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Tuesday, July 06, 2004
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EDITORIAL: You go, girl
The Associated Press moved an interesting correction last week. Datelined San Francisco, the wire service acknowledged: "In a June 28 story about former President Clinton and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, The Associated Press erroneously reported a quote by Sen. Clinton. The passage should have included her phrase `and be fiscally responsible.'
"The full quote was: `We're not coming to you, many of whom are well enough off that actually the tax cuts may have helped you, and say, "We're going to give you more." We're saying, "You know what, for America to get back on track and be fiscally responsible, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." ' "
Speculation on Mrs. Clinton's presidential aspirations have so far centered on a scenario in which John Kerry would have to lose his Democratic presidential bid this year, leaving that party in search of a new standard-bearer in 2008.
But look at the panache with which the junior senator articulates the time-honored mantra that when government allows the productively employed to merely keep some larger portion of their own earnings, it is "giving them more."
Look at the enthusiasm and clarity with which she explains the proper role of government, that being to "take things away" from those citizens who work hard, save and invest ... redistributing them "for the common good" to the lazy, the shiftless, the addicted and the otherwise "less fortunate."
In a time when the masses hunger for a great orator, is it really fair to make Mrs. Clinton's supporters wait?
If Mrs. Clinton would only make her willingness known, we feel certain fellow New Yorker Roger Calero would gladly step aside -- even at this late date -- allowing Mrs. Clinton to run, right now, at the top of a national presidential ticket which already has ballot status in several states:
That of the Socialist Workers Party. |
