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Political Hay
Beating Around the Bush
Having long endured the indignity of marriage to a man accused of pawing women like Kathleen Willey and one rape charge from Juanita Broaddrick, Hillary Clinton was annoyed earlier this week at the apparent deference shown to her husband in rape-ravaged Africa. "I'm not going to be channeling my husband," she said bitterly in response to a Congolese student who wanted from her a wifely report on his latest political thoughts, or so she assumed.
According to press reports, the question, "What does Mr. Clinton think?," was garbled by a translator. The student was actually referring to President Obama. No matter; Hillary scented sexism and pounced. "Wait, you want me to tell you what my husband thinks? My husband is not the secretary of state. I am."
The exchange would have been even more interesting had the translator botched the question further and asked her to sketch Bill's thoughts on the exploitation of women, the subject of her visit to the Congo.
Maureen Dowd suggests another reason for her annoyance: while she was sweating it out in the Congo, Clinton was goofing off in Las Vegas. "She may have been steamed about Bill celebrating his upcoming 63rd birthday in Las Vegas with his posse. The Times's Adam Nagourney irritated Clinton Inc. when he reported that Bill went to the pricey Craftsteak restaurant at the MGM Grand Hotel Monday night with Hollywood moguls Steve Bing and Haim Saban, and former advisers Terry McAuliffe and Paul Begala, among others."
In other words, as Hillary was meeting with sexually abused women—the recruitment of more female police officers in the Congo, by the way, was proposed as one solution at the NGO meetings—Clinton was doing a post-Korea victory lap in the city of Tailhook.
But Americans, even without the distraction of her outburst, probably wouldn't have paid much attention to her reports on human rights abuses in the Congo anyways. They are more interested these days in human rights abuses at home. "Death panels" have become a First World, not Third World, subject.
"The rumor that's been circulating a lot lately is this idea that somehow the House of Representatives voted for 'death panels' that will basically pull the plug on Grandma," Obama said the other day. This from a politician who declared last year in a debate with Hillary that his biggest regret as a senator was not supporting more loudly those who called for Terri Schiavo's death.
There is no reason to take Obama's denials seriously. Why, logically, wouldn't his government-run health care include death panels? He who pays the piper calls the tune, and the pro-abortion, pro-euthanasia federal government under him is the only piper here.
Given that the federal government already forces all Americans to pay for abortions at home and abroad, why would it abstain from doing so under a new health care regime? Whatever is enacted will reflect the moral philosophy of the Obama administration, which rests on the assumption that the lives of the unborn, disabled, and elderly are worth less than the strong. Rationing would inevitably proceed on this principle.
Under a health care regime informed by Obama's moral philosophy, the right to die will quickly become a duty to die; the right to abort a disabled child will become a duty to abort a disabled child. Look at the death panels in Holland, where, as one official there has put it, the "culture" decides who is worthy of continued care. These forecasts aren't "scare tactics," as Obama calls them, but an obvious recognition of what liberalism has already sanctioned in our lifetimes.
After eight years of indulging unseemly protests, the establishment left has suddenly taken an interest in "civility." Perhaps we'll hear them again call for "civility commissions," an opportunistic tactic they tried after Republicans took over Congress in 1994. The citizenry, they feel, isn't sufficiently servile yet, and will need more exposure to "civility" panels in order to train them to accept placidly death ones.
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Robert Rosencrans| 8.13.09 @ 6:28AM
Excellent wrap up. Dare I venture just a bit further? Lately we've seen a meltdown of PMSing females in high positions. From Nancy Pelosi to Claire McGaskill to Hillary Clinton their horomones became their universe. Should I say it, they were simply bitches. OOOOOPS!
stephanie| 8.13.09 @ 6:54AM
And they wonder why many don't take them seriously? Tell it like you see it Mr. R.
Richard| 8.13.09 @ 7:11AM
I can't imagine the dynamics of the Hill/Bill marriage, but Hill did have a righteous beef. Just terribly poor timing and the wrong person. She has been marginalized beyond all belief and probably SHOULD have stayed home to bake cookies. Politically I will never agree with Hill, but in this instance I believe much greater personal issues surfaced that embarrassed herself and our country. San Fran Nan is another story altogether.
El Rey| 8.13.09 @ 7:14AM
Thanks to the 2nd Amendment, America has a pretty well armed citizentry-- and the Left hates that reality.
Those bureaucrats on Obama's 'Death Panels" might have the tables turned on them. After all, wouldn't that be the natural extention of the logic of the culture of death that the progressives like B. Hussein Obama have been pushing since 1973?
Louis Jenkins| 8.13.09 @ 9:52AM
Another reason why Hillary is not Secretary of State material. She should have enough wisdom to grit her teeth and maintain grace under fire, not to go off half cocked even though the incorrectly translated question was demeaning. More ineptitude in Obama's administration. What a circus!! Hill and Biden are the clowns.
