Monsters of State
posted at 9:47 am on December 1, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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That may sound like a football team, but it may better describe a State Department headed by Hillary Clinton with Samantha Power working as a liaison to Barack Obama. According to reports, Obama will announce just that combination today, putting together his chief opponent over the last two years with an adviser who famously described her as a “monster”. But which of the two present the bigger danger?
Samantha Power, the Harvard professor who was forced to resign from Barack Obama’s presidential campaign last spring after calling Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton “a monster,” is now advising the president-elect on transition matters relating to the State Department — which Clinton is slated to head.
Power is listed on Obama’s transition Web site as part of the team reviewing national security agencies. Her duties, according to the site, will be to “ensure that senior appointees have the information necessary to complete the confirmation process, lead their departments, and begin implementing signature policy initiatives immediately after they are sworn in.”
In short, she is part of a team that is likely to work directly with Clinton, a potentially awkward situation for the two women. Obama is expected to officially announce Clinton as his choice for secretary of state after the Thanksgiving holiday.
Earlier, I wrote that the Scowcroftian direction of Obama’s foreign-policy choices represented a change in direction from his campaign rhetoric, and a welcome development. Power’s inclusion on the team represents something very different, and a threat to Israel. Let’s recall Power’s ideas about Israel:
As I noted in early October, this clip has some remarkable insight into Power and her foreign-policy direction. First, she adopts the same conspiratorial thinking about the Jews in the US, as if we’d have no better reason to ally ourselves with a Western-style democracy in the Middle East. Power then suggests that the West should stage a massive occupation of Israel to neutralize the IDF in favor of groups like Hamas as a policy to settle the Middle East conflict.
Sounds great … for the terrorists.
Obama didn’t kick Power off his team over these remarks. He bounced her for calling Hillary a “monster”. If Power gives any indication of Obama’s foreign policy direction, then Hillary won’t be the only one.
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This transition may not be so dull after all.
manwithblackhat on December 1, 2008 at 9:50 AM
This should be a fun relationship to watch. I do hope someone on the inside gets some video!
4shoes on December 1, 2008 at 9:51 AM
Good to see that Bambi is including the stark raving lunatic community in his administration.
It’s really starting to “look like America”.
Who will be his first homeless bum appointment? Convicted felon appointment? Member of the deceased-American community, since they are they most loyal Democrats of all?
NoDonkey on December 1, 2008 at 9:55 AM
Wow, I just listened to her little speech, she’s one scary lady.
4shoes on December 1, 2008 at 9:55 AM
If anything, a Harvard professor may learn how to hide documents in plain sight.
Rovin on December 1, 2008 at 10:00 AM
Team of
rivals.Team of
kooks.Team of kooky rivals.
Kafir on December 1, 2008 at 10:01 AM
But…what if Powers finds out that Hillary {found} a Jewish grandfather was sitting in her family tree while campaigning in Florida?
I think Powers was chosen to remind HClinton that Obama won the Presidency. It won’t be awkward at all. Hill might become quite chummy with the guard holding her leash, if I may mix a few metaphors.
Doug on December 1, 2008 at 10:03 AM
This is not the Team of Rivals I thought I knew.
BKennedy on December 1, 2008 at 10:03 AM
According to a few websites, Politico, for ex., Obama got 78% of the Jewish vote.
Elections have consequences. Don’t worry about Israel or Samantha Power. Let the American Jewish community accept the consequences of its actions.
JiangxiDad on December 1, 2008 at 10:03 AM
That woman thinks she knows everything and the press treats her that way.
She will work closely with Obama and will most likely be contrarily to Hillary.
I feel for the Israelis. These two women are not all that great for the state of Israel. I recall Hillary’s friendly relationship with that disgusting Arafat and his wife. Very vomit-inducing.
I am tired of these pseudo-republicans treating Obama as if he were such a “centrist” or “republican-lite.”
His appointments are not that impressive to me. They are all very liberal and failures.
Gates, appointed by President Bush, is Obama’s only acceptable post decision.
jencab on December 1, 2008 at 10:04 AM
I’m just finishing Atlas Shrugged. How appropriate. Now I get to watch it happen live.
ex-Democrat on December 1, 2008 at 10:05 AM
Jimmy Carter #2 will do just fine…LOL. I can see him walking among the Palistanians now.
rich801 on December 1, 2008 at 10:05 AM
This is just another further indications that Obama’s “recourse well” is rather shallow.
