Posted on 04/13/2008 8:58:19 AM PDT by Dawnsblood
With the release of the Clintons’ combined $109 million post-presidential aggregate income (cf. Hillary’s call for the creation of a poverty czar), we are a long way from clips of Harry Truman strolling around Independence, Missouri in his retirement. John Edwards’ 30,000 sq ft. castle (apparently part of one of his “Two Americas”) is a far cry from the hole in Adlai Stevenson’s shoe. And John Kerry’s various mansions are not quite like Hubert Humphrey’s tract house in the DC suburbs. But then the Rev. Wright’s gated estate and the Obama income aren’t quite like Martin Luther King’s either.
The point? In the general enrichment of the United States over the last quarter-century of globalization, it is hard to ascertain one’s politics by one’s financial circumstances. Being a Democratic leader now does not suggest any greater intimacy with poverty than a Republican’s, or any greater reluctance to indulge in the rarified good life. If anything, the Democratic party (cf. the Obama nexus) is increasingly an alliance of those who want federal entitlements, combined with the elite who are willing to hand them out—precisely because their own financial circumstances mean that tax increases hardly affect their standard of living.
Indeed, whereas indulgences in gambling, sex, or drugs may have embarrassed conservative Republicans, the hypocrisy for Democrats lies in the combination of high living and condemnation of the present economic system. Al Gore leaves a bigger carbon foot-print than most of those he condemns. Rev. Wright disdains the middle class—perhaps because he lives as if he were in the upper-class. The Clintons talk ad nauseam about “fairness,” but weren’t about to stop at $50 million when $100 million could buy so much more.
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BUMP - contrast this with their class warfare statements against corporate CEOs (at board of directors excluding Hillary Clinton who served on Walmart’s board when Bill was Governor).
And Michelle Obama seemed sick of office working America altogether. She told a black audience “don’t go there”. That there are more moral places to work (for change, of course).
All PIGS are equal. Some are more EQUAL than others. Damned Stalinists.
Michael Savage calls liberalism a “mental disease.” I happen to agree.
and of course Michelle will have us typical whiteys working as corvee labor on the Obama’s Plantation of the Obamanation...
Michelle Obama “Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions..”
and based on his most recent comments... he will probably demand that we put down our guns and religions too....
With Obama as POTUS this country will be ripe for the taking.
According to this article:
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/120507dnbusexxon.2312c0b.html
The CEO of Exxon makes a salary of $1.87 million per year. In 2006, he also made 8.23 million in bonus and other compensation.
Compare what he does (managing a huge global corporation that is vital to the U.S. economy) to what Bill Clinton does (gives political speeches, peddles influence, etc.) and decide where the outrage should lie.
liberalism and power, a very dangerous combination; especially in the hands of so-called americans who hail from europe and old-style totalitarian tyranny.
they seem to be wanting to get back at the tyrants, way after the fact, by being tyrants themselves.
a classic case of psychoses, piled one upon the other, that make for a democrat party filled with seekers of “social justice” and “morality” while being unjust and immoral.
What was suprising was the thoughtfulness of the comments. All were excellent, some brilliant. This is one I found to be a bolt of clarity...
Trudy B. Taylor : dr hanson: where indeed has true liberalism got off to? it is right enough that many of our liberal political leaders aspire to live like mini-saddhams. then they ironically push a class warfare rhetoric as their framework for growing government and weakening individual rights and responsibilities here and abroad. and make no mistake,they do this to increase their own personal power.
there was a time, in my grandparents day, when liberals were the watchmen of anti-totalitarianism. aside from the sad fact that they displayed remarkable recalcitrance in identifying communism as a form of totalitarianism (because it originated on the left end of the political spectrum), liberals once knew how to stand up to the nazis and italian fascists. by all indicators they should have been the first wave of u.s. citizens to reflexively and comprehensively condemm islamofacism for what it is.
their flaw, i think, is their inability to recognize evil when it appears to arise from the left. individual freedoms can be stolen from either political direction, but then, in our lifetime liberals havent seem so interested in individual freedom anymore. im beginning to fear that they honestly want no part of a growing, thriving middle class either, as that one societal mechanism prevents power concentration better than any other societal contrivance.
I'm afraid I have to disagree with this. The American Left supported the Nazis while the Nazis maintained their non-aggression pact with the Bolsheviks. Any friend of the Bolsheviks was a friend of the American left! But when Hitler invaded Russia, things changed. Our warm and cuddly friend Joe Stalin was in trouble, so the American Left stood strong against Totalitarianism and supported the war against Fascism. They did not do this because the loved America and freedom. They didn't, and they don't. They just want the Marxist brand of international socialism to be saved.
“Michael Savage calls liberalism a “mental disease.” I happen to agree.”
I strongly disagree.
If liberalism were a disease then we would have to call communism, socialism, naziism diseases too and they who suffer from its malady innocent of its effect on our country and the world. It would also mean we can never hold liberals responsible for their actions. Poor things.
Hell, why not call any evil that we do not understand a disease and just feel compassion for it. Come to think of it, most of us already do — it’s called PC.
“he will probably demand that we put down our guns and religions too....”
Obama’s campaign theme is “IMAGINE” by John Lennon.
Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today...
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one
Exactly... too bad Al-Qaida can only imagine how many American citizens will die horrible deaths at the hands of Jihadists but hey when they are willing to take their own lives to kill you...
Then you had better wise up. IMO there are too many in this country that would never die to protect the freedom it offers.
Obama would call that fear mongering...
I’m really glad someone brought this up. Those people changed on a dime in June of 1941, becoming major agitators for aid to Russia.
It was always about their beloved Soviet Union.
The song “Imagine” is a blueprint for disaster. John “Lenin” was either a cynical leftist or a starry-eyed idealist who was out of touch with reality.
I see that in some of the Europeans I come into contact with, most especially those of former Soviet satellites. Most of them absolutely cannot understand or accept my way of thinking, for reasons unknown.
” who was out of touch with reality.”
Too much LSD will do that to ya.
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