Hillary

Deceitful, Despicable, Devious or Delusional?

Via the brothersjuddblog.com, excerpts from a Nightline interview with Hillary Clinton:

Appalachian Ohio is a place where poverty blankets the air, at nearly twice the national average. It's the same region where more than 40 years ago, President Johnson declared his so-called 'War on Poverty."

That is why Clinton focused her campaigning here on childhood poverty, unveiling her own anti-poverty plan.

"Well, I'm focusing in particular on child poverty, because I think it's a disgrace that we have so many poor children," she said. "And I would like to see us end childhood hunger by 2012, and I'd like to see us cut childhood poverty in half by 2020."

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Forty years after Lyndon Johnson’s trillion dollar War on Poverty, Jimmy Carters “helpful” policies and eight years of the Clinton’s, the Midwest states like Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, etc. are worse off and even poorer than they were before they enjoyed a federal helping hand.

It’s a perfect example of what happens when strong independent people allow themselves to be manipulated and sweet talked into collectivism. The same pioneers who under their own steam moved west to settle in the wilderness allowed the unions to suck out their energy, take the fruit of their labor and leave a rusty hulk behind and then stunned into inaction, they allowed the feds to come in and “help” in the form of programs and handouts.

So Hillary, ignoring the preponderance of evidence that statism, nannyism, socialism, moonbattery or whatever other name it may go by, is counterproductive, can actually sit in someone’s living room and propose more of the same. Only this time it’ll be more and harder.

Can she be so delusional that she really believes what she’s saying or is she just a seasoned pol doing and saying whatever it takes to get elected?

From the same article:

Does Clinton buy into the idea of Obama as a phenomenon, appealing only to ill-informed voters? Obama doesn’t seem to have any better solutions either. "Well, I wouldn't put it that way," she said. "I think the best description, actually, is in Barack's own book, the last book he wrote, 'Audacity of Hope,' where he said that he's a blank screen. And people of widely differing views project what they want to believe onto him. And then he went on to say, 'I am bound to disappoint some, if not all of them.'"

There's not even any stealth here. Both the Democratic candidates are up front telling us they know best what's best for us and like it or not, we'll toe the mark, get in line and become good little cogs in the wheel of state.

It's preposterous that either of these two could be elected, but then, if that's so, why am I so worried?