This type of attitude is the reason that former President William J. Clinton, for all his many faults, has always landed on his feet. (That goes double for his wife, the junior US senator from New York.)
"This election presents a great opportunity for President Bush and a great opportunity for Democrats, and the two are not necessarily in conflict," he said in a speech before the Urban Land Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. [SNIP]
"It's a mistake for our party to sit around and whine," Clinton said. "We've had four straight elections where we were competitive. From 1968 to 1992, we won one vote and got beaten bad in all the others."
Actually the former president has always been sane and canny. (His morality and his decision-making processes are another story.) Without him, it seems that his party has forgotten how to win but not how to grumble or to flee in the wake of not getting its way.
OTTAWA (Reuters) - The number of U.S. citizens visiting Canada's main immigration Web site has shot up six-fold as Americans flirt with the idea of abandoning their homeland after President Bush's election win this week.
Cut-and-Run in the face of adversity; no wonder some quarters on the left expect President Bush to do the same with regard to Iraq.
And then there are the snobby, elite haters of all things and all people religious--Christian things and Christian people, at least—pulling their hair out over those fundamentalist "terrorist" dolts in the Republican-red Heartland.
Here is how ignorance works: First, they [red-state voters] put the fear of God into you—if you don't believe in the literal word of the Bible, you will burn in hell. Of course, the literal word of the Bible is tremendously contradictory, and so you must abdicate all critical thinking, and accept a simple but logical system of belief that is dangerous to question. A corollary to this point is that they make sure you understand that Satan resides in the toils and snares of complex thought and so it is best not try it.[SNIP]
The history of the last four years shows that red state types, above all, do not want to be told what to do—they prefer to be ignorant. As a result, they are virtually unteachable.
I'll bet the Clintons are reading this sort of stupidity and slapping themselves on the forehead.
Imaginary conversation in Chappaqua:
HRC: “How can we get back in the White House with these dumba** &^%^&% journalists terminally alienating such large chunks of the constituencies that we need to sweet-talk from the Republicans in ’08? Can’t they just STFU for a change? I oughta disappear that stupid Smiley bag!”
WJC: “Now, now, Dearest, calm down. That would be too overbearing. You need to come up with something more nuanced. Heh. You know, like that fantastic bogus bypass idea you had, so I wouldn’t have to stain my winning reputation by campaigning too long with that clown Kerry.”
HRC: “Our winning reputation!”
WJC: “Yes, Dear.”
Yes, Senator Clinton in 2008: not an endorsement but a prediction—yes, I know, not an incredibly prescient one. You don’t see her having a feces-fit, at least not in public (especially not for a Bush win, likely her druthers). She and her husband have two of the most priceless gifts known to politicians: knowing when to keep one’s mouth shut and knowing what to say all other times. You’ll notice that neither of the Clintons are professional journalists.
Keep watch.
(Thanks to Acidman)
UPDATE: Ms. Smiley's anti-Christian screed is being reviled all over the place.
