Hillary: It's Time For Democrats To Dump This Destructive Spouse

[Better Believe It]

April 25, 2008
CommonDreams.org
Get Out, Hillary
by David Michael Green

Do we treat her differently because she is a woman? Again, we shouldn’t. While the United States desperately needs diversity amongst its political ranks, and needs it purely for its own sake, we should never allow a candidate’s sex to serve as a shorthand for their politics. Margaret Thatcher is a woman, and so was Indira Gandhi and Cleopatra. Anyone who thinks that Hillary Clinton’s first devotion is to feminism and women’s issues over her own ambitions better stock up on coat-hangers, I’m afraid. This is a person who knowingly voted for a war based on complete and obvious fabrications in order to advance her own political career. That war has now likely claimed over a million lives. Does anyone seriously believe that someone who could do that wouldn’t also be capable of selling out abortion rights for the same purpose? Indeed, she already has. Let’s not kid ourselves about where her interests lie, and where they always lie. And, by the way, if equitable representation is the logic, let’s also not forget that there’s a certain African American still in this race, as well, and that his is another community that has been more than a little, shall we say, under-represented in the American political firmament these last four centuries or so.

Anyhow, the Clintons can’t quite seem to sell Hillary as a presidential nominee to Democrats, but they still manage to get a lot of RSVPs to their maximally self-indulgent pity party. They just simply believe — like a certain other family whose American dynasty you may be familiar with (and, no, I’m not talking about John Quincy Adams here) — that the presidency belongs to them. Right from the beginning of this process they’ve laid out all the groundwork to make it happen, and darned if they don’t feel entitled to claim their prize. Does anyone seriously believe that the Clintons just coincidentally moved to New York? Does anyone think that she wanted to be senator just to pass good legislation? Does anyone think that she has a particular jones in this lifetime for getting potholes fixed for upstate New York hicks who might as well come from Arkansas? Does anyone think that Hillary Rodham — oops, that went out in 1992, make that Hillary Rodham Clinton — chose to serve on the Senate Armed Services Committee because that’s an issue she’s always been passionate about? Does anyone believe that she voted for war in Iraq because she believed the crap BushCo was peddling? Does anyone think she puts the interests of her party, or even her country, ahead of her own?

.... the Clintons have made clear yet again just how ample is their scuzziness quotient. No Democrat can touch it, other than Joe Lieberman, and even he really isn’t in their league. If necessary, they can play the gender card, so she got weepy in New Hampshire. They’re quite capable of playing the race card, and they did so in South Carolina. They’re happy to play the national security fear card, and they have, with the 3:00 AM ad, the Osama bin Laden ad, and now the obliteration of Iran bit. (If it walks like a Republican, talks like a Republican, and sounds like a Republican…) They’re capable of telling outright whopping lies, and so they do, like her unbelievably outrageous Bosnia gunfire story, and then the lies they’ve both told to cover up the original lie. They’re capable of sleeping with any enemy, and so they have, colluding with no less than Rush Limbaugh, Rupert Murdoch and Richard Mellon Scaife, of all people — the very topmost Conspirators of the Vast Right-Wing. Bill actually went on the Limbaugh radio show as both of them encouraged Texans to vote for her! Gee, what could possibly have been Limbaugh’s motivation for that? (Hint: President Hillary ain’t exactly what he had in mind.) What in the world does that alone say about how much the Clintons care about the Democratic Party?

.... isn’t it time for Democrats to dump this destructive spouse, once and for all? Haven’t the Clintons finally gone on a drunken selfish bender one too many times? If helping John McCain win the presidency doesn’t qualify as the last straw, I don’t know what would.

Please read the entire article at:

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/25/8526/

[LSparkle]

1. BIG K&R !!!

Every word of it true. The latest outrage is Terry McAuliffe's praise
for Fixed Noize, which they've now turned into an on-air promo of how
"fair and balanced" they are.

IT'S TIME FOR THEM TO GO.

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[newmajority]

3. K&R - Stop the drama, vote Obama

End the BushClinton dynasty now.

[midnight]

8. Bobby Kennedy decided to run for presidency after

Jack was murdered. I wish people declined his bid by this feeling of ending a dynasty. He might of been able to prevent some of this decay.

[jackson_dem]

9. RFK ran four years later and T. Kennedy, an Obamite, took it all the way to the convention in 80'

He did this despite being 1,000+ delegates behind.

[truebrit71]

4. Amen to that!! Time to dump The Obliterator...

..once and for all...

An Obama win this fall means the end of the Clinton era in Democratic politics, and a beginning...just MAYBE..of the chance to rip control of this party away from the triangualting centrists that have emasculated and damn-near destroyed this party.

If she somehow gets the nomination we are ALL fucked...

[marylanddem]

5. Excellent article - K&R

As a white feminist of a certain age, I certainly do not identify with Hillary Clinton - nor do I see the "experience" she is so quick to claim, other than being on the receiving end of a chauvinistic spouse's misbehavior, which I suspect is why so many older women do seem to identify with her...

[bigtree]

6. as if the writer had the power to negate the millions of votes in her favor

with petty ridicule.

[ej510]

7. Hillary is a horses ass!

And one of the biggest lars the earth has ever seen!

[bigtree]

11. sez you!

[C_U_L8R]

14. Sez Hillary. The lies clearly emanate from her own mouth

though it's debatable what kind of ass she is : - )))

[invictus]

10. K & R

[jackson_dem]

12. I hope the Obamite sexism against her keeps up--it helps her with female voters

Will we being seeing "iron my shirt" banners at Obama rallies? :eyes:

[nichomachus]

13. Two problems with this

First, Hillary isn't just a female Obama and vice versa. They are different characters. In my view, Hillary is getting more latitude than Obama would, were the situations reversed, because (a) she's the spouse of an ex-president, (b) she's been the presumptive nominee since forever, and (c) a lot of people and corporations have invested heavily in her and don't want to casually throw her aside.

Were the situations reversed, Obama would have none of that to insulate him. He's a newcomer to the scene, there isn't the corporate investment in him to the same level as Hillary, and he has no old-line attachments. It would be much easier for the party insiders to throw him out of the lifeboat.

Second, I think Hillary is hanging in because she knows this is her last hurrah. If she doesn't make it this time, she probably won't even be seriously considered next time. A lot of people who were with her in the beginning, which made the run viable, have abandoned her. They're not going to come back to her in 2012.

So, were the situations reversed, Obama could drop out gracefully and position himself for another run. I don't think that's an option for Hillary. She has already passed the point of no return. She has to plug on. There is no tomorrow. At this point, she's probably just buying time, hoping that something big comes out of nowhere and bites Obama in the ass, so she can step into the void.