Hillary Shows Her Stripes

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Join Date 07/2004

Hillary Shows Her Stripes

Alienating Right, Left, and Center

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In a shocking betrayal of character, Sen. Hillary Clinton is showing the world just how she feels. Instead of well-scripted, calculated image construction to help her appeal to center and right-ish elements within America, she lashed out at Republicans, lumping them into the same camp as "slave-era plantation owners". But I'll let you read for yourself...

From the New York Daily News:

WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton's painstakingly crafted campaign to soften her limousine liberal pedigree for 2008 hit a speed bump in Harlem yesterday.
Ever since being elected to the Senate, New York's junior senator has strived to persuade moderate and independent voters she's not just another Hollywood lefty.

But her likening of House Republican leaders to slave-era plantation overseers at least momentarily complicates her move-to-the-middle blueprint.

"The use of the word 'plantation' is terribly unwise," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "It will just reinforce the view most Americans have of Hillary Clinton as being very liberal."

It could have been worse, Sabato added: "At least she didn't mention Hitler."

She is really trying to remold her image from the one constructed during her husband's tenure as President. While Bill was in office, she spearheaded the (thankfully) abortive attempt to standardize and socialize health care in the US, as well as being an outspoken advocate for pet causes. Don't forget her cuddling up with Hollywood liberals like Linda Bloodworth-Thomason and her ilk. (There's that word again! I love that word!)

Her image makeover was always calculated and had shown very few cracks:

Like President Bush in 2000, the senator aims to win the White House by pulling off a tricky centrist makeover. Her rightward tilt includes backing the Iraq invasion, calling abortion "a tragic choice," sponsoring a bill to make flag-burning a crime and pushing for a crackdown on violent video games.

It's no accident that she has also co-sponsored legislation with many of the GOP senators who voted to remove her husband from office - including Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C), an impeachment manager as a House member. She's even teamed up with former nemesis Newt Gingrich to push computerized medical records reform.

From her high-profile perch on the Armed Services Committee, Clinton is a hawk on many national security issues. The National Journal last year ranked her one of the most conservative Democratic senators on foreign policy.

I think what gets me the most is that Bill Clinton was the master of never saying a word that wasn't cleverly scripted and false. To have Hillary lashing out like this is inconsistent with what I saw as the 'Clinton character'.

Will this incident be the outing of a non-reformed liberal? Or just a speed bump in her road to the White House?

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You called him a conservative which even "you" admit he's not!

Where did I admit that he's not? Are you saying that a Libertarian cannot be a conservative?

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On MSNBC's Countdown show on Wednesday night, while host Keith Olbermann attacked Atlanta-based syndicated conservative radio talk show host Neal Boortz, a photograph of former Democratic Senator Max Cleland of Georgia was mistakenly displayed on-screen. Link

Neal Boortz is rude, insensitive, and will probably offend you at some point during the show; and his listeners wouldn't have it any other way!

We're not sure if it's his "winning" personality, conservative outlook (though he's a Libertarian), or just the fact that Neal is fun to listen to!

The show is called the "Rude Awakening" for a reason: Neal isn't afraid of offending someone to be politically correct, and that can make some folks mighty uncomfortable. He tells it like it is. After all, someone has got to to say it!Link

Neal Boortz is a popular syndicated talk show host based in Atlanta. The conservative commentator is heard weekdays by four million listeners across the nation on over 150 radio stations. Along with Georgia congressman John Linder, he's the author of the new book, “The FairTax Book.”Link

"Anyone that is being remotely honest with themselves can see that the mainstream media is an absolutely liberal institution," writes conservative radio talk show host Neal Boortz in a recent blog entry defending DeLay.Link

I could go on and on, but like I said..it's splitting hairs. And it doesn't change the premise of my argument.

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Atlanta-based syndicated conservative radio talk show host Neal Boortz

I don't know enough about Boortz' show or his opinions to talk clearly or definitively about his stances, but this is what I have discovered from his website...
He's absolutely a conservative. He rails on the Democrats all the time. He may be a libertarian in name only (LINO?) but he sure sounds like a screeding conservative.

And it doesn't change the premise of my argument.

You're right, whether or not Boortz is a conservative at heart does not change the tenor of your post. Which is that both parties/ideologies bandy about the word "plantation" with no hesitation.

But isn't this latest use of the word is a departure from Hillary's carefully constructed facade of centrism? That she's alienating the very people she's trying to court?

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You do realize Coulter, Boortz, and North are not elected officials. Someone already mentioned that people were calling for Newt's resignation about his comments.

So the big question is why isn't there an outrage in the media about this?

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You do realize Coulter, Boortz, and North are not elected officials.

Aye, ID, there's the rub.

We can't call for the impeachment or the resignation of people who aren't elected officials... well, we could, but it wouldn't do any good.

IMPEACH ANN COULTER!

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democrats say "damned nigger" it's just an expression of how the black race is being held back.

Republican says the same thing in the same manner and the MSM calls for immediate impeachment and public beheading.

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democrats say "damned nigger" it's just an expression of how the black race is being held back.

It is evident by the lack of outrage by the MSM over Ray nagin's comments and the slurs against Michael Steele, that they are like NOW is with Women. As long as you are liberal, they will not condemn your indiscressions no matter how heinous.

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democrats say "damned nigger" it's just an expression of how the black race is being held back.

--Modman

+LOL+I wonder how much Barack Obama complains about being "held back"? I saw him on TV here not too long ago, and I have to say that the suit he was wearing sure didn't look like it came from Sears, Wal-Mart or Goodwill.
I really love it when successful, filthy rich black people rage against the machine that oppresses them.

Hillary complains about the "top down" way Congress is run? I'm sorry. Isn't that the way it's supposed to be?

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I wonder how much Barack Obama complains about being "held back"?

I have seen and read how black people are upset when their own can overcome their project or ghetto beginnings to make something of themselves. They have "sold out to the man".

Is Barack Obama an Uncle Tom, like Colin Powell, or a Senatorial "house nigger" like Condi RIce has been accused?

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Liz Smith, in today's Baltimore Sun, claims Hillary was "misconstrued":

It's odd Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's "plantation comment" caused everybody to get into such a lather. If you read the entire statement she made, it's clear she was talking about the problem of one-party rule, nothing whatsoever to do with race. (But because she had a largely black audience, she was misconstrued.)

She said, "When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation, and you know what I'm talking about. It has been run in a way so that nobody with a contrary view has a chance to present legislation, to make an argument, to be heard."

Amazing that people are willing to defend Hillary from such a blatantly racist comment, and that so few are speaking out against her... and you know what I'm talking about.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/lifestyle/bal-to.liz24jan24,1,3337997.story?coll=bal-artslife-today

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And Liz Smith's apologetic proves that point:
It's odd Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's "plantation comment" caused everybody to get into such a lather. If you read the entire statement she made, it's clear she was talking about the problem of one-party rule, nothing whatsoever to do with race.

You're gonna love this, though, from NY1.com: The White House isn't commenting on Clinton's speech, but a spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee said, "On a day when Americans are focused on the legacy of Martin Luther King, Hillary Clinton is focused on the legacy of Hillary Clinton."

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