WilliamInWien| 8.13.09 @ 10:18AM
Hey! No one wants to be marginalized, especially such a strong persona as Ms. Hillary! The Congo just is not North Korea followed by a stayover in Las Vegas-what is it they say? What happens in Las Vegas stays in Las Vegas! Unfortunately for Hillary, her SecState focus is foreign, not domestic. The so called "death panels" are not out of the realm of reality. There are too many doctors and scientists already involved in every aspect of the life/death sequence that I cannot believe that a panel of "medical experts" would not give the thumbs up or down to an ailing patient. The statistic about how much is spent in the last year of a life, trying to preserve that life, is bandied about and will become a rationale for the thumbs down response unless the family can afford the continued health care. On the other hand, there are doctors and scientists who are working to prolong the process of human life, they never took economics in college. I beleive it was Aldous Huxley who wrote about "Quality, Quantity and Morality". Chilling subject.
Gravitystorm| 8.13.09 @ 10:43AM
You know...... I think she deserves everything that she gets.... don't you?
northernrebel| 8.13.09 @ 11:10AM
Way to go, number one diplomat in America!
Go take a Mydol!
Tim| 8.13.09 @ 11:18AM
"This from a politician who declared last year in a debate with Hillary that his biggest regret as a senator was not supporting more loudly those who called for Terri Schiavo's death. "
The Triumph of the (living) Will.
Michael Tomlinson| 8.13.09 @ 11:24AM
"There is no reason to take Obama's denials seriously" or any of his other statements! This guy makes Richard Nixon look open and transparent and Bill Clinton honest.
"Whatever is enacted will reflect the moral philosophy of the Obama administration, which rests on the assumption that the lives of the unborn, disabled, and elderly are worth less than the strong. Rationing would inevitably proceed on this principle." This reminiscent of Germany's "worthy of life" philosophy from the 30's and 40's that was modeled after eugenics programs being developed in our own upper Midwest.
Louis the #1 clown is that joker Obama.
whyyeseyec| 8.13.09 @ 2:07PM
The only reason the Clintons have not divorced is so they can`t be compelled to testify against each other should they be criminally indicted for any number of things......
Dixie Pixie| 8.13.09 @ 2:42PM
To: El Ray
Okay, it is true you do have the 2nd Amendment. So what, Who are you going to shoot when wronged.
Consider the following hypothetical situation. The Obama Board of Health has ruled “Flippant Syndrome” is not covered do to cost reasons. The courts have ruled the Obama Board of Health rulings are both final and legal. The Board of Hospital Practices has ruled that since “Flippant Syndrome” can not be legally treated then anyone with the syndrome must be demitted from the Obama-care system.
One bright and sunny afternoon you get a call from your local hospital that your father is been demitted from the hospital and needs a ride home. You get to the hospital and found out your father has a fast acting and fatal case of “Flippant Syndrome”. The outpatient nurse explains the above situation to you and puts your father into your car. He dies on the way home while you are franticly trying to find help for him. You are thus rightly outraged beyond sanity. You have the 2nd Amendment and a weapon.
Okay, Who do you shoot. The nurse who was just doing her job or the doctor who recognized the syndrome. Both had no control of the situation and would go to jail if they helped your father.
Do you shoot the personal of the various boards and bureaucracies some where in the city, state and national capitols. Their rulings was legal in the eyes of the courts and state. That is if you can both find and get to them. It is not a easy job to navigate the bureaucracies to find out who made what decision.
Do you shoot the personal of the relevant courts which ruled the actions of the boards legal. Whom do you shoot, the clerks and the bailiffs who were just doing their jobs and could not know of your fathers existence or lack of . Do you shoot the judges and lawyers who moved the relevant cases through the legal system. They can prove they were just upholding the law. Do you shoot the members of Congress or the Executive Branch who created the laws which indirectly caused your fathers death. They never considered nor had knowledge of your fathers situation.
So you have the 2nd Amendment, so what. Once Obama-care is enacted into law, if you start shooting, you are attacking the government of the USA. The relevant police agency's exist to shoot back. Shoot back they will and you will be dead. It will not matter about the rightness of your cause. The State, Media and People will not see the cause of your actions. All will just call you disgruntled and now justly dead. It is a cold hard fact there is more police officers than DOD has soldiers. The USA is not called a Superpower because of the might of its militia. The peoples militias have been gone for over 160 years. The militias never worked as designed and intended anyway.
I submit to you the 2nd Amendment as a method of government control has been dead since Shay's Rebellion. It certainly was a settled matter after the Civil War of the 1860's. I also submit, shooting it out with any governmental or private agency is an act of folly and stupidity. Do not do it. Life today does not work the way of Western Movies.
Obama-care must be stopped before it is enacted. After it becomes Law it can only be modified by peaceful changes to the Law. Armed Revolt is not a option. That option has been settled for over 160 years.
defeated pigs| 8.13.09 @ 3:12PM
I hear Clinton is fighting for everyone's right to own a gun that is in charge of "death panels". Might as well take Grandma and Down Syndrome babies out to the barn "Old Yeller" style.
jr| 8.13.09 @ 5:02PM
Dixie Pixie and who do you shoot? I would never shoot anyone. But who can tell beforehand what a person might do. Perhaps it would end up like Columbine with XX number of people. If someone thinks that will happen, it is merely a small waiting game. For anyone who cannot see his intentions, they are - still - fools. Fools to vote for someone like him and foolish to think that things like Columbine couldn't happen with health-less care. Goofs like McCaskill and Specter wonder why we are acting the way we are. I think "my" Representatives and Senators in Congress are afraid to show their faces. Well, one of them, Martinez who was for open borders, free trade, illegals, etc., bailed out before he had to face any heat.
