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June 20, 2007 at 07:54:10
Hillary Clinton Booed Again at Take Back America by David Swanson Page 1 of 2 page(s) |
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By David Swanson Ellen Malcolm introduced Hillary Clinton, talking about health care, and Clinton opened her speech with a promise to lift a ban on stem cell research. Clinton then said, "After 8 years of this administration..." and someone shouted "Impeach him!" which Clinton ignored. Clinton then told the story of a woman named Lilly Leadbetter working as a supervisor at a Firestone plant, who was paid less then men doing the same work. She sued and won. Firestone appealed to the Supreme Court, which recently ruled against her, with the votes of two Bush appointees. Clinton used this as an argument against the idea - which she said she hears all the time - that politics doesn't matter and the politicians are all the same.
Our Constitution is being shredded, Clinton said, citing spying, detentions, US attorney firings, silencing of scientists, retribution against whistleblowers, Katrina, and the occupation of Iraq [some people shouted angry comments at this point. Clinton, of course, voted for the war and many times to fund the occupation]... Clinton moved into talking about health care. She never got to any sort of solution to the long list of problems.
Clinton then talked about the national debt and said that six years ago there was a surplus (and got some applause).
Then she went into how expensive college is. That got applause too. But what the heck would she do about it? Does she have any ideas?
As Clinton droned on about the need to have a vision, some people shouted things like "Out of Iraq Now!"
Clinton said she wants to clean up a government of cronyism and corruption and stop privatizing government functions and giving no-bid contracts and appointing people who are not qualified.
She proposed a public service academy "just like our military academies." (big applause).
Then she jumped to CEO pay and wealth concentration and corporate welfare and shipping jobs overseas. She said she supported unions.
She promised "affordable" health care for every American.
Then it was back to the stem cells. Clinton announced that "There is no conflict between faith and science." She mentioned "God's creation," which was the first we've heard "God" mentioned here.
Then she jumped to the right to vote and some of the problems seen in places like Ohio in 2004, an election that Barbara Boxer, who was honored here last night, challenged, but Clinton refused to.
Then she jumped to ending the occupation and bringing the troops home. She called is a sectarian civil war. Several people shouted things during this part of Clinton's speech, like "Get us out!" Then she said "The American military has succeeded. It is the Iraqi government that has failed." Loud booing.
The booing and the cheering competed for a while. "I like speaking here every year," Clinton said. She was booed last year. "I see the signs that say get us out of Iraq. That is what we are trying to do." She said she wanted to strip Bush of the authority to continue the war, and she wanted to use diplomacy instead of war.
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Wicked witch of the South ( and stupid too) and coprophagia.
'Then Clinton - who is way over time - told a story about her friend Madeline Albright going to Europe and seeing American flags that people in the Soviet Union had saved for decades even though they were forbidden. People said they loved America. "I want to be the president that restores that feeling around the world" (Loud applause).' F&%CK this witch and Madeleine too. It is amazing what we can hear now from all those howling witches like Hillary and Allbright ( and people swallow that crap?) Someone really believes that stupidity that someone would store the US flag and it was forbidden in the USSR to do that? In the USSR you could store any flag you wanted except for the Nazi flags and maybe some of the former nationalist flags. We had a USA flag in the international room of our K-10 school for God's sake! Flags of all countries were regularly put out on many international events. People collected flags. Oh, boy a Senator, for goodness sake spits venom and talks nonsense and no one tells that witch to shut up. She quotes another witch, the one responsible for the Kosovo and Iraq sanctions and again- no one says anything. What a horrible coprophagia! Hey, people wake up! That coven will not help you. They make their own brew. Stop eating poop! by Mark Sashine (72 articles, 19 quicklinks, 269 diaries, 4101 comments [131 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Wednesday, Jun 20, 2007 at 8:23:50 AM  (0+)
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Reply: Panurg, Please expand on the Flag comment...
