Indifferent to truth, willing to use police-state tactics and vulgar libels against inconvenient witnesses, hopeless on health care, and flippant and fast and loose with national security: The case against Hillary Clinton for president is open-and-shut. Of course, against all these considerations you might prefer the newly fashionable and more media-weighty notion that if you don't show her enough appreciation, and after all she's done for us, she may cry.
Christopher HitchensTags: politics united-states crying 2008 police-state iraq-war libel health-care national-security hillary-clinton united-states-elections-2008 clinton-health-care-plan-of-1993 health-care-in-the-united-states
Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first president who made a point of exhibiting himself as a born again Christian. That sparked a little light in the minds of political campaign managers: Pretend to be a religious fanatic and you can pick up a third of the vote right away. Nobody asked whether Lyndon Johnson went to church every day. Bill Clinton is probably about as religious as I am, meaning zero, but his managers made a point of making sure that every Sunday morning he was in the Baptist church singing hymns.
Noam ChomskyTags: politics christianity religion atheism united-states church fundamentalism 2008 baptism piety bill-clinton lyndon-b-johnson hymns united-states-elections-2008 jimmy-carter politics-of-the-united-states born-again-christianity political-campaigns
I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian protectors, and on that 'issue' I hope I can continue to expose and oppose any ambiguity.
Christopher HitchensTags: politics united-states totalitarianism islam 2008 terrorism war-on-terror islamism united-states-elections-2008 politics-of-the-united-states
Tags: politics delusion europe 2008 barack-obama hero-worship united-states-elections-2008
This Sarah Palin phenomenon is very curious. I think somebody watching us from Mars—they would think the country has gone insane.
Noam ChomskyTags: politics united-states 2008 sarah-palin mars united-states-elections-2008 mccain-campaign-2008
One might come up with other and kinder distinctions (I shall not be doing so) but the plain fact about the senator from New York is surely that she is a known quantity who has already been in the White House purely as the result of a relationship with a man, and not at all a quixotic outsider who represents the aspirations of an 'out' group, let alone a whole sex or gender.
Christopher HitchensTags: politics united-states feminism new-york 2008 bill-clinton white-house hillary-clinton united-states-elections-2008 first-lady-of-the-united-states 21st-century
Mrs. Clinton, speaking to a black church audience on Martin Luther King Day last year, did describe President George W. Bush as treating the Congress of the United States like 'a plantation,' adding in a significant tone of voice that 'you know what I mean ...'
She did not repeat this trope, for some reason, when addressing the electors of Iowa or New Hampshire. She's willing to ring the other bell, though, if it suits her. But when an actual African-American challenger comes along, she rather tends to pout and wince at his presumption (or did until recently).
Tags: politics united-states hypocrisy george-w-bush racism 2008 barack-obama new-hampshire martin-luther-king-jr iowa african-americans hillary-clinton united-states-elections-2008 plantation
Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly.
Tariq AliTags: politics power united-states bravery cowardice barack-obama health-care 2010 united-states-elections-2008 affordable-care-act health-care-reform
I shall not vote for Sen. Obama and it will not be because he—like me and like all of us—carries African genes. And I shall not be voting for Mrs. Clinton, who has the gall to inform me after a career of overweening entitlement that there is 'a double standard' at work for women in politics; and I assure you now that this decision of mine has only to do with the content of her character. We will know that we have put this behind us when [...] we have outgrown and forgotten the original prejudice.
Christopher HitchensTags: women united-states feminism chauvinism race racism 2008 barack-obama hillary-clinton united-states-elections-2008
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