Posted on 12/09/2005 10:40:16 PM PST by neverdem
War view stirs ire
Hillary Clinton is seeing pink. Code Pink. The unruly group of far-left female apologists for tyranny around the world, most infamous for prancing around in pastel lingerie to protest President Bush and the war on terror, has now launched a nationwide campaign against the senator from New York because of her opposition to immediate troop withdrawals from Iraq.
But don’t weep for Hillary.
Code Pink is the group that championed military deserters, cheered Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, traipsed around the Jordan-Iraq border last year condemning America, prayed for the “people of Fallujah,” doled out $600,000 in aid to what they called “the other side,” and is planning a vacation to Cuba in solidarity with the Castro regime.
Clinton couldn’t have wished for a better Christmas present than having these loony peaceniks barking about her faux moderate makeover.
She’s on her way to the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination — that is, if she doesn’t trip on the way to her Senate re-election bid and she can chart a path through the treacherous minefield of Democratic primaries. (Two words, Hill: Skip Iowa.)
This week, Code Pink and allied groups organized in New York City to dog Clinton for refusing to embrace the cut-and-run wing of the Democratic Party. Code Pink members planned to gather at a Manhattan club to heckle Hillary during a Senate fund-raiser. Code Pink and company recently shouted Clinton down in Chicago during what was supposed to be a motivational speech to young people. The Code Pink Web site proudly crowed:
Hillary Clinton was the keynote speaker at an event to get high school and college kids interested in politics. Eight CODEPINKers, with pink umbrellas, treated Hillary to a CODEPINK-style protest, opening their umbrellas and chanting, “Out of Iraq Now” — one word on each umbrella. People in the crowd chanted “Troops out now,” and others had signs along the same vein. One friend threw leaflets down on the crowd. It was [an] amazing event!
And on Dec. 20, with C-SPAN cameras rolling, Code Pink plans to disrupt a discussion between Hillary and liberal journalist Jane Pauley before an audience of 3,000 in San Francisco.
Hillary, looking to bolster her image as a credible mainstream figure on defense and national security matters, couldn’t have staged it better herself.
But is the retreat-now faction of the Democratic Party insurmountable? Liberal pundits like to gloat about the supposed conservative crack-up, but the divisions within the Democratic Party are far deeper and more difficult to straddle.
Just as Clinton was fending off Code Pink, guess who showed up on the group’s Web site grinning with two bright Code Pink T-shirts in each hand? Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean.
Dean said the war in Iraq was “unwinnable” and has called for bringing “80,000 National Guard and Reserve troops home immediately,” while nonsensically advocating placement of “a force in the Middle East, not in Iraq but in a friendly neighboring country to fight [terrorist chief] Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.” More troops should be sent to Afghanistan instead, he says.
Meanwhile, John Kerry continues his troop-smearing — taking to CBS News airwaves to accuse American soldiers in Iraq of “terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the — of — the historical customs, religious customs.”
This kind of deranged defeatism will earn you a Code Pink T-shirt and a hug from Cindy Sheehan. But as Hillary (dangerously for Republicans) seems to understand, it won’t win much else.
George W. Bush isn’t the Dems’ biggest enemy, it turns out. It’s the living ghost of George McGovern.
© 2005 Creators Syndicate
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This is all working to Hillary's benefit. It is all part of her master plan.
Code Pink stinks
but....
Malkin is a Falcon !
You know..........as I read that, I thought the same thing.
Code Pink people harrassing the Hillmonster?
She's trying to create some kind of "track record"....so she can go back and see, see, see......!
John Kerry would sell his soul for power and money. Oh wait, he already has.
PING! Code Pink's infallible talent for self-destruction rides again -- this time in New York! Maybe this is why Gael Murphy has been skipping out of her cold-weather obligations picketing Walter Reed on Friday nights -- she's been gone for weeks! She had bigger fish to fry -- the head femnazi herself! When will Pinko immoderates ever learn?
One is the devil
the others are insane
Hillary, looking to bolster her image as a credible mainstream figure on defense and national security matters, couldn’t have staged it better herself.
Something tells me that she did stage it.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
"John Kerry would sell his soul for power and money. Oh wait, he already has."
Haven't you ever heard of Second Mortgages.
Which is worse? Pink-clad fools acting like demented clowns? Or a deep and dark and sinister agent of destruction?
Wow! Some of those Pinko Brigade women look like men.
Thanks for the update and link!
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