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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jagfan who wrote (2339)	4/14/2006 11:44:56 AM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 224691

Senator Clinton’s Free Ride Hillary Cannot have it Both Ways By Daniel Muniz Hillary cannot have it both ways. However, Senator Clinton (D-NY), a woman of contradictions, has been playing both sides of issues for a very long time. And as far as the press is concerned, she is going to get a free ride for her hypocrisy. Here is a brief list of flip-flops that may be her undoing if her opponents can galvanize on them: Iraq Probably first and foremost in the mind of Lefties is the war in Iraq. The very base of the Democratic Party views the war as a debacle and demands that our troops return home. But most importantly, they assert that the war shouldn’t have happened in the first place, hence the problem for a number of Democrats. At the time, many Democrats were in an embarrassing position. Unlike today, the president’s approval ratings were still sky high and a number of politicians of the opposition party wanted to be seen hugging a popular president especially in the early days of the War on Terror. Hillary, like John Kerry and John Edwards, needed to demonstrate to the public that they were strong on defense and that they could capture a sizable chunk of the centrist Americans who wanted the war in Iraq, especially if a presidential campaign was in the works. Now that the press has incessantly bombarded the public with biased negative stories of the war, Democrats cannot run away fast enough from it. The only problem is that they must perform acrobatic gyrations in order to explain how they voted for something that they were supposedly against all along. Lefties were willing to accept a sham explanation the first time with John Kerry mostly because of their hatred George W. Bush. But for the next presidential election, Bush is not on the ballot. As a result, anti-war activists not going to allow themselves to be manipulated by self-serving opportunists like Hillary Clinton. Cindy Sheehan, among others, has made that perfectly clear and surprisingly, a number of high profile Hollywood celebrities like George Clooney, aren’t buying it either. Clinton has tried to field the excuse that she was misled but since the Left Wing feels that she is smarter than George W. Bush, they are starting to see that explanation as a cop out. In some ways, it is a bit ironic to see anti-war protestors demonstrating against Hillary. However, somewhere down the road, the Left Wing is going to issue an ultimatum about the war; choose the centrist or us. Wal-Mart Nothing stirs more acrimony with Lefties than the success of Wal-Mart. But also cloaked in obscurity is Hillary’s hypocrisy with the mammoth retailer. Although Senator Clinton loves to take center stage at union rallies to bash the retail giant for not providing better health care, she never explains her own past history. Hillary Clinton was a board member to Wal-Mart for six years and the Walton family also played a huge role in her husband’s political career. Bill Clinton played a huge role in Wal-Mart’s fortune especially when it came to free trade agreements like NAFTA. In addition, Hillary’s highly esteemed Rose Law Firm even handled much of Wal-Marts legal defense. In fact, Hillary was actually quite an accomplished corporate attorney. Unfortunately, most rank and file union activists are hardly even aware of Hillary’s corporate past. For the previous decade, the press has been strangely quiet about her connections to big corporations and the senator would like to keep it that way. That has never been the case with the tremendous publicity surrounding the oil connections of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. Unfortunately, Hillary has been cornered a few times and forced to account for her board member days. Just like Iraq, she gives a vague nebulous non-answer that is similar to her Iraq response. But as time passes, playing dumb again like the way she did with the war may not work with devoted Liberals who don’t want another duplicitous John Kerry as their standard bearer. The Dubai Port Deal Once again, Hillary thought she could gain traction on this issue and milk it for her own political purposes. Democrats and Republicans alike seized the opportunity to trash the port deal although the members of each party did it for different reasons. Democrats relished the thought of tarring the president especially since the press did such a poor job of informing the public of all the facts and it looked like Hillary was going to cash in on all the criticism. However, Bill Clinton was actually actively supporting the deal and even using former Clintonites to help pass it along. The media didn’t make too big of a deal of it but it was still damaging to her credibility that she was opposing a project that her husband was simultaneous working for. Again, when pressed for an explanation, she gave another lame excuse that she wasn’t aware what her husband was doing at the time. Of course, this wasn’t the first time that Hillary was completely unaware of what was going on inside her own household. Summary Hillary is a woman of contradictions. Although she may seem a solid supporter on certain positions, it doesn’t take very much digging to find out how opportunistic she really is. Her vague responses provide plenty of ammunition for her opponents to use against her in a future presidential bid. In addition, a growing number of Democrats are being to voice a concern about her especially because she is almost assured of winning the Democratic nomination. Hillary Clinton is a lightning rod of controversy but perhaps her contradictions of so many of her positions may create the perception that she is nothing more but another incarnation of a Kerry presidential campaign. And that is something that Republicans would like to see again. nationalsummary.com