Posted by
Yubaduck on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 9:30:30 PM
So I had a migraine this morning, so severe that I stayed home from school. And after a four hour nap, I was feeling better and decided to watch a little TV. On CSPAN, they were rebroadcasting a Hillary "town hall meeting" in Wisconsin. Now it appears pretty unlikely that Hillary will even win her own parties nomination, but I thought it would be educational to see what she had to say.
First of all, it was like watching someone run for class president. "If you vote for Pedro, all you wildest dreams will come true" She talked about how unfair the world is how people are being subjected to unfairness at the gas pump, unfairness by medical insurance companies, unfairness by the tax code, unfairness of the war, whine whine whine whine whine.
She discussed how she would change things, how she would extend the EIC to families making up to 200,000 and tax those making over 250,000 to pay for it. How she would change the rules to allow workers to form labor unions in all sectors of the workplace. How she would make those darn Iraqis deal with reality by threatening to and then slowly pulling out our "kids in uniform". How she would take care of the military returning with a new and expanded health care, education, and home loan package to help them transition into her nanny state. How she would take care of the elderly, the mentally ill, the middle class, the homeless, the plants and animals in the environment, the third world, our allies who hate us, our enemies who desperately want to love us, how she would be the worlds Mary Poppins providing just a spoon full of welfare sugar to help the socialist medicine go down. It was painful to watch as she tried to touch on every interest group and talking point in one painful speech. Then she took questions from the "diverse and varied crowd" It was painful to watch one after another these sham plants ask her "What would you do for _________? One after the other, she dealt with the needs of women, single parents, two income families, gay and lesbian college students, the small furry creatures affected by global warming, for every talking point in her speech, a questioner conveniently asked her a question that allowed her to reiterate and expand on her deep personal desire to continue in her thirty five year career of helping people and taking care of people. It was a sickening and revolting display of nannyism at its finest. And at the end of the hour and a half I wasted, I thought perhaps I should have taken my migraine to school.