28 February 2007 • 6:02 pm
From Carry On America comes this from Rich Lowry:
Distasteful though it might be, Democrats would be well-advised to revisit Bill Clinton’s personal scandals from the 1990s, not for what they say about Bill (we already know all that), but for what they say about the political character of Hillary. She was present at the creation of the Clinton “ultimate fighting” style of politics. As George Stephanopoulos recounts in his memoir, when he and James Carville discussed creating a central clearinghouse for attacks during the 1992 campaign, Hillary quickly grasped the idea: “‘What you’re describing is a war room,’ she said, giving us both a name and an attitude.”
During Clinton’s campaign and presidency, the war room got its truest test in beating back allegations of Bill Clinton’s infidelities. The strategy was to deny no matter what, and if the allegations had merit, persuade the woman involved to lie about them or, if she didn’t comply, destroy her. Hillary the feminist pioneer was an adamant supporter of and participant in this approach.
This has always been the corruption at the core of the Clinton team — Bill’s heedlessness and the need to cover it up. It created a political ethic that has a rottenness at its heart, and Hillary has deeply partaken of it. She tacitly acknowledges as much. On the campaign trail, she says of Republicans, “I’m the one person they’re most afraid of because Bill and I know how to beat them, and we have consistently.” It’s the war room as applause line.
Of course, Bill also always had an irresistible, lovable-rogue quality. With Hillary, voters will get all the bare knuckles with little of the charm.
Hillary has a tooth–grinding ferocity that endears her to many Democrats but will not go very far to woo independents and Republicans, and is reflected by her Gingrich–like negatives. She, like her husband, will not receive a majority of the popular vote, should she win the nomination.
Go to the link above and read the whole post.
Filed under: Hillary Clinton, Rich Lowry
Amil Imani’s blog is must reading. He warns us that despite our politically correct attempts to placate the jihadists in the Muslim world, jihad is not going away, for these terrorists are intent on world domination that is governed by Sharia law. He notes:
* Respect for diversity, separation of religion and state, freedom of belief and expression, are pillars of democracy, yet anathema to Islam. In no Islamic land do you find an ecumenical organization. It is only in non-Islamic countries that the shameless duplicitous Muslim, be he an imam, a mullah, or a regular run-of-the- mill faithful of Allah, meekly participates in ecumenical feel-good gatherings. * To Muslims, no other religion is deemed worthy of recognition, much less accommodation. There is not a single church or synagogue or a Buddhist temple in all of Saudi Arabia. They are barred. The Islamic Republic of Iran’s raft of genocidal pogroms includes the heinous practice of bulldozing even the cemeteries of its Baha’i religious minority. The Islamic tyranny of the mullahs imprisons Christian Iranians for celebrating Christmas. Egypt denies its own citizens identity cards for refusing to lie and fake their religious belief or disbelief. The ID cards are required for education, securing work, receiving medical care and just about every right of citizenship. Without it, a citizen is literally subjected to slow death.
* In Islam only Muslim men, and, to a lesser extent, Muslim women, are entitled to certain rights. All non-Muslims, including the so-called people of the book, namely Christians and Jews, are at best second-class subject, subjects who must pay the back-breaking Jezyyeh, poll tax, for their “sin” of not converting to Islam. So, as Islam makes its inroads in new lands, as its membership swells through explosive birth and conversion, secular democracies will be inevitably replaced by Islamism with its stone-age Sharia laws. The best offer that Islam will make is to spare the non-Muslim’s life if he puts on the heavy yoke of Jezyyeh for the rest of his living days.
Bookmark his blog as I have done. He is for freedom of Iran.
Filed under: Amil Imani, Iran, Islamists
The home seen on the Mary Tyler Moore Show as the place where both Mary & Rhoda had apartments is on the market in Minneapolis. The home’s exterior was in nearly every episode of the long–running series.
The asking price: a cool $3.6 million. Let’s hope Mr. Grant comes through with a big raise for Mary; her apartment rent is likely to skyrocket.
Filed under: Mary Tyler Moore
27 February 2007 • 2:26 pm
Go to Gay Patriot for a zinger that is sure to wipe the smile off of Speaker Pelosi’s face.
Filed under: Pelosi, Sharpton
A B-T BOW to Michelle Malkin whose hilarious post about Pamela Anderson had this reader doing an involuntary Cherry Coke spit-take after reading it. The aging actress thought that, until recently, UGGS were PETA–friendly. Perhaps all the hair bleach she has used over the years has seeped into her skull.
Truly a blinkered intellect, with children no less!
Filed under: PETA, Pamela Anderson
