Posted on 12/08/2014 2:48:35 PM PST by Impala64ssa
When I first read that Hillary Clinton said we should have “empathy” for our enemies, my first thought was — is she senile? Who is she talking about? Empathy for Hitler? Pol Pot? Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi? Surely if we only empathized with the ISIS leader a bit more, they wouldn’t be slicing off as many heads or placing as many women in sexual slavery, not to mention shooting large groups after having had them dig their own mass graves, Nazi-style. All that business about global jihad and caliphates and “see you in New York” would go away with a little sympathy. (Cue Mick Jagger.)
Yes, I know sympathy is often defined as “feeling for” someone and empathy “feeling into,” but let’s not get bogged down in minor distinctions. It’s hard for anyone with basic morality to have empathy or sympathy for ruthless transnational mass murderers motivated by extreme religious fanaticism. On Fox News Sunday, even Hillary’s normally complaisant supporter Jane Harman seemed repelled. George Will rose to her defense (sort of) by explaining Hillary’s peculiar word choice by saying Clinton employed “gaseous new-age rhetoric” about respect and empathy. True enough, and witty, but I suspect it’s more than that. Why would her mind even go in that direction?
Hillary, as most know now, is not a master of the English language in general She misspeaks herself frequently or simply reacts, as in the “what difference does it make?” outburst about Benghazi. In this way she is following in the footsteps of Bush 43 and Obama, neither of whom could be mistaken for Demosthenes, although Obama had some Greek pretensions in his scenic design preferences.
Bush stumbled with words because of weak linguistic facility he often joked about. For Obama it was something considerably worse, almost always to do with deception. He frequently lies and almost never speaks with candor, so ultimately the normal reaction is to tune him out, as most have at this point.
We aren’t puzzled by the nature of her game.
Not senile, Cirrohsis.
CC
They treat our enemies like friends and our friends like enemies...maybe they just don’t have the same view that the rest of us have.
Drunk is my guess
MArxists don’t even believe there is a devil..
Because they know the devil is “THEM”..
Pretty much everything anti-God is them..
They don’t hate God because they don’t believe there is one, to hate..
To a Marxist everything is 180 degress out from God..
Marxism is a spiritual mental disease..
Their reality is fleshly and material..
Much like many into religion..
Marxism is indeed a religion.. Dialectic Materialism..
nice graphic
Hilbuttcankles is smoking something that is making her appear to be not-so sociopathic.
There is good. And there is evil. Liberals are very confused by this concept.
Thank you.
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Hillary is a person who is on a fake trip of power. She only has that power if her handlers say she does.
She’s not as think as you drunk she is. (hic)
CC
I rode a tank and held a general’s rank when the blitzkrieg raged and the bodies stank. Please to meet you, hope you guess my name what’s puzzling you is the nature of my game
You don't see that word used too often.
Does this empathy extend to conservatives?
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