Praying with the enemy: A Hillary Hypocrisy Primer

Al Rodgers has nice diary up about the recent brouhaha over Hillary's interview with arch-enemy Scaife. But I think the more appropriate title isn't 'Sleeping with the enemy'--I suspect Hillary doesn't do much of that. The more correct title I believe is Praying with the Enemy -- which Hillary has done for quite some time.

I've always found talking about the Goldwater girl being "a liberal" a kind of ridiculous idea. She's a centrist, and except for a bare handful of signature social issues, hardly more liberal than my Republican mother. But Al still has his title somewhat off--she's not "sleeping" with these guys. She's PRAYING with them--what many might consider a more intimate relationship.

There's a nice piece inMother Jones on the details here....and Booman23 references it in his diary The Clintons Have Crossed the Final Line. But I wanted to fill out the link for those who might pass over it. It's quite a doozy. In her book, she cops to being a member of the ultra conservative "Fellowship"...defined below:

The Fellowship's long-term goal is "a leadership led by God—leaders of all levels of society who direct projects as they are led by the spirit."

According to Boomman23...

The Fellowship leader is Doug Coe, who Clinton has described as "a unique presence in Washington: a genuinely loving spiritual mentor and guide to anyone, regardless of party or faith, who wants to deepen his or her relationship with God."

The Fellowship believes that the elite win power by the will of God, who uses them for his purposes. Its mission is to help the powerful understand their role in God's plan.

The list of attendees is a who's who of conservative politics:

Coe's friends include former Attorney General John Ashcroft, Reaganite Edwin Meese III, and ultraconservative Rep. Joe Pitts (R-Pa.). Under Coe's guidance, Meese has hosted weekly prayer breakfasts for politicians, businesspeople, and diplomats, and Pitts rose from obscurity to head the House Values Action Team, an off-the-record network of religious right groups and members of Congress created by Tom DeLay. The corresponding Senate Values Action Team is guided by another Coe protégé, Brownback, who also claims to have recruited King Abdullah of Jordan into a regular study of Jesus' teachings.

But that's not what makes them especially offensive--though that's bad enough. What makes them especially offensive is the other company they keep:

According to the Fellowship's archives, the spirit has in the past led its members in Congress to increase U.S. support for the Duvalier regime in Haiti and the Park dictatorship in South Korea [both pyschopathetic murderers for those who don't know this].

The Fellowship's God-led men have also included General Suharto of Indonesia; Honduran general and death squad organizer Gustavo Alvarez Martinez; a Deutsche Bank official disgraced by financial ties to Hitler; and dictator Siad Barre of Somalia, [need I add that all those listed could easily be put on trial for human rights violations, war crimes and in at least two instances, genocide?]plus a list of other generals and dictators. Clinton, says Schenck, has become a regular visitor to Coe's Arlington, Virginia, headquarters, a former convent where Coe provides members of Congress with sex-segregated housing and spiritual guidance.

People who vote for Hillary must simply not know this --that's the generous explanation.

I find it especially amusing that she wants Obama to leave his church, a church that practices a socially conscious form of liberation theology which is probably the closest thing in contemporary society to what Jesus had in mind.

What church would Hillary suggest he replace it with? The one where we pray for the quick annihilation of our Somali brothers? Or perhaps the church where we pray for the eminent slaughter of our little brown brothers in Honduras? or Haiti?

It's hard to read the details of this--from Mother Jones and in her own book -- and not come away with the notion that  Hillary is worse than a mere political opportunist. She is a hypocrite and a liar. And she "enjoys" a 'religion' that holds in its secret prayer circle some of the most murderous regimes in the 20th century.