Posted on 04/04/2008 1:25:53 PM PDT by joanie-f
Hillary Clinton’s campaign ads here in Pennsylvania are focusing significantly on the slogan, ‘The purpose of my life has been standing up for people who weren’t getting a fair shake.’
I’d like to take a look at just three, of countless, people Hillary Clinton has ‘stood up for’ and then ask the readers here whether they would want to be the recipient of Hillary’s particular brand of altruism:
Juanita Broaddrick, who very credibly claims she was raped in 1979 by Ms. Clinton’s husband -- and then advised to ‘put some ice on it’ -- stated the following during an interview with Sean Hannity, in which Ms. Broaddrick described what occurred at a fund-raiser that took place just two weeks after the rape:
She made her way, just as quick as she could, to me.
I got nauseous when she came over to me. She came over to me, took ahold of my hand, and said, ‘I’ve heard so much about you, and I’ve been dying to me you. I just want you to know how much Bill and I appreciate what you do for him.’
I said, ‘Thank you,’ and I started to turn and walk away. This little soft-spoken – pardon me for the phrase -- dowdy woman, who seemed very unassertive, took ahold of my hand and squeezed it and said, ‘Do you understand? Everything that you do.’
I could have passed out at that moment. I got my hand from hers and I left … I mean cold chills went up my spine. That was the first time I became afraid of that woman.
[Hannity: You interpret that to mean that she knew about the incident?]
I certainly do. And she was saying ‘Thank you for keeping quiet.’
I perceive Juanita Broaddrick to be a woman who hasn’t been given a fair shake and I would give anything to be able to ask Ms. Clinton whether her treatment of Ms. Broaddrick should be broadly defined as ‘standing up for’ such people.
Billy Dale had worked in the White House Travel Office for three decades. He had served eight presidents in that capacity. But Hillary Clinton wanted to replace Dale and his staff with a group of political cronies who had donated to the Clinton campaign, and who had provided a million dollars in deferred travel expenses for the campaign, thus allowing that money to be used to foot other campaign expenses.
So Hillary had Dale fired. Just three months after her husband took office, Dale and all of the other employees of the Travel Office were given one hour's notice to pack up their belongings, and they were escorted from the White House grounds in a windowless van. Their replacements, the Clinton cronies, were hired without the customary receiving of competitive bids.
Ms. Clinton then spearheaded an effort to have Billy Dale and the rest of the Travel Office staff accused of, and prosecuted for, improper financial practices during their employment in the Travel Office. In addition, the Internal Revenue Service was told to investigate Mr. Dale’s personal finances. Yet, despite Hillary’s obsessive efforts to defame a man whose record was without blemish, and who was well thought of by all who knew and worked with him, all charges against Dale and the other Travel Office workers were eventually determined to be groundless and were dismissed.
I perceive Billy Dale to be a man who hasn’t been given a fair shake and I would give anything to be able to ask Ms. Clinton whether her treatment of Mr. Dale should be broadly defined as ‘standing up for’ such people.
Back in 1974, Hillary Clinton attempted to deny Richard Nixon the right to counsel during the Watergate investigation. You see, if Nixon had enjoyed the benefit of counsel, then E. Howard Hunt (who coincidentally knew a great deal about crimes committed during the Kennedy administration -- crimes that would have made Watergate look like a walk in the park) could have undergone cross-examination. Hillary and her ilk wanted to prevent such cross-examination, at any cost – even the Constitutional rights of a sitting president.
In order to garner enough votes on the House Judiciary Committee to change House rules and deny Nixon the right to counsel, Hillary wrote a fraudulent legal brief. And in order to disguise her brief as factual, she removed all files that would have revealed the lies contained in her brief. She had them taken to her office, which was not accessible to the public.
When the investigation ended, Jerry Zeifman, who was then chief of staff of the Judiciary Committee, fired Hillary from her position on the committee staff as a result of her attempts to defraud and deceive, and, to this day, he asserts that, if Hillary had submitted her deceptive, baseless and fraudulent brief to a judge, she would have run the real risk of facing disbarment proceedings.
