HILLARY CLINTON, DANGEROUS DEMAGOGUE: WHAT IS HER VOUCHER RANT REALLY ABOUT ANYWAY?

02.26.06 | Mia T

[Mia T]

HILLARY CLINTON, DANGEROUS DEMAGOGUE
WHAT IS HER VOUCHER RANT REALLY ABOUT ANYWAY?

by Mia T, 02.25.06

illary clinton's voucher rant ¹ is really not about vouchers at all.

Blatant hypocrisies, silly non sequiturs and dangerous lies make it easy to miss the underlying machinations.

So put aside for a moment Chelsea's private-school education at Sidwell Friends and Stanford... put aside standard issue clinton race-hate politics. Put them aside, for now.

"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important." 

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT?
clinton legacy of lynching update
by Mia T, 7.23.05

Ironically, the logic of this pronouncement by Martin Luther King would, in short order, be refuted by the reality of his own lynching. King's hope was misplaced and his reasoning was circular. The resultant rule of law relied on by King presumed an adherence to the rule of law in the first instance.

Adherence to the rule of law is not something normally associated with the clintons. Moreover, racial and ethnic disrespect, intimidation, exploitation and hate have always been a fundamental clinton tactic and the reflexive use the "N"-word and other racial and ethnic slurs, an essential element in the clinton lexicon. When the "first black president" and his wife ran Arkansas, the NAACP sued them for intimidating black voters at the polls.

The Curious Candidacy of Carol Moseley Braun:
an Extension of clinton drag and drop and legacy of lynching
by Mia T, 2.20.03

 

Focus instead on the underlying machinations....

Missus clinton was speaking to the South Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation, (SoBRO), an organization that has taken on the formidable challenge of rebuilding a community whose name alone 'evokes images of burned out buildings, crime, poverty, and drugs.' (NB: Thirty-nine percent of the South Bronx is Black and 60% is Hispanic. Thirty-nine percent live below the poverty level.)

Capitalist sensibilities and faith-based initiatives drive SoBRO. This is precisely the kind of group that would be sympathetic to vouchers. (And to Republicans!)

So what does demagogue hillary do?

What else? She vulgarizes vouchers. She conflates vouchers with lynchings... and beheadings... and anti-Semitism and anti-Catholicism for good measure. In fact, given all the possible combinations and permutations of conflations actual, hypothetical and fantastical, bigots of every stripe can find something to savor in missus clinton's demagogic anti-voucher rant.

"When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation, and you know what I'm talkin' about. [Note the gratuitous g-dropping.]

... 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."

(Miss hillary also apologized to a group of Hurricane Katrina evacuees in the audience "on behalf of a government that left you behind.)

hillary clinton
Martin Luther King Day
Monday, January 16, 2006
Canaan Baptist Church of Christ
Harlem, New York City

 

"It's time for us to come together. It's time for us to rebuild a New Orleans, the one that should be, a chocolate New Orleans. And I don't care what people are saying uptown or wherever they are. This city will be chocolate at the end of the day.... You can't have New Orleans no other way."

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin
Monday, January 16, 2006

It is no accident that missus clinton invoked white supremacists and jihadists in her discussion of vouchers in the South Bronx.

WHY WHITE SUPREMACISTS?

For hillary to win in '08, she must--to borrow her own phrase--keep the black vote 'on the plantation.' That is to say, she must keep them dirt poor, disinformed and dependent. No vouchers for them!

Katrina demonstrates the consequences of 'plantation' politics in real time. It is estimated that 80% of the Katrina-induced black diaspora will not return to New Orleans.

 

Why do you suppose the clintons and Landrieu -- through Mayor ('chocolate... You can't have New Orleans no other way') Nagin -- tried to get their voters back, post haste (no trouble bussing 'em straightaway and en masse when it's to the polls) -- to a still toxic morgue with no potable water, no emergency support and with renewed risk of deluge?

