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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lazarre who wrote (16735)	7/2/1998 10:55:00 AM
From: Catfish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

Hillary -- an inspiration to Beijing by Joseph Farah World Net News Daily worldnetdaily.com Hillary Clinton is right where she belongs. Her words and actions while visiting China this week will undoubtedly be widely studied and analyzed by the Communist Party propaganda ministry. And why shouldn't they be? The Chinese party officials have been admiring her rhetoric long before she arrived in Beijing. Yu Quanyu, director of the Chinese Academy of Social Studies, writes in the latest issue of "Ideological and Political Work Studies," a Communist Party propaganda primer, that Hillary should serve as a role model for effective use -- or is it abuse? -- of language. "Communist Party cadres," Mr. Yu writes, "should study the speeches of Hillary Clinton because she offers a very good example of the skills of propaganda." What the party apparatchiks say they love most about Hillary's rhetoric is a matter of technique more than content. "Her sentences are short and stimulating," says Yu. "That's why she gets a lot of applause. But Chinese people have a habit of giving long speeches in which the sentences are long and tedious." Yet, I have to suggest there are other reasons Hillary's message is so well-received. When was the last time she was a bearer of bad news? When have you ever heard her challenge Americans? When have you ever heard her say anything to an audience other than offer empty promises about how government needed to do more for people? I'm convinced that's the real success formula for Hillary and her husband. Their essential message to Americans is to relax and allow them, the first couple, to do the heavy lifting. They will take care of our every need -- from health care to day care to ensuring we always have jobs. Their political trick is to trap enough people -- preferably around 50 percent -- into dependency on government. If enough Americans see their fate tied inextricably to government action, they win. And, despite one scandal after another -- including many before they ever got to the White House -- they have won twice. It's a simple strategy, and it has worked. It has allowed them to advance the cause of socialism-with-a-happy-face in big ways -- dismantling states' rights, empowering the central government, increasing taxation, regulation and control of private enterprise and personal initiative and creating the infrastructure for the Beijing-style repression that will be necessary for maintaining power. Just look at their "accomplishments": They have increased the manpower, firepower and authority of federal police agencies well beyond anything dreamed of by Clinton's predecessors. They have chipped away at civil liberties by dreaming up excuses for eavesdropping on law-abiding citizens, seizing private firearms and maintaining sophisticated computer databases on every single man, woman and child in the country. They have instilled fear in their political enemies by politicizing powerful government agencies once considered sacrosanct -- the FBI, the IRS, yes, "X-Files" fans, even FEMA. They have successfully, after a major political setback just four years ago, managed to nationalize the best medical system in the world -- turning the most private medical secrets into matters of routine government oversight. They have, perhaps most impressively, done all this under the noses of a mostly gleeful and praising pack of press sycophants who have kept the truth from the people. That's why Beijing really admires Hillary, the real political mastermind of the Clinton family. In a rare moment of candor recently, her husband told Chinese "journalists" that his goal was to bring the United States and China closer together -- to create a world in which the two nations are more alike, where there are fewer differences between them, less hostility and more mutual respect. Mission accomplished. China hasn't budged an inch, but the United States is well on the road to totalitarian serfdom. All it requires now is the right excuse, a convenient crisis, a sudden change in the comfort level of the dependency class. That's the real reason Hillary receives such adoration in Beijing. A daily radio broadcast adaptation of Joseph Farah's commentaries can be heard at ktkz.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Send e-mail to Joseph Farah Go to Joseph Farah's "between the lines" Archive Go to WND Exclusives Archive Go to Page One -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- c 1998 Western Journalism Center -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This page was last built 7/2/98; 3:22:35 AM Site scripted with UserLand Frontier Direct corrections and technical inquiries to matlanta@mindspring.com

To: lazarre who wrote (16735)	7/2/1998 10:58:00 AM
From: Catfish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

lazzarre, Does this statement (from the previous post) fit you????? Their political trick is to trap enough people -- preferably around 50 percent -- into dependency on government. If enough Americans see their fate tied inextricably to government action, they win. And, despite one scandal after another -- including many before they ever got to the White House -- they have won twice.

To: lazarre who wrote (16735)	7/2/1998 10:59:00 AM
From: George Coyne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

<< Are you guys really hung up about sex? I thought that was just a stereotype about some of you folks; now I'm not that sure: >> Of course we're hung up about sex, especially reckless, recreational sex! And besides, stereotypes always have some truth to them, even that of the hypocritical politically correct bleeding heart liberal. G. W.

To: lazarre who wrote (16735)	7/2/1998 5:30:00 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

Lazarre: Your question is irrelevant. It is not about "sex". Can you spell "perjury" and "subornation of perjury" and "obstruction of justice" . Sex has nothing to do with it. That's the smoke screen the Presidential spinmeisters use to distract people from the real issues. That will only work for so long. The day of reckoning is coming. It is obvious that Starr is squeezing Ms.Lewinski by calling Ms. Tripp. Lewinski will either have to make a deal to tell the truth or she will face indictment. I hope we will see some sort of report from the IC, in the immortal words of Pres. Bubba, "more rather than less and sooner rather than later".