Posted by
Bob Parks on Monday, April 21, 2008 10:57:57 AM
I touched on this over the weekend, but the more I think about it, the more I feel the need to expend a long-simmering rant.
I saw this op/ed in the Burlington Free Press by a now-enlightened Hector J. Vila, assistant professor in writing at Middlebury College …
“I have entered into an agreement with my mother and one of her friends: If Hillary Clinton is the nominee of the Democratic Party we won't vote in the national election.”
The writer then goes on to enumerate the many things the Clintons have done during and after their presidency. What really gets me is his tone, which gives readers the impression that he’s tipping us off to things we did not know.
For example, he talks about Hillary’s now-laughable story of her serpentine under enemy sniper fire in Bosnia.
“Sidestepping the truth is in the Clintons' DNA. Continuing down this road will drain us emotionally and spiritually. My mother, her friends and I are exhausted.”
Over the years, I’ve been called a “sell out” and “Uncle Tom” for being a Republican, but it was precisely my intellectually honest fatigue of blindly defending the Clinton escapades of the 90’s that prompted me to change my party affiliation in 1995.
I too was tired of lying for them. Thirteen years later I am, all of a sudden, not alone…?
As I peruse the Daily Kos and Huffington Post prop up all things Obama, they now lecture us about Hillary and the Clinton family trait of dishonesty. What galls me is that these were the very people who called people like me a “Clinton hater” for simply doing what they are doing now. These Democrats act like we should have known this about the Clintons long ago.
Many of us did. Continued...