Posted on 02/18/2007 11:57:34 AM PST by wagglebee
Longtime Internet users will recognize the phrase “All your base are belong to us.” It’s a comically stupid but popular English translation from a late ’80s Japanese video game. In a nutshell, it is a declaration of dominance – everything of yours is now mine.
That sentiment has emerged in Washington – from Hillary Clinton. The presidential candidate used it when she made her feelings about private property known at the Democratic National Committee’s winter meeting.
Clinton must have been shocked that the free market works so well that some Americans actually profit from dealings other than Whitewater. So she decided this sort of thing must end.
"The other day the oil companies recorded the highest profits in the history of the world. I want to take those profits. And I want to put them into a strategic energy fund that will begin to fund alternative smart energy, alternatives and technologies that will begin to actually move us toward the direction of independence,” she told the audience.
Notice she didn’t say tax the profits. She just said “take.” I shouldn’t be shocked. A left-wing politician wants to take from people who earn a profit and spend it on something that hasn’t made a profit, like much of the alternative energy field.
Naturally, a politician vowing to steal from the public received the typical ho-hum reaction in Washington. Most of the mainstream media ignored it entirely, though about 200,000 people viewed the comment on Youtube thanks to the Drudge Report.
CNBC’s February 2 “Kudlow & Company” was one of the few shows to address the Clinton gaffe. Host Larry Kudlow seemed stunned by Clinton’s comment. “Wow! May I just say, with all due respect, that is the most anti-capitalist confiscation of private property.”
Author P.J. O'Rourke simply said “Hillary Clinton is Hugo Chavez in a pantsuit.” He’s right. They are both out to nationalize oil companies for their own personal power. Chavez is just more honest about it and that sort of honesty eludes our would-be Madam President.
By comparison, Chavez accelerated his mad rush toward state control early this year by nationalizing the telecom and electricity industries and taking over four oil production facilities, according to the Los Angeles Times. “We're heading toward socialism, and nothing and no one can prevent it,” Chavez said.
The difference is simply one of power. He has it. She doesn’t … yet.
The night of Clinton’s speech, MSNBC’s Tucker Carlson said her world view made him “uncomfortable,” and called it “almost a megalomania.” Megalomania? A Clinton?
Hillary might be power-mad, but she isn’t stupid. She knows she can attack industry and private property and many in the mainstream media won’t lift a finger to complain – or even cover it. According to Nexis, the only networks even to acknowledge the Clinton quote were Fox News, CNBC and MSNBC.
What about those stalwart journalists at ABC, CBS, NBC or even CNN? They helped make it happen. For years, network newsies have been hammering profitable companies – oil, pharmaceuticals, insurance, retailers and more – every time they do their jobs and succeed.
Back in 2005, CNN’s Miles O’Brien presented a story about high third-quarter oil profits as “something to get your blood boiling” and “get you a little outraged.” The broadcast networks were just as irresponsible.
On October 26 of that same year, NBC’s “Today” accused oil companies of subjecting consumers to “pain” at the gas pump while enjoying their own profit “pleasure.” Anne Thompson stated that “while American consumers have suffered through months of record high gas prices, the oil companies have hit a gusher.” She later said “news of these gargantuan numbers is sure to ignite the debate over how much is too much in a time of crisis.”
That’s been the theme ever since. How much profit dare a company make? If you aren’t careful, the media will attack you – neglecting to tell the world that their own profit percentages are far higher than any oil company’s.
A successful firm’s earnings report no longer results in celebration. It gets criticized as if the very word “profit” has become profanity in the eyes of our left-wing media.
No wonder Hillary Clinton says she wants to “take” (that’s “steal” to us ordinary folk) the profits of one of America’s most successful companies. She thinks she can get away with it because many in the media embrace her uber-leftist, thieving, Stalinist ideas.
Thankfully, to paraphrase the Internet fad and apply it to presidential candidates: “All your future are belong to us.” Hopefully, Americans will figure that out before it’s too late.
100% accurate!
Got an image of Hugo Chavez in a Hillary Clinton pantsuit? That would be an absolute SCREAM!!!!! ROTFLOL at just the thought.
Wow, finally, someone who actually gets it.
"Longtime Internet users will recognize the phrase “All your base are belong to us.” It’s a comically stupid but popular English translation from a late ’80s Japanese video game. In a nutshell, it is a declaration of dominance – everything of yours is now mine. "
Somebody set us up the bomb
---see post #10 here---http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1786918/posts
So PIAPS is actually HCIAPS?
Hey hey hey! Calling Hillary that is an insult to b*tches everywhere.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Nah there Hippo Hugo is doing an bad MaDonna impersonation,.. or is it a Pee-Wee Herman immatation?
"The other day the oil companies recorded the highest profits in the history of the world. I want to take those profits." - Hillary Clinton.
Wow. It is hard for me to imagine the kind of mind required to believe that she and she alone can decide what is best for all. Best for the world. Best for the US. Best for the people that own shares in those oil companies.
She has a serious set of brass eggs. We need to give her that because if we don't we will fail to see the incredible damage she can cause this nation if elected POTUS. Even this very frustrated Conservative will have to get up and vote for someone else. We just need to get another name up there that makes us a little happy and not just less sick.
Government already owns a percentage of our corporations. Whatever the corporate tax rate is, that is the percentage of government ownership. They don't need to be able to vote that stock, they have government force and bureaucrats. With a singe bill, control as much of that corporation as they wish.
Pretty frickin scary how far down the slope we are.
Isn't it sad that the general public sits on the sidelines and cheers this kind of BS. The last time we tried her approach to energy problems (i.e., the early 1970's), I could only buy gas on odd-numbered days and then only 5 gallons at a time. At least Exxon is producing gasoline that I can use in my car. If Hillary and her ilk take it, there is no way in Hell it's going to put one drop of fuel in my car, nor is it going to lower the price at the pump. Indeed, just the opposite will happen. At the time of the 70's energy crunch (brought on by ill-advised price controls), our Washington do-gooders pass an "alternative fuel tax to develop alternative sources of energy". To date, I haven't pumped one pint of their "alternative fuel" into my tank, but they've been collecting the friggin' tax for 35 years. If Hillary gets this kind of tax passed, about the only thing you and I will notice different is that Pelosi now has enough money to get the 747 she "needs" to fly her entourage back and forth between SF-DC.
So, hitlery , does this mean we can take your profits to invest it in more cattle for the world, or how about taking your profits "for the village children"? Put up or shut up you lying Whore.
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NEVER FORGET
HILLARY's backing our Communist Enemy North Vietnam's attack against Freedom for South Vietnam long ago =
Pictures of a vietnamese Re-Education (SLAVE LABOR) Camp
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts
What Price for US to now pay
with our own Freedom
directly at stake
...right here at home..?
NEVER FORGET
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Exactly! She is still so far below b*tch level she can't see it with a telescope.
I kind of like what Chrissy Matthews called her- "Dukakis in a dress"
except she doesnt where dresses
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