Former First Lady Hillary Clinton today made some amazing prognostications today:
"A clean sweep" is needed at the White House because President Bush has fostered "a culture of cronyism, corruption and incompetence," Hillary Rodham Clinton said Saturday.
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"After eight years of the Bush administration, we are going to be shocked by what we find," the New York senator and former first lady said. "Somebody said to me the other day if there was ever a time for a woman president it's now because we're going to have to do a lot of cleaning."
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"Grab your buckets, grab your brooms," Clinton said. "We're going to have to do a clean sweep because there has been a culture of cronyism, corruption and incompetence."
While I have no illusions about the state of the current administration, I'm also a bit too well-informed to let this slip by without comment.  How can the woman who presided over the administration that set the bar for post-Watergate corruption preach about corruption and cronyism as if she knows nothing of such evil? 

I would recommend two books on the subject Bitter Legacy and Absolute Power.  Unfortunately for the Clintons, their crimes and misdeeds have been hushed up, but they are legion and they have been cataloged in the public record.  Obama could have pulled off that rhetoric, but it comes off as a cheap joke coming from Hillary.
 
   

 


 
 
johnalism on
Re: The Voice of Retro-Hypocrisy
This is a great case of the pot calling the kettle black, takes one to know one and whatever other similar analogy you care to use in this instance.

 

Do you think the Women's Lib movement will jump all over Hillary for suggesting that it's the role of women to clean the house? Not that she seems to know anything about that...brooms and buckets don't usually go together.

leaning on
Re: The Voice of Retro-Hypocrisy
It does push the bounds of sanity when you take her record into account.  This farce is an analogy in its own right.

I like that Women's Lib angle, too.  It had occurred to me, and I included it to see what the response was.  Will liberals' desperation for Hillary outweigh the fact that she's making a cheap play on "outmoded" gender archetypes?
johnalism on
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To answer your question...Of course it will. 
justjames on
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She must think that the voters have a short memory.
leaning on
Re: The Voice of Retro-Hypocrisy
After 1996, they may have a point.
shadeofgray on
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Christopher Ruddy, who wrote "Bitter Legacy" later said this about the Clinton Administration. "Both of us have had a rethinking. Clinton wasn’t such a bad president. In fact, he was a pretty good president in a lot of ways, and Dick feels that way today." He was speaking of his view and that of Robert Mellon Scaife who spent more than $2 million investigating and publicizing accusations about the supposed involvement of Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton in corrupt land deals, sexual affairs, drug running and murder.

And regarding David Limbaugh's "Absolute Power", I'm a little skeptical about his power wish and the pot he comes from. Call me crazy. If your priority is to fan those embers you have a very short memory indeed. Just the voice of retro wealth (I was a lot better off in the 90's).
leaning on
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I'm glad you were a lot better off in the 90's.  Congratulations.  So did a bunch of Dot-Com Bubble CEO's.  That doesn't mean that the country was doing any better or worse back then, it only means you guys were.

I've heard the Christopher Ruddy statement, and I understand it's received quite a backlash.  I don't understand the change, but after the Bush family  cozying up to the Clintons, and Newt Gingrich's changes, who knows?  It doesn't negate the fact that Ruddy and Limbacher did a very extensive catalog of the misdeeds of the Clinton White House, and it certainly doesn't negate the fact that the Clintons did those things.

As to the David Limbaugh book, I don't hold his last name against him, but that's your call.  I found the book to be very insightful.
shadeofgray on
Re: The Voice of Retro-Hypocrisy
Continue murmuring amongst yourselves. But in 2008, please don't propose that we lose the forest for the trees... again.
leaning on
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Which forest would we be losing, exactly?  I can't believe the Democrats would embrace Hillary any more than the GOP would.
shadeofgray on
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Right.
alwaysdoot on
Re: The Voice of Retro-Hypocrisy
Ha -- I see what you mean, and agree. 

 

My only hope is that chick doens't make it into office -  we already had to put up with her for 8 years, I certainly don't want to deal with her for 8 more.  Absolute Power was good, I read it awhile ago.  I didn't read the other one though, I'll check it out in the library tomorrow.

leaning on
Re: The Voice of Retro-Hypocrisy
I don't even think she'll take the nomination, but I hope people don't just forget what this woman represents.  She and her husband need to be remembered for what they did.

Absolute Power was a real eye-opener about the inJustice Department, but Bitter Legacy casts the net into all kinds of other aspects of the administration. You'll be glad you read it.
alwaysdoot on
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It's way too politically incorrect to remember them for what they did - plus their democrats, which means their crap doesn't stink in the eyes of the media.  They hid what they could and ignored the rest - welcome to the political world. 

 

I'll definately cheak it out.

leaning on
Re: The Voice of Retro-Hypocrisy
check it out.  it is up to us to be vigilant. 
alwaysdoot on
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Damn striat.

 
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