PT Barnum -- Hil-liar's other job
I would like to say that I am astounded ... but alas, cannot. You see, the news media in the U.S. seems unable to come to grips with the truth about Hil-liar. Even the hubris that accompanies her campaign name ... "Hillary." It even pains me to write it. Every other candidate, in almost every public election in any country that I can think of, has had the humility (even when the candidate was most decidedly not humble) to use their surname on the campaign. Some wag in her campaign decided that she was enough of a household name to run under "Hillary." Probably Hil-liar herself, a notorious details OCD controller.
What does this tell us about her? Certainly a narcissist ... but on a larger scale, what does this mean and how does this play out? To start with, it explains a lot about her attitudes over the years, ignoring laws, constitutional rights, decency and permitting marital excess that beggar's belief. She simply does not think that the "Rules" apply to her. After all, she is Hil-liar.
It explains how she can continue to run in this campaign even though it is now a statistical certainty that she will be defeated by Obugger. She either honestly thinks that she should be the nominee, despite the "voice of the people" -- she hears those "voices" differently -- despite mathematics, despite the need for unity within the Democratic Party. Why not? After all, she is Hil-liar. And the media, in their short-sightedness, agree with her.
It explains how she can stand up and try and tell the nation that West Virginia is a measure of the pulse, the heartbeat of the average American voter. She did an absolutely Hitler-esque jig (famous propaganda cooked up by Britian) concerning her come from behind win in Indiana, and seemed to imply that this was the case in WV. Folks, this is adding two plus two and coming up with 14, not just five -- a lie of staggering proportions. She was double digits ahead in Indiana since before electricity was invented. But she could not resist a boast based on phony political-spin, she lied. She lied when she did not need to -- and that is her character in a nutshell. Remember the snipers? Even more unbelievable are pundits from both sides who seem to agree with her as to the pulse of America and ignore the rest. Why not? After all, she is Hil-liar.
Two talkshow hosts (who I normally respect, but in this case seem to have misplaced their heads "where it does not shine") in Boston are parading stats such as "no Democrat has won the White House without West Virginia in the past 100 years," as though this was talismanic of something. "It shows that [Obugger] cannot win the white vote." "[Obugger] only appeals to leftie Liberals, Cambridge granolas, and whacko Hollywood types." "He's a coastal phenom." "Obugger has played the race card."
Bullshit. Number one, Obugger did not play the first race card in this campaign, Bill Clinton did. AND, the fact of the matter, as ANYONE who has a sense and shred of honesty will tell you, is this: non-coastal White America of IS racist. (Note: a generalization is the ONLY way to characterize a group of individuals, it is emphatically NOT a mistake, and by its very nature my statement applies only to the masses, not any given individual.) Who are these people that I accuse of being racist? I accuse the ill-or-uneducated whites making less than $50,000 per year with less than a four-year college degree. And that is the bulk of America from coast to coast.
These the are "goobers" that the "elites" believe should be deprived of the vote. Hil-liar actually thinks this way -- just like Obugger -- but has not been caught saying so. Hil-liar's constituency is these people. The scared, illiterate, gameshow and soap watching, older white women and (to a lesser degree) men of the Heartland. Obugger was right: they cling to their guns and religion. They do so, because everything else has gone to shit. They live in a post-industrial society, their factory jobs now in Chengdu, their cars over 10 years old, their vacation spots on Lake Erie boarded up, Liberals threatening their guns, gas costing too much to run their "trucks", health care too expensive to consider going to the doc to see about that lump, dental care right out of the question .... And Hil-liar comes along ... looks like them (she dresses for the part, not that she was ever snazzy), she changes her accent to sound like them, simplifies her syntax "so's they kin unnerstand her," tells them that the whole mess is not their fault and that she will fix it for them. She relieves them of their responsibility for their own fates -- a role traditionally assumed by the various churches and religions. And, voila, you get "faithful" Clintonistas, ignorant, willing to forget, ignore and disbelieve every sordid fact of Hil-liar's life, willing to see this singularly dishonest, self-serving, politician again occupy the White House. Hil-liar's people. Goobers.
Then comes one Jeremiah Wright ... Obugger's preacher (a position that, in the light of the above discourse, carries abnormal weight amongst White America, a fact Coastals just don't "get") and he starts spewing the vilest hate and fantasy seen in quite a few years, outside of Rosie O'Donnell.