Mia T, 01.18.06
GONE WITH THE WIND
(miss hillary's 'plantation' blunder)

Calculating a black man's worth to be 5/3 of a vote is no less racist, and arguably more so, than calculating his worth to be 3/5 of a white man; the latter is demeaning, but the former is dehumanizing.

Mia T, 07.23.05
THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT?
clinton legacy of lynching update

Full transcript. Video excerpt: RealPlayer or Windows Media. Plus MP3

WHY JIHADISTS?

The election of 2004 confirmed missus clinton's worst fears²:
9/11 and the clintons' willful, utter failure for eight years to confront terrorism) were transformative. They caused a political realignment--for all practical purposes permanent--that is not good news for clinton, or for the Democrats, generally.

The white woman, the only real swing voter, the demographic missus clinton MUST get in order to win the White House, has turned red.³



COPYRIGHT MIA T 2006

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1.

"Suppose you're meeting today to decide who got the vouchers.

First parent comes, says, 'I wanna send my daughter to St. Peter's Roman Catholic School.' You say, 'Great. Wonderful school. Here's your voucher.'

Next parent comes, says, 'I wanna send, you know, my child to the Jewish Day School.' 'Great. Here's your voucher.'

Next parent comes, says, 'I wanna send my child to the private school that I've always dreamed of sending my child to.' 'Fine. Here's your voucher.'

Next parent comes, says, 'I wanna send my child to the School of the Church of the White Supremacist. 'Say, wait a minute. You can't send--we're not giving you a voucher for that.' And the parent says, 'Well, the way I read Genesis, Cain was marked. Therefore, I believe in white supremacy. And therefore, you gave it to Catholic parent, you gave it to a Jewish parent, gave it to a secular private school parent. Under the Constitution, you can't discriminate against me.'

So the next parent comes and says, 'I wanna send my child to the School of the Jihad.' 'Wait a minute! We're not gonna send a child with taxpayer dollars to the School of the Jihad.' .Well, you gave it to the Catholics, you gave it to the Jews, you gave it to the private secular people. You're gonna tell me I can't. I'm a taxpayer under the Constitution.'

Now, tell me, how are we gonna make those choices."

hillary clinton
South Bronx Overall Economic Development Corp.
The Bronx, New York
February 21, 2006

2.

"If you look at white women, and I think that was the key to this election, Kerry won 45% based on the exit polls--but they're generally in agreement--Kerry won 45%, Bush won 55% of white women.

By contrast, Bush won only 45% of white women in 2000, so he upped is percentages by 10 points.

In 1996, bill clinton won 48% of white women compared to Bob Dole's 43%.

That is a huge, huge difference. I don't think you can lay all that at the doorstep of moral values.

I think that this president unabashedly and abjectly took the issue of terror and used it to terrorize... white women."

HEAR HAROLD ICKES
Washington Journal
Nov. 8, 2004
C-SPAN

 

 

3.

In the immediate aftermath of the 2004 presidential election, a journalistic consensus emerged to explain George W. Bush's victory. Despite the sluggish economy and deteriorating situation in Iraq, voters supported Bush primarily because of his values. One prominently featured exit poll question showed "moral values" to be the most important issue for voters, ahead of terrorism, Iraq, and the economy. Backlash against the Massachusetts court ruling allowing gay marriage and attraction of Bush's appeals to Christian faith helped bring out socially conservative voters and cement Bush's second term. This explains why Bush won Ohio, for example, where an anti-gay marriage proposal was on the ballot. However compelling this story might be, it is wrong.

Instead, Bush won because married and white women increased their support for the Republican ticket....

In this article I briefly account for the factors behind Bush's rise in the state-by-state popular vote between 2000 and 2004. This is not the same as identifying who elected Bush. That sort of analysis would put responsibility on white men since they voted 61-38 for Bush and comprise almost half of the active electorate. Instead, I focus on what changed between 2000 and 2004. In this view, it is white women who are responsible because they showed more aggregate change.

