Hillary's Holy Hubris of Hypocrisy

Hillary getting desperate as the numbers clearly do not add up to hand her the nomination she goes to the right wing smear job Richard Mellon Scaife who once accused her of being behind the
murder of Vince Foster. (Foster committed suicide during the Bill Clinton regime)



http://www.alternet.org/story/16167/






We have for some time heard Hillary whine about the "vast right wing conspiracy," and she is indeed correct that there is one. She has joined it.

From Harpers:

Ivanwald, which sits at the end of Twenty-fourth Street North in Arlington, Virginia, is known only to its residents and to the members and friends of the organization that sponsors it, a group of believers who refer to themselves as "the Family." The Family is, in its own words, an "invisible" association, though its membership has always consisted mostly of public men. Senators Don Nickles (R., Okla.), Charles Grassley (R., Iowa), Pete Domenici (R., N.Mex.), John Ensign (R., Nev.), James Inhofe (R., Okla.), Bill Nelson (D., Fla.), and Conrad Burns (R., Mont.) are referred to as "members," as are Representatives Jim DeMint (R., S.C.), Frank Wolf (R., Va.), Joseph Pitts (R., Pa.), Zach Wamp (R., Tenn.), and Bart Stupak (D., Mich.).
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They are “the Family”—fundamentalism’s avant-garde, waging spiritual war in the halls of American power and around the globe. They consider themselves the “new chosen,” congressmen, generals, and foreign dictators who meet in confidential “cells,” to pray and plan for a “leadership led by God,” to be won not by force but through “quiet diplomacy.” Their base is a leafy estate overlooking the Potomac in Arlington, Virginia, and Jeff Sharlet is the only journalist to have written from inside its walls. The Family is about the other half of American fundamentalist power—not its angry masses, but its sophisticated elites. Sharlet follows the story back to Abraham Vereide, an immigrant preacher who in 1935 organized a small group of businessmen sympathetic to European fascism, fusing the Far Right with his own polite but authoritarian faith. From that core, Vereide built an international network of fundamentalists who spoke the language of establishment power, a “family” that thrives to this day. In public, they host prayer breakfasts; in private they preach a gospel of “biblical capitalism,” military might, and American empire. Citing Hitler, Lenin, and Mao, Doug Coe, the Family's current leader, declares, "We work with power where we can, build new power where we can't." Sharlet’s discoveries dramatically challenge conventional wisdom about American fundamentalism, revealing its crucial role in the unraveling of the New Deal, the waging of the Cold War, and the no-holds-barred economics of globalization. The question Sharlet believes we must ask is not “What do fundamentalists want?” but “What have they already done?”

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5249775

Hillary's Nasty Pastorate
Barbara Ehrenreich

This article first appeared on Barbara Ehrenreich's blog.There's a reason Hillary Clinton has remained relatively silent during the flap over intemperate remarks by Barack Obama's former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. When it comes to unsavory religious affiliations, she's a lot more vulnerable than Obama.
You can find all about it in a widely under-read article in the September 2007 issue of Mother Jones, in which Kathryn Joyce and Jeff Sharlet reported that "through all of her years in Washington, Clinton has been an active participant in conservative Bible study and prayer circles that are part of a secretive Capitol Hill group known as "The "Fellowship," also known as The Family. But it won't be a secret much longer. Jeff Sharlet's shocking exposé The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power will be published in May.
Sean Hannity has called Obama's church a "cult," but that term applies far more aptly to Clinton's "Family," which is organized into "cells"--their term--and operates sex-segregated group homes for young people in northern Virginia. In 2002, Sharlet joined The Family's home for young men, forswearing sex, drugs and alcohol, and participating in endless discussions of Jesus and power. He wasn't undercover; he used his own name and admitted to being a writer. But he wasn't completely out of danger either. When he went outdoors one night to make a cell phone call, he was followed. He still gets calls from Family associates asking him to meet them in diners--alone. http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080331/ehrenreich

While John McCain has flip flopped on taxes, and stated that the USA would be in Iraq for a 100 years, Hillary touts him as "passing the competence test to be commander and chief, ...according to her only she and John McCain pass this test. Perhaps Hillary is running for the wrong ticket, she seems to want to run with McCain - let's let her go.

Because we have been living with a holy hubris of hypocrisy from the Republican Guard robbery squad for some time, why repeat history with another one of their minions, just because she is a woman? Don't insult my intelligence and I will not insult yours. Let us send her to work with John McCain, whom she seems ready to support over her own party in any case. Let her go we are all sick to death of her haranguing, lying, projecting style. Certainly I want to vote for a woman as president - but not this facsimile of a woman who has simply joined a cult that has been increasing its oppression of America for sixty long years.