He just doesn’t have the experience to draw on noted and stable advisers. He has to rely on “activists”, the people he has relationships with, he has so little time in national politics, he has to draw on these obscure people, who have not been “vetted”.
right2bright on December 1, 2008 at 10:06 AM
Indeed. In this rare case, the movie is as good as the book.
JiangxiDad on December 1, 2008 at 10:07 AM
I really would like to know why she thinks the dem. party’s positioning of strength to show us something is more important than actually doing it.
And I’m not sorry to point out, that in her little eight-yr long “nightmare”, President Bush has kept us safe since 9/11. Something I’m a bit skeptical about the 0ne being able to do.
4shoes on December 1, 2008 at 10:07 AM
Hey Doug, Hillary will NEVER have been Sect. of State if she could not have full control over foreign policy.
Just a little reminder for you people, Hillary and Powers agree a lot with the issue over Isreal. Heck Hillary KISS leader of palestine’s wife back in the 90s.
BroncosRock on December 1, 2008 at 10:08 AM
Wow, she is amazingly fug. She makes Hillary look like a Miss America contestant.
Red Cloud on December 1, 2008 at 10:09 AM
Hillary knows as much about foreign policy as my turtle. Obama hired Bill.
JiangxiDad on December 1, 2008 at 10:10 AM
The other thing that might make it a little awkward with Hillary is that Power has been an outspoken critic of Bill Clinton’s failure to intervene quickly in the Rwandan Genocide. Power’s point was, even though events moved quickly in Rwanda, Clinton’s choice to ignore it till only the suffering was left to respond to, emboldened other genocidal forces around the world. If the US doesn’t care enough to intervene, to stop genocide in progress, then what’s the risk to committing it? Very little.
RBMN on December 1, 2008 at 10:10 AM
Just another 8 year “middle east peace process” circle jerk….nothing to see here.
the pallies have no intention of ever recognizing israel as a JEWISH state within ANY border….settlements or no settlements.
the only question is the body count as the status quo squirms it’s way into various shapes and sizes while the “international community” goes through the motions.
move along.
mylegsareswollen on December 1, 2008 at 10:12 AM
“Samantha Powers:
Journalist. Lawyer. Activist”
If that doesn’t make you reach for your gun, what will?
pseudonominus on December 1, 2008 at 10:13 AM
Did I understand that right?
Power then suggests that the West should stage a massive occupation of Israel to neutralize the IDF
WTF
pseudonominus on December 1, 2008 at 10:14 AM
That is a dude dressed up like a chick, I’m telling you.
Red Cloud on December 1, 2008 at 10:15 AM
Come on, Barack.
Do away with FISA.
Do away with the Patriot Act, just like you promised.
I dare you.
drjohn on December 1, 2008 at 10:16 AM
Am I the only person who found her communication skills stilted, and that she was heavily habituated toward that faux, contrived, rehearsed-over-the-years form of snobbish, overarching so-called intellectual elitism?
Also, how many “ums” and I means, aaahs, and the like has this women filled her dialogue with?
Bottom line, I found listening to this clip a labor of endurance and patience, for she certainly came off as an arrogant, condescending, self centered snob, and clearly disrespects freedom and liberty, as she clearly indicated as she equated Israel with the violent Palestinians (her mention of “both sides” ignoring that Israel is on the defensive, while Palestinians habitually engage in violent attacks based on manifest, expressed hatred and their intention to drive the Jews out of Israel and make Israel theirs from the River to the Sea.
High position in government is no place for an overly complicated, snobbish, condescending, misdirected “intellectual” like her.
William2006 on December 1, 2008 at 10:18 AM
Another note is that Susan Rice is to be the U.N. ambassador, and Obama is giving her Cabinet-level status. I read a quote by John Bolton about why this is a bad idea- something about “two secretaries in one department.”
Hillary will get some power as S.O.S., but it may not be as much as she thinks.
cs89 on December 1, 2008 at 10:18 AM
Obama sure does like to give people “the bird,” literally and figuratively:
Clarence Thomas: Joe “Plugs” Biden (THE Hi-Tech LYNCHER)
Ellen Malcolm (Anita YEAH, SURE Hill’s atty)
{these 2: NOT ACCEPTABLE!}
_______________________________________________________________________
Hillary Clinton: Patti “Soap Opera Aficionado” Solis Doyle
Samantha “Monster” Powers
{these 2: ROFLMAO}
(sorry, wish I had the links to the youtube videos that show him giving soon-to-be Sec of State Clinton the finger during the primary season and then to Sen. McCain during the general election campaign)
Branch Rickey on December 1, 2008 at 10:19 AM
The hands are too big to be a woman. The neck is too thick to be a woman.
