When is a Democrat NOT a Democrat? When She's Hillary Clinton!

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When is a Democrat NOT a Democrat? When She's Hillary Clinton!

by Lila Garrett


Here's a riddle. When is a Democrat not a Democrat? Answer: When she's Hillary Clinton.

On January 27th 400,000 activists met in Washington to protest the funding of the war in Iraq. About 40 women from Code Pink went to Hillary Clinton's office with signs like IT TAKES AN INVASION TO RAZE A VILLAGE....They draped pink yarn around the office Cutting the ribbon symbolized cutting through the web of lies that lead us to the war. They also had a letter for Hillary to sign pledging to stop the funding. Instead of accepting the letter, acknowledging this passion for peace, congratulating them on their well thought out demonstration, expressing sympathy with their desire to end the war in Iraq, ...which Hillary now claims to share, the chief of staff had them arrested. Six of these magnificent women were thrown in jail where they spent 8 uncomfortable hours.....for what? For having the audacity to oppose the war that Hillary Clinton had spent 4 years defending. Now she says she's against it. When challenged to put up or shut up what's her reaction? She has voters for peace thrown in jail


When is a Democrat not Democrat? When instead of allowing public financing of her campaign she prefers to take the money from special interests. As the New York Times reported on January 23rd:

"The public financing for presidential campaigns, hailed as the best way to rid politics of corrupting influence of money, may have quietly died over the weekend. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton became the first candidate since 1976 to turn down public financing for both the primary and the general election because of the spending limits that come with the federal money. ....declaring she could raise far more than the 150 million the system could provide"

How can Hillary Clinton raise more than 150 million dollars? By encouraging special interests to fund her campaign. Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox news, right wing nightmare of the Media industry, threw her a huge fund raiser in which undisclosed millions were raised. She not only accepted his largess, she did so with pride.

Meanwhile campaign finance reform is at the heart of taking the election process out of the hands of the special interests, like the credit card companies, the insurance industry, big oil, the arms industry and giving it back to the people. It is no exaggeration to say, public funding of elections is the engine from which democracy springs.

Is that a priority of Mrs. Clinton? Apparently not. Now that she's declared a pox on public funding, other candidates are eager to jump on board. Mitt Romney quickly said "me too". John McCain is making noises like he's next. The fact that as co-author of campaign finance reform bill he has an obligation to follow its mandate doesn't break his stride for a minute. And Barack Obama isn't committing himself one way or the other. (We all know what that means.) Like a house of cards, once Hillary pulled out, the only genuine reform in our voting system started to collapse. We, the people, have lost another chance to make our vote count. But that's okay with Hillary. Her special interest donors couldn't be happier.

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