Declaring Independents.com LogoLiberty TowerFree Books

  • Archives

  • Categories

One Party Nation?

by Editors
One Party Nation?

How—And Why are  Bill Clinton and Laura Bush Partying Together?

By:  Dr. Leonard Carrier, D.W. In-House Historian and Philosopher

PREFATORY NOTE (by D.W. Foreign Policy Editor, Dusty Schoch) :      While we might all prefer Len lower his erudite guns on the theaters  of American folly abroad  in Iraq, Iran, Mexican border (list must end here for conservation of space), I am appreciative as always of the poignancy with which he paints the now blurring  lines of demarcation between Democrats and Republicans where their rubber is hitting  our road to the future. Money and power create a powerful club, argues Len and  I have to concede it.  Dollars may be both the common denominator of the Republican and Democratic elite; or more pertinently, Dollars may be the denominator that renders them both common.

Hell, for that matter, Dollars may be the best way to end the divisive brouhaha over our National Pledge of Allegiance: Just excise the last letter in four-letter “Hell” and implant it in “God” and you get the E Pluribus that will clearly Unam us  again….. “In Gold We Trust”!  Now, who in hell’s going to  debate that? Sorry I’m raising all this “hell” today, but through a speech given by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in the U.N.  just yesterday, I learned who the devil really is.  And he is in fact the same one in charge of and currently spending all America’s gold, and in all the wrong places.

   Len, at the risk of aiding the neo-con practice of slamming Clinton as a Democratic effigy, or handy “straw man”,  is making informed comment here on Laura Bush’s jumping on board and stage to strut her eleemosynary stuff in token support of Clinton’s  Global Initiative which is a follow-up to the 2005 event that brought $2.5 billion in pledges to help solve challenges such as the HIV infection in Africa.

The first lady’s speech next Wednesday (Sept. 27, 06) will cover topics such as literacy and education, AIDS and women’s rights that she has highlighted in her travels. The whole story is available on line at the following link:

http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0906/361089.html

 

 

Now, the story thru Len’s keen  lens . . .

 

            Is this bizarre?  Bill Clinton and Laura Bush are now teaming up for a charitable venture. This is not to knock the goal of raising money for a good cause.  By all means, this is something that the former president and the present first lady should be doing.  But why do it together?  It was also a bit strange for Clinton and Bush Sr. to act like chums for their tsunami rescue mission. That was another good cause, but why couldn’t the Democrats raise their own money and let the Republicans raise theirs?  They probably could have had a contest to see who raised more.  But then there wouldn’t have been the photo-ops of the two ex-presidents and former adversaries acting like buddies.  Those warm, fuzzy moments played so well in the media. They told us that all was forgiven, and that they were now great friends.

Pardon me for being cynical, but this latest melding of Democrat and Republican power people makes me suspect that there’s no real difference in who gets to run the show. That suspicion was first planted when Rupert Murdoch, whose Fox television station regularly blasts progressive thinking, hosted a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton. It seems to me that the big-name politicians in either party just take turns running with the same baton. In 2008, will it be Hillary’s turn, she of the ever-changing mind?  It would not surprise me to see Bill nodding benignly behind the scenes, while his wife pardons “W” for his sins in wasting more than 3,000 American lives waging a criminal war while he was president—a war that Hillary voted for and still won’t emphatically denounce.  The celebrities change places at the table, but the party seems to go on; and the American people keep getting stuck with the bill.  The multi-millionaires who run the country contribute to both parties, and so regardless of who is elected they get to do what they want and pay their media flacks to say what they want them to say.  I ask myself when the American people are going to realize that they don’t really have a voice anymore.  When are they going to start electing people who care about their country and not about being seen glad-handing at posh fund-raisers and celebrity events? The cynic in me says, “Probably never.”

I’m cynical about the electorate because when gasoline prices go down, Bush’s popularity goes up, as if that could possibly make him a better president.  I’m betting that those prices will be back below $2.00 a gallon before November 7.   It would be sad to think that we’re going down the tubes of history because we really didn’t care about defending our Constitution and its values, just so long as we could keep on driving our SUVs.  Plato had Socrates say that voting by ballot was no better than voting by lottery, because the electorate could be swayed by empty rhetoric and high-flown phrases.  I keep hoping that Socrates was wrong, but with big media teaming with big business and big celebrity to keep the party going, the odds seem stacked against it.

Leonard Carrier

0saves
If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader.
This entry was posted in America, Corporations, Political. Bookmark the permalink.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

*

You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

American Facism EnterChronicles of the Shade enter