http://disqus.com/people/832aa56706d07199b16a096cc8db4772/enSat, 10 May 2008 14:19:00 -0000http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/clinton8217s_race_baiting_continues/#comment-1963674"Hillary Clinton has a law degree from Yale Law School and worked for many years as a corporate lawyer, representing major corporate clients such as Wal-Mart. Surely she is familar with the "canons of construction," especially ejusdem generis."<br></br><br>"By ejusdem generis, her statement is read thus: "working, hard-working" are very general terms which can be applied to anyone in America, relative to the term "white Americans" which constitutes a specific racial class...thus by ejusdem generis "working" and "hard working" only apply to "white Americans," with the implication that only white Americans work and are hard working. By omission...that leads us to another canon of construction Hillary is surely aware of: expressio unius est exclusio alterius..."</br><br></br><br>http://trickledown.wordpress.com/2008/05/10/hillary-clinton-race-white-americans-comment-3am-ad-and-canons-of-construction/</br>trickledownSat, 10 May 2008 14:19:00 -0000