Hillary Clinton
Top Five Reasons Hillary Clinton will not rescue Democrats in 2012
A consistent meme in the Left has been that Hillary Clinton remains preserved in some sort of break-glass-in-case-of-an-emergency stasis down in Foggy Bottom, waiting eagerly for the moment when she will be unleashed to save the Democrat Party from the unfixable mess it got itself into by making Barack Obama the 44th president instead of Hillary herself.
Clearly, people who believe this paid little attention to the 2008 campaign…or to the woman herself for the entirety of her time in the national spotlight.
Here are the Top Five most obvious reasons why Hillary Clinton will decidedly NOT rescue Democrats from their well-deserved comeuppance in 2012 — and why she will happily let Obama and his minions get everything they have coming to them, and then some:
Could blacks really not show up to vote in 2012 to re-elect Obama?
Much of the black community was pretty obnoxious back in 2008 regarding the election of Obama, who was branded “the historic and unprecedented first black president”, despite being half-white and mostly Arab (since his Kenyan father was actually only 1/4 black and 3/4 African Muslim).
Blacks here in Chicago harassed Hillary volunteers during the primary campaign, calling us RAAACISTS! for supporting Clinton instead of Obama…when we knew all along how terrible Obama would be as president and did everything we could to stop him from getting the nomination. The Obama campaign clearly ramped up the racial tension and actively encouraged black people to hurl racially-motivated insults and epithets at the Clintons themselves. Remember what happened during the South Carolina primary back in 2008? Obama surrogates not only played the race card against both Hillary and Bill Clinton, but Obama pushed the Pigford Black Reparations scam to black community leaders as a carrot to lead them away from supporting the Clintons and secure them in the Obama camp (it was then-Senator Obama who engineered the Pigford Black Reparations scam, which was a reward to the black community for abandoning and attacking the Clintons so Obama could become president).
On election night back in 2008, I attended the McCain/Palin results watch events in Chicago, with one group hosted in a hotel overlooking Grant Park downtown…directly across the street from where the Obama cult rally took place. It was nowhere near as large as the cameras led people watching on television to believe (with Mayor Daley apocryphally claiming at the time that “there were 2 million people there!”, when a few days later the Park Service admitted it was more like 300,000, which is less than the attendance of both the Gay Pride Parade here in Boystown or the Taste of Chicago food festival downtown). But there were indeed a lot of Obama cultists out in force that day, most of them being part of the national lamestream media, with “journalists” crying on camera, so emotionally affected by Obama’s election.
Inside the hotel, some group affiliated with Jesse Jackson had one of the ballrooms for an event of their own. Many black attendees of the group, all dressed in orange Jesse Jackson tee shirts, thronged the corridors, elevators, and public rooms of the hotel loudly cheering not for Obama, but for their race. “A black man in the White House!”, they shouted at anyone white. “It’s the Black House now, suckers!” They shook their butts, made obscure and bizarre hand and arm gestures (which are apparently common in black fraternity and sororities, but alien outside the black community), and hooted and hollering until dawn over Obama’s win.
In an elevator with other McCain/Palin supporters riding to our floor, several of these orange-shirted Jackson affiliates made horrible comments to us, in playground, taunting tones unexpected from grown adults. It was a very tense elevator ride, because it wasn’t about the election of a politician…it was about these particular black people singling out the white people in front of them for a verbal attack based on our race as opposed to theirs.
Of course, because these were black people doing the taunting and freely shouting obnoxious racially-motivated exclamations into the air, this was all okay. The fact these were people participating in an orange-shirted Jesse Jackson event of some kind just made everything all the more obvious.
After the election came the belief that “Obama money” would be flowing into the black community like honey from a Pennsylvania Avenue bee hive once Obama took over. Remember the absurd, delusional woman who said on camera that Obama was going to pay her rent, and her gas bill, and her car note, etc.? There were near-riots in Detroit when black people lined up to get their “Obama money”, when none was to be had.
The only “Obama money” that ever materialized was that affiliated with the Pigford Black Reparations scam that Obama cooked up as a sitting US Senator and pushed through as President — but those reparations went only to the politically connected Obama operatives in the South, as payback for their help defeating the Clintons.
