Dick Morris seems to really detest the Clintons. His insights into their doings are amazing, if true.
****Regarding HRC's Health-Care Reform Plan: When she was traveling across the country promoting her health plan, a woman complained that she did not want to get pigeon-holed into a plan that was not of her choosing. HRC's response: "It's time to put the common good, the national interest, ahead of individuals." **** To an Objectivist like myself, this is probably the most evil statement ever spewed by anyone. Look at the most infamous, horrible mass attrocities ever committed by man: The holocaust, the Spanish Inquisition, the Crusades, Jim Crow laws, Stalin's murder spree, Japan's WW2 attrocities in China & the Phillipines...all of these can be traced to their very root: People who thought just like Hillary did... <b>"It's time to put the common good, the national interest, ahead of individuals."</b>
For Mrs. Clinton, Listening Subsides and Talk Is Louder By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ Published: December 23, 2003 Hillary from Westchester was on the line, and she was upset. "Literally, I have been accused of everything from murder on down," the first-time caller complained. "And it's hurtful and personally distressing when it first happens. But when it continues . . ." Hillary was Hillary Rodham Clinton, the junior United States senator from New York, who surprised Brian Lehrer by unexpectedly phoning his call-in show on WNYC radio in New York this month to respond to a sensational charge that a listener had made about her and her husband. There was a time when Mrs. Clinton did her best to fade into the woodwork and be seen as just another lawmaker on Capitol Hill. But these days, the woman who started her Senate candidacy with a "listening tour" cannot stop talking â or so it seems to politicians and strategists in both parties. Relentlessly and ubiquitously, Mrs. Clinton is out there, pounding away at Republicans, responding to her critics, staking out distinct positions on everything from Afghanistan and Iraq (she is a hawk) to terror money and unemployment insurance benefits (she wants more). By design or not, in the last few months she has been showing a feisty side that her critics long suspected was there but that her advisers say she has been reluctant to display. "She's just much more comfortable," said Harold M. Ickes, a longtime friend and adviser who acknowledged that Mrs. Clinton was "gun-shy" at first, largely because of her turbulent days in the White House. "She's much more sure afoot," he said. In the last several weeks, it has been all Mrs. Clinton almost all the time. She has made a string of high-profile appearances â visiting troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, giving back-to-back interviews on the Sunday morning political programs and delivering speeches to prominent foreign policy experts in Manhattan. Last month, she was the M.C. during a big Democratic dinner in Iowa attended by her party's presidential candidates. On Nov. 10, she addressed an influential business group in Manhattan about her plans for upstate New York. More remarkable, though, has been the increasingly partisan shots she has been willing to take at Republicans, who once praised her for her low-key, deferential style. Why exactly Mrs. Clinton has decided to turn up the volume is open to speculation, as is most everything in her life. Mrs. Clinton did not respond to a request for an interview. But her Senate aides say there is nothing more to it than the fact that she has learned the Senate ropes after nearly three years in office, and that she has landed some of the chamber's high-profile assignments â chiefly a seat on the Armed Services Committee â and has a lot to say. People in both parties agree that one reason Mrs. Clinton has become such a presence may be that she can. Not only is she a huge celebrity, whose memoir became a big-seller around the globe, but she is also the most popular elected Democrat in the nation, at least as measured by polls. And, according to her advisers, she is not running for president this year, so is more free to speak out than the nine Democrats who are. This, naturally, has only renewed speculation about her motives. Some people say she is riding her celebrity status and popularity among Democrats to establish herself as a party leader, perhaps to run for president, perhaps because â as she has complained to intimates â she believes the Democratic Party is in trouble. Others say she feels a personal obligation to speak out against Republicans, particularly President Bush and his allies, for squandering what she regards as the policy successes of Bill Clinton's presidency. But Mrs. Clinton's closest advisers say the changes reflect a long and complicated evolution that she has undergone since leaving the White House, where she was bound by the strictures of being a president's wife. "She's increasingly found her sea legs in the Senate and feels an obligation to speak out against the ruinous policies of Washington Republicans," said Howard Wolfson, one of Mrs. Clinton's advisers.