Definately Stephanie was once Stephan. Ugh.
stenwin77 on December 1, 2008 at 10:19 AM
Deep voice. Man hands. No make-up.
I sense mental illness.
pseudonominus on December 1, 2008 at 10:22 AM
The One Drop Rule?
Akzed on December 1, 2008 at 10:23 AM
I imagine with this news, Israel is getting ready for the final briefing before takeoff to Iran. Top off your gas tanks.
a capella on December 1, 2008 at 10:23 AM
And her ideas differ from these, how ??
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/023628.php
*crickets*
pambi on December 1, 2008 at 10:23 AM
I totally agree with you. Her veil of elitism was very thin and made me wonder, just how long before they simply throw it off and just come right out against Israel?
4shoes on December 1, 2008 at 10:24 AM
+1
Most of hubby’s family in that category. 2 exceptions: His
egg donormom is a First Wives’ club PUMA &Hubby is a Palin Man!
;)
Branch Rickey on December 1, 2008 at 10:25 AM
Hillary Clinton is being set up as Obama’s foreign policy scapegoat. He’ll be giving her incomprehensible guidelines and irreconcilable directives.
And now it seems that he’ll be appointing a schizo as his go-between, to make sure there’s no paper trail leading back to him.
logis on December 1, 2008 at 10:29 AM
Ed, interesting that you fail to mention two other members of Obama’s national security team: Robert Gates as DefSec and Gen. Jones as NSA.
dakine on December 1, 2008 at 10:30 AM
Yes, I agree. Pity that the looters and moochers are as ugly in real life as Rand portrays them in her novel.
Beauty is skin deep but ugly goes clean to the bone…
Heroes should be as beautiful as Dagny Taggart is portrayed.
turfmann on December 1, 2008 at 10:32 AM
No, you are spot-on!
Branch Rickey on December 1, 2008 at 10:36 AM
Dear Ms Power,
If the United States ever decided to invade Israel and ‘neutralize’ the IDF then the United States better plan on invading Texas as the same time.
Hugs and kisses,
Limerick on December 1, 2008 at 10:41 AM
Didn’t Obama get 45% of the vote in Texas?
JiangxiDad on December 1, 2008 at 10:42 AM
No, I think we’re all pretty much aware that she’s a liberal.
And who was that freak she as talking to? Let’s not address the Israel/Palestine sitution at all; but how do we keep “one side or the other” from committing genocide? It never occurred to her for a second to bat an eye over the question. Zero thought process; endless prevarication.
The whole interview was just a giant moral equivalency cluster-f*ck. In other words: Obama’s Presidency in a nutshell.
logis on December 1, 2008 at 10:43 AM
Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it” (The Martyr, Imam Hassan al-Banna, of blessed memory).
Hassan al-Banna is the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, parent group of CAIR, MSA, ISNA, HAMAS (charter cited), and so on…
Samantha Power should consider how much she wants to creep up on supporting the genocide of six million Jews. As a journalist, lawyer, activist she should know better.
Beagle on December 1, 2008 at 10:43 AM
Is that really a Woman?
Sorry, I don’t normally comment on appearance. But I’m afraid Samantha Power is unusually homely…even for a liberal.
BiasedGirl on December 1, 2008 at 10:44 AM
pseudonominus:
Dude, you’re on fire today!
whitetop on December 1, 2008 at 10:44 AM
I’ve seen this video before. Seems like many are hearing this stuff for the first time.
Seems like the prob. is the press, not the bad guys.
JiangxiDad on December 1, 2008 at 10:46 AM
That just means 55% of Texans were thinking on election night.
My statement isn’t a chest thumping gesture. If the U.S. did an about face and supported Hamas over Israel then the U.S. should just drop the U part because it will have spit on everything U stands for.
Thats my inflated 2 cents.
Limerick on December 1, 2008 at 10:49 AM
Let’s not get confused by side issue. Samantha Power having anything to do with foreign policy is a disaster for the United States. Perhaps, we (or least I) rejoiced prematurely in Obama’s earlier saner picks.
thuja on December 1, 2008 at 10:49 AM
As a long time fan of Ms. Rand, I wonder if she would pleased to know so many are picking up her masterpiece or would be devastated to find out Why people are picking up her masterpiece?
