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Posted on 01/26/2007 6:37:14 PM PST by Kitten Festival
Public Ethics: Amazing how fast corruption's odor trails the Clintons. Just as Hillary announces she's running for president as her own woman, we now learn her brother got loans he never had to repay. Same old grifters.
That should be a warning, because the seedy memory of the Clinton scandals has faded since Bill and Hillary left the White House in 2001, pardoning criminals, signing book deals and perhaps carting off the silver on their way out.
Today, Hillary is presenting herself as a crisp, well-coiffed, new-style Democrat presidential candidate, standing on her own record in the Senate, projecting her own hard-driven ideology and owing nothing except maybe a few political pointers to her savvy ex-president husband.
That would be fine, except that wasn't the way the Clintons ran things when they were in the White House. Hillary was no retiring first lady, but a Washington power player in her own right.
She billed herself as co-president and built enough political clout to try to take over one-seventh of the U.S. economy in a health care nationalization scheme. She also brought her own political cronies from left-wing law firms and social service lobbies into high offices.
Even more important, the Clintons were master campaign fundraisers, an endeavor that not only took most of their time, but marked their era with a corruption not seen since the Gilded Age.
The couple abused the office of the president by selling political favors in exchange for campaign contributions. The two were so shameless in shaking money out of those who sought White House access that one collaborator, Johnny Chung, compared their operation to putting coins in a subway turnstile.
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Today, Hillary is presenting herself as a crisp, well-coiffed, new-style Democrat presidential candidate, standing on her own record in the Senate....
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I would hope by now the modern USA knows exactly what the Clintons are, what they have done, and what they will do if that power-mad Marxist criminal gets into the oval office. Her first 100 days will contain a CNN-televised Constitution burning party and a raising of the new American flag with the stars replaced by a hammer and sickle....let nobody confuse themselves as to the heinous danger that resides in this charlatan.
I too wonder if she would ever bring back the hammer and sickle. She probably would want to, but would content herself with hiring cabinet staff who had no qualms about displaying their extremism.
If FreeRepublic took off because of the Clinton's outrageous behavior....imgagine after as econd go round....über-Free Republic.
There are many reasons people think Mrs Clinton will not be elected president. She lacks warmth; she is too polarising a figure; the American people don’t want to relive the psychodrama of the eight years of the Clinton presidency.
But they all miss this essential counterpoint. As you consider her career this past 15 years or so in the public spotlight, it is impossible not to be struck, and even impressed, by the sheer ruthless, unapologetic, unshameable way in which she has pursued this ambition, and confirmed that there is literally nothing she will not do, say, think or feel to achieve it. Here, finally, is someone who has taken the black arts of the politician’s trade, the dissembling, the trimming, the pandering, all the way to their logical conclusion.
Fifteen years ago there was once a principled, if somewhat rebarbative and unelectable politician called Hillary Rodham Clinton. A woman who aggressively preached abortion on demand and the right of children to sue their own parents, a committed believer in the power of government who tried to create a healthcare system of such bureaucratic complexity it would have made the Soviets blush; a militant feminist who scorned mothers who take time out from work to rear their children as “women who stay home and bake cookies”.
Today we have a different Hillary Rodham Clinton, all soft focus and expensively coiffed, exuding moderation and tolerance.
To grasp the scale of the transfiguration, it is necessary only to consider the very moment it began. The turning point in her political fortunes was the day her husband soiled his office and a certain blue dress. In that Monica Lewinsky moment, all the public outrage and contempt for the sheer tawdriness of it all was brilliantly rerouted and channelled to the direct benefit of Mrs Clinton, who immediately began a campaign for the Senate.
And so you had this irony, a woman who had carved out for herself a role as an icon of the feminist movement, launching her own political career, riding a wave of public sympathy over the fact that she had been treated horridly by her husband.
After that unsurpassed exercise in cynicism, nothing could be too expedient. Her first Senate campaign was one long exercise in political reconstructive surgery. It went from the cosmetic — the sudden discovery of her Jewish ancestry, useful in New York, especially when you’ve established a reputation as a friend of Palestinians— to the radical: her sudden message of tolerance for people who opposed abortion, gay marriage, gun control and everything else she had stood for.
Once in the Senate she published an absurd autobiography in which every single paragraph had been scrubbed clean of honest reflection to fit the campaign template. As a lawmaker she is remembered mostly, when confronted with a President who enjoyed 75 per cent approval ratings, for her infamous decision to support the Iraq war in October 2002. This one-time anti-war protester recast herself as a latter-day Boadicea, even castigating President Bush for not taking a tough enough line with the Iranians over their nuclear programme.
Now, you might say, hold on. Aren’t all politicians veined with an opportunistic streak? Why is she any different? The difference is that Mrs Clinton has raised that opportunism to an animating philosophy, a P. T. Barnum approach to the political marketplace.
All politicians, sadly, lie. We can often forgive the lies as the necessary price paid to win popularity for a noble cause. But the Clinton candidacy is a Grand Deceit, an entirely artificial construct built around a person who, stripped bare of the cynicism, manipulation and calculation, is nothing more than an enormous, overpowering and rather terrifying ego.
I mean, Come on, Hillary as POTUS so FreeRepublic gets bigger!?!?!
What "sauce" are you taking and what proof is it?
Hillary would find some way to shut FR down. She's a commissar and if Hugo can do it, she can do it, too.
The truth of these Arkansas criminals is chilling, very chilling. Even more chilling is the realization that the criminals are loved and worshipped by the media.
Even more chilling is the realization that the criminals are loved and worshipped by the media.
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The left in this country is without conscience, ethics or morals. They are only focused on POWER AND CONTROL. And they do not care one bit who or what they destroy in America to get and keep that POWER.
"She lacks warmth; she is too polarising a figure..." Well, we just got rid of John Kerry, didn't we? Ridicule away. That's the ticket.
Good post! I almost posted here a bit ago myself!
Yep. Powerful elixir. She's so mean she can't avoid it.
That's where I'm coming from...and that's another reason why she doesn't belong in the Executive Branch of the Federal GOvernment.
As a former home-schooled student, I can vividly recall getting a very-detailed phone message recording (not long after Bill Clinton was sworn in) from a Home School organization giving all nation-wide home-schoolers warning of a movement that Hillary was attempting to Illigitimize our personal-educational preferences.
Their transgressons are so outrageous, that most will just neglect to ask why our government would contract with carnivals?
HILLARY CLINTON'S Q SCORE
Hollywood take note
THE CLINTON MACHINE IS 'TRYING TO STRANGLE THE OBAMA CANDIDACY IN ITS CRADLE'
AN OPEN LETTER TO HOLLYWOOD
Well .. at the rate the dem party is going in their outrageous behavior and sickening legislation .. Hillary is going to have an even tougher time getting back to the WH.
Goodness, gracious! I hate to go through another 8 years of this prurience. I hate it for the country and I hate it for my children. What a shame.
I agree. The clintons are relentless and will stop at nothing. Remember the Arkanside list?
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