Posted on 05/03/2016 10:10:39 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
"It was a misstatement."
Back in March, former first lady and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said at a CNN town hall that she wanted to put coal miners and the coal industry "out of business."
At the event Clinton said she was the only candidate who "has a policy about how to bring economic opportunity using clean renewable energy as the key into coal country. We're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business," she said.
But now that Clinton is campaigning in West Virginia, her tune has changed.
"What I said was totally out of context from what I meant," Clinton said. "It was a misstatement, because what I was saying is that the way things are going now, we will continue to lose jobs."
Clinton backtracked her statement to Bo Copley, a 39-year-old foreman and maintenance planner who lost his job at Coal Mac, Inc., a subsidiary of Arch Coal, and who shared his opinion with her:
"I just want to know how you can say you're going to put a lot of coal miners out of jobs, and then come in here and tell us how you're going to be our friend."
"I do feel a little bit sad and sorry that I gave folks the reason, or the excuse, to be so upset with me, because that is not what I intended at all," Clinton responded.
"I'm here because I want you to know whether people vote for me or not, whether they yell at me or not, is not going to affect what I'm gonna try to do to help," she said, "because I feel like that's a moral obligation."
Copley spoke to reporters after the event and said he was not persuaded by Clinton's change.
"I would have liked to have heard more about what her plan is going forward for us," he said. "I'm not into political games...I want to hear the plans you have in store for us if you do get elected."
She lost the South when she asked” I sho would like a tall glass of that iced grits.”!
Her moral obligation is to put you on welfare and limit our energy choices.
Hillary’s new stance: “Make Coal Great Again”. HaHaHa.
Sure, Hillary. With the trust you’ve built up over the decades, the only thing people can depend on you to do is to act in your own (evil) self-interest.
She deserves the "Marie Antoinette" treatment.
Yeah, right.
She’s only sorry because political expediency caught up with her.
The libs who will vote for and elect hellary are brain dead zombies-makes no difference what she says to various audiences for a few more votes. Because of open borders, felon voters, illegal voters, entitlement voters, gaystapo voters, dead voters, shakedown/payola voters and multiple times voters, a non demoncrap candidate doesn’t have a chance.
Sorry she got called on it.
She misspoke when she said she was dodging sniper fire, too..
Sorry, that there is pandering to blacks and hillbillies in the same sentence.
Pete, the area that Bill Clinton made forever off limits to coal extraction was/is in Utah, I believe, and was supposedly one of the last deposits of that high grade, low polluting coal left in America so close to the surface.
I think it was near or adjacent to the Escalante Staircase, if not THE Escalante Staircase.
Yeah, misspoke and all that before pandering then an oopsie?
What she meant was “Vote for me or I send all of the muzzie “refugees” here”.
Bill took what was considered one Trillion dollars worth of "white coal" off the market.
Yes the environmentalist that he is made sure to deprive the US of a much cleaner source of coal.
All for campaign donations.
How come NOBODY mentions that?
I'm so goddamn old that I can remember 20 years ago.
Apparently no one in the MSM is interested.
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