Clintons Waterboard Their Constituents
I’m breaking my own pledge to ignore the Clintons today. Today’s Bill Clinton statement just shouted to me:
“If a politician doesn’t wanna get beat up, he shouldn’t run for office,” he said. “If a politician doesn’t wanna get beat up, he shouldn’t run for office. If a football player doesn’t want to get tackled or want the risk of an a occasional clip he shouldn’t put the pads on.”
First note: He speaks the language of old politics, not the new politics.
Second note: At this point, it’s not about politicians being beat up. It’s about the systematic torture of the electorate, drip by drip, slowly choking off any room to breathe, think, or react. Their goal is absolute submission, even if it means waterboarding the very people they expect to cast a vote for them.
When the Clintons lie to and waterboard the voters, they send several messages:
- They don’t trust the strength of their own message to stand on its own.
- They don’t trust the voters to accept their message without being forced to reject the PERSON who opposes them.
- They don’t trust democracy, which is clearly the most insidious message of all.
When the Clintons sink to the level of pandering to Richard Mellon Scaife, the man who made it his life’s work to ruin them, and shortly after that meeting, distributing an American Spectator article claiming to prove that Obama and his advisor Merrill McPeak are anti-semitic, they are not fighting. They’re pouring the water right down our nose.
I repeat, this isn’t a fight. They are not smearing Barack Obama, but they are engaging in systematic voter abuse and torture. There ought to be a law. Oh wait! There IS a law. Oops, there WAS a law but John McCain voted against it and George Bush vetoed it.
Just so we’re clear about the difference between the two: Fighting can be fair; torture never is.
Update: My spouse likens the Clinton tactics to the 9/11 bombers — they will do anything within their reach to harm the voters. If they had some way to annihilate the Obama nomination even if it meant the collapse of the Democrats in the process.
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