In a city like Chicago, Obama has done about as much for blacks as President as he did for them as a US Senator or a state senator here in Illinois before that: jack smack.
Obama does not care about black people, largely because Obama does not consider himself to be a black person. Throughuot his life, Obama has only been black when it’s best suited him. Mostly, Obama considers himself to be a Muslim and an Indonesian, based on the obvious fact that he spent his formative years in a foreign country hating America and was adopted by Indonesian Lolo Soetoro when his mother married this Indonesian man. There is an alien, foreignness to Obama that’s the root of who this man is. Very clearly this keeps him from relating to the lives and problems of Americans…especially the black ones.
I’ve always found it striking that Obama has allowed his grandmother and brothers in Africa to live in abject squalor, suffering without electricity in their homes, while he enjoyed great riches benefitting from everything the Left showered him with as Leftists prepared Obama’s rise to the top. He could have very easily made a better life for his black relatives, including his Aunt Zetuni who lived in a housing project in Boston (illegally so), but he chose not to.
Just as he chose not to do a darn thing to benefit the black community he represented here in Chicago as a state senator…and then recommitted to doing nothing for the black community as a US Senator after that.
Here and there, I hear black community leaders in Chicago grumble about this.
They get angry when pressed for an opinion about what Obama has done for blacks as president.
According to this bit in the Washington Post, blacks are not enthused about re-electing Obama.
I wonder how hard it will be to gin up the race-card flinging, hatefest the Obama campaign produced with ease back in 2008 when this spectacle is needed by his re-election campaign next year.
Will so many black people participate in this the next time around?
Will black people get on the Obama bandwagon again to intimidate white voters and call anyone not voting for Obama a RAAACIST again?
More importantly, will people be intimidated and bullied this way again?
Do the threats of being called a RAAACIST carry as much weight now, and will they carry that much weight again in 2012?
Will Republicans actually grow a spine and push back on this garbage…or will the Cocktail Party GOP establishment stand back and allow these threats of being called RAAACISTS for opposing Obama’s re-election hamstring the Republican effort in 2012?
I’ve heard several times now that black voters will not show up for Obama in the numbers Obama needs to win re-election in 2012. Though it’s rare to hear it from black people on the street, there is immense disappointment in Obama in the black community.
But, the simple truth is that it was not black voters that gave Obama the win in 2012.
Obama won because independents voted for him to prove they were not RAAACISTS and very foolish Republicans sat home on election day “to teach the party a lesson” because they felt McCain was not conservative enough.
Will this happen again in 2012?
What think you?
Gold Action Item: Think of ways to consistently ask Americans if they received the hopeychange Obama promised them in 2008
I have been told the Cocktail Party GOP establishment does not want Americans asked on a regular basis if they got the hopeychange Obama promised them in the 2008 election.
Say it with me: the Cocktail Party GOP establishment is stupid, and far too dependent on consultants who eat their crayons.
The thinking (if you stretch the word enough to cover this folly) is that “Republicans need to save this attack for 2012″.
Right.
The same way the Party of Stupid is forever saving this, reserving that, and generally abstaining from winning strategies…for one inane reason or another.
The article at the top of this post predicts $6 gas this summer…with a massive surge in food prices. States are so broke, many cannot even afford to keep funding their food stamp programs. That means disaster, not hopeychange, is barrelling down on millions of Americans…many of whom were stupidly Obama voters in 2008.
On a daily basis, people who voted for Obama three years ago need to be asked if they received the hopeychange they were promised and if they are in better shape than they were back when they drank all that Kool-Aid.
I do not see any way that people who did NOT vote for Obama in 2008 will be so charmed by his job performance that they support his re-election.
I have never heard a McCain/Palin voter wish they could time travel and pull the lever for Obama instead…not even for the free ride in an operational, flux-capacitored DeLorean.
That leaves our focus on asking the non-crazy, but misguided 2008 Obama voters if all the hopeychange hype and Media zeal was worth it in THEIR DAILY LIVES.
Make people realize what a bad hiring decision they made in wanting to take a chance on an untested, mysterious, exotic who never delivered on the soaring promises of his job interview.
