Democratic Party is one big trailer park filled with Jerry Springer contestants
Democrats more dysfunctional than ever
Barack Obama’s people have said that Hillary Clinton will probably not be the Democratic vice presidential candidate because of her husband, Bill’s past. In explaining why the former First Lady will likely not be on the ticket, an Obama spokesman said that vice-presidential candidates must be “fully vetted”. Apparently this means full disclosure of all information pertaining to Hillary’s husband, including financial information, names of past contributors and whether or not he has “any girlfriends”.
Now, I’ve never been much of a fan of the Clintons, but I find the Obama campaign’s objections to Hillary because of her husband’s past, frankly offensive. Aren’t the Democrats supposed to be the party that takes people at face value, regardless of their race, their gender, their religion, etc.? If so, then why is Hillary being punished because of the sins of her husband?
What’s more, aren’t these the same Democrats that less than a decade ago defended the then sitting president during impeachment proceedings brought about as a result of Bill’s perjury and suborning perjury? As I recall there was something about a “vast right-wing conspiracy” bent on bringing Bill Clinton down.
Also, for Obama’s people to be concerned about Bill Clinton’s past is a joke, given the people with whom Obama has been associated over the past 20 years. At least Bill Clinton was a two-term president, compared to Obama’s less than two years in the Senate. Obama’s associates, such as the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, whose ravings and raging against America raised serious concern’s about the candidate’s suitability until Obama threw him under the bus. Another huge concern for the American electorate should be Obama’s wife, Michele and her angry mouth, if we are going to get into spousal missteps. Then there’s Obama’s association with Tony Rezko, a Democratic fundraiser who was recently convicted of corruption in Federal Court in Chicago.
The reasons the Obama campaign is giving for not wanting Hillary on the ticket are specious in the extreme. The real reason is more likely to have to do with the mutual contempt in which the two former rivals hold for one another.
It’s also somewhat bizarre to have a Democratic presidential candidate claim that a former Democratic president’s past is an impediment for a member of that president’s family to serve as vice president. I don’t think I would have as much of a problem with Obama’s refusal to take Hillary on as running mate because of her own dodgy past, of which there is more than sufficient cause for concern. But then, the entire Democratic Party seems to have a dodgy past.
When one looks at the current Democratic leadership there is real cause for concern if any of these people are fit to hold public office under any circumstances. Let’s start with Ted Kennedy. I know this is all water under the bridge (no pun intended), but what happened at Chappaquiddick and the ensuing two-month jail sentence (which was suspended) make Kennedy the poster boy of what the Democrats are all about.
Then there’s Howard Dean of the primal scream, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, who by all accounts is certifiably bonkers, given the bizarre positions he is known to take.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is probably the weakest majority leader of any party in the history of the United States. His self congratulatory claim that he “killed the Patriot Act” will one day certainly come back to haunt him and the Democrats.
Ditto for Speaker of the house Nancy Pelosi, who initiated her own foreign policy parallel to that of the U.S. after taking office last year. Her leadership, combined with Reid’s has landed the approval ratings of the U.S. Congress in single digits for the first time in the country’s history.
There’s a lot more. I could go on about Congressman Jack Murtha, who was implicated in the Abscam corruption scandal in 1980. He managed to avoid being prosecuted by agreeing to testify against other politicians. Then there’s William Jefferson of Louisiana who kept $90,000 in cold cash in his freezer, which he recovered during the Hurricane Katrina disaster, using the Louisiana National Guard as his chauffeurs.
If truth be told, the entire Democratic Party is one big trailer park filled with Jerry Springer contestants. It’s rare to see Democrats of the stature of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, John F. Kennedy, Adlai Stevenson or Averell Harriman because the party has become so base and dysfunctional.
Rather than worry about how Bill Clinton’s past might impact the election of 2008, Barack Obama would be well-advised to think about his own personal affiliations as well as those of the entire Democratic Party. There’s a lot more cause for concern than anything in Bill Clinton’s past.
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Klaus Rohrich is senior columnist for Canada Free Press. Klaus also writes topical articles for numerous magazines. He has a regular column on retirementhomes.com and is currently working on his first book dealing with the toxicity of liberalism. His work has been featured on the Drudge Report, Rush Limbaugh, Fox News and Lucianne, among others. He lives and works in a small town outside of Toronto and is an avid student of history.
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