No matter one’s feeling about Nixon, the man, I perceive him to be a man who was judged by a different yardstick than that used to judge others, before or since. In that way, he hasn’t been given a fair shake. And I would give anything to be able to ask Ms. Clinton whether her treatment of Mr. Nixon should be broadly defined as ‘standing up for’ such people.
I also suspect that the waitresses she has stiffed, the campaign workers whose health insurance premiums she has neglected to pay on time, the White House staff who were instructed never to look her in the eye when they passed her in the hallways, and countless other ‘little people’ with whom Hillary has crossed paths during her saintly life of devotion to bettering the lives of ‘the underdog’ might also take issue with the portrait that her campaign advertisements paint of Saint Hillary.
In an unprecedented occurrence, more than one hundred thousand Pennsylvania republicans have changed their registrations to democrat for the upcoming primary election on April 22nd. It will be interesting to see for which of the democrat candidates these 'temporary democrats' cast their ballots. Both candidates are Marxists. Both are pathological liars. And both are megalomaniacal, self-serving ideologues in humanitarian clothing.
Talk about a rock and a hard place.
~ joanie
Allegiance and Duty Betrayed
Loyal Democrats are also between a rock and a hard place. . and their fierce loyalty to the Clintons way back when Bill should have been kicked to the curb and removed from office . . well, he was kicked to the curb, but not removed from office . . these loyal Democrats, and the redneck ones especially, are between a real hard rock and a real hard place. Good Ol’ Boy LeeRoy is stuck with the choice of voting for a woman he doesn’t trust and doesn’t even like, or else a black man who is a black supremecist and a racist, or else not voting at all. They never thought it would come to this.
The Queen of Hearts is presently in the business of slaying the Jack of Spades.. and ignoring the republican Mad Hatter.. I do feel like I’ve fallen down a rabbit hole..
I’m always a bit hesitant because I’m fearful that someone might say I was too forward or brash.
:~)
I’ve been a blue collar guy all my life and for the past 7 years I’ve lived in Pa.on a social security check coupled with my pension from the phone company.....What I don’t unerstand is how a red blooded blue collar kind of guy could vote for the skank!!!
The clinton’s are grifters....8 years ago they were considered low life yuppie elitists, now the white male lower middle class is gonna buy into their BS!!!I wouldn’tbuy a used car off either one of ‘em....
Bubba lied like a rug in a court of law, and the equally rotten democratic house and senate backed his lie on the steps of the US capital...
I believe almost all politicians are crooked, no good bums..We really don’t have a real leader in any of the bums ...Really, Ive given up on almost all of them.
MCCain will get my vote with my fingers crossed.....He served our country big time...Anything short of a Nazi or a KKK member is better than a liberal, no good, rotten democrat, though...
hillary clinton was apparently the author of a clause in the contracts of the Whitewater (worthless) land parcels that stated that if the buyers were late with a payment then all the prior payments reverted to rent, and title to the property transfered back to the seller.
They supposedly scammed many old couples using that clause, selling the same piece of land multiple times while stealing the life savings of their customers.
How that for giving a fair shake?
One of my brothers-in-law is a strong union man. Both he and his (recently-deceased) father never pulled the lever next to a republican candidate in their lives. Always believed the democrats were 'for the working man'.
This year, Al is voting for McCain. (Certainly nothing to brag about, but a definite change after two generations of voting the straight democrat ticket.)
~ joanie
One of my brothers-in-law is a strong union man. Both he and his (recently-deceased) father never pulled the lever next to a republican candidate in their lives. Always believed the democrats were 'for the working man'.
This year, Al is voting for McCain. (Certainly nothing to brag about, but a definite change after two generations of voting the straight democrat ticket.)
~joanie
"Both candidates are Marxists. Both are pathological liars. And both are megalomaniacal, self-serving ideologues in humanitarian clothing."
Yes, that they most certainly are.
