Hillary Clinton: not a liberal?
Lindsay Beyerstein, of Majikthise, apparently thinks that Hillary Clinton isn’t “a real liberal”.Clinton's anonymous friends seem to know her much better than the public at large. She's a center-right Democrat who gets along really well with Republicans. The right wing noise machine has convinced the public that Hillary is some kind of liberal firebrand.More “liberal” than Hillary, they don’t come. For instance:
If we're going to nominate a candidate who will be perceived as a liberal, we might as well run a real liberal candidate.
"We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society." [Hillary Clinton, 1993]
"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans ..." [President Bill Clinton, 'USA Today' March 11, 1993: Page 2A]
"Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all." [Nikita Khrushchev, February 25, 1956 20th Congress of the Communist Party]
There is the great, silent, continuous struggle: the struggle between the State and the Individual; between the State which demands and the individual who attempts to evade such demands. Because the individual, left to himself, unless he be a saint or hero, always refuses to pay taxes, obey laws, or go to war. [Benito Mussolini]
Actually, in light of Hillary’s dim view of individual rights (and those of her strange bed fellows), she’s more like a socialist. After all, classical liberals are the “real liberals”.
posted by Robert @ Tuesday, September 05, 2006
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