Comments on: Bill of Goods

By: saltydog

saltydog — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:36:33 +0000

I hear you, Rebecca. I was sick of that whole bunch a long time ago.

By: RebeccaH

RebeccaH — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:27:29 +0000

If I had no other reason for not voting for Hillary Clinton, her husband would be sufficient. I am thoroughly sick of the man.

By: Clintons: Things have not changed (in reality anyway) and if she is elected they will get worse at DPGI v.3

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:00:38 +0000

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By: tanstaafl

tanstaafl — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:19:42 +0000

I still resent that I was not asked or given the opportunity to support those soldiers

I guess Bill never heard of writing a check, making a donation or any of a myriad of ways single American citizens support the troops.

And the only answer to any and all of humanity’s sundry situations and dilemmas must be ipso facto federal government taxation.

“Many of you are well enough off that … the tax cuts may have helped you,” Sen. Clinton said. “We’re saying that for America to get back on track, we’re probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.”

~Hillary Clinton in a speech in San Francisco on 6/28/04

(this nation’s founders and the authors of our Constitution would roll over in their graves at that last sentence, that notion of the role of federal government in our lives)

By: tanstaafl

tanstaafl — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:02:28 +0000

Getting less attention but equally ludicrous as the Iraq war claim, were Bill’s remarks tying tax cuts to troop support and the notion that “people like me” (I guess that alludes to “rich people”) were not sufficiently taxed to support the soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq.

This is the most oblique and absurd backhanded support for Hillary’s taxation agenda that a chimpanzee could imagine (no insult to chimpanzees).

This is how Bill put it 2 days ago.

“That’ll require people like me, who got five tax cuts that I should not have gotten, in my income group, when we had soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq. Even though I approved of Afghanistan and opposed Iraq from the beginning, I still resent that I was not asked or given the opportunity to support those soldiers.”

By: saltydog

saltydog — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:17:18 +0000

Having been partly raised in Oklahoma and Texas, Bill never struck me as anything but a typical pol of a certain stripe in that part of the country. There’s a reason why the people in his own state dubbed him “Slick Willy.” It matters not that most of them used the name admiringly. I never thought he was charming, except in that oily, snake-oil artist kind of way. There was never any substance to the man; his charm is but a thin veneer on an otherwise empty suit.

And lest anyone think that we’ve all lost our memories, Bill was for going into Iraq several years before he was against it. The difference is that, as usual, he merely talked about it and congress confidently passed what turned out to be a meaningless resolution. Bill could only commit troops to a fight in which American interests played no part. He was a true altruist when it came to spending forces and fortune on a situation in which American interests and defense played no part; he balked at taking action against an enemy which perpetrated multiple acts of war against us. By the time he stood–once again–at a podium and decried the attack on the U.S.S Cole, no one with two brain cells to rub together believed a word he said.