The way I was raised in the U.S., it seems perfectly plausible that American flags would have been hidden in Russia. If you lived in Russia and know differently, please write an oped editorial and educate us. by Alessandro Machi (13 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 174 comments) on Wednesday, Jun 20, 2007 at 12:43:34 PM (0+)
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Reply: Dear Alessandro
I do not think I have to educate people, adults, even if they claim that is how the picture was presented to them. Ignorance is no excuse. There was a plenty of materiel in the US always describing life in other countries truthfully. Take John Reed's Ten Days That Shook The World" for instance. That is what free information is for and the US people enjoyed the access unprecedented. Thus people could always find out the real thing. Allso, can you really believe as an adult that in Russia or any other place for that matter someone would forbid having some flag at home unless there is a direct warlike confrontation? Maybe that is the US experience here? Not only the US flag was not forbidden but US history was studied extensively with no bias, US writers were translated ( Mark Twain, for instance was translated in full, there were also numerous movies) etc. etc. I knew who Lincoln was when I was 13 years old. I doubt if the Hillary knows anything about Russian leadership except for what Madeleine told her. BTW it was Mark Twain who said that Arkansas had the stupidest people in the US as if he knew about Hillary. To use a deliberate lie and slander for a cheap shot in the crowd is the Hillary's style all along, no matter what she uses. I stay for my comment above. And BTW in my diary entries under Mark Sashine there is a plenty of 'educational' stuff comparing Bolshevicks and Bushevicks, who won the WWII, etc. All of that respectful and with love to the US. But I am not letting it go. Thanks by Mark Sashine (72 articles, 19 quicklinks, 269 diaries, 4101 comments [131 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Wednesday, Jun 20, 2007 at 1:20:56 PM (0+)
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Reply: Just Asking...
Dear Alessandro I do not think I have to educate people, adults, even if they claim that is how the picture was presented to them. Ignorance is no excuse........ ------------------------------- The above sounds unnecessarily defensive to me. I encouraged you to tell us your story, that's all I did. When the Wall existed between East and West Germany, school teachers on the East Side would ask "innocent" questions of their students to see what television shows they were watching. If the children made the mistake of talking about a television show that was from the West, the parents would be visited by police. While that story is not about Russia, it does demonstrate a certain desire to prevent intermingling of differing political views. The U.S. has probably behaved in the same way when it came to how much tolerance there was for other political belief systems in the United States. by Alessandro Machi (13 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 174 comments) on Thursday, Jun 21, 2007 at 2:39:15 AM (0+)
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Yep....One of the Wicked witches of AIPAC
I agree, she is a wicked witch...Maybe the fact that her and hubby are defendants, along with a lot of other high government officials, in a Rico Lawsuit filed in May in Fargo District court, could hurt or hopefully sink her chances to win....But the case probably wont make it to court in time, and the MSM will never cover something like a REAL court case involving those responsible for numerous false flag events like the OKC bombing and 9-11, I guess we will have to wait and see if something else trips her up along the way to her coronation. See the text of the preamble to this lawsuit at www.hawkscafe.com by Brad Griffeth (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 14 diaries, 138 comments [12 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Wednesday, Jun 20, 2007 at 1:28:24 PM (0+)
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hmmm
I was in the front row, so I didn't see all the action, but it seemed, that when the booing happened, it was about the Iraqi failures and unwillingness to do the job. There WAS plenty of heckling-- Medea Benjamin and her code pink corps were very effective in unnerving Clinton and Pelosi, and getting a hube amount of attentioin from the photographers. But there were no out and out loud booing events like those that occurred last year. at least none I heard, outside of the response to the mention of the Iraqi failure. Maybe I read it wrong, but that's my take. Overall, it seemed that the crowd was much MORE receptive and friendly to her than last year, when the response was very tepid. A year on the hustings has polished Hillary a great deal. by Rob Kall (952 articles, 4177 quicklinks, 374 diaries, 2087 comments [45 recommended, 3 rejected]) on Wednesday, Jun 20, 2007 at 10:11:34 PM (0+)
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AMERICAN FLAGS IN RUSSIA
Hey Panurg, You might have been able to have an American flag in the Soviet Union, but I got caught with a Soviet flag in my room in college and got thirty days before my dad could get me out (deep south). That was the start of my "red file." As to who won WWII, it was clearly the Soviets, where 90% of the German forces were concentrated, while the good allies England and America put off opening the Western Front so more communists would be killed. by W.M.L. (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 537 comments [52 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Wednesday, Jun 20, 2007 at 10:32:07 PM (0+)
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Reply: To Stryker and Alessandro
I apologize for my defensiveness, sorry. Stryker, thanks kindly. I suspected as much. Looks like the 'red' experience helped you to get the truthful information. I thank you again. Alessandro, the East/West German experience I believe did happen as you described. But it was not ' my story' I was referring too. I was appalled ( as we all should be) by the blatant opportunism and cynical arrogance of Hillary. BTW, what is so special about US flag? What if it was British or French? Hillary played on the most low- level arrogance of the audience, that irrational feeling of superiority and she got her response. That's what made me mad. It should make mad anyone of us because what we see is that the person who claims to fight against bigotry uses it right away when she needs it. I thank you both, folks. by Mark Sashine (72 articles, 19 quicklinks, 269 diaries, 4101 comments [131 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Thursday, Jun 21, 2007 at 7:02:17 AM (0+)
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