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

To: American Spirit who wrote (19578)	12/20/2007 11:25:33 AM
From: Ann Corrigan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224757

LOL..Hillary's gifted at riding her husband's coat-tails and slinging mud at her political opponents. She's trying to convince Democrat women in Iowa that John Edwards is cheating on his terminally ill wife. Chris Matthews must've been under the influence this morning when he said that Hillary is an elitist who considers herself a goddess. He added that her Christmas campaign video portrays her as an empress distributing "gifts" like socialized medicine to US peasants.

To: American Spirit who wrote (19578)	1/21/2008 11:29:04 AM
From: Ann Corrigan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224757

American life under nanny Hillary(see reference to you at ) >Actual Creeping Totalitarianism Watch, 01/21/2008 For those of our readers confused about what a nascent dictatorship actually looks like. By Moe Lane Time for one of those coincidences: On January 4, Monica Fernandez, a Venezuelan jurist with a track record for human rights advocacy, and her fiancée Javier Herrera, went shopping for plants and flowers in a nursery near her home in Caracas. As they were loading her car, she noticed two men park nearby in a brand new Mercedes Benz. They began walking toward her and each pulled out a gun. One of the men told her to give him her car keys and to get into the passenger seat. After closing her door he got into the driver’s seat. “Please, take the car, please be calm, take everything,” she pleaded. He said to her “shut your mouth you dirty bitch” and put the gun to her temple. Fernandez believes she was to be executed. “I lunged forward and ducked” she told me. She did not hear the gunshot but felt the sharp pain of the bullet in her back. The bullet hit her spine and bounced off into the other side of her back. Thanks to her fiancee - and his service revolver - Ms. Fernandez survived, although both she and Herrera ended up being shot. The Venezuelan cops are calling this a botched robbery, apparently because they don't watch television: The night before she was shot, Judge Fernandez was the target of a television program called “La Hojilla” (The Razor) used by the government as its public pillory. It is on La Hojilla that the party faithful and the media learns who is in and who is out of Chavez’s favor. In a studio adorned with portraits of Lenin, Mao, Marx, Stalin, and Che Guevara, the program’s host, Mario Silva, attacks all of those who disagree or oppose the government’s actions. From Tony Blair to human rights groups like HRF and Freedom House, the government-funded program is ruthless. On January 4, Judge Fernandez was the mark and her image appeared as viewers were reminded that she is an enemy of the state, a coup-plotter, and a fascist. As I said. Coincidence. No, Glenn Reynolds isn't buying it, either. Read on. I'm not going to waste time trying to explain, yet again, to our more credulous readers that the Chavez regime being both reliably anti-capitalist and anti-Bush is not an indication of its essential benevolence. I don't even care if some of you have a comforting alternative narrative about Judge Fernandez and what she did or did not do in the 2002 coup. Believe what you like on that; it's actually irrelevant to the point of the next paragraph, not that it'll stop some of the gnat-strainers we get whenever the topic of foreign dictators arises. Here's the IMPORTANT POINT: the next time that you hear somebody screaming about how we're about to have the Bush administration cancel elections, impose a fascist regime, and toss everybody who isn't a neocon lackey into camps, do yourself a favor. Turn on the television, and note the lack of state-approved television programs highlighting administration critics. Check the court records, and marvel at the absence of continual, endless legal proceedings against the exceptionally vocal administration critics (both the opposition party legislators, and the private enthusiasts). Read the papers and the internet, and search in vain for news of convenient accidents, suicides, fatal crimes, and other generally deniable - but quite, quite final - incidents made against those prone to be opposing the government. In other words, kindly notice the difference between us, and Venezuela.<