He hits EVERY single fear button these "White Folk" have. He plays to their worst nightmares, their innermost fears, and keeps it coming. Instead of shutting this moron down, refusing him airtime, the media parades this endlessly in front of the fearful cowering masses, already predisposed to vote for Hil-liar, coz' she's white and (as the numbers support) a woman. After the "God Damn America," tirade ... every older than 40 white woman in podunk, with a tattered existence, no real prospect of security (as psychologists will tell you, the main fear in their lives ... is long term security) will run for the polling booth to vote for Hil-liar. Obugger is BLACK. Wright, his pastor, is BLACK. "Those people" are showing their true cards, they HATE us. They hate White America, "those ungrateful bastards!!!" "After all we have done for them, what with affirmative action and all ... and that is what they really think...!" Wright has succeeded in scaring White America. He has also single-handedly almost scuppered the best chance Black America will have in a generation of seeing a black man in the White House as President ... and not a Secret Service Agent. For someone "dedicated" to the advancement of Black America, that seems a little odd. But not if he was paid by Hil-liar's campaign. Or does someone have some interesting negatives?
The media -- which I have always accused of being fundamentally pro-Hil-liar play along with the Wright-hysteria. They don't allow common sense to creep in. They stoke the fires. Why? It is no secret that the owners of most of the powerful mass-media in the United States are pro-Hil-liar ... and Obugger might just be ... Muslim. They are afraid too; in some bizarre and ultimately ironic way they are little different than those grannies in Indiana. Obugger might really be serious about appeasing Hamas and Hezbollah or ... God forbid, Iran. Hil-liar won't ... they hope.
Of course, politics is deception: telling enough lies to get yourself into power, then doing just enough to ensure that you stay there. Nothing honest about it. Obugger is using the Deval Patrick (a good friend) method: smile and say, "together we can." Do what? I am terrified of what the "what" may be. Income redistribution, for sure, check. Idiotic foreign policy blunders, check. Increased spending for the unwed mothers of our ghettos, check. Cutting the military, check. Pouring money into the cesspool of health care, check. Allowing every frikkin Jose or Manuel from the greater Americas to flood our country and overwhelm its infrastructure, check. I fear all of that. And more. But I fear this less than I fear the worst congenital liar to tread the floorboards of the political stage ... perhaps ever ... Hil-liar.
Look, say Obugger defeats McCooter (as in "old coot") and gets in. Do you really think that America is going to let these things happen? Maybe at first, but as Obugger's full neo-commie manifesto is laid out, there will be revolt. There will be tax strikes. There will be demonstrations of unheard-of proportions. People will finally demand a meritocracy, and do away with programs that put illiterate teachers in our schools because they are minorities. People will demand an end to the public support of bastard factories across our country. In short, if the worst fears of Obugger turn out to be fact --- then we have won our country back. I mean that for every hard-working American, black, white, hispanic, asian ... everyone who wants to make something of themselves, to get ahead.
The fall-out? For at least a generation, we will be free of the specter of Liberal insanity threatening our welfare. Remember Carter? What happened next? 12 years of Republican domination -- and the end of the Cold War. You reckon Carter could have done that? Remember what happened in 1994? No? Let me remind you that Bill (the Liar) Clinton tried to impose a greater liberal nation on us in the first two years of his administration (Hil-Liar featuring her failed healthcare) and as a result we "enjoyed" the Gingrich (not a nice person) revolution. Bill saw the writing on the wall and sensibly did not undo the programs and policies of the Reagan/Bush era, although you can bet Hil-liar was desperate to. The Clinton "good times" was built on the Reagan/Bush policies of 1980-1992.
The fall out would include a roll back of the Warren Court. A repudiation of the failed socialist policies and secularism that have come close to ruining our country -- ironically, the same policies that have put our White Americans "in the soup."
And of course, Barack might turn out to be the worst nightmare of neo-cons and black nationalists alike (not to mention Hil-liar '012) ... he might actually be a good President. He is extremely intelligent. He got to where he is despite overwhelming odds (affirmative action notwithstanding). He may be a better politician than anyone has given him credit for: how do you defeat the Clinton juggernaut that had Hil-liar the nominee-presumptive since 2004? Nay since 2000? When EVERY political sage predicted Hil-liar's unopposed sweep to the White House (that's you Jay). Unqualified, you say? I'd say that this unreal defeat of Goliath is very David-esque, and serves to act as a strong qualification. When was the last time a community activist has become President? Look at the backgrounds of the Presidents of the last 100 years. Products of the "Elite" -- all of them, except for one Ronald Wilson Reagan. Jeez. What a statement.
A good Obugger presidency would also eliminate the union-based Democratic party as a force and possibly reshape American politics, fundamentally. Independents will have found a home, and White America might have to form a new party or Go Red. Vote Republican. Now that's a thought.
