Clinton: First they came for the steel companies
By Ami Eden on May 2, 2008 in Featured, Hillary Clinton, Indiana, Presidential Race |
Holocaust Remembrance Day fell this week, and Hillary Clinton was certainly on message — in discussing trade!?!
At the union hall in Gary, she grew so animated in describing the plight of old-line industrial workers that she described them in language from the oft-repeated poem, attributed to the German pastor Martin Niemöller, about the victims of Nazism. “First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out, because I was not a Socialist,” goes the version inscribed on a wall at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. After coming for the trade unionists, it continues, “they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out, because I was not a Jew.”
In Mrs. Clinton’s version, she intoned: “They came for the steel companies and nobody said anything. They came for the auto companies and nobody said anything. They came for the office companies, people who did white-collar service jobs, and no one said anything. And they came for the professional jobs that could be outsourced, and nobody said anything.”
“So this is not just about steel,” she finished.
That’s disgusting. Comparing anything to the Holocaust - especially for political gain - is vile.
As bad as the factories closing in rural America is they do not reaqch the level of a genocide and should not be compared to the Holocaust. Especially since it was her husband’s Nafta that allowed those closings to occur.
Shame on you HRC. Shame on you.
schmuleyg | May 2, 2008 | Reply
I think this says it all. Don’t tell me this woman is a friend to the Jews. She does & says what she feels is politically expedient* for her at any given time.
This is a person who could very easily “change her mind” & her rhetoric as & when needed on ANY given issue!
This woman is very dangerous to ALL U.S.A. citizens. She cannot be trusted.
*(Oxford Dictionary definition of expedient is:convenient and practical, although possibly improper or immoral)
Yosefa | May 2, 2008 | Reply
This HRC comment was very offensive. Just shows how she is running off at the mouth without thinking about what she talks about anymore. Say anything…do anything. That’s the Clintons. Desperate, desperate, desperate!
Mark | May 5, 2008 | Reply