and start to believe it. I shouldnt'a learnt ta read, and then I'd believe ever' thang them ole Demonrats tell me 'bout how nice they is 'n all.
Its the one place I feel like Everyone from Limbaugh to Beck have failed us. They spend a lot of time talking about oppressive laws but not nearly enough time talking about urban laws being imposed on rural people.
We aren’t the cause of violence in the cities but the laws imposed due to that violence weigh most heavily on rural America. Basically our government increasingly criminalizes our behavior because of their inability to control urban crime.
I live in rural America. Ten miles from here they produce the majority of the unmanned drones used by the military. Some of these elitists have their heads up their butts so far they need a glass stomach to see out.
A country boy can survive. Just sayin.
***** “So I told the guy to get walking and don’t show up at my gate again. “ *****
I would have just given him 3 choices ... walk now, limp away if you give me lip or bleed out, showing back up at my gate always = choice #3
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I have very little leeway in my old age ... if he chose #3 the Sheriff would make the time, taking time from stuff he really needed or wanted to do... then I would be in debt to the Sheriff... bad situation all around.
I had a nice venison stew tonight.
That ain’t just surviving, that’s livin.
Yeah you're right lurk - but liberals have learned how to stick their collective noses in the air while looking down on the rest of us... You have to admit, that's quite a trick.
I couldn’t agree more. We have had only three murders here in the last 60 years in the rural area where I live. Almost everyone owns a gun and crime is very low. The cops here concentrate on traffic violations and if I were to call 911 it could take anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour for them to arrive. So I need personal protection, mainly from mountain lions. I have been stalked by them and I’ve even their found tracks in the snow in my front yard.
Like you mentioned most “gun violence” is committed in big cities by gang bangers, we don’t have that problem here, so why should my freedoms be taken away because of the action of violent felons hundreds and thousands of miles away?
All?
Hunting? Yes, almost from birth. Develops good weapons decipline.
Fishing? Yes, along with lots of fresh air. Not grown stale air from POLs.
Past that.
Stable family ties, unlike Clintoon and Obozo.
Old friendships, unlike those who use and discard (Clintoon & Obozo).
Good food. Fresh grown close to home or killed close to home game.
Open skies unpoluted by political smoke screens and retoric that is totally unrelated to life.
Perspective....
Reality........
Breathing the air of Freedom.
And - he started his 'girl hunting' early in life;
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