Jewish tea party| 8.13.09 @ 6:40PM
convulutes evidence to achieve a priori concpetions)
Second.
Here is a little scenario that is just one of many that can happen but is more pognant since it takes on actual tactics the Sonei Yisorel, Barak Hitler Obama has used:
You might have heard of Joe the plumper.
And how the US Govt. in the person of the Sec. State of Ohio, ademocrat, you govt. computers to dig dirt and harm him. From say tax violations or what have you. it seems they found nothing since Joe is still plumping.
Well, What would happen if President Bark decided to go after a few thousand Jews tax records and for good measure - make sure they were all Jewish lookking Jews - Chasidim and/or Black Hatters. TO see if they were cheating the Motherland out of taxes owed to her and not being good guests.
What do you think he would find? Do you think they couldn't find oh a few thousand Jews - AN EPIDEMIC!!! - who cheated the US out of taxes BIG TIME. Look, we all know the answer to this question - they COULD and WOULD find real widespread tax abuse.
With Americans already on edge about mass unemployment, loss of kife savings and massive home foreclosures, this could be the beginngin of the 'scapegoating of the Jews' for all of Ameirca's problems. And once the public is with him - the sky is the limit to what he can do - just like with the Japanese of WW2.
Think this or other similar scenario's couldn't happen?
You are not alone. The vast Majority of European Jewry did not believe that the Nazis, ym"sh would perpetrate the atrocities the did.
Did the Jews of the Ukraine think Chnielnitzki would do what he did or that the Poles would give them up in Nemirov? nope.
DId Spanish Jewry in the GOlden Age ever dream of something as dreadful as the INquisition? No.
So do not be surprised that we do not believe that goyim could turn on us under the right circumstances in America. History has this way of never being learned from.
We should not project our hopes and logics on to the goyim's mind. THey fail to humor us every time.
Mafdet| 8.13.09 @ 7:23PM
I was an avid reader of AS in college in the 80s and I have just today revisited it. This is the first article that I clicked on and I have to ask: What happened? This used to be an elegant and intelligent conservative voice. Should I try another article? Because this one is Sarah Palin-esque and I feel a little nauseous now. I would never have pictured the readership of AS being dominated by the uneducated lunatic fringe, but 30 years later, is it possible that it's writership is dominated by them too? I feel like I've stepped out of a time capsule and into the new world order: Idiocracy.
Dixie Pixie| 8.13.09 @ 7:34PM
To: Jewish Tea Party
Prescience is a priori conception.
The convolutions were necessary due to multiple targets and concepts.
Were you thinking of a post other than mine?
Louis Jenkins| 8.13.09 @ 7:45PM
Mafdet:
Welcome to the dog fighting pits of the real world. Gone are the days of civility and politeness. There is a groundswell, a rebellion, against meakness. I assure you that everyone who posts here is intelligent, but they have also had good teachers- thirty years of state run media. It doesn't pay to be polite-our leaders quit listening to elegant speech a long time ago.
Ralph Woods| 8.13.09 @ 9:00PM
Poor Hillary! Husband in Vegas pursuing prime meat cuts both inside and outside a first class restuarant while she is stuck in a sweltering hell hole. However she did take strong action in protecting the women of the Congo pledging 17 million US taxpayer dollars and placing a State Department restriction on travel there by her husband.
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This has been one of the recurring issues that I have with Hillary Clinton. Even during the primaries she showed an inability to handle herself under pressure or under fire (Bosnia joke not intended). Much in the same way I took issue with Palin is that once things got out of the political theater they lost much of their potency.
However I can't take the article seriously when on the one hand it believes Obama wants to kill people like Shiavo but on the other hand wants to allow counselling for people who are seriously ill so that situations like the Shiavo case can be completely avoided and so that the government will have no right to intervene.
I'm not sure what unseemly protests Neumayr is referring to. Perhaps the protests against violations of the U.S. Constitution? Perhaps the sending of our soldiers into a fabricated war... Once again, the weapons of mass destruction were a lie, the government knew it at the time. They decided to pursue torture tactics to elicit confessions even out of children as young as 12 to try and built a tenuous bridge between Iraq and 9/11 which I will remind everyone, never existed.
Protest health care insurance reform if you wish, but don't try and pretend that this is the Thin Red Line. This obstructionist game isn't helping America forward, instead of fighting to include tort reform and protections for doctors the republicans in Congress have decided to lie. There is so much to debate and improve, how we can waste time fabricating death panels and euthanasia is bewildering.
El Rey| 8.14.09 @ 10:27AM
Dixie Pixie is clueless as to why the 2nd Amendment is in the Constitution and what it means.
Hint -- it is there primarily for hunters and target shooters. It's there to insure liberty from a central government. That fact may offend a sensitive soul like yourself, Dixie, but it is a fact none the less.
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