However, in a performance that you probably won't hear much about from the mainstream media, Ms. Clinton did a pretty good impersonation of the current head of the Democratic National Convention, former presidential candidate Howard Dean. In her speech at her first major pre-election fundraiser, she had this to say:
"There has never been an administration, I don't believe in our history, more intent upon consolidating and abusing power to further their own agenda," Mrs. Clinton told the audience at a "Women for Hillary" gathering in Midtown Manhattan this morning.
"I know it's frustrating for many of you; it's frustrating for me: Why can't the Democrats do more to stop them?" she continued to growing applause and cheers. "I can tell you this: It's very hard to stop people who have no shame about what they're doing. It is very hard to tell people that they are making decisions that will undermine our checks and balances and constitutional system of government who don't care. It is very hard to stop people who have never been acquainted with the truth."
Neal Boortz comments:
Well ... you have the power thing there .. but let's not overlook that statement about honesty either.
Let's see now .. .Hillary says that Republicans are people who have never been acquainted with the truth. Now ... work with me here ... Didn't Bill Clinton admit to lying under oath? Didn't he admit that he intentionally said things to mislead investigators and prosecutors? Just wondering. Oh, and hey! Didn't he lose his law license over his dishonesty! By golly, I think he did! And what about the White House travel office staff! It didn't take the jury long to throw out those Clinton lies, did it? And then we have the FBI files scandal .. and who hired that Livingstone chap? Hillary just doesn't seem to remember. How honest of her! And who was it who told a congressional committee for two years that she didn't have certain subpoenaed documents ... and that she didn't know who had them or, in fact, if they existed at all: only to have those very documents show up in her private living quarters in the White House with her handwriting and her fingerprints all over them? Would that be Hillary! Why, yes! I do believe it was!
Remember ... it's the Republicans who have never been acquainted with the truth.
In addition to the above, Ms. Clinton had this to say:
"The press is missing in action, with all due respect," she said. "Where are the investigative reporters today? Why aren't they asking the hard questions? It's shocking when you see how easily they fold in the media today. They don't stand their ground. If they're criticized by the White House, they just fall apart.
"I mean, c'mon, toughen up, guys, it's only our Constitution and country at stake," she said. "Let's get some spine."
Well, I'd say that the investigative reporters are a bit gunshy after what happened to Dan Rather and Newsweek. Maybe they're rethinking the whole business of trying to trash the Republicans with unfounded stories and actually taking the time to verify the facts. Of course, to the Democrats this is interpreted as the media being "missing in action."
And as for the Constitution and the country being at stake, well she's right about that although for different reasons than she thinks. The Constitution I want to preserve (or restore, to be more accurate) is the one that means what it says in the plain text. The one where the powers of the federal government are specifically enumerated and limited. The one she wants to preserve is the one that can be interpreted to mean whatever the Democrats want it to mean on any given day. Her Constitution is like a culture of stem cells, which can become any kind of cell in the organism. Her Constitution will support any power the federal government wishes to have, allow any law it wishes to pass, and uphold the desires of the collective over the rights of the individual. For that reason, she must never be allowed to become president, at least not if the Democrats also control Congress.
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