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Hillary Clinton Racist Slurs - Hillary Clinton the Anti Semite.
Hillary - "I wouldn't have started the war in Iraq"
"If I had been president in October of 2002, I would not have
started this war." This counterfactual elicited strong cheers
from the audiences Clinton supporters, but was notable in that
it was demonstrably wrong, not an apology for her pro-war vote,
and irrelevant.
 Clinton did vote to go to war and she has never apologized for
that vote. No electoral scenario existed whereby Clinton would
have been president in 2002, so statements about what she might
have done had she held an office in 2002 that she did not run
for in 2000 are not worth the breathe she spend making them, let
alone the applause that they inexplicably garnered.
Clinton also addressed a conceivable future in her DNC speech
(video here), "If we in Congress don't end this war before
January of 2009, as president I will." This statement is as
clear as it gets. Clinton promised to end the war in Iraq if she
takes office in January 2009. She made this promise to a room of
thousands of Democratic loyalists, people who have been fighting
to end this war since the day it started, people who have lost
family members or themselves been injured in Iraq. And she made
a promise, not unlike other Democratic candidates, to be sure
that the war would end immediately were she to be given the
reins of this country.
Clinton lied. Or at least changed her mind in the last month,
though this is hardly a better explanation.
Michael Gordon and Patrick Healy have an article in today's New
York Times based around an interview of Clinton and what she
will do in Iraq if elected president. In it Clinton says that
she would keep American troops on the ground in Iraq, though
shift their mission to remove them from playing a role
adjudicating the civil war and refocus on fighting Al Qaeda in
Iraq. The crux of Clinton's January 2009 plan is this: "What we
can do is to almost take a line sort of north of, between
Baghdad and Kirkuk, and basically put our troops into that
region -- the ones that are going to remain for our
antiterrorism mission; for our northern support mission; for our
ability to respond to the Iranians; and to continue to provide
support, if called for, for the Iraqis."
Senator Clinton, changing which parts of Iraq we focus our
military's attention is not the same as ending the war. It's not
even part of the same conversation.
Clinton told Healy and Gordon: "Trying to withdraw is not
something you snap your fingers and tell people, do it
tomorrow." Maybe, but that's what you said you would do if
elected president. You said, "If we in Congress don't end this
war before January of 2009, as president I will."
Clinton's is not a liberal, Democratic vision for ending the war
in Iraq nor is it a plausible flushing out of the same ideas
that Clinton presented at the DNC winter meeting. Matt Stoller
described Clinton's position well, "It's a genuinely and deeply
conservative foreign policy strategy, involving indefinitely
keeping US troops in Iraq for unspecified national security
interests while calling the war over." What goes unstated is how
monumentally unacceptable Clinton's Iraq plan is for the
Democratic Party and America.
Clinton came to the DNC and spoke with the Democratic base. She
twice asserted that a Hillary Clinton presidency would mean no
more war in Iraq. Yet this is clearly not the position that she
holds; her real position is to continue America's presence in
Iraq for the indefinite future that starts in January 2009.
Clinton's lies at the DNC stem directly from her inability to
wrap her mind around the idea of implementing the only sound
course for Iraq: ending the war now and bringing our troops
home.
Although Jimmy Carter has had to endured non-stop libelous
accusations of anti-Semitism from the conventional media, virtually
no attention has been given to Hillary's Clinton's reported
anti-Jewish statements. This is another example of the impenetrable
media bubble placed around HRC since her husband first ran for
president.
There have been a few exceptions. For example, in August 2000, the
NY Post reported:
"The Arkansas man who accused Hillary Rodham Clinton last month of
uttering an anti-Semitic slur in 1974 has passed a lie-detector test
arranged by The Post. Paul Fray, who has charged Mrs. Clinton called
him a "f- - -ing Jew bastard" after Bill Clinton lost his race for
Congress, cleared the polygraph exam administered Sunday near his
home here. "There's no doubt in my mind that Mr. Fray is truthful,"
concluded state-licensed Arkansas polygrapher Jeff Hubanks, who gave
the three-hour test. . . The findings were reviewed yesterday by
another expert, Richard Keifer, a former head of the FBI's polygraph
unit who has 20 years of experience. Keifer judged the results
"inconclusive" because they didn't meet the high federal polygraph
standards - but said he found nothing to indicate Fray was lying.
Clinton campaign spokesman Howard Wolfson said, "Paul Fray is an
admitted liar, and we're not going to be responding to his lies
anymore."
That same year former Arkansas state trooper Larry Patterson claimed
that in their frequent arguments, Bill and Hillary Clinton would use
such expressions as "Jew motherf*cker," "Jew Boy" and "Jew Bastard."