Give people a BUSINESS and not emotional decision to make…and watch them vote in their economic best interests to evict the Obamas from Washington.
Remember: the GOP Cocktail Party establishment will fumble this, because part of me thinks the consulting firms these fools rely so heavily on WANT to lose important elections.
We have a year and change to prevent this.
And it starts by asking every last Obama voter in the country if they got the hopeychange they were promised.
Does anyone out there REALLY know a soul who is better off today than he or she was before The Golden Age of Hope and Change began?
Something conservatives should keep in mind: not all former Democrats (or even current Dems) are “libs”, “Liberals”, or Leftists
There’s something that happens here, and on other sites, every once in a while that I personally read as a pejorative, even if I know 100% it’s not meant to be; it’s when someone refers to me as a “former lib”, a “reformed Liberal”, or even — most ridiculously — “a onetime Leftist”.
I was NEVER (bold, ALL-CAPS, NEVER) a “lib” or a “Liberal” or a Leftist…even if I spent my first 30 years or so of life being a Democrat.
Really, the first 16 years or so of that wasn’t a choice of mine, because growing up in a Democrat household in Cleveland, Ohio in the 1980s and 1990s meant there were pictures of John and Jackie Kennedy up on all our walls…until they were replaced by photos of Hillary and Bill Clinton in 1992.
In grade school, I remember Sister Mary Howard asking our third grade class what the difference between Democrats and Republicans was…and I raised my hand to say “Democrats are good and Republicans are evil”. As a child, with few frames of reference, I boiled politics down to something I could understand from the TV shows and movies I liked. Transformers. Thundercats. Jem. Star Wars.
I thought Democrats were the Autobots, Thundercats, Holograms, and Rebel Alliance…and Republicans were the Decepticons, the Mutants, the Misfits, and the Evil Galactic Empire.
I politically came of age in the early 1990s, when the Clintons — through immense personal effort — dragged the Democrat party kicking and screaming towards the center. To this day, the Clintons are hated by many in Democrat party ranks for this. It is why Hillary Clinton is not sitting in her Oval Office right now…and the reason the Democrat party worked so hard against her to make Obama the 2008 nominee and current president. Because the Clintons are not Leftists…no matter how much many of you in conservative ranks have claimed through the years that they are. If you want to see Leftists, look at the Obamas. If you don’t think there would be any difference between an Obama and a Clinton presidency, then I am sorry to tell you that you are nuts. Multiply by 100 every bad thing you ever thought about the Clintons, or ever irrational nightmare fantasy written about them, and you will only just scratch the surface on how Leftist and dangerous the Obama presidency is.
This site began as a Hillary Clinton 2008 campaign site. Since Hillary is no longer in politics, and this is a political site, Hillary is no longer the focus of HillBuzz. You can think whatever you want of her, and I do not proselytize for the Clintons, but my support for Hillary Clinton does not brand me a “lib”, “Liberal”, or Leftist.
I honestly would rather be called a cannibal than a “lib”, or even “former lib”, since that’s like calling me a “former cannibal”.
I consider the words “lib”, “Liberal”, and Leftist to be pejoratives.
It horrifies me whenever I see someone describe me as “a former lib who saw the light and became conservative”.
No.
That’s not what happened at all.
I was a centrist who grew up in a centrist Democrat household that hated Michael Dukakis, Walter Mondale, Jimmy Carter, and essentially all the fools who hijacked the Democrat party and ran it into the ground after President Kennedy was assassinated. If he had lived, and if he was still around today, President Kennedy would be a REPUBLICAN.
Once upon a time, Democrats did not want to see this country destroyed. They didn’t want government spending to race out of control and didn’t want tax dollars funneled endlessly into the labor unions, so the unions could pump the cash back into the DNC in a taxpayer stick ‘em up pyramid scheme.
Absent the arrival of the Clintons on the scene in 1992…in an alternate universe where Mario Cuomo or Paul Tsongas or Jerry Brown became the presidential nominee instead of then Governor Clinton…I bet I would have voted Republican that year…and every year since.
They are the only reasons I decided to pull Democrat levers for so long…so it’s fitting that the betrayal of the Clintons by the Democrat party, and the grotesque lurch to the far Left the party has taken with Obama as standard bearer, is what divorced me from the Democrat party for good.