Identifying a cause for this shift looks for an explanation also in things that changed in the past four years. For example, John Kerry was not exactly Al Gore, so differences between Bush's two opponents could be a factor. But I suggest that such differences are dwarfed by a much larger intervention: the attacks of September 11. Turnout was up in 2004 because the perceived heightening of the stakes after 9-11 and because of intense competition between the candidates in a small number of battleground states. Higher turnout also appears to have helped Bush slightly. But it was the shift of married white women from the Democratic camp to the Republican camp that gave him the edge in 2004.

Post Election 2004: An Alternative Account of the 2004 Presidential Election
BarryC.Burden
Harvard University
The Forum, Volume2, Issue 42004 Article2
burden@fas.harvard.edu

COPYRIGHT MIA T 2006

[Mia T]

thx :)

[Mia T]

Seems hillary-at-home runs the risk of increasing said requirement. ;)

[Mia T]

bump

 

(bill + hillary) CLINTON 'CULTURE OF CORRUPTION'
by Mia T, 01.28.06

[Mia T]

"You're too stupid to know you're supporting racism when you support vouchers." Exactly. Truly contemptible.., and ironic. hillary clinton is exploiting their worst fears by being the ultimate racist, herself.

[Wolverine]

bump

[Mia T]

Something had been bothering me ever since I first heard this clip. The whiff of racism was undeniable, but it seemed to exceed the actual words.

You nailed it. The form and cadence of an ethnic joke. Very insightful! Thanx.

[Mia T]

thx :)

[Gone GF]

"Doesn't she also remind you of Al Gore with his "accent" which he puts on when he talks to black people? Ick, that's embarassing."

George Bush does exactly the same thing. He drops "g's" more and his accent gets thicker when he's talking to the general public. He's more "refined" sounding when he's talking to executives or some similar group.

The reality is that we all do it to some degree. Even if you don't change your accent you change the way you talk to people based on your perceptions of them. I know I do in my job. And I do it because it works.

Given everything else, this is a pretty silly thing to spend any time on.

[Mia T]

As you concede, it does provide insight into the speaker's view of his audience, which, In the case of the clintons and Gore, is, invariably, haughty disdain.

[Gone GF]

"As you concede, it does provide insight into the speaker's view of his audience, which, In the case of the clintons and Gore, is, invariably, haughty disdain."

So when Bush does it what is it? And there are times when he sounds (on purpose) positively backwoods and uneducated. That isn't talking down to people?

Sorry, but I don't think it's haughty disdain, even when Clinton and Gore do it. It's a simple trick to try to connect better with the audience. And it usually works whether you're black, white, urban, rural or whatever.

When you try to connect some nefarious meaning to every little thing a person like Clinton or Gore does, you start sounding obsessed and even your excellent points start having less impact.

[Mia T]

You make a good point. Mimicry is certainly is a natural tendency--is a survival mechanism, in fact.

Perhaps I'm overstating it, but benign--even instintive--cause on the one hand doesn't preclude malignant motivation on the other. IMO the clintons view us as idiots. I don't think Bush comes from that place. (If his PR is to be believed, he want others to view HIM as the idiot.) ;)

As I've often said, the clintons' fundamental error is that they are too arrogant and dim-witted to understand that the demagogic process in this fiberoptic age isn't about counting spun heads; it's about not discounting circumambient brains.

[Mia T]

instinctive

[Mia T]

fyi

[Mia T]

insightful fyi

[Mia T]

interesting... fyi

[Mia T]

interesting take

[Mia T]

Q ERTY4_bump

[Sic Luceat Lux]

If Hillary runs, I'll be glad to do Inhofe's speech as a daily/ongoing thread/ and maintain it!

[Mia T]

great idea. bump,

[PGalt]

No different from the rant of any anti-life, anti-freedom divisive sociopath anywhere in the world. Throw in enough enablers, insure the words and deeds are never challenged, and you have the lessons of history.

Outstanding work, outstanding FReeper analysis.