Christopher Hitchens vs. Joan Walsh — On Clinton

In an article titled — “The Case Against Hillary Clinton,” Christopher Hitchens wonders: “Why on earth would Obama choose to put the Clinton family drama at the center of our politics again?”

I am wondering too!

It is rumored that Sen. John Kerry had campaigned hard for the post of secretary of state. Kerry, is not only more qualified than Clinton, but also, in 2004, he gave Obama such a huge dose of exposure, by making him the “keynote speaker” at the Democratic convention. The speech Obama gave won him the Chicago Senate seat, literally.

Barack Obama Speech at 2004 DNC Convention

Republican “maggot” Rush Limbaugh applauded Clinton’s appointment as “a brilliant stroke” by President-elect Barack Obama. So have many other prominent GOP recalcitrants.

Whenever a right-wing Republican applauds a Democrat, there is always something smelling fishy!

Hillary and Bill are “political prostitutes,” and I have an eerie feeling that these two will milk her secretaryship to the last drop — cruising world capitals, enriching themselves while pursuing their own political agenda.

I don’t see her lasting too long in the Obama cabinet. The Clintons are crooked!, although nowhere near the blatancy and crudeness of the Bush-Cheney Criminal “High Cabal”.

There will be a falling out somewhere along the line, and it will be an ugly mess.

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Reference:

Politico contributors, guests on CNN and MSNBC join chorus claiming Clinton will bring “drama” to sec. of state office — Since initial reporting that President-elect Barack Obama was considering naming Sen. Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, many in the media have raised the specter of personal and political “drama” — which they claim follows Hillary and Bill Clinton wherever they go — negatively affecting the Obama administration. The Chicago Tribune’s Clarence Page acknowledged that the media are hoping for “drama” resulting from a Clinton appointment; Page responded to the question of how Obama is “going to keep the drama at bay” by saying: “Well, do we want that? We’re journalists.“

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Meanwhile on Monday, Sarah Palin, The “Drilla From Wasilla” — still wearing “campaign clothes,” was busy rallying the BIGOT vote for Sen. Saxby Chambliss’ run-off election scheduled for Tuesday. Mr. Chambliss, the reprehensible Republican ‘chicken hawk‘ bigot, is likely to win this election tomorrow, after all, Georgia is largely, still a state drunk and groggy with confederate RACISM. The state of Georgia still has “lynching” laws in the books, including but not limited to gun laws meant to “Disarm the Negroes.” Laws which are not crime-prevention measures, but cleverly designed to perpetuate racism, oppression and white supremacy.

It will take a huge turnout of black voters to unseat this ReTHUGlican — to be precise, “Obama proportions.” Blacks make up just over 29 percent of registered voters in the state of Georgia, but, because Obama has not campaigned in person, for democrat Jim Martin, it is highly unlikely that the turnout of black voters will maatch that of November 4th.

References:

1. Disarm The Negroes - The Racist Roots of Georgia’s Gun Laws. [PDF Document]
2. Sarah Palin — ‘Paling’ around with ‘Confederate Racial Terrorist’ Saxby Chambliss.
3. Try Tough Love, Hillary — U.S. policy toward Israel has been ineffective. It’s time to think again.
4. 3 a.m. Seems So Long Ago — When Barack Obama stood on the stage in Chicago yesterday with his “dear friend” Hillary Clinton at his side, it was the starkest evidence yet that change had come — to the president-elect.

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Alaska Paper Slams Palin and ‘Georgia Pal’ — Confederate Racist Saxby Chambliss. In an editorial for Anchorage Daily News (Saturday, Nov. 29), Matt Zencey wrote:

Gov. Sarah Palin is putting her conservative Republican fame to work in Georgia, stumping for Republican U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss, who is in a tough runoff for re-election.

   [ Saxby Chambliss(left) | Sarah Palin(right) ][Click Pics To Enlarge]

I wonder if she knows the true measure of the man she is eagerly helping.

Chambliss was elected to the Senate in 2002 by running one of the most reprehensible campaigns of modern times. He was up against incumbent Democrat Sen. Max Cleland, a Vietnam War veteran who lost both legs and his right arm to a grenade during that conflict.

Chambliss avoided serving in Vietnam. He got four student draft deferments, and when his number finally came up, he was medically disqualified with knee troubles.

In the best Karl Rove fashion, Chambliss the draft-evader attacked Cleland the war hero for being soft on terrorism. Distorting Cleland’s votes about workplace rules for the new Homeland Security Department employees, Chambliss portrayed him as a tool of terrorists like Osama bin Laden.

Here’s how the Almanac of American Politics (2006) described it:

‘Chambliss ran an ad, much attacked in the press, showing pictures of Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and Max Cleland, and saying that Cleland ‘voted against the President’s vital homeland security efforts 11 times.” (Those ‘vital homeland security efforts’ Cleland opposed were intended to strip homeland security employees of union rights and other workplace protections.)

One of Chambliss’ Ads against Cleland

The man who couldn’t bring himself to serve in the military said a man who left three limbs behind in war was a weakling who would turn the country over to terrorists.

Chambliss was a congressman during the 9-11 attacks. Congressional Quarterly’s ‘Politics in America 2006‘ noted that Congressman Chambliss ‘quipped that one route to security would be for local sheriffs to ‘arrest every Muslim that comes across the state line.’‘

So there you have the fine American that Palin is trying to re-elect to the U.S. Senate.

Gov. Palin’s eldest joined the Army and has been deployed to Iraq. As a justifiably proud military mom, she might ask herself why she is using her conservative star power to support such a reprehensible Republican chicken hawk.

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Trainwreck: The End of the Conservative Revolution (and Not a Moment Too Soon): From Publishers Weekly: In a domestic cooptation of the neocon End of History thesis, talk radio host Press (Spin This!) argues that conservatism’s record of failure should condemn it to a subordinate place in American politics–it can survive to check the excess of the majority, argues Press, but must never again be allowed to govern. For Press (who unfurls a dishonor roll of scandals, policy failures, corporate toadying, double standards and outright criminality), this betrayal of public trust has meant the betrayal of conservatism’s own purported principles. Thus, citing the conservative canon of the mid-century right-wing intellectual Russell Kirk, and even Barry Goldwater, Press lambastes Bush, Cheney and other Republicans for turning away from the ideals of small government and limited executive power. Likewise, on the environment, conservatism was formerly synonymous with conservation, notes Press, pointing to early Republican leadership on this score from Teddy Roosevelt to California state senator and environmental pioneer Peter Behr. These contradictions rarely come as revelations–indeed the bulk of this narrative will be familiar to anyone paying even passing attention to the news–but by presenting all this material together, Press creates a serviceable election-year handbook for voters, particularly the Democratic opposition. (Apr.) “Press creates a serviceable election-year handbook for voters, particularly the Democratic opposition.” (Publishers Weekly, January 28, 2008) See all Editorial Reviews

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