If the ghost of Sister Mary Howard ever asked me again what the difference between Democrats and Republicans is, I’d raise my hand and say “Democrats are Leftists who hate America and want to turn this into a Third World thogocracy while Republicans for the most part are Cocktail Party establishment buffoons too afraid of their own shadows to stand up to Democrat bullies and radicals”.
I am a conservative.
A gay conservative.
I am a guy who spent every cent he had and gave up his life for two years to elect Hillary Clinton president…and who is ready, willing, and hopefully able to do the same thing to elect Sarah Palin our next president.
I know it is my destiny that this will forever perplex a great many of you out there. I have answered repeatedly how and why I can support both of these extraordinary women…in the moments of time when I believe they were the best choice on the field to lead America when the country needed them.
Hillary Clinton would have made a much better president than Obama, John McCain, or anyone in the 2008 race.
Sarah Palin will make a much better president than anyone else alive I can think of at the moment, save for possibly Allen West.
In the future, if one of you reading this appears on the horizon as the best choice in my opinion, I might possibly champion you…and put everything I have in life into your campaign.
Because I love this country more than I could ever tell you, and I would never want to be associated with those who wish to see it harmed, who want America “changed at its core” in ways that turn us at best into a failed European socialist dystopia and more realistically into a Central or South American, African, or Middle Eastern thug-controlled garbage heap.
So, it honestly does boil my blood to be called “a former lib” or a “reformed Liberal”…when I was never, ever anything like that.
It horrifies me that some of you think this, because I take this to mean you believe that at one point in my life I would have sided against this country and only now see this as a bad thing to do.
It’s preposterous and more than a little hurtful to me.
And it’s worth mentioning because I see conservatives do this a lot, actually…in terms of the tens of millions of former Democrats who were alienated by the Obama lurch to the Left in 2008.
It is beyond madness for conservatives to give these people any pause about voting Republican now. Shouting, “Hey lookit, Suzie used to be a cannibal but now she wants to come to the hotdog cookout like a normal person…and she won’t be eating anyone there this time!” would be strange to your ears.
Calling me, and all the former Dems I know like me, “ex libs” or “reformed Liberals” is bizarre too.
The right terminology to use is “former Democrat”. If you really want to get hyper accurate and ultra specific, you can say “former Centrist Democrat Hillary supporters”, which I’d wager 99% of us are.
Not everyone who voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2008 primaries is now voting Republican under Obama…but I bet almost all former Democrats who now identify as Republican in the Golden Age of Hope and Change we currently live in were Hillary voters three years ago.
There is a reason for that: because we were never “libs”, “Liberals”, Leftists, or whatever you want to call the lunatics who control the Democrat party completely today.
So please don’t slander us with those pejoratives.
Save them for the loons who really deserve them.
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NOTE: It’s always dangerous when reading anything I write on this site or anywhere my work is published to assume I am talking about YOU, specifically, or something YOU, individually, did…where you think YOU prompted or inspired whatever that post was about.
I am not shy. Trust me, if you did something I thought was counterproductive or any sort of attack on me or the site, you would hear personally from me about it. And it would not be via an essay on HB, it would more likely than not be in an email asking why you did whatever it was to us.
Tonight a dozen or so people wrote in wondering if something they said today or yesterday made me write the above post regarding the “lib/Liberal/Leftist” pejoratives.
Actually, this note was prompted by a conservative site I like that talked about the recent HB 3.0 upgrade in an article that gave us kudos for the redesign. As stated at the very beginning, the person who called me a “reformed lib” didn’t mean any harm and didn’t really think about what he was saying. To him “Democrat” and “lib/Liberal/Leftist” are all synonymous. Which might be the case today, with the Obama Democrat party as your reference, but it was not the case while I was a Democrat for all those years in the Clinton Democrat party.
Do you know how the word “gay” used to exclusively mean “happy” or “high-spirited”, so when watching old movies immature people today giggle uncontrollably whenever “gay” is used to describe people who are clearly not homosexual? Well, words sometimes change and become co-opted in unforeseen ways. So someone who may have described him or herself as “gay” in 1920 in hopes of nailing their gregarious nature in a bio might very well blush in 2011 now that the terminology has taken on a radically different meaning.
