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Sun Dec 22, 2013 at 11:03 PM PST
Hillary's Outstanding Accomplishments
Will Hillary run or won’t she. Emotions run strong on both
sides of this debate. Her supporters have set up Hillary superpacs that
have already amassed small fortunes to be used to finance a possible
campaign. Lots of people love Hillary because, even with their strong
connections to Wall Street and their embrace of neoliberalism, she and
Willy presided over a period of prosperity in the 1990s that, on the
surface, appeared to benefit ALL Americans.
The reactions of the Hillary lovers pale when compared to the visceral and vicious response from her opponents on the right. The Clinton Conspiracy wing of the conservative resurgence, that has been in overdrive since Willy was president, has succeeded in creating a cadre of reactionaries among their simple-minded followers that just won’t die out. Mention any Clinton and you will release an explosion of irrational and vituperative invective that is difficult for a sane human being to understand.
On any forum visited that is connected in any meaningless way with any meaningless Clinton article, there are certain meaningless right-wing buzzwords that pop-up repeatedly. Besides the ubiquitous and desperation-laden chants of “beenghaaaaziiiibeenghaaaazhiiiibeenghaaaaziiii,” you can still find references to “Vince Foster,” “Watergate,” “the Hillary Clone,” and, of course, the ever present “Hillary’s Secret Baby With Hubble.”[1] There is a whole army of simple-minded parrots haunting online forums that have the distinction of having the ability to repeat the phrase “What difference does it make?” over and over and over again, ad nauseum. [Google Hillary for examples] The bullshit is fucking mind-numbing. Furthermore, ridicule is wasted on these idiots. They have been so thoroughly programmed by right wing propagandists that they have formed a Kevlar kernel of hate in their empty little minds that is impervious to logic, truth, or common sense.
The stupidest question, however, that I run across over and over again is this: “Really, what has Hillary ever accomplished?” There is an old saying that attorneys always keep in mind when grilling witnesses on the stand; “Never ask a question that you don’t already know the answer to.”[2] The implication is that a surprise answer might make the interrogator look like a complete and utter fool. Hillary has devoted her life to public service. Although I don’t agree with her all the time, I think that she genuinely cares for the welfare of the people in our country. You can’t spend so much of your time working for the people without racking up some achievements. I did some research and compiled a small sample of Hillary’s outstanding achievements. This compilation is far from comprehensive; I’m just trying to illuminate for the unaware the exceptional qualities and morally outstanding character of Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The reactions of the Hillary lovers pale when compared to the visceral and vicious response from her opponents on the right. The Clinton Conspiracy wing of the conservative resurgence, that has been in overdrive since Willy was president, has succeeded in creating a cadre of reactionaries among their simple-minded followers that just won’t die out. Mention any Clinton and you will release an explosion of irrational and vituperative invective that is difficult for a sane human being to understand.
On any forum visited that is connected in any meaningless way with any meaningless Clinton article, there are certain meaningless right-wing buzzwords that pop-up repeatedly. Besides the ubiquitous and desperation-laden chants of “beenghaaaaziiiibeenghaaaazhiiiibeenghaaaaziiii,” you can still find references to “Vince Foster,” “Watergate,” “the Hillary Clone,” and, of course, the ever present “Hillary’s Secret Baby With Hubble.”[1] There is a whole army of simple-minded parrots haunting online forums that have the distinction of having the ability to repeat the phrase “What difference does it make?” over and over and over again, ad nauseum. [Google Hillary for examples] The bullshit is fucking mind-numbing. Furthermore, ridicule is wasted on these idiots. They have been so thoroughly programmed by right wing propagandists that they have formed a Kevlar kernel of hate in their empty little minds that is impervious to logic, truth, or common sense.
The stupidest question, however, that I run across over and over again is this: “Really, what has Hillary ever accomplished?” There is an old saying that attorneys always keep in mind when grilling witnesses on the stand; “Never ask a question that you don’t already know the answer to.”[2] The implication is that a surprise answer might make the interrogator look like a complete and utter fool. Hillary has devoted her life to public service. Although I don’t agree with her all the time, I think that she genuinely cares for the welfare of the people in our country. You can’t spend so much of your time working for the people without racking up some achievements. I did some research and compiled a small sample of Hillary’s outstanding achievements. This compilation is far from comprehensive; I’m just trying to illuminate for the unaware the exceptional qualities and morally outstanding character of Hillary Rodham Clinton.
By all accounts, Hillary was an exceptional child with a keen intellect that made her a teacher’s favorite. She excelled in school and was known as a natural-born leader. Hillary was raised in a traditional conservative household in Illinois by Methodist parents. Naturally, the conservative influences of her parents influenced the embryonic stage of her political awareness. As she grew older, however, her growing involvement in political affairs produced a transformation. Her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement had a profound effect on her. In 1968, after being a nominal Republican for years, she repudiated the racism that is inherent in the Republican Party and switched to the Democratic Party. [3]
Hillary went to the prestigious women’s institution of higher learning, Wellesley College. The beginning of her prodigious political growth can be traced to this period. Naturally, she excelled as a student. In 1969, she graduated with honors with a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. She was so well respected by the administration of the school that she was invited to give the commencement address that year. As the first and ONLY student to EVER to deliver a commencement speech at Wellesley College, Hillary received a seven minute standing ovation after criticizing the previous speaker, Senator Edward Brook, a Republican from Massachusetts. [4]
While at Wellesley, Hillary chose to write a senior thesis that criticized the tactics of community organizer, Saul Alinsky. [5] Her thesis is responsible for one of the more uncommon and oddly irrelevant anti-Hillary hate slogans. Every now and then, in response to some meaningless act by Hillary, some totally out-of-touch right-wing swizzle stick will refer to Hillary’s tenuous but conspiratorial connection to Saul Alinsky. For example, when commenting on Hillary’s evasive responses to questions regarding her presidential ambitions, some dingbat will vehemently declare, ”See?!?! Right out of the Alinsky Playbook!!! How can you trust somebody like that?!?!?” No, Really!!! I’ve seen it with my own eyes! In later years, in the embryonic stages of the Clinton Conspiracy wing of the conservative resurgence, this thesis would come to haunt the scandal mongers.