Who is John Gault?
BiasedGirl on December 1, 2008 at 10:49 AM
She is also with the cabinet? Cat fight soon? That lady is sick!!
sheebe on December 1, 2008 at 10:52 AM
Remember, Hillary is a pragmatist – sure she’s a big Israel supporter when she needs Jewish votes in NY, but if the wind is blowing the other way in the Obamastration, don’t you think she’ll go along to get along and sell Israel down the river in a heartbeat? Remember when she planted the big sloppy kiss on Mrs. Arafat right after Arafat described how Israel was using chemical weapons against Palestinian kids? Hillary was a useful (though inadequate) stick to hit Obama with – but she’s not our friend.
holdfast on December 1, 2008 at 10:52 AM
hey Lim. I was more shocked at the Texas vote than the Jewish vote. I am even thinking twice about my escape plans. With the rapidly changing pop. in TX, things can get bad there too. The county by county map for TX wasn’t encouraging. Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio– all blue, or at least, purple. In a blue funk myself.
JiangxiDad on December 1, 2008 at 10:53 AM
Despite the numbers Barry received what gets lost is how many Rep voters just stayed home. That’s how I see it. Maybe it is a Candy Land daydream on my part but Barry got in through voter apathy, IMO, and not voter enthusiasm.
Limerick on December 1, 2008 at 10:56 AM
devastated. It was a warning, given with plenty of time to avoid her scenario. Few listened. But it’s human nature not to know what you’re doing. Most people learn best by getting hit with a shovel to the head.
JiangxiDad on December 1, 2008 at 10:58 AM
I don’t know. I only personally know 4 other Republicans. We all voted. Don’t think it helped. Good luck to you old buddy.
JiangxiDad on December 1, 2008 at 11:01 AM
Alls good, for now. My view of Barry’s win is that the voters just went through the motions. The Obama fans that I talk to here have no clue what they voted for. It was all about feelings. The first year of Dem cold water will wake a whole bunch of them up.
Limerick on December 1, 2008 at 11:05 AM
She didn’t just draw moral equivalence between the two sides. She said the US needs to fund and arm a new Palestinian state to the tune of billions of dollars while ending our support for Israel’s military. That would make us (the American taxpayer) complicit in conspiracy to commit genocide.
Beagle on December 1, 2008 at 11:06 AM
Wholey cow the UN ambassador will be Susan Rice? The one who let Osama get away, thereby leaving him free to plan 9/11? wtf?
batterup on December 1, 2008 at 11:14 AM
Yep. The question is how many of us will claim ‘I vas onliy follwing orderz’?
Limerick on December 1, 2008 at 11:14 AM
Obama is using Clinton and her holdovers to triangulate foreign policy. I just didn’t think Hillary was so desperate to take what Obama was offering. Turns out Hillary’s “tough talk” was just that.
Angry Dumbo on December 1, 2008 at 11:16 AM
Exactly right. There is no mandate when 8 million GOP voters stay home. These folks are on thin ice already.
Vashta.Nerada on December 1, 2008 at 11:17 AM
I think no mandate is cold comfort. Change will come.
JiangxiDad on December 1, 2008 at 11:20 AM
Nebraska is nice this time of the year. A little snow, wind, and cold, but CCW availability, lots of space, and enough salty Sandhills ranchers to create a feeling of comfort, should emergency arise.
a capella on December 1, 2008 at 11:20 AM
At least all the lunatics will be under one roof…..!
DL13 on December 1, 2008 at 11:23 AM
I saw her on Fox once, she equated the Al Quada/Taliban to playing checkers on the border in Pakistan, yeah, that’s who I want representing me.
reshas1 on December 1, 2008 at 11:26 AM
Obama is appointing David Bowie from the Ziggy Stardust period to state?
Alden Pyle on December 1, 2008 at 11:30 AM
No awkwardness when the spoils of power and fame are rewards. They will swallow their pride til one has the opportunity to gig the other and will do so with delight. As far as Powers desires for Israel, she will decay on the ash heap of history and torment in the hell of her own making among all those who dared come against Jerusalem.
wepeople on December 1, 2008 at 11:32 AM
I respectfully disagree. Did you see the throngs of screaming supporters in Grant Park on election night (indeed, in most large cities across the country)? There were lots of very enthusiastic idiots in the crowd that night.