Honestly, this is what even the word “Democrat” itself feels like in this the Golden Age of Hope and Change under Obama. I still can’t believe that every single Democrat in the Senate voted for the Obamacare bill on Christmas Eve in 2009 without even reading it…including people I had liked for my entire adult life, like supposedly “centrist” Evan Bayh, whom I had gotten to know fairly well during Hillary’s 2008 campaign when I worked events in Indiana every day in the runup to that primary.
When Bayh walked into the Senate to vote with all the loons like Claire McCaskill, Ben Nelson, Russ Feingold and others who gleefully backed the economy-killing horror of Obamacare – WITHOUT EVER READING IT FIRST – I knew the word I used to know as “Democrat” now meant something else entirely for all intents and purposes, since Obama had redefined the party so drastically.
So don’t be too hard on anyone who labeled themselves a Democrat prior to 2008…and appreciate just how radically the party altered itself in just the last three years.
Remember, also, that you should never be too quick to tar someone with a brush that should be reserved for the very worst peolpe belonging to a group, just because that person calls themselves a “Democrat”, “Republican”, or whatever.
It would be like someone misguided calling you a “rightwinger” just because you are a Republican and lumping you in the same boat as the lunatic fringe of the GOP (or, even worse, assuming you’re like Olympia Snow, Lindsey Graham, Susan Collins, and other terrible Cocktail Party buffoons just because you all put an (R) after your name and favor spotlessly dry-cleaned blazers).
I doubt lifelong Republicans who focus on fiscal responsibility and limited government enjoy being linked to the loons of the GOP on the far right or the useful (to Democrats) idiots in the Cocktail Party crowd.
So, yes, I am a former Democrat. I am a reformed Democrat. I am an ex-Democrat. I am a gay Hillary Clinton supporting Democrat who left the party because it deliberately veered to the Left and party leaders like Donna Brazile, Howard Dean, and others decided bitter-clinging-Midwesterners with conservative beliefs were no longer welcome in Democrat ranks.
But I am not and never have been a lib, Liberal, or Leftist any more than I bet a single one of you reading this has ever been a “rightwinger nutjob”, as the Media likes to call members of that dangerous fringe.
American Thinker: NOW Goes Shark-Jumping, by Betsy M. Galliher
Here’s a great piece over at American Thinker today, called “NOW Goes Shark-Jumping” by Betsy M. Galliher, dealing with the fact that many people affiliated with NOW seem to have a real and chronic problem with strong women, if they themselves are not the strong women being praised.
NOW is for the most part a collection of Mean Girls.
In 2008, these were the women who stabbed Hillary Clinton in the back and helped to derail the presidential campaign of the first female candidate who had a real shot at the White House. Many at NOW decided they wanted to have a biracial black male president instead, because that was better for their Leftist bona fides.
After they helped stop Hillary, they turned their attention to defeating the first female vice presidential candidate on the Republican ticket, because that too helped a biracial male who identifies as black.
Do you see a pattern here?
When presented with an opportunity — any opportunity — to rally around a woman who has it all (career, family, ability to hold her own and thrive in a male dominated field) NOW largely joins those pulling her down, out of what appears to be a basic and petty jealousy amongst the highest ranking members of the organization.
Read Galliher’s article, and really think about that, because it happens to more women than just Hillary and Palin.
The Party of Stupid is at it again: GOP pushing for gay marriage ban in DC
The Party of Stupid is pushing for a gay marriage ban in DC.
Oddly, this reminds me of something my boyfriend Justin does every time he comes to Buzzquarters and sees all the Hillary 2008 campaign memorabilia we have everywhere on the walls. He can’t spend five minutes in my room without blurting out something about Hillary “killing that man, Vince”, though he never remembers his last name. We’ve been dating since before Thanksgiving and this happens EVERY TIME he’s here. I can actually see the thoughts bubbling up inside him, like water boiling in a tea kettle, until he finally blurts this stuff out, Tourette’s style, because at home in Arkansas, growing up in a conservative household that hated the Clintons, this is what his parents talked about at the dinner table all the time. ”That man Hillary Clinton murdered”. And, I add, they talked about it as if she in fact murdered him with her own two hands, while dressed in a black ninja suit, cackling the whole time.
