Archive for October 2nd, 2011
Chelsea Clinton Remembers 1992 Campaign with “My Dad for President” Essay
Chelsea Clinton was asked to pen a remembrance of her father’s 1992 campaign — which kicked off in October 1991, 20 years ago this month — and she authored this essay, “My Dad for President” as part of that commemoration.
The 1992 Clinton presidential campaign was actually the first presidential campaign I ever took part in, but it wasn’t to help Bill Clinton or the Democrats…it was to help First Lady of Arkansas Hillary Clinton become the First Lady of the United States…so she could take the first steps towards becoming President Clinton herself.
I was 15 years old at the time, in a Catholic high school in the suburbs of Cleveland, with Brandon Walsh (decidedly not Dylan McKay) sideburns and a respect for Hillary Clinton earned my freshman year, a full year before most of the country had ever heard of her, when I researched Hillary’s work as Arkansas’ First Lady for a debate in Ms. Habrat’s speech class. Oddly enough, I also researched Tipper Gore for the same class, but a different debate — that one on music censorship. I found Tipper to be, largely, an irrational nut and think the same to this day.
Hillary Clinton, however, intrigued me for being a woman people forever accused of being behind all sorts of ridiculous things and seemingly having magical powers with which to thwart her enemies. When the Clintons emerged on the national scene, and both the Left and Right started maligning her, I followed her exploits with even greater interest.
In life, I’ve always had a natural affinity for people who not only take punches well, but punch back even harder. I can’t stand wimps. I don’t like people who are forever too afraid to fight and have no interest in ever supporting anyone who I don’t trust to do what she or he thinks is best no matter what the establishment wants her or him to do instead.
I remember the 1992 campaign because both of my grandmothers were thrilled to see Hillary on the national stage, and cheered every time she took a stage and socked it to her critics. Both grandmas hoped they’d live to see Hillary as president herself, but both died before Hillary announced her 2008 campaign.
The night the Clintons won in 1992, and emerged from the statehouse in Arkansas for Bill Clinton to make his acceptance speech, my grandmothers and I all promised together we’d do everything we could to help Hillary Clinton win the White House herself in the future. Since I was all that was left of that pact in 2008, I tried to do everything I’d imagine my grandmothers would have done, and then some, to elect Hillary Clinton.
HillBuzz.org was started as a Hillary Clinton campaign site inspired a little by the round-robin telephone trees and Ladies’ Guild newsletters my grandmothers relied on in their time to communicate with like-minded people and work towards goals, like electing favored candidates to office. Though they could have never imagined something like a website existing to help Hillary, I hope they would have enjoyed the site my friends and I created for the campaign…and that I continued, and evolved, with friends old and new in the years since.
It still kills me a little every day that I couldn’t think up the magic strategy that would have defeated Obama in the primaries. I feel I failed my grandmothers because I didn’t save the day and win the nomination for our HRC.
I know Hillary Derangement Syndrome runs strong in a lot of you who read this site now, and I learned long ago that I am never going to convince anyone to change their firmly established perceptions of this woman. My boyfriend Justin, in fact, was raised to hate Hillary Clinton (though he can never clearly tell me why) and his parents honest-to-goodness believe Hillary stole a “heart attack ray” from NASA and uses it on her enemies (like Tim Russert, whom Justin’s father, a veterinarian, seriously believes Hillary murdered during the 2008 presidential campaign. He also thinks Hillary murdered someone he calls “Vince Vaughn”, so you can imagine why I have never deigned to argue with this man or challenge his perception of HRC).
There are ENORMOUS lessons for conservatives to learn from what the Obama campaign did to Hillary Clinton and her supporters in 2008, but in the three years and change I’ve been writing HillBuzz.org, I have never been able to convince Republicans to put their Hillary hate to the side long enough to see that everything the Left did to Hillary in the primaries was a dry run for what the Left will do to the Republican nominee in 2012.
