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We’re Seeing The Real Clintons
By Junious
Ricardo Stanton
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After denouncing Mr. Obama over the
weekend for an anti-Clinton flier
about the NAFTA trade treaty, and
then sarcastically portraying his
message of hope Sunday as naïve,
Mrs. Clinton delivered a blistering
speech on Monday that compared Mr.
Obama’s lack of foreign policy
experience to that of the candidate
George W. Bush. ‘We’ve seen the
tragic result of having a president
who had neither the experience nor
the wisdom to manage our foreign
policy and safeguard our national
security,’ Mrs. Clinton said in a
speech on foreign policy at George
Washington University. ‘We can’t let
that happen again.’” /Clinton
Campaign Starts 5-Point Attack on
Obama
NYTimes |
Now that
the critical Texas and Ohio primaries are over
and Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign has been
re-energized; we can see through her false smile
into the ruthless heart of the Clinton camp’s
win at all cost philosophy. Someone once
observed war is politics using other means. The
Clinton faction is so desperate they have opened
all the stops, they
are waging an all out war to win the Democratic
nomination.
The mainstream media is hyping the
process but ignores the fact McCain, Obama, and
Clinton are all really pawns in a much larger
game being controlled by unseen players whose
agenda is to manipulate and control the world’s
people and resources. The race for the
Democratic Party nomination is getting nastier
by the minute. It will be interesting to see how
all the black folks who are rooting for Barack
Obama respond to Hillary Clinton now.
Black
people for some bizarre reason think the
Clintons are cool. Our people actually believe
Bill and Hillary are sympathetic to our problems
and our issues, that they are good liberal white
folks who only want to do what is right by the
country. Nothing could be further from the
truth. This is an image that has been carefully
and cunningly crafted for them.
We were first snookered when Bill Clinton wore
sunglasses and played the saxophone on the
Arsenio Hall show when he was running for
President in1992.
That was a choreographed media
moment that won Clinton the black and youth vote
over an older, totally out of touch George H.W.
Bu$h. We got hooked deeper when Clinton put
several black folks in his cabinet after he won
the election and when he appointed an historic
commission on Race Relations which he failed to
support when the going got tough. That proved to
be Clinton’s MO throughout his presidency when
it came to black folks and controversy.
In the
clutch Bill would leave a brother and sistah
hanging in a minute. Ask Lani Guinier, Jocelyn
Elder or Mike Espy. Bill Clinton eventually
betrayed all the groups that helped him win the
‘92 and ‘96 elections: organized labor, black
folks, homosexuals, feminists, blue color
workers and liberal whites. Toni Morrison is
single handedly responsible for Clinton being
perceived as an honorary black person, the
“First Black President” as she sung his praises
due to his background, his saxophone playing,
his womanizing, the vicious attacks against him
by the media and right wing.
Black
people were goofy enough to go along with her.
Assimilationist gate keepers like Tom Joyner,
Tavis Smiley and the NAACP kept the notion going
as more and more gullible black folks fell for
the okey-doke. Now in 2008 Hillary Rodham
Clinton is running for the Democratic Party
nomination and she and hubby Bill are revealing
their true colors. They are pulling out all the
stops. After Obama won the South Carolina
Democratic primary and the so called “Potomac
Primaries” Maryland, Washington D.C. and
Virginia, the Clintons began sharpening their
knives, sending out their attack dogs ordering
them to get down and dirty to sully Obama’s
image and steal the nomination from him.
They
are resorting to dirty tricks and mudslinging to
undermine his momentum. The mainstream media
delights in the contentiousness given their goal
is to promote discord and fear. An example of
Clinton’s tactics are revealed and discussed at
FactCheck “A direct-mail piece sent to
voters by the Clinton campaign twists Obama’s
words and gives a false picture of his
proposals: It says he ‘wants to raise Social
Security taxes by a trillion dollars,’ a big
distortion.
Obama has
said a “good option” would be to apply Social
Security payroll taxes to incomes over $97,500 a
year, but that would only affect taxes paid by
6.5 percent of individuals and couples. And he
hasn’t formally proposed such a move anyway. The
Clinton mailer says Obama has ‘no plan’ for a
moratorium on foreclosures such as the one
Clinton has proposed. That’s true, but Obama has
his own plan for homeowner relief. The mailer
leaves the impression that Obama has "no plan"
at all, which is false. It says Obama ‘voted for
Dick Cheney's energy bill that gives huge tax
breaks to oil companies,’ another distortion. By
the time Congress passed the 2005 energy bill,
it raised taxes on the oil industry more than it
decreased them and also contained billions for
alternative fuels research and subsidies for
energy-efficient buildings and vehicles.”
FactCheck
The
Clintons are unscrupulous opportunists who will
do anything to win.They will send lies in the
mail, they’ll attack Obama’s character, his
religion and make Minister Farrakhan an issue to
use fear and ignorance to undermine Obama’s
credibility. They don’t care that Barack Obama
is a puppet being funded by some of the same
players that fund them, they want to win! The
fact Bill Clinton was in cahoots with the Bu$h’s
drug running
scheme out of Mena Airstrip in Arkansas when he
was governor gets no play in the mass media.
The
corporate media will not tell you Bill Clinton
is a war criminal responsible for the killing of
millions of innocent civilians in his bogus
humanitarian war in Kosovo or that his Somalian
incursion was really about oil and geo-strategic
positioning in the Horn of Africa, not helping
starving Africans. Nor will they tell you
Clinton is the one who signed the NAFTA into law
knowing full well the devastation it would cause
to working folks. The truth is once in the White
House Bill Clinton became the surrogate for the
Bu$h crime syndicate and corporate interests.
He moved
the Democratic Party to the right when their DLC
clique modified the Southern Strategy used by
Richard Nixon to win his presidential run in
1968 during Clinton’s 1992 campaign. The Clinton
record was really one of a steady move to the
right with his signing corporatist legislation
such as NAFTA, which has gutted the US work
force and similar moves which benefitted the
rise of the prison industrial complex. Clinton’s
bogus War on Drugs helped imprison millions of
black people for minor drug use crimes and
disenfranchise millions more blacks ala Post
Reconstruction era laws. But Obama will never
address these issues and neither will the
corporate mind control apparatus.
The only
reason the rabid NeoCons went after Clinton was
because he failed to support their agenda of
attacking Saddam Hussein and invading Iraq! The
Clintons will get a pass on all of this just
like Obama and McCain get passes on their
policies and programs. The media has conditioned
us to have short memories and short attention
spans. Just because the corporate media isn’t
holding the candidates feet to the fire doesn’t
mean we have to uncritically go for their
okey-doke. The Clintons are not our friends.
They have shown they will do any and everything
to win, which means they will sell black folks
out in a New York minute. Maya Angelou said it
best, “When they show you who they are the first
time, believe them.”
posted 11 March 2008
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