Posted on 04/13/2005 6:48:15 AM PDT by areafiftyone
When Bill Clinton starts talking politics, it usually pays to listen. But the only point he made with an outburst Monday was to prove that somebody ought to put a sock in the former First Mouth. In a cheap shot that set a new low for ex-Presidents, Clinton said a gay Republican strategist who recently married his male partner "may be blinded by self-loathing." Clinton's target was Arthur Finkelstein, a GOP operative who helped elect candidates from George Pataki to Jesse Helms. Last week it was reported the reclusive Finkelstein had quietly married his partner several months ago in Massachusetts, which permits same-sex marriage. The nuptial news came as Finkelstein is organizing an effort to defeat Sen. Hillary Clinton next year. Bill Clinton no doubt thought he was being clever by linking Finkelstein's private life to his political career and using the combo to bash the poor fellow over the head - all to Hillary's benefit. The bashing does remind Finkelstein and the rest of us of Rule No. 1 in ClintonWorld: Only Bill Clinton may humiliate his wife. You don't need a shrink's license to believe his fake chivalry is all about his own skirt-chasing guilt. In fact, the last thing Hillary Clinton needs is to look like she needs him to defend her. If she can't defend herself, she doesn't belong in the Senate and has no business running for President. In other words, buzz off, Bubba. But Bubba can't buzz off. It's always about him. What he says, what he wants, who he wants. Yet this one is a head-scratcher, because there is no obvious upside. Even in the cold calculus of politics, the Finkelstein smear smells like a clumsy mistake. First, Clinton must know that one of the most destructive stereotypes about minorities is that they are all expected to behave and believe one way. Black Republicans get this all the time - the charge they are "not authentic" blacks because most blacks are Democrats and believe in big government. That expectation played out in ugly fashion when Harry Belafonte, an entertainer, called Colin Powell - war hero, secretary of state - an "Uncle Tom" who did "his master's bidding." Belafonte's only standing to make such a charge was that he, like most black politicians, was against the Iraq war. Thus, "real" blacks should have been against the war. Clinton apparently now proposes a similar litmus test for gays - they must support only candidates who support gay marriage. But even that conflicts with Clinton's own shiftiness on gay marriage. As Newsweek reported, Clinton advised John Kerry last year to support the same-sex bans on the ballots in 11 states. Clinton thought Kerry could win those states by supporting the bans. Even Kerry, no stranger to flip-flopping, was shocked at the advice. "I'm not ever going to do that," he told his staff. So what is Bubba up to? Besides snuggling up to the Bushes whenever he gets a chance, campaigning for a Nobel Prize and hoping to be secretary general of the UN? Maybe nothing more. Maybe he's losing his touch. Sometimes smart people do stupid things. Or as Finkelstein friend Michael McKeon deftly put it: "It's really beneath a former President to comment on someone's personal life like that. After everything he has been through in his own life, you'd think he'd know better." Yes, you'd think.
I AM THE CLINTON-MINER. I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN BENEATH YOU, BUT NOTHING IS BENEATH ME!
they are definitely cut from the same cloth.
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Yes they are, and history will show they both were responsible for taking politics in U.S. government to dispicable record lows ---
so is the NY Daily News more conservative or more liberal leaning?
Here in NYC the three liberal papers are the NY Times, NY Daily News and the Village Voice. The conservative papers are the NY Post and the NY Sun. The NY Sun has a very small circulation and the Village Voice only comes out on Wednesdays and is free.
That the NY Daily News posted this article is most significant. Is the NY Daily News fair-weather friends only? Did Bill do something to tick them off? Or is the sentiment of the NY Daily News sincere?
It will be interesting to see if more articles of this nature by liberal MSM pop up.
This is an interesting data point for Left-ologists to ponder. Apparently gays, even Republican ones, trump Clinton. What to make of it...?
Hmmmm I wonder if the NY Slimes has anything to say about this. On second thought, probably not. They love Bubba and the Witch!
Whoa.... The New York DAILY NEWS wrote this???
LMAO!! Big bump to that, I must say!
Clingon ain't smart!
Cunning, yes, but not smart!
So, Bill Clinton says that the guy is a self-loathing gay man. And judging by his last name, can we assume that he is what Godzillary would call an "F'n Jew B*****d?" The poor guy was double timed.
Another myth created and propagated by the MSM. IMHO, the clintons are dumb as rocks, but they are as ruthless as Al Capone when it comes to their personal aggrandizement. This combination makes them dangerous.
Slick has no feelings of guilt. Like all liberals, he is amoral. They seem to have certain moral standards, like rights for every group they can isolate except conservatives, because they will skew anything to try to nail a Republican and/or conservative. When they throw a big hissy fit over some pretended slight to women, blacks, homos, children, the handicapped, the poor, the elderly, etc., it is just to blast their opposition and cast them as uncaring and mean. The assumption is that because of their opposition to the other side and their grand huff over something they made up, they feel the opposite. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Just as many of us attribute human qualities to animals, we also attribute moral qualities to liberals. That is a mistake. Morals to liberals are like the SS trust fund, non existent. The SS scam is a good metaphor for liberals in general.
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This reminded my of Kerry and his comments about Cheney's daughter being gay during the campaign. I don't get what is so brilliant about the Clinton's. She hasn't done anything on her own and he's just a very polished politician. How I wish they would both go away. I sure as hell hope Chelsea doesn't enter politics! I can't take anymore of how brilliant they all are!
Thanks, I shall not rest until the names associated with the clinton mafia are listed as synonyms for the plague or at least swine flu.
"Clumsy mistake"
I'm sure if a conservative had uttered the same phrase, they'd also call the gaff a "clumsy mistake" </sarcasm>
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