What she said about Al. That did it.
Tue Apr 15, 2008 at 11:58:45 AM PDT
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I, Gorette, have been mad at Hilliary before. Notably for the statements about Obama and race. But now I'm jumping angry, and with my knees and hips that's dangerous. Heck, I'm so mad that at this moment in time I would not vote at all. You see, the more I've thought about it, the worse it seems.
She attacked my namesake. And she's being anti-Dem, unfair and harmful.
It's a funny thing that people who belong to the aristocracy seem to be the ones going around calling other people "elitists," and thus unworthy.
I take umbrage, Hill! Me and Sir Walter Scott don't like that. I'm one of those...
"Persons who feel most umbrage from the overshadowing aristocracy.
--Sir W. Scott. Webster's
The "overshadowing aristocracy."
It's a nicely turned phrase describing quite well our current administration, as well as the Clintons in their current incarnation.
The Clintons and Bushes are both aristocracy in every sense of the word.
Both families have lived in their bubbles of Secret Service protection and government elite-worshiping syncophants for decades. BOth are now stinking rich. They are all trying their hardest right now to make sure they and their glory is not "overshadowed" --ever.
That is why Hillary Clinton had the timerity to shout out Al Gore the other day when excoriating Barack Obama for talking about people like me, people who have a bit of bitterness towards the situation in which our government has helped put us. Why? Why does she hate the truth?
[You can tell I'm hopping, I mean pounding-fist, mad when I overuse the bold! Maybe the ital. too.]
Why would she, a Democratic Party presidential hopeful and a Senator in the Democratic Party, go on record as agreeing with the people, the stoopid people, who believe Al Gore lost an election? Who "lost" an election because he was justifiably (in her mind) perceived to be an elitist?
Because she herself is an elitist, gaming the system, trying to tar (and feather?) Barack Obama with the brush of elitism. Hillary, this is wrong and it is insane, backward and harmful to the Democratic Party.
Shame on you, Hillary, is right. Yes, you are an elitist. You have made your very own self into one of them. One of the definitions of an elitist is their "sense of entitlement." Annie Oakley might be too generous a tag for you.
To destroy such prejudices, which many a time rise and
spread themselves like a miasma, is an imperative
duty of theory, for the misbegotten offspring of human reason
can also be in turn destroyed by pure reason.
-- (Carl von Clausewitz, On War, translated by Colonel James John Graham)*
Let's turn on the "pure reason," folks, and destroy these "misbegotten offspring of human reason," right now!
All those of you who have supported her, to whom I have made every effort until right now to be respectful, you must feel very disappointed in her. I am hugely disappointed in her. The race card was hard to swallow, but I chalked it up to Bill helping his wife, vile though it was, giving her the benefit of the doubt. I hoped for Edwards, then Obama, but accepted that if she were the nominee it would be okay. But now that has changed.
Now, there is no doubt but that she herself will say any destructive thing she wishes to become the candidate and be elected. She is perverse toward the aims of progressives and the Democratic Party by being so.
When the whole push of this election, for me, is to nominate and elect a president who will pursue decent goals from a standpoint of being a trustworthy person with decent values, she has just eliminated herself from being in that category. She, if nominated, would destroy my entire rationale for working for a Democratic nominee. I don't think I could vote for her. Not now.
I'm in Hunter's hit-me-with-a-meteor-right-now group.
Obama has been slammed for:
-- requesting orange juice rather than coffee!
-- being a bad bowler!
-- being an elitist, which he is not.
The Clintons are probably one hunderd times richer than the Obamas. They all have great educations. That's all to the good. We need their excellent minds, their knowledge. We also need wisdom and good judgement.
You wanted to identify with the "common" man, Hilliary, and you have done so-- if common means "conned-them". Obama, that is to say, is no less of the "common" people, no less of a man, than you are.
Why is the concept of elitism an important issue?
Elitism, or believing that some people are better than everyone else, is the essence of our problems today.
The gobbledygook type of Clinton/Rethug talk we hear today on elitism is all wrong. It feeds into the prevailing belief by most that we are NOT engaged in class warfare in America today when we most surely ARE! [But that's another story.]
Elitists believe they are the ones who deserve to control, rule, and dominate.
The elitism of George Bush and Dick Cheney got us into incredible and tragic messes for the past seven years. It's true. They got into office because they were of an elite group who knew how to game the political system. They were elite rich Republicans who had learned how to wield power. They believe/believed that they are superior beings who know best. They knew that presenting George as a likeable born-again cowboy dunce would sell well and it did. They do know their bullshit propaganda stuff.
Elitism does not belong in American Democracy, but it is Hillary, the Clintons and the Bushes, who are the true American Elitists.
Elitism also has something to do with Congress, how people get elected and then forget to do what they said they were going there to do.
WHY did she have to drag Al into it?
Now, what Hill said about Al. Well, you know. Al is not like that. Not at all. Perhaps he was in a bubble for a while after being Veep for eight years, and being out's been good for him. I'm glad he's happy, at least I hope he is.
To end, I suggest that instead of choosing the candidate we would love to drink a beer or coffee with, let's step back and see if we can do better. What about giving the candidates pop quizzes. Ask them things like:
-- Where is Tibet?
-- What's the difference between Sunnis and Shias?
-- In what year was Al Gore elected President?
-- Will you work for universal health care with
every fibre of your being? Yes or No.
If the candidates answered truthfully, only Obama would be left standing after this quiz. ;~}
*Courtesy of Dictionary.com for their word for the day quote, the opportunity it gives me to use yet another ital.
