To watch Hillary Clinton on the January 13, 2008 episode of Meet the Press, is to see the ghost of the Goldwater Girl sinking further into her southern strategy, to capture the Democratic nomination. (The southern strategy, for you younguns who don’t know from nothing, is when a politician uses racism in a campaign, in an effort to capture the white vote; or in Hillary Clinton’s case, to slander an African American opponent.)
Barry Goldwater ran for POTUS in 1964. He was a half Jewish senator from Arizona, who voted against the Civil Rights Act. The Civil Rights Act made racial discrimination illegal in public places, at the workplace, and at the polls. In an ABC news profile:
“My best friend and I became quote ‘Goldwater Girls,’ Clinton said. “We got to wear cowboy hats. We had a sash that said, you know, I voted AUH2O. I mean, it was really a lot of fun… Medicare and Medicaid was a big part of [Goldwater's] platform, or the civil rights law — maybe it’s not such a bad idea, to kind of require that people treat each other in a civil way,” Clinton said of her thinking and political leanings as a teenager.
That would be great if Goldwater was for the Civil Rights Act, or Medicare or Medicaid. But he wasn’t. He voted against all of them. Hillary Clinton’s distortion of Goldwater’s record is par for the course for her. Why? Because she’s a fucking liar.
She says on Meet the Press, that she saw Martin Luther King when she was 14. That’s between 1961 and 1962. He must not have made much of an impact on her, because she was a Goldwater girl in 1964. Goldwater’s opponent, Lyndon Johnson, is the one she characterizes as being more important to the Civil Rights movement, than Martin Luther King. Why does she keep saying these things? Because Hillary Clinton is a fucking liar.
In an effort to disappear her warmongering antics, she insists that Barack Obama did nothing against the war in iraq. She repeated that lie on Meet the Press:
MR. RUSSERT: Let me bring you back to October 10 of 2002, when the Senate had to vote on the authorization to go to war. This was Senator Clinton on the floor of the Senate.
(Videotape, October 10, 2002):
SEN. CLINTON: So it is with conviction that I support this resolution as being in the best interest of our nation. And it is a vote that says clearly to Saddam Hussein, this is your last chance. Disarm or be disarmed.
(End videotape)
MR. RUSSERT: Casting your vote for conviction for the authorization for use of military force against Iraq resolution. That same week Senator Obama gave a speech, and this is what he said: “I know that Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his neighbors. … I know that even a successful war against Iraq will require a U.S. occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences. I know that” “invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale” “without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than the best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of al-Qaeda. I am not opposed to all wars. I’m opposed to dumb wars.”
Who had the better judgment at that time?
Hillary goes on, spinning like a top. But Obama’s words and actions against the war did not stop then. Andrew Sullivan did the Lexis search, so you don’t have to:
On March 4, 2003, an AP story picked up by an Illinois newspaper, the Belleville News Democrat, states as follows:
“Barack Obama is criticizing the idea of war against Iraq and challenging his Democratic opponents in the U.S. Senate race to take a stand on the question….’What’s tempting is to take the path of least resistance and keep quiet on the issue, knowing that maybe in two or three or six months, at least the fighting will be over and you can see how it plays itself out,’ said Obama, a state senator from Chicago.”
On March 17, 2003, the Chicago Sun Times reported this:
“Thousands of demonstrators packed Daley Center Plaza for a two- hour rally Sunday [two days before Bush issued his ultimatum against Saddam and four days before the invasion], then marched through downtown in Chicago’s largest protest to date against an Iraq war. Crowd estimates from police and organizers ranged from 5,000 to 10,000…. State Sen. Barack Obama (D-Chicago) told the crowd, ‘It’s not too late’ to stop the war.”
Basically, nearly everything that comes out of Hillary Clinton’s mouth, is a lie or a spin. She seems as dangerous as Bush, in her inability to discern fantasy from fact, desire from delusion. I’m no Tim Russert fan, but he asked some good questions of Hillary. It’s well known that she is in the majority of our elected officials, who did not actually read the intelligence about Saddam Hussein and Iraq before making her vote for war. She and they were too busy. It was 90 pages long.
MR. RUSSERT: Again, learning from mistake, do you wish you had read the National Intelligence Estimate, which had a lot of caveats from the State Department and the Energy Department as to whether or not Saddam Hussein really had a biological and chemical and active nuclear program?
Hillary’s response goes a little something like this: Blah blah blah blah. Blah lie lie lie lie, blah blah lie lie.
