Please gaze on a reflection of the true heart and soul of the Democratic party's most ambitious hopeful for our next president:
Posted on 03/29/2002 6:38:56 AM PST by Richard Poe
"THIS WILL BE our first lady president of the United States!" cried fight promoter Don King at a recent dinner in Washington.
He was talking about fellow diner Hillary Clinton.
Not long ago, only "conspiracy theorists" like me dared suggest that Hillary might harbor presidential ambitions – a charge that I made in an April 12, 2000 column entitled "The Hillary Conspiracy."
Now the secret is out. Everyone knows that Hillary will run in 2004. With a little help from her media allies, she just might win.
Why should we fear a Hillary presidency? Ask the heroes of 9-11 – the cops and firemen who risked their lives at Ground Zero. They seem to have grasped the problem with greater clarity than most Americans.
When Hillary visited Ground Zero on September 14, many cops and firemen reportedly refused to shake her hand.
Six days later, they booed her off the stage at Paul McCartney’s Madison Square Garden benefit for the fallen heroes of 9-11.
The Garden was charged with grief, pride and patriotism. Cops and firemen filled the hall. Bereaved relatives held up photos of the dead.
As Hillary mounted the stage, the audience exploded in boos, jeers and catcalls, clearly audible on the live TV broadcast that I watched that night.
One eyewitness reported that "90 percent" of the crowd had joined in the booing. Another said that Hillary "was booed so loudly, she had to yell into the mike to be heard."
"Get off the stage! We don’t want you here!" shouted one cop only a few feet from the podium.
Hillary fled the stage after less than 20 seconds.
Fireman Michael Moran – whose brother, Battalion Chief John Moran, perished in the 9-11 attack – later tried to explain the revulsion he and his uniformed comrades displayed toward the former First Lady that night.
"She doesn’t believe the things she says," said Moran. "…I don’t think there has ever been a sincere word that has ever come out of her mouth."
One attendee e-mailed The Drudge Report, "The firemen sitting near me said she shows up for photo session events but was not to be seen when a fireman or policeman were killed pre-September 11. They know her for what she is!"
Even after 9-11, Hillary avoided funerals for the victims and heroes – making a pointed exception for the media-saturated burial of Father Mychal Judge. Journalist Betty Harpaz, who chronicled Hillary’s Senate campaign, explains that Hillary fears being booed by mourners.
And well she should.
Cops and Hillary just don’t mix. As a Yale law student, Hillary helped edit a radical journal that exalted the Black Panthers, ran cartoons depicting police officers as pigs and seemed to encourage cop-killing.
Even today, Hillary’s inner circle views cops as enemies. After the booing incident at Madison Square Garden, one Hillary confidante remarked, "These are cops and firemen who listen to right-wing talk radio. They still think she killed Vince Foster, for Christ’s sake!"
In fact, New York City police don’t need talk radio to tell them where Hillary stands. They have experienced her anti-cop philosophy first-hand.
During her race-baiting Senate campaign, Hillary cozied up to Al Sharpton, bashed Giuliani, vilified the NYPD and declared the accidental shooting of Amadou Diallou a "murder." She inflamed racial tensions to a fever pitch.
After years of peace, we suddenly had rioters in Brooklyn hurling bricks and urine-filled bottles at police. We had the Justice Department threatening a federal takeover of the NYPD.
All this, at a time when shootings by New York City police officers had plummeted to a 30-year low.
America’s oldest and largest police union – the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) – finally took action on September 8, 2000, by endorsing George W. Bush for president. It had previously endorsed Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996.
Why the switch?
FOP national president Gilbert G. Gallegos cited federal harassment and Justice Department lawsuits against police departments, as well as the Clintons’ offer of pardons to sixteen unrepentant Puerto Rican terrorists – a move apparently calculated to win Hispanic votes for Hillary.
One would think that Hillary’s anti-cop record would hurt her in these patriotic times. But the media have covered her tracks well.
Big Media blacked out the FOP endorsement of George W. Bush. The boos and catcalls at Madison Square Garden were digitally erased from VH1’s Christmas broadcast of the concert.
America fell in love with its cops and firemen on 9-11. But, when it comes to Hillary, we are still not listening to their voices.
Not long ago, only "conspiracy theorists" like me dared suggest that Hillary might harbor presidential ambitions – a charge that I made in an April 12, 2000 column entitled "The Hillary Conspiracy."
A prediction that Hillary Clinton had presidential ambitions! And he made it as far back as 2000!
A regular freaking Nostradamus, this guy is. I can see why he’s bragging.
Nice article, even if I chose to goof on you a little. 8-)
If that is true, Richard, Why did hillary and the firemen have a love fest that was publicized by the media a few days back?
That was a union meeting.
You clap for the Democrat or you get your leg broken.
Please gaze on a reflection of the true heart and soul of the Democratic party's most ambitious hopeful for our next president:
I thought it was because she's fat, ugly and evil.
A prediction that Hillary Clinton had presidential ambitions! And he made it as far back as 2000!
A regular freaking Nostradamus, this guy is. I can see why he’s bragging.
Well, I didn't mean to brag. I just wanted to make a point.
April 2000 may seem a very short time ago. But, the fact remains --whether or not you remember -- that discussing Hillary's presidential ambitions, at that time, was, in many people's view, akin to discussing black helicopters and mind-altering ELF-wave transmissions.
I was indeed called a "conspiracy theorist" for discussing the subject.
It's her primary m.o. :
Scripted, arranged media events to project the image of widespread (pun intended) public support. Featured prominently in her abomination of a senatorial run. And the sheep fell for it, as they usually do.
The VH1 digital revision of history is the most egregious, shocking, enraging, and frightening stunt she's pulled in a while. She and her cohorts are the true heirs of Goebbels. Anyone who doubts that is a fool.
Then there's one course of action to take. Where there are thieves & liars, let there be those of us with the intestinal fortitude to hack them off at the knees and bring their tree to the ground. Put fear in their hearts for the sins they commit in the name of Hitlery and make them ask one another "Is my life and well being WORTH the lies & deceit we foster each day to elect this woman?"
In short, if they want to play that game AGAIN, lets make damn sure there are consequences when they're caught out in public!
Let her balance THAT press!
You'll have plenty of company, amigo. Given our location, my family and I may not start it, but we'll do our damnedest to finish it.
Yes, when Richard said the McCartney concert was six days after Hillary! visited ground zero, I thought that couldn't be right.
She doesn't appear on WABC Radio in NYC. The biggest talk radio station in her "home" state, and she can't handle an interview? You see Rumsfeld out there everyday being bombarded by sneering leftist reporters, but Hillary can't even face up to the likes of Sean Hannity, or the softballer John Gambling? (Actually, I'd love to hear Curtis Sliwa interview her)
Just like a typical socialist, she can't handle freedom, only the "planned by government" (or her handlers). And, like a typical socialist, has plenty to hide, such as her real agenda.
Ha!
That tough New York news media, especially the New York Times, will never let her get away with it, LOFL!!!
No, no, no!
To do that would be to admit she is a credible candidate.
Rush said the other day that Clinton survived his presidency not because people liked him, but because all the scumbags who voted for Scumbag did not want him brought down by "the Republican right wing".
This disgusting pig needs to be marginalized very carefully, from a distance.
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