Clinton takes pulpit for Davis - Ex-president rallies blacks against recall

Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | September 15, 2003 | BOB KEEFE

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton (R) greets California Governor Gray Davis after speaking against the California recall and in support of Davis at a service at the First AME Church in Los Angeles, September 14, 2003. Davis faces a recall election October 7. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

A cry in the black education wilderness***The great disappointment of my ongoing crusade to foment a revolution in black education has been the lack of a response, and even hostility, from black leaders in this community. Naturally, I expected everyone to drop what they were doing and hop onto my education movement bandwagon.

To be sure, black readers in general have responded positively and in droves to the call for a black education movement along the lines of our historic civil rights movement. They have said they agree that this movement must demand rigorous academic standards and a high level of parental responsibility and community involvement to ensure black children's success.

In a comment typical of many I've received, a reader wrote, "We as black people must begin to create a culture of valuing education ... if we are to ever pull our children out of the river of underachievement in which they find themselves. I believe that this can be done, but it will require a new and different determination on the part of the black community, and every black parent in particular, before it will be achieved."

Another reader wrote, "I am just frustrated at our community's complacency towards education and the willingness of so many parents to allow their children to waste their young years on activities that do not help them become competitive in academia. ... I'm making the effort to convert as many [people] as I can. I think I successfully turned my husband around. He was wiling to buy his children-to-be their first car but would not fund their college education. Now THAT had to change."

But I've heard little from Houston's black leadership. ***

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Hillary Clinton and the Third Way By David Horowitz [Excerpt from Hillary Clinton and the Third Way] Is there a practical difference in the modus operandi of Clinton narcissism and Clinton messianism? I think there is, and it is the difference between "triangulation"-a cynical compromise to hang onto power until the next election cycle, and "The Third Way"-a cynical deception to ensure the continuance of Us, until we acquire enough power to transform everyone else. It is the difference between the politics of getting what you can, and the politics of changing the world.

A capsule illustration of these different political ambitions can be found in the book Primary Colors , which describes, in thinly veiled fiction, Bill Clinton's road to the presidency. Primary Colors is an admiring portrait not only of the candidate, but of the dedicated missionaries-the true believing staffers and the long-suffering wife-who serve Clinton's political agendas, but at the price of enabling the demons of self.

These staffers-political functionaries like Harold Ickes and George Stephanopoulos-serve as the flak-catchers and "bimbo eruption"-controllers who clean up his personal messes and shape his image for gullible publics. But they are also the idealists who design his message. And in the end, they enable him to politically succeed.

It is Primary Colors' insight into the minds of these missionaries that is revealing. They see Clinton clearly as a flawed and often repellent human being. They see him as a lecher, a liar and a man who would destroy an innocent person in order to advance his own career. (This is, in fact, the climactic drama of the text). Yet through all the sordidness and lying, the personal ruthlessness and disorder, the idealistic missionaries faithfully follow and serve the leader.

They do it not because they are themselves corrupted through material rewards. The prospect of fame is not even what drives them. Think only of Harold Ickes, personally betrayed and brutally cast aside by Clinton, who nonetheless refused to turn on him, even after the betrayal. Instead, Ickes kept his own counsel and protected Clinton, biding his time and waiting for Hillary. Then joined her staff to manage her Senate campaign.

The idealistic missionaries in this true tale bite their tongues and betray their principles, rather than betray him. They do so because in Bill Clinton they see a necessary vehicle of their noble ambition and uplifting dreams. He, too, cares about social justice, about poor people and blacks (or so he makes them believe). They will serve him and lie for him and destroy for him, because he is the vessel of their hope.

Because Bill Clinton "cares," he is the vital connection to the power they need to accomplish the redemption. Because the keys to the state are within Clinton's grasp, he becomes in their eyes the only prospect for advancing the progressive cause. Therefore, they will sacrifice anything and everything-principle, friends, country-to make him succeed.

But Bill Clinton is not like those who worship him, corrupting himself and others for a higher cause. Unlike them, he betrays principles because he has none. He will even betray his country, but without the slightest need to betray it for something else-for an idea, a party, or a cause.* He is a narcissist who sacrifices principle for power because his vision is so filled with himself that he cannot tell the difference.

But the idealists who serve him-the Stephanopoulos's, the Ickes's, the feminists, the progressives and Hillary Clinton-can tell the difference. Their cynicism flows from the very perception they have of right and wrong. They do it for higher ends. They do it for the progressive faith. They do it because they see themselves as having the power to redeem the world from evil. It is that terrifyingly exalted ambition that fuels their spiritual arrogance and justifies their sordid and, if necessary, criminal means. [End Excerpt]

[Old Sarge]

This is a GREAT excerpt, but I must quibble about this:

But the idealists who serve him-the Stephanopoulos's, the Ickes's, the feminists, the progressives and Hillary Clinton...