John McCain, for whatever reason, didn’t really want to be president and never truly challenged Obama. McCain was the “it’s his turn” nominee, and ran a lackluster, meandering campaign that he actually suspended at one point and talked about just giving up. The only thing this man did right, in fact, was introducing Governor Sarah Palin to the national stage and launching her on a path to become the first female President herself.
It still hurts my heart that Hillary Clinton will never be president, but I see in retrospect her year to run was actually in 2004. She could have been the nominee, if she hadn’t listened to the Democrat establishment that told her to wait her turn and that “2008 would be her year”. I have it on very good authority that Ted Kennedy himself told Hillary that, and she foolishly believed him, being a good and loyal Democrat who decided to respect the establishment’s wishes and postpone her own ambitions so John Kerry could run the establishment-approved campaign in 2004…while the establishment geared up to backstab Hillary Clinton the next election by deciding, as early as 2004, that Barack Obama would be the 2008 nominee. The Democrat Party hates women, but knows it needs blacks to keep blindly voting Democrat, so having the first black president was always more important than running a candidate who would have made an excellent president.
During the 2008 campaign, I saw just how vile the Democrat Party really is. In truth, I’d always been uncomfortable being part of a Party that relied to heavily on union thuggery and that worked so hard to keep black people and Hispanics so poor and dependent on government handouts so they would keep blindly voting Democrat forever. I also hated the identity politics that drives the Democrat Party, and the corruption endemic to every major city that’s under complete Democrat control.
I would have probably become a Republican 20 years sooner if it wasn’t for the Clintons, because while Bill and Hillary Clinton were the heads of the Party, at least I felt the Left was kept somewhat at bay and such an entity as a conservative Democrat could actually exist. I learned my lesson at around 5pm or so on May 31st, 2008 when the Democrat Rules & Bylaws Committee actually stole Delegates from Hillary Clinton and awarded them to Obama, to secure the nomination for him.
I was there, in DC, when the actual decision came down. It was pouring rain that day. I will never forget a slight, bespeckled, Asian woman in a pink rain coat with a Hello Kitty umbrella who stood outside the hotel the RBC was meeting in holding up a sign that read “Count every vote, every vote counts!”. The rain had warped the letters and the paper was falling to shreds, but there she stood, crying because it was so clear to her the fix was in and the Party had decided on Obama no matter what the voters wanted.
That was it for me in terms of the Democrat Party. I will never in my life vote Democrat again, and I hope in some small way I can use my life to help metaphorically burn the Democrat Party to the ground for so embracing voter fraud, thuggery, Alinsky Methods, and everything else the Left employs to glorify Obama and keep him in power.
I came out as gay during the 2008 campaign because the Clinton campaign here in Chicago needed someone to fundraise and recruit volunteers in Boystown. I soon found myself on TV and the radio and doing interviews with the media. It was the scariest thing I’d ever done, and I was terrified there was no turning back ever, but I did it because Hillary Clinton needed it to be done and I couldn’t do it unless I came out. I got to meet a great many of Hillary’s friends here in Chicago, and got to know a few of them very well. They knew the sacrifices I made for the campaign and were a better support team than I could have ever dreamed I’d have in coming out. I got to know Chelsea Clinton a little by working several events with her and had the shock of my life one day in February when she actually called me on the telephone to thank me for organizing a small dollar fundraiser for her mother.
There were stretches when I’d get to speak to Hillary herself in person several times a week. My family pretty much disowned me and was embarrassed by me for coming out, and in talking with her Hillary learned this and actually tried to intervene to mend these fences for me. I was just a campaign worker in Chicago, with the little website my friends and I ran, running my little volunteer efforts here, and the woman who was in the fight of her life against Obama and the Left actually remembered what I was going through every time I’d see her and she’d take a moment to check in and encourage me to stay strong and to know I made the right choice in coming out.
I still get hatemail here at HB from people who say how much they hate Hillary Clinton and go on about how evil she is or how she killed “Vince Vaughn”. I forward those last ones to my boyfriend Justin with a note saying, “Tell your dad to stop writing me!”. I will always treasure the experiences I had on the 2008 campaign because a former First Lady of the United States, a former United States Senator, and the current Secretary of State is a person who showed me such incredible kindness right when I needed it most and who made sure I knew how much she appreciated what I went through in trying to help her campaign.
