Crowd Boos Bill Clinton Ahead Of Campaign Stop In West Virginia

Former President Bill Clinton speaks at UAW Local 685 during the Howard County Democratic Pre-Primary Pancake Breakfast during his visit to Kokomo, Ind., Saturday, April 30, 2016. (Kelly Lafferty Gerber/The Kokomo Tribune via AP)
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Former President Bill Clinton drew boos and shouts from the crowd as he made a campaign stop in Logan, West Virginia, on his wife’s behalf, ahead of the state’s May 10 presidential primary.

Supporters of Democrat Bernie Sanders and Republican candidate Donald Trump gathered outside the school as Clinton spoke Sunday. According to WVNS-TV, a letter written on behalf of Logan officials told U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin’s staff in an email that Bill and Hillary Clinton “are simply not welcome in our town.”

Hillary Clinton, who planned to campaign in Williamson on Monday, has been criticized for comments that her policies would put coal miners and companies out of business. Clinton said later she was mistaken and that she’s committed to coalfield communities.

Bill Clinton planned to attend a rally later in Charleston.

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  1. It’s like “whatever”, for Hillary. “Tell me what will make you happy and I’ll say it.” Yep: Say it. Then walk back. period. 100% politician like her hubby. Empty suits, both of them, no better than dum dum dubya and dick the prick, in my humble opinion.

  2. Her policies aren’t going to put coal mines out of business. They are already going out of business, due to the markets shifting to renewables and gas. Mining communities need to pull their heads out, look at reality, and start preparing for the low carbon economy, because there is no politician that is going to be able to save them if they don’t.

  3. Coal mining has destroyed the pristine mountain environment and the health of the miners, and it hasn’t exactly done wonders for pulling the people out of poverty either, over the generations — yet the people there cling to it as a proud tradition? Maybe it’s time to try something new — like ostrich farming, maybe?

  4. Yes, that’s true about coal mines. I had read that her remark was taken out of context, and this Vox article explains it very well.

    Not a gaffe, btw, at all.

    This is what she said. Pay attention to the WHOLE statement:

    I’m the only candidate which has a policy about how to bring economic opportunity using clean renewable energy as the key into coal country. Because we’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business, right, Tim?

    And we’re going to make it clear that we don’t want to forget those people. Those people labored in those mines for generations, losing their health, often losing their lives to turn on our lights and power our factories.

    Now we’ve got to move away from coal and all the other fossil fuels, but I don’t want to move away from the people who did the best they could to produce the energy that we relied on.

    Sounds pretty darn good to me.

  5. Glad the presumptive sore losers are already finding condolence with each other. Bill will also ease their pain?

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