Quote from hapaboy:
I have absolutely zero knowledge about this "list," let alone who paid to have it distributed or how much money was spent. As a matter of fact, I hadn't seen this list until Whamo posted it. I was referring to the book by the ex-aide who carried the "football."
You're entitled to your opinion.
It's a two-way street. Republican Presidents have gotten their fair share of hammering too, right?
Sorry if I pushed your sensitive button when I started this thread.
The tape that "documents" all the murders and the drug running activities of Clinton, who is, as I have said, the evil brother of Charles Manson (at best) was produced by and sold by a Jerry Fallwell group. It is, as I have also said, not about politics really. It is about convincing the American public that Clinton (he was President at the time this stuff was produced) was completely evil. And so anything he stood for was, by association, also "evil". The bottom line is that it was an attempt to discredit Clinton to such a degree as to accomplish the goal of vilifying him to the extent that anything would be an improvement. In this strategy, it was intended to slip in the real goals of the religious right. In other words, to get the "separation of church and state" to be associated with all else that is evil. Such as murder and drug running and securities fraud. All this was done long before the Monica Lewinsky story broke.
Let's not forget that this was done at the time that Newt Gingrich was in his prime as a moral example of what America was ideally supposed to be about. Of course, as it turned out, we only know for sure that Clinton was guilty of slightly lesser charges than murder and such....Sex in the Oval Office and lying about sex (a horrible thing that was probably never committed by anyone prior to that).
Newt, who pushed his "Contract With America" and extolled "family virtues" ended up visiting his wife in the hospital and telling her while she lay in a hospital bed that he was divorcing her. To demonstrate how he took the "high moral road", he put her in the position to become the very first and only ex-wife of a member of Congress to have to go on welfare. Oh, the horror! Welfare, another "liberal" conspiracy.
As was Social Security (now a Republican backed issue).
Here is the key. Today's Republicans are really what we used to call "Kennedy Democrats" So the absurdity of the labeling of Democrats as "liberals" is as ridiculous as Republicans being labeled as "reactionary conservatives" ......after all, don't "conservatives" want to "conserve"? So if they do, then they should be the leaders in the "environmental" movement.
"Conserve" our planet.
These kinds of issues are what get me really bent out of shape sometimes. I believe in some issues that are claimed to "belong" to one party or another.. Causes go in and out of favor. And in and out of the platforms of the different political parties.
I HATE being labelled. I would prefer NOT to be registered to one party or another. A problem with our system. If I want to vote in a primary election, I HAVE TO BE registered. I resent this system.
Because I vote for candidates from both the Republican and Democrat parties. As is my right. And, to me, my obligation. I don't think anyone who votes a straight party line can possibly be an informed voter. Anyone, like Mondo Trader, who thinks, and even writes that "half the Democrats should be in jail for sedition" is a dangerous person. And I assure you that if he made this statement at a joint session of congress, he would be booed by everyone. On both sides of the aisle.
Hapaboy, to get back to your post...yes, being a President
comes with getting "hammered" ...part of the job.
And no, you did not "push my buttons". I like a good debate. I welcome a challenge. And as I told you before, I would argue either side of most issues as an exercise.
abortion, torture, capital punishment....these are all issues (among MANY others) that have good arguments to be made on both sides.
It is only a post like Mondo Trader's that really can "push my buttons"....because his kind of thinking (if you can even call it thinking) is divisive, brainless, and dangerous. Like I said, it is very much like the kind of things we heard from Hitler while he was building a constituency based on hate and bigotry.
Mondo Trader is an embarrassment as an American. I have probably an exactly equal number of Republican and Democrat friends. "Liberal and Conservative" friends. I respect them all. I have no friends like Mondo Trader. And I am sure that Mondo Trader has no friends at all. There is nothing more dangerous than a guy that paints half the nation with a broad brushstroke of bigotry and assumptions based on no facts, no truth, and no understanding of what makes an American an American. (much less an understanding of what is going on in the world).
Peace,

Rs7