True, they don’t have a clue what they were enthusiastic about, they were just enthusiastic.
UltimateBob on December 1, 2008 at 11:41 AM
I guess we shall see, after all that was said and done during the campaign, whether Hillary has a taste for Power.
Arbalest on December 1, 2008 at 11:49 AM
Beware big boned women with goiter and man hands. Women with an anti-penis agenda should not be dictating foreign policy. Bad things will happen…
Wyznowski on December 1, 2008 at 11:50 AM
The Council on American-Monster Relations would like to remind all that we find Ms. Powers’ characterization of Hillary Clinton as “a monster” deeply offensive.
To be consistent, we also found the revelation by Newt Gingrich’s mother that he had called Clinton a “bitch” equally offensive. To loyal, productive dogs of the female gender.
The Monster on December 1, 2008 at 11:58 AM
Obama sends his kids to Sidwell, opposes school choice. Change in name only.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122748801490451927.html
Does triangulating, centrist Obama risk becoming the next Harold Ford?
Angry Dumbo on December 1, 2008 at 12:03 PM
I’m glad that you brought this point up for two reasons: Mr. World Citizen Obama appears to be inclined to cede US sovereignty to the UN. Making Rice a Cabinet member flies in the face of our Constitution’s underpinnings.
Furthermore, Susan Rice is married to the media executive who employs George Stephanopoulus.
Movement toward one-world governance via a UN that is hostile to the US and Israel sends up red signals to me. Having a media conduit for “official” government newsspeak undercuts the Constitution’s purpose in have a free press be a watchdog of the government.
onlineanalyst on December 1, 2008 at 12:06 PM
Yeah, Nebraska did better than TX. Obama got 42%, mostly in Omaha and Lincoln. Rest of the state was pure red. Sandhills ranches, huh?
I read Willa Cather years ago. Nebraska sounded pretty harsh. But I just googled some of those ranches and boy does that look GREAT. Thanks for the info.
JiangxiDad on December 1, 2008 at 12:07 PM
No, but it is the NORM with the crowd Obama surrounds himself with. Those > 300 advisors wouldn’t know how to speak to real Joes like us.
Sir Napsalot on December 1, 2008 at 12:11 PM
Was that in a fortune cookie?
pseudonominus on December 1, 2008 at 12:13 PM
NO Harvard accent? She should get her money back.
And, wow, she has really crazy ideas.
TastyPanda on December 1, 2008 at 12:16 PM
The cat fights between the two probably won’t happen. As long as Obama spell out exactly who has the inner track to his ears.
Michelle Obama, of course, is the co-president. Where do you think they’ve been hiding Mr. Biden?
Sir Napsalot on December 1, 2008 at 12:21 PM
I also recommend “We the Living“, Rand’s first novel. It’s a grim and stark portrait of life under communism. She warned us, didn’t she?
nyrofan on December 1, 2008 at 12:21 PM
This is why I slept through most of my “liberal” college educational instruction!
badome-a-dome on December 1, 2008 at 12:26 PM
Fortunately, the UN is almost entirely useless. So long as the right Security Council vetoes happen, it might as well be ambassador to Andorra.
cthulhu on December 1, 2008 at 12:27 PM
…this gal is teaching at Harvard?
(Or, rather, given the academic climate among politicized “professors as pundits”, she’s parked her credentials at Harvard?)
…she’s advocating the robbing of an allied nation’s sovereignty in support of stopping a ginned-up “genocide”…where the victims of the “genocide” are doing all the killing….
…and she talks of it so calmly….
…she tosses of, while smiling that “you know what I mean” smile, that we might have to risk alienating a “constituency” of enormous financial and political “import”…can you say JEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWS!
…so, she speaks anti-sematism fluently, as well….
…and she speaks of imposing her will on a democratic state in a troubled region as troubling, and then interjects the dreaded “…but…”, which, as we all know, invalidates all that comes before it to underscore how seriously she takes all that she’ll say afterwards…translated into plain English, she’s saying:
“We’re a grown-up democracy (ref.: “liberal democracy”), and we have the duty to smack Israel around for picking on the murderers we on the Left support!”
…this gal has bought the entire enchilada…what does she teach at Harvard? “Alice In Wonderland” from the inside?
