It's about time Hillary got angry (NY Daily News)

[kpete]

It's about time Hillary got angry
by:Lenore Skenazy
NY Daily News

Sometimes I feel as if the President and I are in a bad marriage.

It was never a love match, but I was willing to give the guy a shot. That is, until he started giving national forest land to the loggers and policy-writing privileges to the energy companies. Then there was the war. The lies about the war. The torture and the excuses for torture, the illegal detainees . . .

Pretty soon, I couldn't stand it. I wanted OUT! But after a while, I so got tired of being angry all that time that, like a beleaguered wife, I just grew resigned.

"Oh, the feds are so strapped for cash that they're going to make the folks in public housing pay more to get their toilets unclogged?" I would read. "Bet that'll make a big dent in a $400 billion deficit." Shrug. "Oh, 50 people were kidnapped in one fell swoop in Iraq, now that the place is in utter chaos? That'll really burnish America's image as a nation builder." Shrug. "Guess I'll go get a Starbucks."

But even as I was giving up, one wife was going the opposite direction. She'd been meek for a while, almost Stepford-ish in her eagerness to please, but finally, she had enough. "There are lots of things that we should be angry and outraged about," she told a crowd last week. To be angry, she declared, is "a badge of honor!"

Hillary Clinton was finally mad. And darned if the rest of the country isn't ready to be mad, too.

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[Clark2008]

1. Panderer.

She gives lip service to getting angry, but goes along with any proposal that screws the little guy: Iraqi War Resolution, the bankrupcy bill. Hell, she didn't even vote on the Patriot Act (well, I'll qualify that. Her name wasn't on a list of those voting that was posted on DU. If she did vote against it, I'll take that portion back.)

[ooglymoogly]

6. if memory serves

SHE DID NOT VOTE FOR THE BANKRUPTCY BILL. so stop saying that, joementum did

[Clark2008]

16. But how did she vote on the PATRIOT Act?

In any case, I don't really dislike her: I just know for a fact she can't win a national election. She's been vilified for so long that even Democrats in my area think she's, and I'm quoting them, "a man-hating bitch." I actually had someone say that to me the other day. And he voted for Clark in the primary and Kerry in the general election. He's also not anti-woman, he just doesn't like Hillary because of the years and years of vilification that we cannot overcome in one election.

[ooglymoogly]

17. she did vote for the patriot act

and that is one of my beefs with her, and why i would not be happy if she got the nom. i don't think she can win. the pukes are praying for a fight with her because they think she hasn't got a chance.

[Ksec]

2. They want her to get pissed off

Then they can say shes an angry person, unable to make competent decisions because of it. Thats framing at its best.

[TahitiNut]

4. "Anger in defense of liberty is not a failing!"

Pull a Goldwater on 'em. :shrug:

[helderheid]

18. Did Goldwater say that? Time to make it a bumper sticker, especially for

those of us in the Red states.

[TahitiNut]

20. Goldwater said ...

"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."

It's far past time to shove those words down the GOP's throat.

He also said ...

"A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away."
... and ...
"Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed."

[MADem]

3. Actually, this is an interesting analysis, the finish is GREAT

Americans can see that Bush's tenure has been marked by this kind of hypocrisy and incompetence, same as we witnessed during Hurricane Katrina. But until now, except in Cindy Sheehan, we haven't seen much anger.

Maybe that's because the Democrats actually believed the Republican mantra that anger is a useless, even destructive emotion.

They shouldn't have. Anger may be no substitute for action, but without it, there often isn't any action. Ask a mistreated wife. It takes anger to wake up, walk out and start a better life.

Hillary, at last, is angry. So am I. And so, it seems, is the country. Good. Because that's the first step toward change.

There's a sea change happening; and let's hope the tide washes away all the crap!

[Ksec]

10. "we haven't seen much anger." ????

apparently they havent been to any Dem sites or visited my area. I dont know anyone who isnt pissed off other than the uninformed ignorant.

[MADem]

12. I think she is speaking of the Congress, frankly

She refers to Cindy's anger, and Cindy sure as hell wasn't alone.

It's our elected reps who have been treading too carefully, afraid of being Rove'd to death. Jack Murtha was the damn canary in the coal mine, being one of the first to stand up and shout "Bullshit!" Of course, he had extreme gravitas and 95% of the Pentagon staff behind him...but the fact that he did it makes him truly deserve his PROFILE IN COURAGE award.

I'm pleased that people are starting to take note of the sea change. Sure, I wish it happened sooner, but at least it is starting to happen. We can only hope that we aren't too late, and we can turn this mess around.

[earth mom]

5. So Hillary's finally mad? Whoopee do.

I don't believe her anger is anything more than political posturing. She wasn't mad enough to support Cindy Sheehan now was she? :eyes:

Tell it to someone who cares Hillary. :puke:

[goreo8]

8. I agree with you

Hillary loves to play the victim. Poor me.

[aden_nak]

7. She's gotten angry before. Just not about anything that mattered.

My opinion of her would rise drasticly if she would stop pissing into the breeze with these "Look, I'm A Centrist, Too!" issues and do something that actually needs doing. I believe she has it in her. . . but I can't really get behind her in any way other than an "Anybody But Bush" mindset until she shows me something I'd want to vote for.

[MasonJar]

9. Good! Hil's angry! Let's encourage the anger. Give her a head's

up! You go, girl. I'm with you.

[Hubert Flottz]

11. Who Cares?

If she wasn't mad 5 years ago...who cares?

[acmavm]

13. What are we supposed to do? Believe this or give a damn? I know she's

mad about the content of video games and flag burning.

BFD.

[Imagevision]

14. Billy-boy has been hangin too much lately with Sr.Bush...

Grandma Bush actually referred to Bill Clinton as another, son?????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Talismom]

15. She's angry is she? Well that pro-occupation, pro-Patriot act, anti-flag

burning corporatist can just kiss mine good-bye! I'll be working to get out the vote and raise $s for Jonathan Tasini and you should all do the same if you NYers want a real progressive working in the Senate for us. www.TasiniforNY.org... also see www.pdamerica.org and sign on!

[FlemingsGhost]

19. It's about time Hillary Clinton got bent.

What, pray tell, could the DLC triangulation postergirl possibly be angry about?