Until this week, I was planning on voting for Barack Obama. Then, a certain hawkish Senator from New York had a slightly teary moment. Since then, I have resolved to vote against Hillary Clinton. Don’t get me wrong – I’m still voting for Obama. But that moment also caused me to lose any respect I may have had for Hillary Clinton. It’s not that she got teary – it’s why.
All of the press has focused on the answer. What really needs more attention is the question. Ms. Clinton was having a round-table discussion with a group of allegedly undecided voters when she was tossed a Bush-league softball. In response, she got infamously teary. The question:
“My question is very personal, how do you do it? How do you, how do you keep upbeat and so wonderful? And who does your hair?“
That is not the question of an undecided voter. That’s the question of a plant. It contains two compliments and a joke, and was asked the close of what appears to have been a staged event.
Afterwards, the plant, 64-year-old freelance photog Marianne Pernold-Young, of Portsmouth NH, continued her shilling. Supposedly, Hillary’s display of emotion worked like some miracle elixir on Ms. Pernold-Young, and immediately after the event, she said, “I’m shaken, I’m delighted with her. I’m in love. I think she gave us her soul.”
I call “shenanigans” on this. This sort of phony FEMA-press conference tactic is precisely the thing I don’t want any more of. And having seen this, I honestly don’t believe that Hillary will do anything different that George W. Bush. If she wants my vote, she’s going to have to convince me that when things are going badly, that she won’t plant a phony reporter to lob a phony question at her.
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All of em’ would have plants. They’d be coerced by the system.
The only one out of all the candidates you could expected honesty from is Ron Paul. But really, he’s honest, and it sure seems like nobody wants real honesty.
But I digress, politics have to be one of the lowest occupations known to man. Somewhere under begger or thief. I say lower because a begger doesn’t hide what he’s doing and a thief never misconstrues that fact once you have been robbed that just that has occurred.
…but politicians… whoo eeee. That’s a different story.
All of em’ would have plants. They’d be coerced by the system.
The only one out of all the candidates you could expected honesty from is Ron Paul. But really, he’s honest, and it sure seems like nobody wants real honesty.
But I digress, politics have to be one of the lowest occupations known to man. Somewhere under begger or thief. I say lower because a begger doesn’t hide what he’s doing and a thief never misconstrues that fact once you have been robbed that just that has occurred.
…but politicians… whoo eeee. That’s a different story.
Don’t get me started on Ron Paul.
It’s hard to claim to be a libertarian while advocating the right of the individual States to outlaw abortion.
Then, there’s the whole “no moral imperative for American involvement in Kosovo or Darfur” thing. There is a place for gunboat diplomacy – Darfur, Kosovo, and western Africa are those kind of places. When people are killed because of their beliefs, America has a moral imperative to intervene.
Even if I were planning to vote for Ron Paul (which I wouldn’t do, even if it were between him and Hillary), he’ll lose this time just like he’s lost so many times before.
Don’t get me started on Ron Paul.
It’s hard to claim to be a libertarian while advocating the right of the individual States to outlaw abortion.
Then, there’s the whole “no moral imperative for American involvement in Kosovo or Darfur” thing. There is a place for gunboat diplomacy – Darfur, Kosovo, and western Africa are those kind of places. When people are killed because of their beliefs, America has a moral imperative to intervene.
Even if I were planning to vote for Ron Paul (which I wouldn’t do, even if it were between him and Hillary), he’ll lose this time just like he’s lost so many times before.
commenting on politics is like commenting in a gadget forum; it doesn’t matter how valid your point is, mob mentality makes people deaf, dumb and blind.
commenting on politics is like commenting in a gadget forum; it doesn’t matter how valid your point is, mob mentality makes people deaf, dumb and blind.
If Ron Paul is so honest, why does he on the one hand claim that most Congressional spending is Constitutionally impermissible, then put earmarks for his favorites into those spending bills? Why does he claim that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was about affirmative action when it arguably *forbade* racial preferences?
I wouldn’t say that Paul’s newsletter indicates he’s a racist, but his belief that the Civil Rights Act was detrimental to race relations is ridiculous and indicates a very poor understanding of race discrimination.
If “real honesty” is about claiming one thing about the Constitution when it seems to suit your policy preferences (Paul says that Congress didn’t have the power to keep employers from discriminating against blacks and women) and another thing when the first interpretation won’t get you reelected (suddenly Congress has the power to regulate medical procedures, because Paul’s district wouldn’t have reelected him if he’d voted against the partial birth abortion ban), then give me the run-of-the-mill political liars instead of someone like Ron Paul.
If Ron Paul is so honest, why does he on the one hand claim that most Congressional spending is Constitutionally impermissible, then put earmarks for his favorites into those spending bills? Why does he claim that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was about affirmative action when it arguably *forbade* racial preferences?
I wouldn’t say that Paul’s newsletter indicates he’s a racist, but his belief that the Civil Rights Act was detrimental to race relations is ridiculous and indicates a very poor understanding of race discrimination.
If “real honesty” is about claiming one thing about the Constitution when it seems to suit your policy preferences (Paul says that Congress didn’t have the power to keep employers from discriminating against blacks and women) and another thing when the first interpretation won’t get you reelected (suddenly Congress has the power to regulate medical procedures, because Paul’s district wouldn’t have reelected him if he’d voted against the partial birth abortion ban), then give me the run-of-the-mill political liars instead of someone like Ron Paul.