Stanley Crouch
Posted on 03/21/2015 11:26:44 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It is beginning to seem as though the rush beyond judgment is tilting against a Hillary Clinton presidential choice; “too much baggage” is usually the explanation.
Part of what is still to be done is removing factoids from influential power, what Hillary Clinton once correctly called “a vast right-wing conspiracy.” That’s more than a mouthful.
I once observed: “When she testified last week for seven hours before the congressional committee and was not swayed by the nipping of rubber teeth attempting to wound, I thought of seeing her in person at an unannounced appearance following Nelson Mandela 10 years or so ago.
“The audience did not know she was there until Clinton turned the microphone into a flamethrower. Suddenly, the little woman who could not be recognized from a distance sent forward a voice that all had heard but not that way. She spoke about getting up off the canvas, because a real champion knows what it takes. No matter how often or how much one has been hurt, an unfair opponent will be sent back to the opposite corner with a pocket full of defeat.
“Sometimes, when a bear is being pursued and decides to stand up and fight it out with those hunters, the bear will be slightly distracted by some little dogs biting at its paw. The dogs will be hurled into a tree if unlucky, and perhaps killed.
“Those who refer to Bill Clinton as ‘the big dog’ now know Hillary Clinton is a twin not to be messed with; she has earned her spurs in every way possible, and knows how to use them.”
That may have been true when she spoke about what had happened in Benghazi on the night the Republicans have turned into a factoid scandal; repeating supposed “fact” about incompetence at the top. The bullhorn of exaggeration, lodged in the national throat, needs to be spat out.
No matter the plundering of the environment, recurring disasters transporting the muck of dirty oil, the disruption of trust for our banks that began with the Great Recession, and the distracting entertainment of racial protests, the supposed redneck vision stays in place, shifting as much as possible to maintain controlling power.
I see embarrassing examples of intellectual failure on the parts of the Republican elected lawmakers, who seem to be sure that Americans can be manipulated by the claims of dangerous people in the federal government, from the very top to the very bottom. These claims of reruns being in place come from elected men like Ted Cruz of Texas, Louie Gohmert of Texas and Rick Perry of Texas. Cruz is a bad photocopy of Sen. Joe McCarthy, even though McCarthy was elected in Wisconsin; Gohmert is a blustering man possessed of the gall to talk down Attorney General Eric Holder; Perry always seems somewhat soft in the head, regardless of how long he was seated in the governor’s chair of the Lone Star State.
This is happening while American cities are facing or assenting to female leadership, which is a very serious answer to the failures of low-level thinkers among the GOP women like Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann, longtime drivers of what Chris Matthews calls “the clown car.”
Hillary Clinton will not be run down by the clown car while crossing the street.
It may or may not be her time. If it is, she and the country will benefit, perhaps on the level of what Angela Merkel has brought to Germany, raising a nation through the brutal memories of 20th-century history very effectively. If it is not her time, everything seems to be coming to a point in which the pimple of bigotry and its Siamese twin greed and corruption will pop because Republicans followed what Richard Nixon called the “Southern strategy.”
Pimples break but do not maintain the unpleasant look and feeling. This is almost guaranteed by the presence of brilliant politicians and powerhouse executives like Loretta Lynch, Claire McCaskill and Elizabeth Warren, who symbolically match the Michael Brown family with heat, determination and superbly responsible thinking.
Even Big Oil is about to stub its toe in New Jersey because of Gov. Chris Christie, having become too slick to hide like a hog in a blanket. Squeals are on the way.
This is sarcasm, perhaps while the writer's brain was otherwise chemically occupied.
It’s real easy. When there are more than one or two Republicans doing anything.....then the mentally deficient liberal always calls it a “clown car.”
That’s all I needed to see to know the gist of this rubble.
Wow! Stanley must have had a stroke. He was once an excellent writer, thinker and jazz critic. Although the last time I saw him he fell asleep in a restaurant, his face in his salad...
Stanley Crouch
I don’t think she runs. I don’t think she has any desire to face the endless hard questions. And they’re nearly endless.
IMO.
“...the presence of brilliant politicians and powerhouse executives like Loretta Lynch, Claire McCaskill and Elizabeth Warren...”
Comrade Crouch needs to step away from the doobie AND the crack pipe.
Maybe the mother ship will come and take them all back, then.
Scott Walker will defeat hillary.
Scott Walker has defeated democrats more than anyone to pass conservative laws, balance the budget, cut taxes, and turn a huge deficit into a surplus. Walker’s record is unmatched! The rest of those running for president are either marxists or just talkers. Actions and Results , a conservative record as governor are what matter. Talk means nothing
All you need to sum this up is his conclusion.....while sitting on both sides of the fence..
“It may or may not be her time.” he wrote.....
So....the article has not point...and is just another arm flailing attack on republicans..
Depends on who the clown is.
LOL...I misread his name as Cheech, which would have explained this lurching train of thought.
However, we did consider Bill Clinton as a dog, a horn dog, and Hillary as a bitch.
I did a search, but found nothing regarding any illness, but that doesn’t mean anything.
He’ll vote for Hillary or Elizabeth Warren - whichever runs
Part of what is still to be done is removing factoids from influential power, what Hillary Clinton once correctly called “a vast right-wing conspiracy.” That’s more than a mouthful.
I dislike factual errors.
Hillary referred to a vast right wing conspiracy at the time of the Lewinsky scandal. She was saying that this conspiracy made things up to bring down her husband. But it turned out that the Lewinsky allegations were all true...........
I count at least eleven metaphor-paragraphs.
Subtract them from this... screed... and there’s no article left.
It’s like the writer swerved to miss a cow on the road while taking his last puff on a cigarette before the bars closed at the end of a long day while the tide was coming in and the leaves were turning color.
In another administration this would be called "speaking truth to power".
Wuh...what? "Burn this bitch down" is responsible thinking? Is that what he's saying?
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