No matter how many times Justin comes here, or how often we talk about how non-murderous Hillary Clinton is, he just can’t stop doing this because he can’t unlearn everything he was taught…no matter how crazy it is.
This is the same thing with the Republican Party and gay issues. They are so programmed to handle these things in the worst way possible that they make themselves look like the Party of Evil as much as they act like the Party of Stupid.
Justin and I are both gay, but neither of us believe in “gay marriage”…any more than we believe in “gay baptism”, “gay communion”, “gay confirmation”, or “gay confession”. ”Marriage” is a religious ceremony and it is a religious word.
Unfortunately, the state has stolen this word and repurposed it for a civil contract.
The state should not have the ability to marry anyone. Period.
The state should have the ability to join two willing, consenting adults in a contract that forms a civil union between those two people. That is the right job for the state.
Churches can decide to marry whomever they choose, based on their religious traditions, which the state should be separated from in all things.
If Republicans were smart, they’d change gears and throw Democrats off by putting an end to the senseless attacks on gays that relate to this crusade against “gay marriage”. The GOP has never been able to hire a decent PR and branding firm, for whatever reason, and keeps making the same stupid mistakes because that’s just what they’ve always done and it’s programmed into them for some bizarre reason.
If they wised up, they’d instead launch a crusade against the term “gay marriage” itself, and they’d find a way to call the Left intolerant for trying to jam the church and state together. That’s a very interesting and winning angle, making the Left the bad guy that wants to force religion into civil matters.
Republicans should clearly affirm as loudly as possible that “marriage” is a religious term and that the state should not be using that language ANYWHERE, for ANYONE. All actions the state performs are civil in nature, by definition of that word. The joining of two people in a legal contract is a union. Therefore, the state’s joining of two people is a civil union. That is what should happen at a court house, where a “civil union license” is issued…NOT a “marriage license”.
Marriages should only happen in churches, just like baptisms, confirmations, first communions, and other ceremonies that churches have but the state does not.
This is how the Party of Stupid could smarten up and take away from the Left one of the key wedge issues that prevents gays from voting in their own economic best interests, which would mean they’d vote conservative.
The reason gays DON’T vote conservative is because the Party of Stupid keeps falling into the Left’s trap by appearing evil and single-mindedly bigoted against gays, when in reality the uproar about this issue is related to the usurpation of a religious word for a civil function, which was wrong to begin with and needs to be corrected across the board.
What think you?
Somehow, this too is her fault: man in Hillary Clinton mask robs bank
Why not run a picture of the mask, since it's a story about a Hillary Clinton mask being used in something?
My boyfriend Justin is one of those people who grew up hating Hillary Clinton, and still hates her, though he admits he doesn’t know why. ”Because she killed that man”, is something he says most often when pressed about this.
“What man?”, I ask him, knowing he won’t remember. ”Vince Vaughn”, he said once. So, I brought IMDB.com up on my phone and showed him that no, Vince Vaughn was alive and well and living in Hollywood. Hillary Clinton did not murder him.
Yet.
Justin’s parents are big Hillary Derangement Syndrome chronic cases, and believe she is behind all sorts of nefarious plots and schemes. ”She killed Tim Russert! She gave Ted Kennedy a brain tumor! She sabotaged that one man’s plane because she was jealous of him, and she had been on that plane right before him, so she had the opportunity to do it!”.
Honestly, I don’t know what to say about this anymore.
But, I do think it’s hilarious that in this article at Politico about a man robbing a bank wearing a Hillary Clinton mask (just like in that movie Point Break with the ex-presidents bank robbers), the editor ran an actual picture of Hillary Clinton…and not the mask. As if people don’t know who “Hillary Clinton” is, and thus needed that visual of her.
“Oh, yah, HER. I knew that name sounded familiar. She’s the one that killed Vince Vaughn, on that plane, with her heart attack ray. Oh, that’s a really good mask of her. So lifelike”.
Hillarious.
