Barbara Boxer gives Hillary Clinton backhanded compliment: ‘She’s WASPy’

Sen. Barbara Boxer recently gave Hillary Clinton a backhanded compliment in an attempt to quell concerns that the presumptive Democrat presidential nominee is inauthentic.

The Parkway Central Library in Philadelphia interviewed the California Democrat on June 9 and uploaded audio of the discussion to its events page. Mrs. Boxer was in town to discuss her new memoir, “The Art of Tough.”

“You know, people say, they say to me, ’you’re so authentic, and Hillary’s not authentic.’ No, it’s not true,” Mrs. Boxer said June 9. “I’m authentic. I’m from Brooklyn. This is my life. So is Bernie. I can’t see Hillary saying, ’it’s gonna be yuge.’ It’s not her.”

The senator then referred to the former secretary of state as a “work horse” instead of a “show horse.”

“She is authentic. Hillary is Hillary, and she’s not going to become a cheerleader with pom-poms or, you know. She’s not gonna be Barbara Boxer,” the senator said while referring to herself in third-person. “She didn’t grow up in Brooklyn like I did. She’s different. She’s WASPy [White Anglo-Saxon Protestant]. Finally, I met one I adore.”

Recent polls show Mrs. Clinton and presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump are hobbled less because of a “WASPy” perception and more for issues with their integrity.

A New York Times/CBS poll released May 19 showed nearly 64 percent of registered voters answered “No” when asked if Mr. Trump and Mrs. Clinton are “honest and trustworthy.”

“I don’t support her mostly because I don’t trust her,” said Will Lambert, 32, an engineer in Denver, the newspaper reported. “If she became the nominee, I might vote for a third-party candidate, like the Green Party, or I might do a write-in for Bernie. I’m still not 100 percent decided, because I don’t necessarily want to see Trump elected, either. It’s a slim possibility that I might vote for Hillary, but then, I’m at a point in my life where I just don’t want to vote for the lesser of two evils.”