After all the hoo-ha over Barack Obama's "bittergate" pseudo-controversy, a similar remark comes back from the past to haunt Hillary Clinton. Specifically, a comment she was reported to have made back in 1995. The Huffington Post has the story:
In January 1995, as the Clintons were licking their wounds from the 1994 congressional elections, a debate emerged at a retreat at Camp David. Should the administration make overtures to working class white southerners who had all but forsaken the Democratic Party? The then-first lady took a less than inclusive approach. "Screw 'em," she told her husband. "You don't owe them a thing, Bill. They're doing nothing for you; you don't have to do anything for them."
Ah well, it was a long time ago.
Asked to respond, the Clinton campaign replied: "This quote differs from the recollection of others who were in the room at the time this comment was allegedly made." Asked to produce any witnesses who could back that up, the Clinton spokesman changed the subject. Classy.