That same year, the Review discussed the issue of how the media
handles these matters:
PROGRESSIVE REVIEW, 2000 - The kid gloves treatment of Hillary
Clinton's alleged ethnic slurs is, of course, in marked contrast to
the media handling of, say, John Rocker, Louis Farrakhan or Jesse
Jackson. But she is not the only one who has been give a pass. A
reader sends along a 1997 issue of the Progressive with an article
by Susan Douglas that includes this:
"As ABC News reminded us over and over, the lesson from Tiger
Woods's victory is 'that anyone can make it to the top.' Woods was
immediately canonized by every news outlet in the land as a
breakthrough, trans-racial saint, an agent of integration and
goodwill. The newscasters genuflected. Once again, the future of
western civilization was freighted onto the shoulders of the latest
guy who can throw/hit/kick a ball. The media pilloried pro-golfer
Fuzzy Zoeller for making racist remarks about fried chicken and
collard greens. But they have virtually ignored Woods's own racist,
sexist, and homophobic remarks.
"In the April issue of GQ, Woods speculated that 'good-looking women
hang around baseball and basketball' because 'black guys have big
dicks.' And he asks: Why do lesbians always get to their destination
so quickly? He answers: 'Because lesbians are always going
sixty-nine.' This doesn't fit into the pack journalism "new-messiah"
image, now does it? So just let it slide."
But the current masters of applying multiple standards to matters
claimed to be worthy of zero tolerance may well be the Blair
government. Not only was Tony Blair's campaign to end under-aged
drinking in bars celebrated by his son turning up dead drunk on a
London sidewalk, but Home Secretary Jack Straw, riding in a car
driven by a special branch officer, was pulled over for doing 103
mph on a motorway. The incident occurred at 8:55 am as Straw was
rushing to a meeting with Blair, perhaps to discuss new measures to
make the British behave. Straw, hit man for Blair's zero tolerance
policies, also has a son who got into trouble with the police after
selling ten pounds (sterling) of marijuana to an undercover
reporter.
Whatever the facts of the matter, the accusation in a new book that
Hillary Clinton called one of her staffers a "Jew bastard" in 1974
adds a significant new problem to her already troubled effort.
Clinton flatly denied the incident ever happened and quoted her
husband as saying, "I was there on election night in 1974 and this
charge is simply not true."
The campaign also produced a 1997 handwritten letter from the man
allegedly excoriated, Paul Fray, to Hillary Clinton in which he
says, "I have wronged you. I ask for your forgiveness because I did
say things against you, and called you names, not only to your face
-- but behind your back . . . names that are unmentionable." The
circumstances under which Fray allegedly wrote the letter are not
clear but the document is reminiscent of the affidavits signed by
various women denying being sexually involved with Clinton's
husband. The Clintons have the largest collection of affidavits and
letters attesting to alleged non-events to be found in contemporary
politics.
Fray's comments, quoted in Jerry Oppenheimer's new book, "State of a
Union," have been verified not only by his wife but by another
Clinton aide at the time, Neill McDonald.
According to Michael Kramer in the NY Daily News:
"The slur allegedly was uttered at a heated, finger-pointing session
at Bill Clinton's Fayetteville, Ark., campaign headquarters on
election night in 1974, following his defeat in his first try for
political office, a run for Congress in Arkansas' 3rd Congressional
District. In the room that night were Bill Clinton; his
then-girlfriend, Hillary Rodham; Paul Fray, Clinton's campaign
manager, and Fray's wife, Mary Lee. Another campaign worker, Neill
McDonald, was just outside the door and says he heard everything.
The story of that encounter has been widely reported before, but
without any charge that Hillary Rodham ripped into Paul Fray using
an anti-Semitic slur. In interviews with The News on Friday and
Saturday, the Frays and McDonald all confirmed that Hillary uttered
the slur. McDonald said Hillary was speaking in the "heat of battle"
and that he doesn't believe she is an anti-Semite. McDonald added
that he is and has always been a supporter of the Clintons.". . .
Dick Morris has joined the fracas, repeating his previous claims
that on one occasion HR Clinton said to him, "Money, that's all you
people care about is money." Morris says he responded, "By money,
Hillary, by you people, I assume you mean political consultants?"
And she said, 'Oh yes, of course that's what I mean.' But it wasn't
what I thought she meant."
The president had risen to HR Clinton's defense but his credentials
are more than a little suspect ever since the tapes of his
conversations with Gennifer Flowers, which included this Flowers
comment on Mario Cuomo: "Well, he seems like he could get real mean
. . . I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't have some mafioso major
connections." And Clinton replies, "Well, he acts like one."
And then there's that police sting video of Roger Clinton saying he
has to get some cocaine for his brother who has a nose like a vacumn
cleaner, in which Roger makes free use of the word nigger, a term
trooper Patterson says he also heard from WJ Clinton when talking
about Jesse Jackson and prominent Little Rock black figure, Robert
'Say' McIntosh.
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