In 1993, Hillary and Willy created a firestorm when they restricted access to her thesis. [6] Republican witch hunters and scandalmongers were beside themselves with resentment and curiosity and, in their simple worldview, this act was a deliberate attempt to cover up crimes that were on a par with Nixon’s incoherent and vindictive attacks on his perceived political enemies. As planned, by withholding the thesis, her political allure was exponentially compounded. To this day, Republican scandalmongers go into frenzied fits of Pavlovian paroxysms at the thought that they were denied access to her ultimately meaningless thesis.
One of the defining elements of Hillary’s political career was her relationship with President Richard Nixon. This episode had to be a colossal lesson for Hillary on how not to be a leader. Nixon had to be the dumbest man to ever pollute the Oval Office with his presence. I’m not sure if Hillary ever met the man, but in 1974, she was invited to join the team designated to prepare impeachment articles against the dumbest president in American history. Her work forced Nixon to resign to avoid imprisonment for his assaults on democracy, which he had the courtesy to record as evidence. [7]
Republicans are so obtuse that they fail to recognize one glaring example of their own obtuseness. The unfavorable term, “cover-up” will always be linked in people’s minds to Richard Nixon’s inept and clumsy attempts to cover-up his crimes. Thanks to Nixon, a political cover up is, by definition, a Republican tactic. What could possibly be more entertaining than witnessing the disintegration of Nixon’s gang of antisocial thugs and their eventual imprisonment? The image of Nixon and his inner circle of criminals feverishly erasing huge segments of the infamous tapes is infinitely amusing. One would think that the right-wing attack rats would come up with a different phrase that is not so overwhelmingly loaded with derogatory and detrimental Republican connotations.
After forcing Nixon to resign in 1974, Hillary further enraged Republicans by becoming the first female faculty member at the School of Law at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. [8] In 1974 Arkansas political circles, the idea that a woman had the audacity to assume a leadership position was a direct affront to conservative principles. The fact that she dared to eschew her primary social responsibility of producing a brood of children and to invade the hallowed masculine halls of academia caused an untold amount of anxiety and consternation among her Republican male colleagues.
From the very beginning of her involvement in politics, Hillary has been a strong advocate of the rights of the poor and women and children. She has volunteered her legal services to help these groups on numerous occasions; she has helped to organize and promote entities that provide pro bono legal services for the underprivileged; she has authored or coauthored many studies that illuminate the social problems that permeate these groups. Currently, she continues to defend these vulnerable segments of society against Republican assaults and to promote their rights world-wide. In 1996, Hillary ignited a furious backlash from the Conservative wing of the Republican Party when she published her book, “It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us,” in which she had the temerity to ascribe intellectual capacity to children. [9]
Perhaps Hillary’s greatest accomplishment occurred during the absurd attack by the Clinton Conspiracy wing of the conservative resurgence on Willy’s private parts. Hillary, in effect, made a mockery of the culture of Republican machismo in Washington when she refused to produce a soap opera-like reaction to revelations of Willy’s philandering. Hillary’s poised, mature, and heedless response to a meaningless act of sexual gratification on the part of her horndog husband indicated an inherent disdain for the preconceived notions of Republican male superciliousness that permeated and permeates the Republican culture in Washington. This simple refusal to respond as a stereotypical appendage to a male patriarch, more than anything else, cemented her reputation as an independent free-thinker and elevated the status of women in America to an irrefutable position of equality. Her reckless disregard for male superiority was unforgiveable and has been responsible for a huge amount of hate and vilification from Republicans.
Hillary is a political realist. She is well aware that Republicans hate anybody that isn’t white, male, conservative and rich. Everybody else belongs in the same category of inferiority; Democrats, liberals, progressives, women, blacks, minorities, the poor, the working poor, what’s left of the middle class, labor leaders, gays, immigrants, et al. The hierarchy of useless inferiority that these groups occupy can only be known in the irrational and illogical minds of the people that hate them so much. Maybe she will enjoy an elevated stature in the minds of the Republicans by virtue of her non-blackness. Who knows? Their behavior is the ultimate arbiter of who is more socially acceptable to them.
This is only a small sample of Hillary’s achievements. All the events covered here occurred before she embarked on her own official political career when she won a senatorial campaign in 2000. If elected, maybe her elevated status of non-blackness will usher in a new era of political compromise and bipartisanship. Maybe another loss by the Republicans will set them on a path to realistically alter their self-destructive behavior. Maybe another loss will force them to face the fact that their behavior is harming our nation and that changes in their undemocratic tactics of nihilistic anarchism are needed.
HAH!!! The power mad little boys will continue their self-destructive behavior from a their politically weak position of envy, hatred, and anger. I don’t think anybody will be able to alter their vindictive behavior.
More to come about this formidable political force.
[1] http://www.hillaryscandals.orx/...
[2] http://www.goodreads.com/...
[3] http://www.biography.com/...
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/...
[5] http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/...
[6] http://www.nbcnews.com/...
[7] http://en.wikipedia.org/...
[8] http://www.firstladies.org/...
[9] http://en.wikipedia.org/...
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