The real tragedy, however, is that along with John McCain, these three candidates are all our political system is able to proffer to be President of the United States. Yes, the first two are unthinkable horrors for the presidency, a nightmare of nearly unbearable intensity; yet, all three are unfit for the office and together give one a palpable feeling of pain and a deep sense of sadness and opportunities lost. While it can be argued the GOP candidate (I refuse to say "Republican") is "better" he in fact is only marginally better (actually, he is "least worse") and, if elected, could easily turn out far worse than what we can presently envision. How did our great and wonderful country sink so low?
Given the present candidates, I take no joy in what will happen in November. I weep for our country and for all loyal Americans.
Very well put!
I often feel as though this has to be a bad dream, and I'll awaken some morning to find Reagan still at the helm.
(*sigh*)
~ joanie
Off the top of my head, the only two people of genuine character I can name who occupy positions of leadership in Washington are Duncan Hunter in the House and James Inhofe in the Senate. Perhaps there are others, but none come to mind.
And the sad fact is that, neither of these men has a snowball's chance in hell of moving any further up the ladder of power (as Hunter's recent ill-fated run for the presidency illustrated).
It's all about money, power, ideological agenda, connections, and pandering to powerful special interests -- and the citizenry be damned.
Lincoln's 'of, by and for the people' vision is just a fond memory to those of us at or nearing retirement age, and it's a focus of ridicule to most in leadership positions in Washington.
Thank you for your insightful comments.
~ joanie
Allegiance and Duty Betrayed
LoL....
But, when one combines that sordid state of affairs with her claims that she has devoted her life to standing up for people who aren't getting a fair shake, it's maddening to think that there are some voters who will actually swallow such swill.
Thanks for the insightful comments.
I, too, weep (literally, on occasion) for the same reasons.
~ joanie
Hillary and her ilk wanted to prevent such cross-examination, at any cost – even the Constitutional rights of a sitting president.
A strategy revisited when Paula Jones was suing Slick for sexual harrassment.
And in order to disguise her brief as factual, she removed all files that would have revealed the lies contained in her brief. She had them taken to her office, which was not accessible to the public.M
Replayed tactics again. Rose Law Firm billing records? Sandy Burglar?
I hadn't known about this. Pure evil. I recall another "little person" who was injured in 2001....while in the course of serving the State of New York: "[Hillary's limo] drove past the check point and the police officer was injured when he banged on the window...."
So very true...and joanie pointed out some time ago, so eloquently, just how bad a McRino win would actually be for this country....and for the word "conservative" for a very very long time to come.
I take no joy in what will happen in November. I weep for our country and for all loyal Americans.
As do I.
Exactly. The Clintons and their sticky-finger operatives seem to have the uncanny knack of getting their hands on documents that have no business in their hands and/or 'losing' said documents before they can be returned to their proper location (the several hundred FBI files that Craig Livingstone obtained for Ms. Clinton come to mind as well).
The most frightening thing about this aspect of Hillary's 'character shortcomings' is the fact that we probably only know a small fraction of the crimes this woman has committed. Many of the ones of which we are aware are felonies for which you and I would be sitting in jail. And yet the media no longer find it necessary to remind us of these crimes, despite the fact that this woman is still a major contender for the position of leader of the free world. Well the free world had better beware.
There once was a time when America’s leaders were (as they should be) a cut above the rest of us. That time is long past. It has been waning for decades, but drew its last breath around 1989. I daresay the majority of the people you and I meet each day in our daily walk possess more integrity and personal character than any of the three remaining presidential contenders.
Thank you as always, TE, for your excellent commentary.
~ joanie
Allegiance and Duty Betrayed
You know, when the list of crimes committed by a person becomes extensive, it's difficult to recall them all. And when that person is one of the front-runners for the presidency, the whole thing begins to border on the surreal.
Thanks, nic.
~ joanie
Allegiance and Duty Betrayed
Doggone, I hope so. I don't think I would leave the house if I thought they didn't.
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