What does this tell us about her? Certainly a narcissist ... but on a larger scale, what does this mean and how does this play out? To start with, it explains a lot about her attitudes over the years, ignoring laws, constitutional rights, decency and permitting marital excess that beggar's belief. She simply does not think that the "Rules" apply to her. After all, she is Hil-liar.
It explains how she can continue to run in this campaign even though it is now a statistical certainty that she will be defeated by Obugger. She either honestly thinks that she should be the nominee, despite the "voice of the people" -- she hears those "voices" differently -- despite mathematics, despite the need for unity within the Democratic Party. Why not? After all, she is Hil-liar. And the media, in their short-sightedness, agree with her.
It explains how she can stand up and try and tell the nation that West Virginia is a measure of the pulse, the heartbeat of the average American voter. She did an absolutely Hitler-esque jig (famous propaganda cooked up by Britian) concerning her come from behind win in Indiana, and seemed to imply that this was the case in WV. Folks, this is adding two plus two and coming up with 14, not just five -- a lie of staggering proportions. She was double digits ahead in Indiana since before electricity was invented. But she could not resist a boast based on phony political-spin, she lied. She lied when she did not need to -- and that is her character in a nutshell. Remember the snipers? Even more unbelievable are pundits from both sides who seem to agree with her as to the pulse of America and ignore the rest. Why not? After all, she is Hil-liar.
Two talkshow hosts (who I normally respect, but in this case seem to have misplaced their heads "where it does not shine") in Boston are parading stats such as "no Democrat has won the White House without West Virginia in the past 100 years," as though this was talismanic of something. "It shows that [Obugger] cannot win the white vote." "[Obugger] only appeals to leftie Liberals, Cambridge granolas, and whacko Hollywood types." "He's a coastal phenom." "Obugger has played the race card."
Bullshit. Number one, Obugger did not play the first race card in this campaign, Bill Clinton did. AND, the fact of the matter, as ANYONE who has a sense and shred of honesty will tell you, is this: non-coastal White America of IS racist. (Note: a generalization is the ONLY way to characterize a group of individuals, it is emphatically NOT a mistake, and by its very nature my statement applies only to the masses, not any given individual.) Who are these people that I accuse of being racist? I accuse the ill-or-uneducated whites making less than $50,000 per year with less than a four-year college degree. And that is the bulk of America from coast to coast.
These the are "goobers" that the "elites" believe should be deprived of the vote. Hil-liar actually thinks this way -- just like Obugger -- but has not been caught saying so. Hil-liar's constituency is these people. The scared, illiterate, gameshow and soap watching, older white women and (to a lesser degree) men of the Heartland. Obugger was right: they cling to their guns and religion. They do so, because everything else has gone to shit. They live in a post-industrial society, their factory jobs now in Chengdu, their cars over 10 years old, their vacation spots on Lake Erie boarded up, Liberals threatening their guns, gas costing too much to run their "trucks", health care too expensive to consider going to the doc to see about that lump, dental care right out of the question .... And Hil-liar comes along ... looks like them (she dresses for the part, not that she was ever snazzy), she changes her accent to sound like them, simplifies her syntax "so's they kin unnerstand her," tells them that the whole mess is not their fault and that she will fix it for them. She relieves them of their responsibility for their own fates -- a role traditionally assumed by the various churches and religions. And, voila, you get "faithful" Clintonistas, ignorant, willing to forget, ignore and disbelieve every sordid fact of Hil-liar's life, willing to see this singularly dishonest, self-serving, politician again occupy the White House. Hil-liar's people. Goobers.
Then comes one Jeremiah Wright ... Obugger's preacher (a position that, in the light of the above discourse, carries abnormal weight amongst White America, a fact Coastals just don't "get") and he starts spewing the vilest hate and fantasy seen in quite a few years, outside of Rosie O'Donnell.
He hits EVERY single fear button these "White Folk" have. He plays to their worst nightmares, their innermost fears, and keeps it coming. Instead of shutting this moron down, refusing him airtime, the media parades this endlessly in front of the fearful cowering masses, already predisposed to vote for Hil-liar, coz' she's white and (as the numbers support) a woman. After the "God Damn America," tirade ... every older than 40 white woman in podunk, with a tattered existence, no real prospect of security (as psychologists will tell you, the main fear in their lives ... is long term security) will run for the polling booth to vote for Hil-liar. Obugger is BLACK. Wright, his pastor, is BLACK. "Those people" are showing their true cards, they HATE us. They hate White America, "those ungrateful bastards!!!" "After all we have done for them, what with affirmative action and all ... and that is what they really think...!" Wright has succeeded in scaring White America. He has also single-handedly almost scuppered the best chance Black America will have in a generation of seeing a black man in the White House as President ... and not a Secret Service Agent. For someone "dedicated" to the advancement of Black America, that seems a little odd. But not if he was paid by Hil-liar's campaign. Or does someone have some interesting negatives?