So, the Clintons will always mean something to me on a very personal level. When Justin is mad at me and wants to be a jerk, or just wants to get my goat because he’s still at that point in his 20s when he thinks everything he does is HILARIOUS, he’ll forward me a picture of Hillary looking terrible somewhere while traveling around the world and attach a message of “Your gal’s not looking so hot these days”. I just ignore him, because his Hillary Derangement Syndrome will never allow him to take a step back and appreciate how much Hillary’s personal kindness to me will always mean, no matter what he, his parents, or anyone in conservative ranks says about her.
On days when I was so sick I almost couldn’t get out of bed or have felt so attacked and defeated I just didn’t want to live anymore, I swear I thought about Hillary Clinton standing in the rain in Pittsburgh, PA back in 2008…refusing to cancel a campaign rally…and delivering an electrifying speech to the crowd as lightning flashed above her head and I marveled at her tenacity from the sidelines.
I never thought another person on Earth would inspire me like this, but then emerged Governor Sarah Palin who has the same tenacity and determination, even if she’s in a different party and is on a mission to take down the establishment in a way Hillary Clinton never did.
It’s actually been really hard for me to come to terms with this, but I had to accept a long time ago that even though Hillary was betrayed by the Democrat establishment (in both 2004 and 2008), it’s just not who she is to bring these people down. Maybe that comes with being a former First Lady, or from having been in the Senate and lived in Washington for too long. It was never in her 2008 campaign to take down the establishment…but at the time, I didn’t even know back then this is what America needed to do to survive.
I know in comments people will rehash all the old anti-Hillary, hateful remarks that I’ve seen and responded to thousands of times at this point. I also know I’ll be asked “how can you support Palin now after being such a strong Hillary supporter”. I hope regular readers will answer this stuff for me because I just don’t have the strength to repeat myself on this again. Though, I will say that in 2008 the best choice for President was Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton, who would have never done to this country what Obama did because she would have never allowed the Left — or anyone alive — to dictate the course of her presidency.
The best choice for President in 2012 is Governor Sarah Palin, because I believe she has the same tenacity and fight inside her that Hillary Clinton did in 2008…but with the realization that the permanent political class needs to be fought tooth and nail, in a way that Hillary didn’t see clearly when she was in a position to have done so herself.
I grew up knowing the strongest fighters and the best Americans around me were the moms, grandmothers, and aunts I knew back in Cleveland who took care of me and all of my friends and who always rose to the challenge when they needed to…when too often the men that I knew in life slinked off to play golf or go on vacation when the going got tough.
I think America’s going to be saved by moms, grandmothers, and aunts in 2012. I think a lot of these women — and the men who will stand with them — were Hillary voters in 2008 who will back Governor Palin in next year’s election. From Hillary to Sarah so many of us will go, with many never imagining in a million years they’d make a transition like this.
It’s sure been a strange journey for me, and for everyone from the Team Hillary days who’ve continued with me here on HillBuzz.org for all these years.
This post ended up being much less of a nostalgic look back at the 1992 campaign than Chelsea’s reminiscence that started it…but while I’ll never forget the past and will always cherish its part in me, I can’t help but set my sights on the future and the people I know are best to lead America through the tough times ahead.
The 45th President of the United States will be a woman, but she won’t be named Clinton and despite the personal feelings I have for the Clintons, I have to say yet again that the next president has to be — HAS TO BE — someone who is willing to absolutely destroy both the Left and the Cocktail Party GOP establishment if America is to recover from what Obama has done to the nation.
The only person alive who can do this is Sarah Palin.
I seriously pray every day she answers this call. I know if my grandmothers were still here they’d be praying the same thing, as are millions of us Hillary ’08 vets who are willing to get back into the trenches again and fight Obama and his minions under Palin’s banner this time.
