Posted on 11/08/2007 8:53:07 AM PST by MNJohnnie
DES MOINES, Iowa - This was going to be a column that spoke truth to power, that criticized the top presidential candidates and shed light in a maelstrom of spin.
But then Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton called such attempts "piling on."
Swift Boating.
Sexist.
So let's just call this unsolicited advice, and hope that the Democratic front-runner doesn't notice.
First, for the Democrats:
CLINTON: You're smart, funny, qualified and more personable than most voters realize. So go with that. Stop letting your strategists tie you in knots with their polls, focus groups and microtargeting. It's brilliant stuff, but they're making you too cautious and unwilling to take clear stands. That won't fly in Iowa
Borat on Hillary....”I cannot believe that it possible a woman can become Premier of US and A - in Kazakhstan, we say that to give a woman power, is like to give a monkey a gun - very dangerous. We do not give monkeys guns any more in Kazakhstan ever since the Astana Zoo massacre of 2003 when Torkin the orang-utan shoot 17 schoolchildrens. I personal would like the basketball player, Barak Obamas to be Premier.”
Stop that! You scaring me!
The problem I have with stuff like this is that complaints by Hugh, Sean, Rush et al will keep the Demmies from nominating the Hildabeast and keeping the GOP from winning! I want to win. Hil cannot win. Ergo, any Pub might win, we know Rudy will crush her and even Mitt and Fred and Mike might. Though doubtful.
How Ron Fournier speaks truth to power.
When someone says they are “speaking truth to power”, that person assumes he possesses the truth. What arrogance. Expect nothing more from so-called journalists of today.
Here is a direct quote, from Living the Truth, Speaking to Power, by Larry Ingle (the bold is mine):
The phrase "speaking truth to power" goes back to 1955, when the American Friends Service Committee published Speak Truth to Power, a pamphlet ii at proposed a new approach to the Cold War. Its title, which came to Friend Milton Mayer toward the end of the week in summer 1954 when the composing committee finished work on the document, has become almost a cliche; it has become common far beyond Quaker circles, often used by people who have no idea of its origins. (One current example: Anita Hill entitled her memoir of her sensational charges of sexual harassment against Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, Speaking Truth to Power.)
To speak truth to power sounds so much like an integral part of Quakerism that some modem Friends have simply assumed the phrase goes back to the seventeenth century rather than arriving late in the middle of ours. It reflects what many contemporary Friends would like to believe is the characteristic Quaker stance toward political authority, hallowed in practice if not the exact words. Yet in its origins it was a political statement, entitling an explicitly political document.
Cold War pro-Soviet rhetoric.
The only Democrat not piling on Hillary is Bill.
You found the same thing, dangit!
Normally I can’t stand Borat, but that’s funny, right there!
So..... Fournier is the ‘preparation-H’ that the Clintons use when they want to jam something up the public’s collectives behinds????
Three Our Fathers, and three Hail Mary’s, for posting that demonic image...
LOL!
Generally, Quakers ARE leftists.
Hear, hear! (or is it here, here! ??)
Their best candidate is Chris DOdd, but they won’t believe it! Instead, they’re all on the HRC Titanic and the iceburg just hit the boat!
Thanks for the responses.
You a$$hole! I’m sitting here miserable from my flu shot and that flys at me from my computer screen? How dare you!
Hillary: Martyr In Chief Wanna-be
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