BTW, Pubbies, don't forget to save this pic for the ad campaign:
The plantation owner and the cotton-picker.
In PC America---Rev Al is the plantation owner, won't pick cotton if you paid him.
However Hil will pick anything to get elected.
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.
Well put! I was STUNNED when the dems put up Kerry as the candidate in'04. If they're trying to capture "middle america" why did they pick the most leftwing kook in the senate? I think they are going to make the same mistake in '08. Anybody to the right of Stalin will be unacceptable to the fringe left, which runs the demo party.
Uh, no. Nobody but a dozen Freepers will even remember these comments 3 months from now, much less in 2008.
Yep,W runs the whitehouse like a plantation,you two ran it like it was a cathouse.Condoms hanging on the Christmas tree,Hollyweirdos jumping up and down on Lincoln's bed,Marine guards treated like dirt,doing interns in the oval office,whitehouse staff with dyed mohawk hair and fishing tackle in their faces and god knows what other kind of debauchery.
Hard to believe isn't it? This and so many more areas of illegal activity.
SOOOOOO, let's make this lying crook president.
BTW, Pubbies, don't forget to save this pic for the ad campaign:
The plantation owner and the cotton-picker.
In PC America---Rev Al is the plantation owner, won't pick cotton if you paid him.
However Hil will pick anything to get elected.
HRC's largest base is amongst the DEAD and the non-existant.
Yes, it is hard to believe with all the illegal activities that have been made known. And then there is the other part, things than we don't know which could be far worse.
Blackmail, intimidation, media and voter fraud are here friends. Truth is our friend. So basically, it's Truth vs. Lies, Light vs. Darkness, Good vs. Evil.
Agree. Only conservatives and others that can't stand her are put off by her remark. I will not be surprised in 08 though, if she is elected to the White House (shudder).
Sounds like Loard of the Rings Trilogy, but she is truely the devil.
Only conservatives and others that can't stand her are put off by her remarks..
Her previous actions and the meaning behind her remarks are the reasons why conservatives can't stand her. Not just, we can't stand her; therefore, we are 'put off' by her remarks. BTW, conservatives are not alone - so discount 'only'.
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