If you are reading this, you are the Resistance. And your greatest mission is to Defend the Vote.
If you are reading this you are the Resistance.
It’s a gorgeous Sunday in the fall and you’re reading about politics. You clearly love this country and are appalled by all the Left has done since the beginning of the Obama presidency to harm America. You know something must be done to defeat the Left once and for all…but you’re frustrated the Cocktail Party GOP establishment is forever terrified of really challenging the Left on anything.
You’ve heard stories about the dead voting in Chicago for decades…probably longer than you’ve even been alive. You know cartoon characters and other imaginary beings voted in Ohio in the 2008 election, and of course they voted for Obama. You may have seen Gigi Gaston’s documentary on voter fraud, We Will Not Be Silenced 2008. You know voter fraud happens every election in this country, and you are well aware it is enabled and fostered by George Soros and his Secretaries of State Project.
I am sure, like me, you’ve felt overwhelmed and helpless…and you’ve been exasperated by the fact that the Republican Party at large has never seemed to have any interest whatsoever in stopping voter fraud…either because the GOP is so scared of being called RAAACIST by the media for demanding strict oversight of the ballot box or because the Cocktail Party likes keeping its options open in relation to fraud in case it ever wants to start stealing elections itself.
Recently, I met a woman named Sharon Meroni who I believe is going to be in the history books alongside Upton Sinclair as Harriet Beecher Stowe…as a quiet, unassuming person whose work led to massive reform in this country. I have no idea what I can do to help her, but I’m going to schedule time every day to start figuring that out and to start getting involved with her organization, DEFEND THE VOTE.
I want to become a Vote Defender and I hope in short time the Illinois Board of Elections will know me well, since I intend to join Meroni’s quest to eliminate voter fraud in the most corrupt state in the union.
Starting in the most fraud-riddled city in the country: Chicago.
I urge you to start following Defend the Vote every day and to join me in becoming both a Vote Defender and an expert on the elections process.
I came to the realization in 2008, after witnessing the thuggery and intimidation tactics the Obama campaign used to commit massive fraud in that election — which the permanent political class on both sides of the aisle knew about, but did nothing about –, that neither political party would ever address voter fraud from the top down.
It’s not a sexy issue. The reading required to become expert on the subject is dry, challenging, and quite boring to most people. The project is inherently frustrating and extremely time-consuming…and the political parties on both sides will fight reform tooth and nail.
The only way voter fraud is going to be eliminated in this country is for people to work at the grassroots level to expose this corruption and the mechanisms of fraud and create an environment where both parties will be forced to end decades of ballot tampering and election gaming so that Americans can believe in the fairness and integrity of our elections again.
I want my life to be about three things:
1. Defeating the Left
2. Decimating the Cocktail Party GOP establishment
3. Defending the Vote
I don’t know what I can do, just yet, or how I can best help, but today I’m going to start the legwork to find out.
I’m going to document what I learn, and the progress I make, here on HillBuzz.org so others in the Resistance can follow along and learn with me…and teach me what you know too.
I am starting at square one in terms of my knowledge about how, exactly, voter fraud happens in this country and who both orchestrates and allows it. I know it’s happening, because I saw Obama surrogates and acolytes engage in it, but I’ve never understood how they got away with it and why it seems every election the same problems keep happening, but are never resolved…since most people never worry about voter fraud until a few weeks before elections when it might already be too late to do anything about the fraud the Left has planned that year.
Aren’t you tired of this garbage?
I spent the majority of this year in and out of the hospital, so sick I thought I was going to die at times. When I was at my sickest, and I most wanted to just give up and slip away, I honestly thought about the 2012 elections and I asked God to let me hang on just long enough to do SOMETHING that would have some kind of impact, something that could make life more difficult for the Left and contribute in my own way to removing the Leftists and Cocktail Party establishment types in our government from power.
Ever since I heard about what Sharon Meroni has been doing here in Chicago, I’ve wanted to get involved somehow…and this morning at early mass it just hit me, in an overpowering and forceful way, that I need to personally start educating myself about what Defend the Vote is doing and become a VOTE DEFENDER myself.
