Anything is acceptable in the pursuit of power
Yesterday brought us the funeral of Sen. Robert Byrd. He was the nation’s oldest and longest serving Senator. He also comes with a fairly controversial past, one which drew much criticism while he was alive. I’m obviously referring to his membership in the Ku Klux Klan, and his work as a recruiter for the organization.
So what is the best way to eulogize someone’s racist, cross-burning, terrorist past? Just ask former President Bill Clinton.
So how does Mr. Clinton respond to Sen. Byrd’s past associations?
“He was a country boy who was trying to get elected.”
News Update: Upon hearing this, Godzilla took a break from destroying Tokyo to give the news a facepalm!
The logical implications of former President Clinton’s statement are astounding, but mesh well with his own personal history.
Lying under oath is acceptable if you’re trying to keep your power, right former President Clinton?
Being a recruiter for a terrorist organization which destroyed many, many lives because of irrational hatred of another person’s skin color? Nothing to see here! It’s all hunky dory, he was just trying to get power!
I guess that Mr. Clinton would excuse HItler for the concentration camps, since he wasn’t the one actually gassing the Jews, he was just associated with the people who were. He was just a Nazi because he was trying to get power. It’s ok…
James Madison once wrote in the National Gazette:
What a perversion of the natural order of things! … To make power the primary and central object of the social system, and liberty but its satellite.
To show the truth of Mr. Madison’s quote, let’s compare Mr. Clinton’s stance on this and another topic, the TEA Parties.
Mr. Clinton doesn’t care what evils were caused by Sen. Byrd’s KKK activities. He doesn’t care about the innocent black families crushed beneath the jackbooted heel of Sen. Byrd’s racist compatriots. No, all of that violence and racism is easily excused because Sen. Byrd was after power…
But those damned TEA Party supporters? Unlike Sen. Byrd and the KKK, they’re violent terrorists driven by hate and racism.
Former President Bill Clinton on Friday said that “legitimate” comparisons can be drawn between today’s grass-roots anger and resentment toward the government and the right-wing extremism that bubbled up prior to the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City 15 years ago. Politico
So here we’ve got the guy telling the whole world that the TEA Party supporters are the kinds of people who might engage in violent, racist actions because they’re trying to preserve liberty and prevent our children from growing up as debt slaves, while ignoring the burning crosses and terrified black children from Sen. Byrd’s past?
But it’s ok, Sen. Byrd was after power. Those TEA Party folks were only trying to preserve liberty.
It reminds me of the quote often attributed to Plato:
Those who ignore politics are destined to be ruled by their inferiors.
Mr. Clinton, with his hideous double standard, is certainly inferior to the average American citizen.
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You should have more respect for the dead.
After all, he died the way he lived; that is, covered in a sheet.
As Clinton goes on to say in that speech, “he spent the rest of his life making up for it.”
By, you know, funneling hundreds of millions of dollars to W Virginia for “pork” projects, among them a statue of himself in the WV statehouse.
“”I want to be West Virginia’s billion-dollar industry,” Senator Byrd happily admitted in 1990.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/04/us/how-do-west-virginians-spell-pork-it-s-b-y-r-d.html
Have more respect for the man — after all, you helped pay for his statue.
Didn’t Bill Clinton belong to a whites only country club down in Arkansas?
http://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/23/us/1992-campaign-democrats-club-where-clinton-has-golfed-retains-ways-old-south.html
Well, maybe not a member, but he certainly played golf there many many times. Maybe he and Byrd used to run into each other on the links, just south of the burning cross, not far from the strange fruit.