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. Its 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 Committees 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 didnt say tax the profits. She just said take. I shouldnt be shocked. A left-wing politician wants to take from people who earn a profit and spend it on something that hasnt 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.
CNBCs February 2 Kudlow & Company was one of the few shows to address the Clinton gaffe. Host Larry Kudlow seemed stunned by Clintons 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. Hes 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 doesnt yet.
The night of Clintons speech, MSNBCs 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 isnt stupid. She knows she can attack industry and private property and many in the mainstream media wont 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, CNNs Miles OBrien 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, NBCs 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.
Thats been the theme ever since. How much profit dare a company make? If you arent careful, the media will attack you neglecting to tell the world that their own profit percentages are far higher than any oil companys.
A successful firms 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 (thats steal to us ordinary folk) the profits of one of Americas 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 its too late.
wow.
I just figured out why she always wears pant suits other than to cover up her elephant legs.
The pantsuits help to cover up the rattling sound of the steel ball bearings that are hatched in her ovaries.
Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani believe the same about many major issues.. Little wonder the MsM is trying to groom the American people for a Giuliani vs. Hitlery election in 2008..
;-) Please give credit where it's due. PJ O'Rourke has a gift, which somehow is unprecedented when dealing with les Clintonnes.
Really? Can you let us know precisely what these two have in common, ideologically? Please limit your response to things that will actually effect the safety and security of the nation from the stand point of the economy and national defense.
Hugo Chavez = Hillary Clinton in a dress!
All your oil are belong to us.
LOL!!
Demoralize the profit maker, the producer, the war on terror, and now this... Dems/socialists always hide the most hiddeous agendas behind the current policy choice they voice out.
SO when they say remove the troops from Iraq, scratch the surface and you see all kinds of hideous policies attached to this in the end, such as oil nationalization and derailing that whole network of oil security and economy for the US in general... and other first steps towards "genocidoid" man made misery and famine.
America is in big trouble. The wages of sin are indeed death.
... and this is why the RAts cannot be more positive, but only more negative... they are stuck in the spiral... although I could see them turn outright fascistoid too, putting production into some kind of Hitler... the difference is we are under terror attacks and are the ultimate preys in this, and not predators.
I once feared America would be Finlandized, but it actualy is on the way to third world Haitization, Chavez style... sheesh.
She wears trouser-suits because Hugo Chavez' ankles look petite next to hers. Heck. Even Mike Tysons ankles look downright dainty next to hers. She'll only wear dresses when props, tables, or daises hide those macho ankles. She also wears dresses that forgive those thunder thighs. Which reminds me of a joke: What the latest special meal at KFC? Answer: "The Hillary." The Hillary includes two small breasts, two large thighs, and all the left wings you can eat.
Actually, she doesn't seem particularly bright to me. The "taking" statement is evidence that she isn't.
I repeat my challenge from a thread a week or two ago. Can anyone cite anything that the Commodities Scam Queen has done or said that strikes them as remotely intelligent or clever?
ML/NJ
K...
1) Abortion...
2) Gay rights.
3) Gun rights..
4) Whether liberals should be hanged for sedition and treason..
Yeah, but Tucker wears a bowtie in public and therefore he doesn't count...
Ahhh, be grateful for one thing, at least she is not wearing a dress.
You forgot the part where I said:
Please limit your response to things that will actually effect the safety and security of the nation from the stand point of the economy and national defense.
The democrats and other liberals have no obvious platform of those things.. what we "see" are the things I mentioned.. The democrat party (and other liberals) are much more of threat to the United States than any Muslim terrorist, currently....
A liberal(Giuliani or Hillary Clinton) as President would lock up their power.. America is in dire danger because of both of them.. and George Bush that will NOT ENGAGE the liberals domestically is also a threat to the security of the United States..
Without a civil war the United States is in dire danger I believe.. At least a major "threat for succession" of some places(states) instead of civil war maybe..
One sunny day in 2008, an old man approached the White House from across Pennsylvania Avenue, where he'd been sitting on a park bench.
He spoke to the Marine standing guard and said, "I would like to go in and meet with President Hillary Clinton."
The Marine replied, "Sir, Mrs. Clinton is not President and doesn't reside here." The old man said, "Okay," and walked away.
The following day, the same man approached the White Hous e and said to the same Marine, "I would like to go in and meet with President Hillary Clinton".
The Marine again told the man, "Sir, as I said yesterday, Mrs. Clinton is not President and doesn't reside here." The man thanked him and again walked away . . .
The third day, the same man approached the White House and spoke to the very same Marine, saying "I would like to go in and meet with President Hillary Clinton."
The Marine, understandably agitated at this point, looked at the man and said, "Sir, this is the third day in a row you have been here asking to speak to Mrs. Clinton. I've told you already several times that Mrs. Clinton is not the President and doesn't reside here. Don't you understand?"
The old man answered, "Oh, I understand you fine, I just love hearing your answer!"
The Marine snapped to attention, saluted, and said, "See you tomorrow. Sir"
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