And in doing so, I need to share my journey with all of YOU so that YOU can be part of this too…and figure out how you can get others to make defending the vote and combating voter fraud a part of their daily lives as well.
Sometimes, it feels like forever since I did anything right, or accomplished something that truly matters. I don’t want to squander this second chance at life that God granted me, or to waste the opportunity I have in front of me now that I’m finally well enough to really commit to a major project like this.
But, I really and truly believe what Sharon Meroni is starting here in Chicago will eventually be replicated coast to coast…and in a few years, voter fraud will be eliminated in this country because the American Resistance will see to it that is most certainly eliminated. Once and for all, with neither Democrats nor Republicans ever able to tamper with votes EVER AGAIN.
I want to be part of this…and I ask you to consider accepting the mission to become a Vote Defender too.
What do you think you can do in your own circle of influence, using YOUR unique talents, to take a step towards eliminating voter fraud in America this week?
Do you think we could all join together in creating Defend the Vote Sundays where we can check back in here together to see what we’ve accomplished and how much we’ve learned, and strategize for what to do next as Vote Defenders?
Who out there can help me stay focused and help me understand what people need to know to become Vote Defenders and how we can all make use of everyone’s unique talents to Defend the Vote coast to coast?
If you are reading this, you are the Resistance…and your assistance is most assuredly required.
Checkout: Defend the Vote today
in 2013, will healthcare industry whistleblowers send Obama administration officials to prison for the thuggery used to pass Obamacare?
Please read this article in Forbes entitled “The Failure of Health Care Reform: An Insider’s View”.
Here is the most important paragraph:
First, the Obama administration and the Democrats who controlled Congress at the time made it clear that they would make life—and the ability to do business—hell for any insurer that fought them. I can recall talking to an insurance company executive in August of 2009, the summer of the huge rallies against ObamaCare, who told me he had a stack of red folders on his desk—demands from Democratic committee chairmen for various types of information. The message was clear: get on board with ObamaCare or expect to spend a lot of time answering committee demands, or testifying before Congress, or worse. So far I haven’t found anyone willing to speak out on the record about these strong-arm tactics—and probably won’t until 2013.
It’s the “or worse” part I’m most concerned with this morning.
Please chime in if you disagree with me on this, but I have no trouble believing the Obama administration dispatched surrogates to all the healthcare insurance companies and threatened executives to either keep quiet or flat out lie about the impact of Obamacare all of these industry experts knew would come.
I worked for Hillary Clinton’s 2008 primary campaign here in Chicago, so I saw on a daily basis what the Obama camp was capable of — they practically issued copies of the Alinsky Rules book and directed Obama acolytes to hit the streets and bully, berate, threaten, and menace anyone perceived to stand in Obama’s way. Obama won the Democrat nomination through voter fraud, intimidation, and thuggery. Because so many conservatives still possess an irrational hatred of Hillary Clinton, far too few Republicans paid any attention to what the Obama campaign did in 2008 to Hillary Clinton and her supporters…which resulted in the Obama Administration being able to behave this way once “The Golden Age of Hope and Change” began in 2009 and the EXACT SAME TACTICS were used on healthcare industry executives to pass Obamacare without so much as a peep from these people as to the disaster this bill would be for our economy.
I have no doubt Obama’s surrogates told healthcare executives they’d be branded RAAACISTS for criticizing Obamacare in any way and that their careers would be ruined. I also bet the White House approved of threats made to bankrupt any insurance company that spoke out against Obamacare — since Obama said the same thing to coal plants when he threatened their executives into silence whenever he started going on about “reforming the coal industry”.
If you are a conservative who sat the 2008 election out (or 2004 and 2000 before that, because you keep thinking sitting on your couch on election day “teaches someone a lesson”), or you voted for Obama to prove how not-racist you are, I hope you now see what happens when the sort of people who run Chicago are transplanted to Washington, DC and are allowed to translate the thuggery and Alinsky Methods so common in Chicago to the national level.
