Shots Across The Bow

Tennessee Democrats Go All Out for Hillary!

So, let's just take a gander at what Tennessee Democrats think of as Presidential behavior, shall we?

Let's start with a few choice quotes:
When asked if she were keeping a diary during her years as First Lady..."Heavens, no! It could get subpoenaed. I can't write anything."
When asked about papers subpoenaed during an investigation in 2000: "I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president."
When asked about Monica Lewinsky: "The great story here for anybody willing to find it, write about it and explain it is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president."
On home schooling and religious education:"Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education."
On tax policy:"We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."
On Bill Clinton's "companions":“Who is going to find out? These women are trash. Nobody’s going to believe them.”

Quite the Presidential picture eh? Well, maybe if the President you're thinking of is Richard Nixon. Ambition and paranoia make such an attractive mix, don't they? But let's move on from the things she said to the things she did.

The Clintons hadn't been in office long when Hillary showed her true nature by firing the long time employees of the travel office in order to get her good friends a cushy position. Not content to fire the 7 staffers, she felt it necessary to destroy them, in order to have some justification for the firing. BIlly Dale was charged with embezzlement, while the other 6 staffers were investigated by the FBI. Dale was later fully exonerated, and 5 of the 7 were offered new jobs at the White House. Hillary was quoted at the time as saying, "Fire the sons of bitches." Hillary was later investigated for her role in Travelgate, and the final report by Independent Counsel Robert Ray indicated that not only had Hillary very probably been the driver behind the whole incident, but that she had given false testimony about the incident, but that the evidence was insufficient for a prosecution.

Related to the Travel Office debacle was the FBI files affair, where the White House was found in possession of hundreds of FBI files of former Republican White House employees.(Incidentally, a classmate of mine was one of the folks whose file was in the White House improperly.) Craig Livingstone, a former bar bouncer, had requested the files on behalf of the White House. Curiously, nobody would admit to hiring a bouncer to be White House Security Chief, although Livingstone himself bragged that he had been hired by Hillary.

I hesitate to include the banning of military uniforms inside the White House, with the exception of the Marine Security detail, because Bill is on record as loathing the military, and Hillary just looks like she sniffed one of Bill's bedfarts whenever she looks at a soldier or sailor. So that could have been either one of them.

Anybody remember Sandy Berger? Stole documents from the National Archives and shredded them? Which co-president was he working for at the time?

Let's not forget the Vince Foster affair. Not the suicide, but Hillary staffers Maggie Williams and Craig Livingstone (who knew bar bouncers were so multi-talented?) were sent to Foster's office before it could be sealed in order to remove files. In some places, that could be called tampering with evidence or instigating a cover up.

How Presidential. The similarities to Nixon just keep coming, don't they?

Let's take a look at the big enchilada, shall we? Hillary care!

Apparently, Hillary is only pro choice when it involves killing a fetus, because her 1000 page trillion dollar health care plan had remarkably little choice involved in it. Boil it down to its essentials and it forced you into an HMO designated by the federal government, and forbid you from seeking better care in any shape form or fashion.

Unless you were a federal employee. Then you got to elect to keep your own Federal plan.

Oh, but that was all so long ago, right?

"So long ago" is exactly what Hillary is running on. She claims she has more experience and that's why people should vote for her. And if you think she's changed her ways, just the other day, she floated a proposal that would garnish the wages of anyone who refused to purchase health insurance.

Remember the phrase "land of the free?" It's very clear that Hillary doesn't. And it is also clear that Tennessee democrats are as memory impaired as Hillary was when deposed on Rose Law firm activities during the Whitewater hearings.

I remember.

I remember Rose Law firm billing records related to Whitewater subpoenaed in 1994 showing up in the White House dining room 18 months later. They just...showed up there. Really. They did.

I could go on, but I don't need to. Hillary claims she's had experience, but that cuts both ways, and I've experienced all of her I want to. The woman truly believes that the ends justify the means, and that means she'll do anything in order to achieve her goals. She'll lie, cheat, steal, break the law, and believe that she is entirely justified to do so because her heart is pure, and that's all that matters.

And that's why I voted for Obama in the primary.

Posted by Rich at February 7, 2008 1:51 AM | TrackBack