Daily Archives: June 15, 2009

Clintonite Politics Redux

I know it has been about a year and your memory might be fuzzy on this, but we had immense delight this weekend watching Hillary Clinton get rolled out in front of the media to comment on the Iranian elections.

To listen to her have to remark on things like “respecting the will of the people” and to let “the voters decide” just made me laugh. Hell, I probably actually chortled. I mean, a year ago, this lady was officially out of the running for the Democratic nomination and was insisting on not conceding until the superdelegates could pull a backdoor stunt to give the brass ring to her. Or, as she so delicately stated, until someone assassinated Barack Obama.

Here, take a look:

In another fun bit of Clintonian failure, vulgar Clinton Mouthpiece Terry McAuliffe lost his carpetbagger stunt at being the Democratic nominee for the governor’s race in Virginia.

Let us hope that this streak continues and the Clintons and their followers are continually forced to a) eat their words, and b) fail when trying to gain leadership roles in this nation. Their advise is of use and they do not require constant shunning, but their brand of self-serving “leadership” is something we need to move on from.

altmuslim – Terrorism: The unequal treatment of two religiously motivated crimes

A psychotic white right winger violates the sanctity of a church and kills a doctor.

A hardcore black Muslim convert shoots at two recruiters and kills one.

Only one of them gets charged with terrorism. If you guessed the black Muslim, you’d be correct.

I’m not saying the recruiter shooter shouldn’t have the book thrown at him – he should – but so should the assassin who actually knew the name of his target.

Read this for more on the injustice between the two scumbags.

I imagine Old van Brunn the Nazi Lover will be treated with kid gloves too, even though he, too, is another right wing terrorist. You know, because of the color of his skin.

It may not be overt racism, but it IS there. And it is playing out – once again – in courtrooms across America.

Asia Times Online :: The Meaning of Tehran Spring

Even though CNN has ignored it, there is a viable political protest going on in Iran. The people there are protesting what increasingly seems to be a flawed and rigged election. The will of the people has definitely not been listened to.

Aside from the violence, wouldn’t it have been great to see Americans protest a stolen election? You know, perhaps in 2000 or 2004? Just saying. The Iranians had a FIVE MILE LONG protest march through Tehran today. We sat on our asses and let Bush steal two elections.

And you wonder why the world laughs at us.

The first part of today’s Here and Now covers the protests. The BBC has, as usual, provided excellent coverage.

The Boston Globe uses images to tell the story.

As does Time Magazine.

Time also addressed the argument for why the vote was rigged.

News is increasingly being more and more censored in Iraq. The BBC complains that it’s Persian service is being jammed and cell signals are pretty much a no-no. What internet that remains is being utilized by various Twitter feeds. Here is one and Andrew Sullivan has a list of others.

The irony here is that even an alternative to Ahmedinejad would still be anti-West and fairly conservative. There is no liberal democratic movement on the ballot. That said, even given a choice, the people’s voice should be respected.

And to think we could have voted for a small-minded man whose only regional policy was “Bomb, Bomb, Iran”.

Still want to hate on Obama jerks?