Puritan1648 on December 1, 2008 at 12:27 PM
There will be many people at the Pentagon,NSA,State Dept.,etc. getting their best “I got my ass covered” mojo going because this level of appeasement and weakness is going to cause big problems internally with people who actually understand the terrorist threat and make our enemies like Ahmadinejad,Hamas,al-qaeda,and Putin jump for joy.
Many people in our intelligence agencies are not going to take the blame for attacks brought on by the appeasement policies of liberals like this.
This is the “hope and change” that Ahmadinejad was hoping for.
Baxter Greene on December 1, 2008 at 12:37 PM
UltimateBob:
“True, they don’t have a clue what they were enthusiastic about, they were just enthusiastic.”
I think it’s probably more accurate to say that myopic folks on the right have no clue what Obama voters were enthusiastic about. Only raging ideologues on the left will fault Obama for not toeing the lines he set in his campaign (while Republicans are sighing in relief, of course).
The Obama vote was a vote to expunge the past 8 years of Republican “rule” — except as a baseline against which anything Obama does will be measured an improvement, and everything he fails to do will already have been rendered impossible by the fecklessness which preceded him.
JM Hanes on December 1, 2008 at 12:46 PM
Yes, let’s invade Israel.
Brilliant.
TexasJew on December 1, 2008 at 12:50 PM
That’s the whole point of this exercise. Obama is going to make the chain of command as screwed-up as possible. He’s made a career out of never being responsible for anything, and that’s how he plans to continue.
logis on December 1, 2008 at 12:54 PM
Ship of fools.
Speakup on December 1, 2008 at 12:54 PM
Are you saying that if Barry is a “Do-Nothing” President, it is Booosh’s fault?
kingsjester on December 1, 2008 at 12:55 PM
This lady should certainly get the rest of the world to love the new U.S.S.A. She fits right in with the U.N. and most of the Messiah’s socialist plans for our country.
John Bibb
rocketman on December 1, 2008 at 1:01 PM
I think the Clintoons are whores and wanted the campaign debt retired.
Branch Rickey on December 1, 2008 at 1:03 PM
That was my reaction…what kind of “intelligent” person would recommend invading Israel?
Just the suggestion is so strange it make you not believe that anyone is that stupid, therefore she must not have said it.
And that will be the response…
right2bright on December 1, 2008 at 1:08 PM
There’s nothing conspiratorial about the influence of the Israeli lobby in Washington, it’s entirely out in the open. It’s not that there isn’t any reason why the US might want to ally with Israel, the question is what the alliance entails. The US has behaved in recent years as if the importance of Israel to the US strategically has somehow increased, when the reality is that it has radically decreased since the end of the Cold War.
alex342 on December 1, 2008 at 1:24 PM
Boy she sure did speak in a lot of generalities. My head hurt after listening to her tripe.
Evidently this is not a good time to be an Israeli if you’re looking to the US for help.
Let’s give $$ & troops to the poor oppressed Muslims in the area. Yeah.
After all, they’re the ones calling for the genocide of the Jews constantly. So is their Koran.
So tell my why again Israel is the one to worry about perpetrating genocide against the Palestinians?
Badger40 on December 1, 2008 at 1:26 PM
right2bright on December 1, 2008 at 1:08 PM
She didn’t suggest invading Israel. She suggested that a peacekeeping force be stationed there, which would obviously necessitate the consent of the Israeli government and the cooperation of the IDF. Is it a good idea? I would say no, but at least criticize her for what she said and not what you imagine she said because you’re too lazy to pay attention.
alex342 on December 1, 2008 at 1:26 PM
It is also interesting to note that she refers to us as a liberal democracy & talks of lesser evils, intimating how democracy may not have a place in the grand scheme of things bcs we have to control certain areas.
Hmmmmm…..
Badger40 on December 1, 2008 at 1:29 PM
Welcome to Elitism 101. That’s not just the response; that’s what she believes herself. She’s been told so often how “intelligent” she is, that she feels no obligation whatsoever to refrain from constantly saying things that are patently moronic.
It’s not HER job to say things that objectively make sense; it’s OUR job to try and glean some sort of reason from her convoluted gibberish. And when we fail, that just proves how despicably “unprogressive” we are.
logis on December 1, 2008 at 1:34 PM
I wonder if the press will cover for this administration, unlike how they treated Bush’s.
Should be entertaining.
bridgetown on December 1, 2008 at 2:10 PM
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