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
ping to a good read
So true...and with the Clintons is truly becomes impossible to be able to remember every single evil thing they have done.
I recall this particular incident because it made me exceedingly angry. It happened just weeks after 9/11. I had been in New York, by coincidence, just the Sunday prior to 9/11, flying back home to Colorado from a Canadian trip. Also, the day after 9/11, my children were supposed to fly out for California to attend their uncle's wedding (which was canceled and rescheduled because there were no flights out, if you recall, for days. Dozens of their guests would not have been able to attend.).
I recall the eerie silence in our Colorado skies...for days. It was dead silent. I recall an ARMED National Guard at OUR own airports...for how many weeks thereafter? These things were also surreal!
At the time that Shillery did this to these men at an airport, who were there to protect innocent life...I could only seethe with anger, thinking about just how much our New York police officers, and firemen, had already endured: unbelievable trauma, death, fear, and loss. What Shillery did to this police officer, personally, especially during that time, was absolutely devilish and beyond the pale. Of the many things that she has done....this ranks right up there with the unexcusable and unforgivable. I absolutely loathe her.
“I recall the eerie silence in our Colorado skies...for days. It was dead silent. I recall an ARMED National Guard at OUR own airports...for how many weeks thereafter? These things were also surreal!”
I was living outside Denver when 9/11 happened. The empty skies were the thing I remember SO well afterwards. It’s strange how much residual noise there was(is) from the planes coming and going from DIA that you don’t notice until its gone... And, also how one grows so accustomed to seeing planes in the air that you really don’t see them until they’re gone... Very surreal indeed!
Thanks for the ping, Joanie! Excellent article.
McCain could beat either of them if he picks the right VP.
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Exactly. I recall going to my cousin's dairy farm in PA, years ago, and how quiet it was out there. At that time, there did happen to be a plane that flew by, high overhead, but no other noise except nature. Too far from any major highways, roads, town, etc., to hear any other sounds. I'm not accustomed to such peace and quiet. I suppose when farmers come into the city, they must find all the noise and racket more than disturbing.
Seems I distinctly remember her heinous helping Maggie Williams clean out Vince Foster's office....
Aha! We are presented with the choice of the "lesser of two weevils" this year, between the unthinkable (Hillary, Obama), and the unappealing (McCain).
Boiling it all down, for me the litmus test here is what kind of Supreme Court justices would any of these people appoint. It's that simple.
In the end, America as we know it would probably manage to survive a President McCain. With respect to either of the other two, all bets are off.
Although I'm not aware that McCain has spoken to this issue, I am relieved and grateful for the recent 6-3 finding of the Supreme Court that the State of Texas, and by extension the United States of America, is not subject to decisions of the International Court of Justice, the supreme judicial authority of the corrupt United Nations.
Czar, though I feel your comment — "How did our great and wonderful country sink so low?" — is entirely just, this court decision reminds me that the idea of American sovereignty — at the level of federal and state government, and finally of the sovereign We the People, the sole legitimate foundation of our American enterprise — is still alive in at least one of the separated branches of our Constitutional order.
In the end, God is in charge here. And we are a nation under God, historically and culturally. For all the present political and social turmoil, I place my trust in God, that He shall make all things new, according to His Word. What is happening now must serve His divine purpose in some way. And so I place my faith and trust in Him.
And meanwhile, will do everything I can between now and election day to expose the mendacity and sheer unfitness to serve of HRC and BHO. Both are frank "social progessives." Which means they regard the Constitution of the United States as an impediment to their ambitions, as such something to be "defeated" or overcome....
For all his faults, I don't think McCain regards the Constitution in that way.
Just my two cents worth.... FWIW. Thanks so much for writing, Czar!
“Boiling it all down, for me the litmus test here is what kind of Supreme Court justices would any of these people appoint. It’s that simple.”
Then you should be worried. McCain has praised O’conner and Ginsberg. Voted for Ginsberg and a couple of the other leftie judges...all the info is on FR in the past couple days.
Well, Sarge, I still believe in Justice, but for some it won't be in this life. There remains one incorruptible judge.
On this side of the pale, it ain't over until it's over, but I cannot think of Earthly punishments sufficient or of sufficient duration for some offenders, and I have a vicious imagination.
Nero? More like Caligula.
Sadly, no Supremes will be offered and certainly not vetted
without the puppet masters’ orders being carried out in detail.
On that score,
Her unroyal lowness, he hideous heinous; Obumma and McChurian all are lock-step in support of globalism . . . and total puppets of the globalists.
Have been for a long time.
Jezebel is the closest incarnation to her hideousness, imho.
He has shown little, if any, deference to it if it impedes his own goals or wishes.
As a for instance: McCain-Feingold, anti First Amendment law, and McCain-Kennedy-Bush illegal immigration pro amnesty supporter (circumventing current laws).
If McCain is our next president, what will we get? We won’t get conservative Supreme Court nominees. As John Fund reported and Robert Novak confirmed, McCain has said Sam Alito is too conservative. We’ll get Souters and Kennedys, but not Alitos from President McCain. We’ll get immigration amnesty, global warming measures to strangle our economy and pretty much everything else you’d expect from a liberal masquerading as a conservative.
Modify the sentence for Hillary, and note the "scarce surviving sources focusing on anecdotes of alleged...". Reading between the lines, I'd say they are run by many of the same demons.
I wouldn’t doubt that for a microsecond.
Thx.
As much as I can empathize with your critiques, as a Christian, I do not despair. We are called to faith, hope, and love — to the divine virtues on which solely depend the health and well-being of our lives, in the here-and-now and in the hereafter, personally and socially.
And so faith and hope and love are alive with me. I fear nothing, and seek only to do the will of God by following His Laws.
Meanwhile, I'm not going to invest a whole lot of precious time and energy in "poo-pooing" a negative state of existence. God's will will be done in all things. He loves us; and I believe He loves America. Thus we are not "friendless."
Keep the faith; God will take care of the rest.
JMHO, FWIW.
There is something evil about Washington D.C. these days. Somehow the word Constitution is mentioned, it corrupts the politicians visual imagery and mental thought patterns when. They see it as this document that MUST be defeated because it erects walls around them. Any man with power knows that these walls must be knocked down. It's kind of like a fence, knock it down. Never tolerate one to be built while you are in office
I certainly don't hold McCain in as lofty a position as you do. I have the feeling that he sees the CFR as his God and the Constitution as a document to be ignored.
[ Aha! We are presented with the choice of the “lesser of two weevils” this year, between the unthinkable (Hillary, Obama), and the unappealing (McCain). ]
Looks more to me like liberal plan A, B or C...
More or less play my game now or later but you will play my game..
I say... No I will not..
I will not bail out a sinking boat.. I WILL SWIM FOR SHORE...
Note: I have a Cuban friend(Jose) that got so upset with Castro (years ago) that he lit out on a air mattress for Flordia.. and swam for days untill the air mattress started to leak.. and just as the air mattress was about empty of air (out in the middle of the Carribean) and sharks were swimming around him.. Off in the distance was a ship.. that slowly came right toward him.. until it stopped and rescued him.. The name of that Coast Guard Cutter was the Joseph(Jose’)..
http://www.pbase.com/catson/image/29658695
HillBama may see it as an "impediment." McCain sees it as "not an obstruction." Not much difference, IMO.
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