“work is a four-letter word” : The Difference Between Obama and Clinton

I’ve been outraged over inane comments, and I’ve been generally perturbed by speeches and policies of politicians before…

I have never gotten over Hillary Clinton’s speech to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in May of 2006, in which she speaks about young people and college, and the sense of entitlement we feel, saying that we think “work is a four-letter word”. It was not a slip, and it was personally offensive. Clinton apologized after her daughter made light of the remark, but only to her daughter. This comment remains, out in the void, as a definitive position of Hillary towards young college educated people today. I was personally offended, and thinking about it still makes me bitter, in a much more profound way than any half-hearted religious spewing I occasionally hear. That she would then only appologize to her daughter and her friends was a coup de grâce. Her entitled daughter, no doubt intelligent, was placed high in the business world upon her own graduation from a school that few would argue against that being the President’s daughter didn’t hurt her admission chances… while many of us work hard to find and keep these elusive “50K jobs” we never feel entitled to them… I personally know many of my friends are very hard up, unable to find jobs after completing their degrees, and work in retail, trying to secure their own slice of the American Dream, without the added bonus of being the “First Daughter”.

I don’t think Obama would say something like this, because Obama thinks differently. His slips don’t represent what he feels, and when they do, like the recent “bittergate” I generally agree with him.

I think Clinton owes American’s youth an apology, not her wealthy and secretive and spoiled sock-puppet of a daughter who treats the press like her own personal secretary, choosing what and when she will chime in…

I had nothing against Chelsea or Hillary, but this was a mockery that has gone uncriticized to the degree it deserves, probably because, although we may not be lazy, my generation does appear rather apathetic. For that, I don’t apologize.