Hope!
Change!
Suckers!
I want to write to Michele Bachmann tomorrow and ask her to start talking about this issue — about just how much pressure the Obama Administration put on the healthcare insurance industry to keep quiet about what they knew regarding Obamacare’s likely impact on our economy in 2011 and beyond. Out of the declared presidential candidates so far, she’s the only one I can see shouting from the rooftops about this.
If you’re a legal expert, I’d love for you to chime in below in comments and tell us who can be sent to prison for any thuggery that bullied healthcare executives into keeping quiet about the economic disaster that is Obamacare.
Can the executives be prosecuted for keeping quiet and allowing Obamacare to tank our economy?
Who in the Obama Administration can go to prison if they knew healthcare executives were being threatened into silence regarding Obamacare’s true costs to the country?
How can we ensure the 45th President of the United States makes it mission critical to prosecute any and all Obama officials who signed off on the thuggery that succeeded in passing Obamacare?
Your thoughts and ideas are desperately needed below…because we simply need to hold people accountable for this disaster, and the only way to do that is to start planning that accountability NOW.
Obama’s biggest base of support comes from the Muslim community.
Obama's very own fan club
Obama has lost support from many of the people that helped elect him in 2008. When he took office in January of 2009, he had a 92% approval rating among blacks, 75% among Hispanics and a 58% among whites (according to Gallup). Since then, his rating has steadily declined thanks to an abysmal economy and sky-high unemployment rate…especially among the black community. He’s been a big disappointment among Latinos because he hasn’t shoved immigration reform down America’s throat (yet) and many of the young white ideologues who voted for him in ’08 have moved on to other things…mainly trying to find employment in this horrible Obama economy.
There is one group that is still very much in love with the chosen One. Muslims. Pew Research Center did a survey last month that showed that 76% of Muslim-Americans approve of Obama (only 15% approved of President Bush). Why the love affair? According to the survey, many Muslims see Obama as one of their own…1 in 10 believe that he’s a Muslim while 1/3 say they don’t know or they refused to answer. He’s also the president of BIG government which is just what the Muslim community is all about. In fact, they would like to see Obama push for an even BIGGER government. They are big fans of entitlement programs and have very little interest in such things as capitalism or freedom. I’m sure that throwing Israel under the bus repeatedly has helped boost his standing among Muslims as well.
So…Obama may very well continue to make history…
The first black President….the first Muslim President and…
The worst President in American history.
Can you find Pamela Geller’s expose on Rick Perry defending Islamization in public schools?
Does anyone have time to do some quick research?
We need Pamela Geller’s expose on Rick Perry defending the Islamization going on in public schools.
I don’t know when she wrote this, and am still having computer trouble that’s limiting my time online, so I can’t search for this myself.
I know Islamists have been aggressively pushing Islam in public school text books, and that Texas text books are more often than not used coast to coast…so Texas should be a line in the sand to prevent the Saudi Wahabbists and other Islamists from sneaking the glorification of Islam into public school text books.
Islam is not a religion of peace — it is not a religion at all– and should not be treated as such. Islam is a militarized, medievalist death cult committed to global conquest and the destruction of all who oppose it. To achieve this, Islam is structured with specific goals and strategies to undermine societies opposing Islam, often from within, and turn their tolerance of other cultures politically correct stupidity against them.
If Rick Perry has really defended Islamization then people need to know about it.
While we are at it, in this same thread, can someone pull up Pamela Geller’s work related to Chris Christie and his support for the Ground Zero Victory Mosque?
People need to know where all the candidates stand on Islam since Islam itself is committed to the West’s destruction. If Perry and Christie are pro-Islamization or even Islamization-accepting, the two of them are like Charles Lindbergh running for the presidency in the 1930s in an alternate universe while sympathizing with the people actively trying to destroy America in his own time.
The next president just can’t be someone who thinks Islam is the “religion of peace”. No way, no how…no Perry, no Christie, no Romney if any of these guys believe this garbage.
