Bush's & Clintons-The 2 Ruling Families Function With A Monarchical Air-By Robert Parry

[kpete]

Clintons Plumb Absurd Depths

By Robert Parry
February 19, 2008


Like the Bushes, the Clintons seem to believe they have some special entitlement to the White House, and thus whatever they do to get there is justified. The two ruling families function with a monarchical air that is unique – or foreign – to the American experience.

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But like the Bushes, who bullied their way back into the White House by shutting down vote-counting in Florida in December 2000, the Clintons also seem to view their claim on the presidency as a right. Any serious challenger must be treated as a pretender guilty of the crime of insolence.

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In her recent stump speeches, Hillary Clinton has demeaned the power of words to put down Obama, who clearly has an oratorical advantage. She said: “There’s a difference between speeches and solutions, between talk and action. I was raised to believe that actions speak louder than words.”

Responding to that argument in a speech in Milwaukee on Feb. 16, Obama said, “Don’t tell me words don’t matter. ‘I have a dream.’ Just words? ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’ Just words? ‘We have nothing to fear but fear itself.’ Just words? Just speeches?”

In a way, of course, Clinton is right. Her recent action – dispatching her spokesmen to attack Obama’s character over trivial issues – does speak volumes. It underscores that the Clintons are prepared to sink to any depth and create bitter divisions within the electorate to secure what they regard as their entitlement, the presidency of the United States.

more at:
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/021908.html

[roguevalley]

1. words are indeed power. read the amancipation proclamation,

[CorpGovActivist]

2. .

[AJH032]

3. I don't understand this

Bill was president. Hillary has never been president. What about them makes them a "ruling family" over any other presidential family, like the Carters or Reagans?

[Metric System]

4. Exactly. It's a pointless article since it looks like Hillary won't win the nomination anyway. I

just wish this anti-dynasty argument had been made just as forcefully back in 1999/2000 when GWB decided to run.

[paperbag_ princess]

5. just Bush fatigue

If GWB hadn't run and won after Clinton then the fact that Hillary is running would be a novelty...and it would probably benefit her.

[Maribelle]

6. Actually, the Obama campaign telling women it's OK to vote for Obama slices into the brain.

And any woman that falls for this demeaning rhetoric sets herself further behind than anything else can in this primary season.

Women do not need an OK to vote for anyone. While others fall all over themselves trying to bash the Clintons, the Obama campaign's audacity of OK creates a genuine division that is perhaps 32,000 feet over the heads of men with their politically-biased pomp based on hate.