The media -- which I have always accused of being fundamentally pro-Hil-liar play along with the Wright-hysteria. They don't allow common sense to creep in. They stoke the fires. Why? It is no secret that the owners of most of the powerful mass-media in the United States are pro-Hil-liar ... and Obugger might just be ... Muslim. They are afraid too; in some bizarre and ultimately ironic way they are little different than those grannies in Indiana. Obugger might really be serious about appeasing Hamas and Hezbollah or ... God forbid, Iran. Hil-liar won't ... they hope.
Of course, politics is deception: telling enough lies to get yourself into power, then doing just enough to ensure that you stay there. Nothing honest about it. Obugger is using the Deval Patrick (a good friend) method: smile and say, "together we can." Do what? I am terrified of what the "what" may be. Income redistribution, for sure, check. Idiotic foreign policy blunders, check. Increased spending for the unwed mothers of our ghettos, check. Cutting the military, check. Pouring money into the cesspool of health care, check. Allowing every frikkin Jose or Manuel from the greater Americas to flood our country and overwhelm its infrastructure, check. I fear all of that. And more. But I fear this less than I fear the worst congenital liar to tread the floorboards of the political stage ... perhaps ever ... Hil-liar.
Look, say Obugger defeats McCooter (as in "old coot") and gets in. Do you really think that America is going to let these things happen? Maybe at first, but as Obugger's full neo-commie manifesto is laid out, there will be revolt. There will be tax strikes. There will be demonstrations of unheard-of proportions. People will finally demand a meritocracy, and do away with programs that put illiterate teachers in our schools because they are minorities. People will demand an end to the public support of bastard factories across our country. In short, if the worst fears of Obugger turn out to be fact --- then we have won our country back. I mean that for every hard-working American, black, white, hispanic, asian ... everyone who wants to make something of themselves, to get ahead.
The fall-out? For at least a generation, we will be free of the specter of Liberal insanity threatening our welfare. Remember Carter? What happened next? 12 years of Republican domination -- and the end of the Cold War. You reckon Carter could have done that? Remember what happened in 1994? No? Let me remind you that Bill (the Liar) Clinton tried to impose a greater liberal nation on us in the first two years of his administration (Hil-Liar featuring her failed healthcare) and as a result we "enjoyed" the Gingrich (not a nice person) revolution. Bill saw the writing on the wall and sensibly did not undo the programs and policies of the Reagan/Bush era, although you can bet Hil-liar was desperate to. The Clinton "good times" was built on the Reagan/Bush policies of 1980-1992.
The fall out would include a roll back of the Warren Court. A repudiation of the failed socialist policies and secularism that have come close to ruining our country -- ironically, the same policies that have put our White Americans "in the soup."
And of course, Barack might turn out to be the worst nightmare of neo-cons and black nationalists alike (not to mention Hil-liar '012) ... he might actually be a good President. He is extremely intelligent. He got to where he is despite overwhelming odds (affirmative action notwithstanding). He may be a better politician than anyone has given him credit for: how do you defeat the Clinton juggernaut that had Hil-liar the nominee-presumptive since 2004? Nay since 2000? When EVERY political sage predicted Hil-liar's unopposed sweep to the White House (that's you Jay). Unqualified, you say? I'd say that this unreal defeat of Goliath is very David-esque, and serves to act as a strong qualification. When was the last time a community activist has become President? Look at the backgrounds of the Presidents of the last 100 years. Products of the "Elite" -- all of them, except for one Ronald Wilson Reagan. Jeez. What a statement.
A good Obugger presidency would also eliminate the union-based Democratic party as a force and possibly reshape American politics, fundamentally. Independents will have found a home, and White America might have to form a new party or Go Red. Vote Republican. Now that's a thought.
posted by Zaphod at Thursday, May 15, 2008
3 Comments:
The task is a difficult one. Choose the de facto leader of the free world? But, the choices are rather pathetic: a Republican more liberal than conservative, a pathological liar or the "together we can" Manchurian candidate. Woe is the state of the race for president. It is wonderful for America that we have, on the Democrat side the choice between a woman or a black man. Yet when it comes time to pull the lever in the general election, the lesser of two evils will, in my eyes, be McCain.
No doubt ... in the end. And painful it will be.
Interesting that here in Europe the general feeling we get from "the people" is pro Obama. I am by no means sure that this is not because his liberalism is much more to the local taste. As Zaphod has stated elsewhere Europe has gone far down the liberal tubes and is near EU induced paralysis .
There must be individuals in the two major parties that could revive the political process. Of course they wounldn't run for office.
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