Hillary Clinton
To Make Direct Appeal To Less-Educated, White,
Male Voters
In the final run-up to the
US presidential elections, Hillary Clinton is
hoping to ensure victory by winning-over the one
demographic group that Donald Trump has yet
failed to insult or alienate.
That group consists of
white American men without a college degree. Much
of the threat posed by Donald Trump comes from
this group who represented nearly half of all
voters in 2012.
A draft transcript of
Clinton’s forthcoming speech has been
obtained by this site and is reproduced below:
‘Today, I want to speak to a very important
section of our society. I want to address those
whose hard work and self-sacrifice made America
the great country it is today.
I’m referring, of
course, to you uneducated, white guys.
I want you all to put down
those cans of beer, burgers and bottles of
mayonnaise and listen to me for five minutes
before you next go out to buy meth or shoot
someone.
The future of America is in
your hands, and I believe that you all
need to take that responsibility very seriously.
I want you to think for a
minute about the demographic – that’s a
big word that means the group in society –
to which you belong. You are uneducated
white males. The clue’s in the name.
It might not be your fault
that you’re not so smart. Maybe inbreeding
or poor parenting mean you didn’t start out
very bright. It’s the way things have turned
out, however, and it would be as crazy to deny
that as it would be to deny you are fellow
Americans.
I’m not saying you’re
not wonderful, hardworking guys. Our great
country would collapse tomorrow if it wasn’t
for all the unskilled, menial jobs you do. I want
you to imagine, however, that you needed brain
surgery. Would you ask a buddy to do it or would
you try to find an educated doctor? If you were
taking a plane, would you want an educated pilot
to fly it or would you be happy for Homer Simpson
to give it a go?
I’m willing to bet
that, after you’d thought as hard as you
could about it, at least half of you would want
your brain surgeon or pilot to be educated, even
if your buddy would do the job for a pack of
beers.
I want those of you who
would choose an educated brain surgeon or pilot
to now ask yourselves why you would make
that choice.
Would it be because an
educated brain surgeon or pilot would know what
they were doing? Maybe you think you’d have
a better chance of surviving the operation or the
flight.
Voting for a president is
like doing brain surgery or flying that plane.
There are a lot of complicated things to think
about when you’re a president, and working
out who could do the job best is really hard.
I’m appealing to all
you uneducated white guys not to vote on
November 8.
If a loved one needed that
brain surgery, you’d owe it to them to get
the very best surgeon. Each of you really know,
deep in your hearts, that you wouldn’t be
clever enough to be certain of picking the right
person.
It’s just the same
with this great land we all love. You owe it to
your kids, your family, this wonderful country
and the world, to not even try thinking about
picking a president.
I say again to you all:
“don’t vote”. Leave big choices to
those with better brains.
America needs you to just
stay in bed, watch TV and have another beer on
November 8.
You know it’s the
right thing to do.
You know, deep down, that
it’s what God wants you to do.
Thank you.
God bless America.’
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