All Of The Above (Hillary's Remark)

Governing: For today's multiple choice quiz, identify who said: "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."

It's a trick question, because in fact each of them has expressed the same idea. But it is only Clinton who said it in those exact words.

Just to assure readers there is no attempt to take her words out of context or to twist them, here is the statement, as provided by The Associated Press, that Clinton gave Monday in San Francisco at a Democratic fund-raiser:

"Many of you are well enough off that . . . the tax cuts may have helped you," the junior senator from New York said. "We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."

The left is usually a bit more guarded in advocating its Marxist-Leninist views. But Clinton was quite clear: The state ("we") reigns over the individual ("you"). For her moment of candor, she should be commended.

But not for her governing philosophy. It's straight from the Bolshevik book of fundamental principles.

Most alarming, though, is not Clinton's statement. We long ago recognized her statist, wealth-redistributing agenda. She is part of the "we" that promises to take things away from individuals. She, and others like her, are perfectly happy defining the "common good" for all people. Clearly, the people can't do it themselves.

No, the bigger concern is that her words will not only go virtually unchallenged, but also they will be celebrated — which is more of a tragedy than a shame.

Have we become so unthinking as Americans that we'll validate the politics of envy? That we'll obediently surrender what belongs to us and to our neighbors because corrupt ideas require it?

The common good is never reached through the central planning that Clinton espouses. The nations that tried it, from the Soviet Union to Czechoslovakia to East Germany, were worse off because of their oppressive systems.

They learned the lesson the hard way. So will the nations of Western Europe, where statist, top-heavy systems are beginning to fray. With all respect to the junior senator from New York, it's a lesson America can do without.

"The Smartest Woman in the World" probably talks too much:

HRC: "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."

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From interview: This was a woman who studied under some of the hardest ideological gurus of the left. 11-15-99

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Arutz 7 Israel National Radio 11-7-00

Hillary's Secret War Front Page Magazine interview with author, Richard Poe 5-7-04

In July 1995, Hillary’s Shadow Team produced a secret report which identified the Internet as a special danger to the Clintons ’ power. The report proved prophetic when journalists such as Matt Drudge, Christopher Ruddy, Joseph Farah and, of course, David Horowitz, began using the Internet to publish stories that Big Media would never touch.

In February 1998, Hillary announced that the Internet needed an “editing or gatekeeping function.” By the time she spoke those words, Hillary was already hard at work putting her gatekeeping machinery into place.

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And just because you can........

Slap Hillary!

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