Monday, January 14, 2008

Our national drama queen

Here's the conclusion to Christopher Hitchens' "The case against Hillary Clinton"

Indifferent to truth, willing to use police-state tactics and vulgar libels against inconvenient witnesses, hopeless on health care, and flippant and fast and loose with national security: The case against Hillary Clinton for president is open-and-shut. Of course, against all these considerations you might prefer the newly fashionable and more media-weighty notion that if you don't show her enough appreciation, and after all she's done for us, she may cry.
The "weeping Hillary" episode was notable not so much for the tears but for Hillary's inadvertent revelation of her own overweening self-regard:

Then Clinton began getting emotional: "It's not easy, and I couldn't do it if I didn't passionately believe it was the right thing to do. You know, I have so many opportunities from this country just don't want to see us fall backwards," she said.

Then, her voice breaking and tears in her eyes, she said, "You know, this is very personal for me. It's not just political it's not just public. I see what's happening, and we have to reverse it."
Only Hillary can save us. It was certainly this Messiah complex that led to the health-care reform debacle; after all, who could be against free healthcare for everyone? Only those evil Republicans, that's who. It's the mindset that leads to statements like this, made to a bunch of rich, San Francisco Democrats:

"We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."
That pretty much sums up the liberal worldview, doesn't it? We know better and, dammit, you're gonna love what we do with your money.

C.S. Lewis said it best:

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
Look, I'm no fan of Obama or Edwards or even McCain and Huckabee. But C.S. Lewis wrote this for Hillary. She lives and breathes it and heaven help us if she gains any real power.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

And when she wins, always remember. It was George W. Bush, and his reservoir of unwavering, uncritical support, that made it happen.

You had your fun. That 2002-04 run was an especially awesome ride. Now, meet YOUR President. You made her electable. She couldn't win without you.

Even if the C.S. Lewis quote about exhausted, make-believe financiers made any rational or historical sense, the application is nonsense. Because the idea of Hillary Clinton being some altruistic, pie-in-the-sky moralizer is a total absurdity. She's cold and clinical. She's a hugs-'n'-charity earth mom the same way Bush is a prayerful Christian. And now, she's all yours.

Poor little wingnuts. "BDS" was always supposed to be the ultimate squelcher; "Hyuk, hyuk, losing to Bush has literally driven the other side CRAZY!"

Mental illness? You think so, huh? Enjoy the next 4-8 years. As a medical diagnosis, liberal "obsession" about Bush is going to seem like a case of the sniffles.

Anonymous said...

How many Plames did she out? None.

How many US Attorneys did she fire? Zero.

Now, it's payback time.

Eric said...

I don't think conservative Americans have as much energy as the Left to contribute to "Hillary Derangement Syndrome." After all, we have jobs.

In fact, if you wander over to Daily Kos, you'll see that Hillary is the new Joe Lieberman. I don't think those nutters know how to be *for* anybody, they're just always looking for somebody to crush.

"Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all unifying agents." - Eric Hoffer

Good for blog traffic, too.

Anonymous said...

I don't think conservative Americans have as much energy as the Left to contribute to "Hillary Derangement Syndrome." After all, we have jobs.

But it's conservatives who boil and stew in their own frustrated juices. After all, liberals have sex.

Lame, Unresponsive Projection Score:
Conservatives 1, Liberals 1