Posted on 01/21/2006 3:12:24 PM PST by Libloather
Shooting yourself in the foot
By David Limbaugh
Unlike our president, who spent Martin Luther King Day paying respectful tribute to MLK and Abraham Lincoln, Democratic Party notables, Hillary Clinton and Albert Gore, used the holiday as another opportunity to character-assassinate President George W. Bush.
Just when we were beginning to think Hillary Clinton had found her voice - albeit a decidedly phony one - as a mature, seasoned politician poised for a presidential run, she reverts to those cacophonic utterances that find little resonance beyond her embittered but indispensable base.
If one could momentarily suspend his powers of discernment, he could almost sympathize with a woman saddled with the dilemma of trying to sound reasonable without permanently alienating that cabal of reliably unreasonable malcontents. But alas, Hillary obviously has no real beef with her base on principle, and from time to time, it insists she demonstrate her loyalty by paying homage to its cynicism and hysteria.
During a speech at the Canaan Baptist Church of Christ in Harlem, the fair-skinned wife of the first black president wasted no time proving her bona fides by exhibiting her penchant for negative hyperbole in critiquing the president and Congress.
She said, “We have a culture of corruption, we have cronyism, we have incompetence. I predict to you that this administration will go down in history as one of the worst that has ever governed our country.”
And, never passing up a chance for political exploitation, Hillary offered up some racially charged red meat to the Hurricane Katrina evacuees in attendance. She apologized “on behalf of a government that left you behind, that turned its back on you” - a government, I suppose, she denies being a part of when it suits her immediate interests.
But as regrettable as Hillary's remarks were, they were anemic compared to the rantings of that poster boy for instability Albert Gore, who, you may recall with horror, came within one state's electoral vote of being president.
Gore, remembered for declaring that “there is no controlling legal authority” when caught with his hands directly in the middle of a fundraising scandal, was quick to call for an independent investigation into “President Bush's spying program,” about which there truly may be no clearly controlling authority.
Of course, Gore doesn't need to wait for an independent investigation. He has already concluded that “the president of the United States has been breaking the law repeatedly and insistently.” Despite the incontrovertible fact that Bush briefed congressmen on his surveillance program, Gore shamelessly said he “secretly assumed that power anyway, as if congressional authorization was a useless bother.”
Further displaying his unique gift for chutzpah, Gore yelled, “A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government.” He must be making exceptions for serial perjury, suborning perjury, obstruction of justice and, yes, criminal violations of campaign finance laws. Indeed, this proud vice president under the president who made a sport of mocking the rule of law said, “It is imperative that respect for the law be restored.”
Then, picking up on the Democrats' latest mantra demonizing President Bush as a megalomaniacal dictator, Gore characterized Bush's attempts to intercept Al Qaeda phone calls for the purpose of protecting America's security as a “constitutional power-grab by the president.”
Continuing with this theme, Gore said, preposterously, “The president's judicial appointments are clearly designed to ensure that the courts will not serve as an effective check on executive power.” I just have to wonder if Gore really thinks enough people are impressionable enough to believe that President Bush, who will leave office in three years, is appointing judges to augment his power rather than to restore integrity to the Constitution.
And, though separate bipartisan commissions concluded the Bush administration did not pressure the CIA or other intelligence agencies to exaggerate their reports of Iraqi WMD, Gore brazenly accused the administration of silencing dissent, censoring inconsistent information and demanding conformity from all executive-branch employees. He said, “CIA analysts who strongly disagreed with the White House assertion that Osama bin Laden was linked to Saddam Hussein found themselves under pressure at work and became fearful of losing promotions and salary increases.”
After accusing President Bush of virtual tyranny and depicting America as on the brink of ruin, Gore closed by protesting, “I am filled with optimism that America is on the eve of a golden age . “
Old Albert could have fooled me. He sounds more like George Bernard Shaw's description of a pessimist - one who “thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.”
