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| 2007-09-05 |
| Classical Values America is gone? At least, that's the only logical interpretation I have to give this characterization of what the country will be if Hillary Clinton is elected president: Yesterday, before hundreds of union members and their families at a Labor Day picnic in Sioux City, Iowa, Mrs. Clinton suggested one role for her husband should she be elected: repairing the country's reputation in the world after what the Clintons and other critics charge is the damage done during the Bush years. Clearly, she's trying to appeal to the people who want to erase the traumatic memory 9/11 (and somehow hoping that the first 9/11 attack will be forgotten, along with Khobar Towers, Kenya, Tanzania, and the U.S.S. Cole). I've criticized the TV remote mentality before, but I'm concerned right now with the idea that electing Hillary would bring America "back." I see three premises within the statement: 1. America is not here now; Isn't she confusing her identity with that of the country? Isn't that called megalomania? Maybe, but maybe not. By Hillary's reasoning, there are two Clintons who are synonymous what was once called "America," and I think megalomania is usually supposed to involve one person at a time. I mean, I've heard of codependency, but I've never heard of a thing called "comegalomania." (There's no such word.) |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #8 Great. Jimmie and Bill's Excellent Adventure. Travelling the world, shoveling out cash and sucking up to the media. DoDo, you forgot mollycoddling and praising every two bit thug dictator they can find, supporting evil and criticizing good, working for total globalization and the abolition of free market economies, and of course, when they have some slack time, castigating Israel morning noon and night. Personally, Hillary, just between you and me, I kinda like it when the world "hates" us. Most of them have gone to hell in a handbasket, and their dislike shows me we still have hope of not going the same way. That is, unless a cow like you ever gets elected. |
| Posted by: mcsegeek1 2007-09-05 19:07 |
| #7 "there is a pic of Hillary taken when she was a student at Wellsley - she actually looks quite good." Thats because its a head shot and not an ankle shot. |
| Posted by: Jack is Back! 2007-09-05 16:17 |
| #6 Oh, sorry. The pic is on today's Drudge report. |
| Posted by: B.A. 6483 2007-09-05 13:11 |
| #5 somewhat off topic, but there is a pic of Hillary taken when she was a student at Wellsley - she actually looks quite good. Just goes to prove Lincoln's observation that "everyone over forty is responsible for what he looks like". |
| Posted by: Beldar Angeamble6483 2007-09-05 13:10 |
| #4 "The day I'm elected," she said, "I'm going to be asking distinguished Americans -- including my husband -- of both parties, to start traveling around the world, and not just talking to governments and leaders, but talking directly to people Only thing I can figure, she wants Bill dead, this should do it nicely. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2007-09-05 12:17 |
| #3 Great. Jimmie and Bill's Excellent Adventure. Travelling the world, shoveling out cash and sucking up to the media. |
| Posted by: DoDo 2007-09-05 12:15 |
| #2 It the separation in basic political philosophy. Those who believe state exists to serve the people. Those who believe the people exist to serve the state. Hillary's philosophy is the latter. "L'etat c'est moi" |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2007-09-05 09:24 |
| #1 Hey! That's my gig. Back away from my rice bowl, Arkansas hillbillies. |
| Posted by: Jimmah Cartah 2007-09-05 07:04 |