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@Sidney,take a look at this...
Hillary's Two-Way Street
Sally Quinn
Washington Post reporter
"I think you have to speak out against that," said Hillary Clinton. "You certainly have to do that, if not explicitly, then implicitly by getting up and moving."
Clinton was talking about what she would have done had she been in Jeremiah Wright's church.
But would she have?
The former first lady has her own Jeremiah Wright. His name is Bill Clinton.
"You don't choose your family but you choose what church you want to attend," she said.
But you do choose your husband.
She chose Bill Clinton. And she has not gotten up and moved.
Instead, she has enabled him over the last 32 years of their marriage, not only standing by him, denying what she knew about his womanizing and trying to delegitimize those who told the truth about it. In fact, it became such a constant in the campaign that his chief of staff Betsey Wright only half jokingly referred to these episodes as "bimbo eruptions."
About one girlfriend, Connie Hamzy, she said,,"We have to destroy her story." About Gennifer Flowers she denied the story even after having a tape played on television about it. It was "attack the motives and the details,"said former Clinton press secretary Dee Dee Myers told Sally Bedell Smith, author of "For Love of Politics" (ever wonder why so many former Clintonites are not supporting her or are actively supporting Obama? And what about Senate colleagues?) . He was accused of sexually harassing Kathleen Willey. He was accused of rape by Juanita Broderick, exposed himself to Paula Jones and finally had a sexual relationship with a 21 year old White House intern, a few years older than his own daughter. When Clinton gave his famous finger wagging speech, lying to the country that "I did not have sexual relations with that woman," Hillary was by his side. "That was Clinton at his cold-blooded worst," former Clinton administration official George Stephanopoulos later wrote. Now, full of self righteous fury, he was lying with true conviction. All that mattered was his survival." And he survived, for one reason only. Hillary Clinton supported him, denied the stories, and allowed White House operatives like Sidney Blumenthal to try to shred the characters of the women he had dallied with, particularly Monica Lewinsky who was portrayed as a stalker and a temptress.
Hillary did not get up and move.
She stood with him while he put their daughter through the most painful, humiliating and embarrassing time of her life. She watched while he squandered the last two years of his administration concentrating on saving himself. She spent days helping prepare for his grand jury testimony in which he repeatedly lied. She was there for his contempt of court citation for lying about Lewinsky and for his impeachment, for his plea bargain which cost him his law license for five years and for his pardon of criminal fugitive and political donor Marc Rich.
She did not get up and move.
Now she is running for President.
When he likened Obama's win in South Carolina to that of Jesse Jackson's years ago, when he described Obama's record of opposing the war in Iraq as "the biggest fairy tale I've ever seen " and when he accused the Obama campaign playing "the race card " against him, he succeeded in polarizing the democratic electorate. Caught off mike, he then said, "I don't think I should take any (expletive) from anybody like that."
Later he denied having said it, "no, no no, that's not what I said. You always follow me around and play these little games," he said to a reporter, "and I'm not going to play your games today…You have mischaracterized it to get another cheap story to divert the American people from the real urgent issues before us"
He got red faced and angry when New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson endorsed Obama, declaring that Five times to my face he said he would never do that." Richardson denied that. Hillary was criticized for making up a story and repeating it several times about being under sniper fire in Bosnia, when in fact she took her daughter Chelsea and was greeted on the tarmac by a young child carrying flowers. Bill Clinton remarked, "And I think she was the first lady since Eleanor Roosevelt to go into a combat zone"… (untrue), And some of them, when they're 60, they'll forget something when they're tired at 11 at night, too."
Still, she did not get up and move.
We can only guess what Bill Clinton has up his sleeve next to embarrass and humiliate his wife. More bimbo eruptions? More suspicious deals with foreign governments and questionable business associates? The release of the names of big donors to the Clinton Library and the Clinton Foundation? More painfully conflicted not so subtle put downs of her?
The Clintons have been lucky. Obama has not brought up any of these issues in this campaign. But if the Democrats are afraid of what the Republicans would do in the fall to Obama with Jeremiah Wright, just imagine the glee with which they and Karl Rove are anticipating the Clintons as opponents. Why do you think they are so hard on Obama? Obama is not nearly as vulnerable as Hillary Clinton would be. Besides, Barack Obama completely broke off his relationship with Wright. He got up and moved. Hillary has not.
Should she, will she, can she?
Yes she can. Yes she can. Yes she can.
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IT IS BETTER TO DIE FOR A CAUSE THAT WOULD LIVE THAN TO LIVE FOR ONE THAT WOULD DIE
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