Either way, I just hope Albert and Hillary continue to spread their contagious optimism between now and November 2008.
Laura Ingraham calls it Hillary's 'magpie' mode...
Contagious is right. They are carriers of The Blurb Flu, which strikes its victims deaf, dumb, blind and completely drained of common sense. It is spreading like wildfire in dem. circles, with no cure on the horizon and no known antidote.
Hillary's comments about Iran are most disturbing to me. She says that Bush erred by allowing the EU to lead the negotiations with Iran.
Remember that it was Billary who negotiated with Jung-Il and ended up letting him have the bomb. If Hillary thinks that negotiations would work with Iran, then she's not qualified to be President.
If her name ends up on the ballot then the deciding factor for most Americans will be (in no particular order): (a) is she from my party; (b) do I want a female president; (c) did I like her shoes when she was on Oprah.
This may be true now, but by the election she will have been forgiven by the AA Bloc voters in her base, and her white base won't have cared anyway.
Hillary Clinton and Ray Nagin Apologize
http://wuzzadem.typepad.com/wuz/2006/01/hillary_clinton.html
"She said, “We have a culture of corruption, we have cronyism, we have incompetence. I predict to you that this administration will go down in history as one of the worst that has ever governed our country.”
Hillary was telling the truth because she was referring to, "The Clinton Administration." Now, everyone must remind all the historians to make her prediction come true.
Hilliary will lose in 08. Men can't stand her and neither can most women.
Please try not to use "Hillary's" and "crack" in the same sentence....
I'm not to sure about that. After hanging out at RATS underground (the dark side) I've seen enough chit-chat about Hillary's support for the Iraq war. That, according to the nutjobs, places her in the middle. They can't stand it. Oh, and throw on the fact that the impeached *Squirt hangs around George Bush the father. That puts them over the edge.
I've read complaints that the RATS aren't opposition enough. Gridlock is the goal and anything short of that makes RATS run quickly towards the 'greenies'.
They want red meat and they want it now. Only an extremist like Barbara Boxer or Algore will do. I don't think Hillary is a real favorite of the left...
Not one woman I know. Not one.
The thing the media has missed (or failed to report) is those remarks Monday were coming from "the real Hillary."
No, because leftists demoCREEPs are complete without morals. And, she was trying to call Republicans racists, so it was probably the prescribed use in the demoKOOKs handbook.
I mean, think about it, one of their most esteemed Sinators was a former Grand Keagle of the Klu Klux Klan. He goes on national TV and spouts the "N word" like 5 or 6 times, without so much as a word from anyone. No one in the DNC, the House, the Sinate, or the media wing of the DNC (aka the mainstream media or MSM).
No morals, no principles.
You should say left wing, liberal democrats. My brother is an old time Mill Wright, Union, Democrat, and I know he wouldn't vote for her. He didn't vote for Gore or Kerry either.
"We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."?
Generally speaking, union members do not strive for opportunity. Rather, they strive to protect what they have. That's an important distinction in marketing. Union members are not the target market for self-help or business opportunities. They are a target market for things like insurance and home security. Sell them a product or service that helps them protect what they already have. Whatever you do, don't tell them you are going to take something away from they.
Go Hillary!!!
You can say that again....I do NOT know one woman that would vote for Hillary...
In fact, I don't know any women who make having a female POTUS as a top reason for voting that way...
Don't forget that many of us here are women and none of us will vote for her. She is an extremely divisive person. Even though the hard core Dems will vote for her, that is a small percentage of the electorate (25%). I have to say, though, that I still puzzle at the number of votes that Kerry got. He is the ultimate phony and yet millions voted for him. Puke!
And...they didn't stress her appearance with Harry Belafonte...
Speaking of whom....I have seen a report on the Fox "ticker" that Belafonte was out today...making even stronger allegations against Bush...
I think we need to make sure her name is linked with Belafontes every chance we can!!
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