It's not about Bill; rather it's about She Who Must Not Be Named. Her elevation to power is what is the final endstate of the whole Socialist agenda.

Bill was a tool, a stepping stone She needed to get into the halls of power. Well, now She's there, within one elction cycle of Her dream. And the sheep will give it to Her.

[ppaul]

"Gray Davis and I have been friends for a long time...
I don't want this but this is way bigger than him."

[L.N. Smithee]

In the thick of the drive to impeachment, people like myself were called "Clinton-haters." Being a Christian, I try not to hate anybody -- Nixon, in his farewell speech to his staff, also had some rare sage advice against not hating your enemies -- so I insisted that I didn't hate him.

But there were moments when feelings that could be called hatred when rise up in me when I would see that man in the black churches. Like no other white politician I have ever seen, he has connected with the black left and is accepted as one of the family, and when he was in office, whenever he was in his biggest trouble, he would find an excuse to speak in a black church to demonstrate how much common people adored him while evil white right wingers were trying to get him kicked out of power -- always implying that the reason why his enemies didn't like him is because he loved all of them.

Now, Clinton is tutoring the comparatively inept Gray Davis in doing so. To wit:

Davis spoke first to worshippers, occasionally invoking the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., biblical scripture and a touch of fire-and-brimstone.

"There are forces arrayed against us -- powerful forces both in California and Washington," Davis said, adding that Republicans behind the recall "threaten the very fabric of democracy."

Al Franken others want to insist that the media is biased right because they just accept what they are told instead of demanding answers. Well, I would like to hear a reporter ask either Clinton or Davis who these "forces" are that they are referring to. Are they talking about Darrell Issa? Melanie Morgan? Over a million signees to the recall petition?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

LIBERALS hate the power of mainstream America. The media will play Clinton up until the cows come home but the Americans who lose are those who sponge up the hate spewed by their "leaders," be they, white, black, brown or bill.

[leadpenny]

I just watched a replay of his performance at the church on C-SPAN and yesterday I saw a replay of his speech in Iowa. When you put his two weekend rants together I think you have a man who is very angry because he knows he cannot escape his legacy of 9-11.

[wolficatZ]

 

"What if you had immediate recall of every

teacher, every preacher; what if kids could recall

their parents every time they had to make a hard decision?"

 

What a bizarre anology for Clinton to make, as if he is talking to a group of first-graders.

(pic and exact quote from Fox10-Phx)

[Cincinatus' Wife]

........ he knows he cannot escape his legacy of 9-11.

Bump!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Anyone left in Democratic Party ranks are either seeking power or buy the class warfare line.

[snopercod]

I, too, would want a convoy of secret service agents escorting me if I had to drive to South Central LA.

Did anybody hear if TRIMPOTUS held up traffic again at LAX to get a haircut?

[patj]

I wish someone would explain to me just how democrats (small d on purpose) keep
campaining in churches and not one thing ever happens to them or the church. It isn't like it's a secret. It's all over the tv. Where are the Prosecutors? What would it take to get some legal action started?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

The rules only apply to conservatives.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I, too, would want a convoy of secret service agents escorting me if I had to drive to South Central LA.

The American people need protection from the likes of Bill Clinton.

[TrueBeliever9]

I never ceased to be amazed that any democrat can go into any church in America and preach politics. If a republican showed up at a church to even do a handout the IRS would be there locking the place down within hours.

[AlexW]

"I wish someone would explain to me just how democrats (small d on purpose) keep
campaining in churches and not one thing ever happens to them or the church."

Well, Democrats can do that, dontcha know?
Typical of the D-double standards.

It is only white Republicans that can't campaign in a church.

[patj]

Yes, and what can we do to change that? Does a private citizen have to file a lawsuit? Shouldn't the county Prosecutor file a lawsuit? Everyone knows it is going on, so why is the law allowed to be flaunted?

[Chantal]

any democrat can go into any church in America and preach.

Well isn't that where the Black people usually gather?
Bill Clinton is at home in a black church. Can you feel the
love? Oh yea....

[johnny7]

"They say he's really the first black president, regardless of his color . . . and I agree," said Cheryl Jackson, who attended Sunday's service.

She probably will be looking for Clintons name on the re-call ballot. God Bless her soul.

[chadwimc]

I saw a small segment of the Davis show that occurred this weekend. Clinton and Davis couldn't have looked more uncomfortable with that black guy jumping and singing than if they were the only two white guys in the shower at San Quiten