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Hypocricy, thy name is Democrats
Posted on: October 17, 2016 at 17:50:30 CT
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Michelle Obama’s emotional speech denouncing Donald Trump for alleged sexual misconduct last week got rave reviews from the left. She called Trump’s words and reported actions “shocking” and “demeaning,” and below “basic standards of human decency.”
Well said, and she gave a moving performance — but it would have been more powerful if the first lady had dared to say the same things about the proven sexual misconduct of fellow Democrats Bill Clinton or the late Ted Kennedy. Or if she had denounced the crude rappers she invites to the White House for their “demeaning” lyrics about women.
But she didn’t, which spotlights the Achilles’ heel of her argument. To wit, selective outrage in the service of partisan politics is neither moral nor persuasive.
Politics, someone once said, ain’t beanbag, and there is nothing more hardball than the stretch run of this year’s presidential campaign. The only rule is that there are no rules.
Because sex sells, and because she is seriously hobbled by her own past, Hillary Clinton is now running almost exclusively on charges that her opponent is a pig and a predator. The charges are spilling nonstop from the front pages and airwaves in a coordinated effort to deliver a kill shot to the Republican nominee.
The barrage represents selective outrage on an industrial scale, and is conveniently timed. Coming simultaneously with the WikiLeaks release of Clinton camp emails and continuing disclosures about the flawed FBI investigation of her private server, many voters know far more about the allegations against Trump than about the latest proof of Clinton’s deceptions, not to mention her aides’ attacks on Christians, Latinos and Bernie Sanders.
The email revelations, including numerous examples of biased media helping Clinton, deserve more attention. Instead, the lopsided focus on Trump is, temporarily at least, tilting the table toward a Clinton victory. Unless Trump gets back to matters of national substance and reverses the slide, he’s toast.
But so, then, would be the hopes of millions of Americans who have greater concerns than feverish reports about one candidate’s sexual mores. While there are understandable reasons to vote for Clinton and against Trump, alleged offensive conduct that happened years ago, and which was never reported to police, should not be the sole deciding factor in picking a president.
That is not to suggest the charges against Trump are false. Knowing what we know about his lifestyle and ego, I believe at least some are true.
But so were most of the even worse charges about Bill Clinton’s sexual depravity while he held government power, starting in Arkansas, and ending in the Oval Office with an intern near his daughter’s age. And Hillary Clinton, after trashing her husband’s accusers, saved his presidency by staying married to him.
Clinton and Trump are limited to trying to make each other more toxic and less acceptable.
Thus, the record of both Clintons must count in weighing whether the sexual charges against Trump disqualify him from consideration.
When this campaign began, we knew that the character of both candidates — writ large — would shape the outcome. The two most disliked and distrusted major-party nominees in modern times, Clinton and Trump failed to improve their own standing, and now are limited to trying to make each other more toxic and less acceptable.
It is a joyless and soulless mud battle that is dispiriting and leaves little time for the vital matters the next president will face in just three months.
To cite a few: the collapse of ObamaCare, the erosion of middle-class incomes and the outbreak of murder, arson and looting in major cities, the metastasizing of Islamic terrorism, Iran’s expanding aggressions and a growing confrontation with Russia. Then there’s the Supreme Court.
Barack Obama’s regime is crash-landing, making it imperative that the next president be ready on Day One. Staggering challenges and crises await the winner, so let’s choose wisely, and for the right reasons.
Michelle Obama’s emotional speech denouncing Donald Trump for alleged sexual misconduct last week got rave reviews from the left. She called Trump’s words and reported actions “shocking” and “demeaning,” and below “basic standards of human decency.”
Well said, and she gave a moving performance — but it would have been more powerful if the first lady had dared to say the same things about the proven sexual misconduct of fellow Democrats Bill Clinton or the late Ted Kennedy. Or if she had denounced the crude rappers she invites to the White House for their “demeaning” lyrics about women.
But she didn’t, which spotlights the Achilles’ heel of her argument. To wit, selective outrage in the service of partisan politics is neither moral nor persuasive.
Politics, someone once said, ain’t beanbag, and there is nothing more hardball than the stretch run of this year’s presidential campaign. The only rule is that there are no rules.
Because sex sells, and because she is seriously hobbled by her own past, Hillary Clinton is now running almost exclusively on charges that her opponent is a pig and a predator. The charges are spilling nonstop from the front pages and airwaves in a coordinated effort to deliver a kill shot to the Republican nominee.
The barrage represents selective outrage on an industrial scale, and is conveniently timed. Coming simultaneously with the WikiLeaks release of Clinton camp emails and continuing disclosures about the flawed FBI investigation of her private server, many voters know far more about the allegations against Trump than about the latest proof of Clinton’s deceptions, not to mention her aides’ attacks on Christians, Latinos and Bernie Sanders.
The email revelations, including numerous examples of biased media helping Clinton, deserve more attention. Instead, the lopsided focus on Trump is, temporarily at least, tilting the table toward a Clinton victory. Unless Trump gets back to matters of national substance and reverses the slide, he’s toast.
But so, then, would be the hopes of millions of Americans who have greater concerns than feverish reports about one candidate’s sexual mores. While there are understandable reasons to vote for Clinton and against Trump, alleged offensive conduct that happened years ago, and which was never reported to police, should not be the sole deciding factor in picking a president.
That is not to suggest the charges against Trump are false. Knowing what we know about his lifestyle and ego, I believe at least some are true.
But so were most of the even worse charges about Bill Clinton’s sexual depravity while he held government power, starting in Arkansas, and ending in the Oval Office with an intern near his daughter’s age. And Hillary Clinton, after trashing her husband’s accusers, saved his presidency by staying married to him.
Clinton and Trump are limited to trying to make each other more toxic and less acceptable.
Thus, the record of both Clintons must count in weighing whether the sexual charges against Trump disqualify him from consideration.
When this campaign began, we knew that the character of both candidates — writ large — would shape the outcome. The two most disliked and distrusted major-party nominees in modern times, Clinton and Trump failed to improve their own standing, and now are limited to trying to make each other more toxic and less acceptable.
It is a joyless and soulless mud battle that is dispiriting and leaves little time for the vital matters the next president will face in just three months.
To cite a few: the collapse of ObamaCare, the erosion of middle-class incomes and the outbreak of murder, arson and looting in major cities, the metastasizing of Islamic terrorism, Iran’s expanding aggressions and a growing confrontation with Russia. Then there’s the Supreme Court.
Barack Obama’s regime is crash-landing, making it imperative that the next president be ready on Day One. Staggering challenges and crises await the winner, so let’s choose wisely, and for the right reasons.
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Hypocricy, thy name is Democrats - Spanky KU - 10/17 17:50:30
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