stephanie
12-15-2007, 04:22 PM
December 15th, 2007
One of Hillary’s latest advertisements, from her official campaign site:
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Proud
In a campaign ad, Hillary talks about how she’s proud of the values she learned growing up, values she shares with many of the people she meets. And she’s especially proud of passing them on.
Sounds nice doesn’t it? So safe and familiar. So “middle class.”
Of course Mrs. Bill Clinton’s loudly proclaimed “middle class” roots have long since been a theme of her campaign — which indeed calls itself “The Middle Class Express.”
As we have mentioned before, this is lesson Hillary learned at the knee of her idol, the Communist agitator Saul Alinsky. And it is something the Clintons have used early and often.
Lest we forget, Bill Clinton’s first campaign for the Presidency was similarly based on “family values” and promises of a “middle class bill of rights,” which we were told would include “middle class tax cuts.” None of which ever happened, of course.
But at the time the New York Times found all this kow-towing to the “middle class” so distasteful they hired a Democrat strategist to attack him for it in an editorial:
Clinton’s Middle Class Hang-Up
By TED VAN DYK;
Published: January 30, 1992
… First, the Governor should abandon his shameless pandering to the middle class. Hardly a sentence passes his mouth without use of the words “middle class.” The first two economic planks of his Plan for America’s Future are naked tax cut appeals to voters that would do justice to Ronald Reagan. The first, titled Tax Relief for the Forgotten Middle Class, says “we should cut middle class taxes immediately by 10 percent.” The second, an expanded children’s tax credit, would provide an immediate $480 annual tax saving for each child in an “average income” family…
More disturbing than the tax cut grandstanding is the shorthand at work in the repetitive use of “middle class.” In 1980’s and early 1990’s political parlance, the term has been a code phrase used by moderate and conservative Democratic candidates to mean “taxpayers, not tax-eaters.” Repeated and emphasized often, it signals 1980’s Reagan Democrats that it is safe to come home to their party because poor, black, Hispanic, urban, homeless, hungry, and other people and problems out of favor in Middle America will no longer get the favored treatment they got from mushy 1960’s and 1970’s Democratic liberals…
But of course neither Mr. Dyk or the New York Times realized that Mr. Clinton was just following the Saul Alinksy playbook for gaining power. A technique his wife would also zealously follow 15 years later.
For behold the master’s prescription for a successful revolution from the final chapter of his notorious tome, Rules For Radicals, pp 184-90:
read the rest..
http://sweetness-light.com/
One of Hillary’s latest advertisements, from her official campaign site:
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Proud
In a campaign ad, Hillary talks about how she’s proud of the values she learned growing up, values she shares with many of the people she meets. And she’s especially proud of passing them on.
Sounds nice doesn’t it? So safe and familiar. So “middle class.”
Of course Mrs. Bill Clinton’s loudly proclaimed “middle class” roots have long since been a theme of her campaign — which indeed calls itself “The Middle Class Express.”
As we have mentioned before, this is lesson Hillary learned at the knee of her idol, the Communist agitator Saul Alinsky. And it is something the Clintons have used early and often.
Lest we forget, Bill Clinton’s first campaign for the Presidency was similarly based on “family values” and promises of a “middle class bill of rights,” which we were told would include “middle class tax cuts.” None of which ever happened, of course.
But at the time the New York Times found all this kow-towing to the “middle class” so distasteful they hired a Democrat strategist to attack him for it in an editorial:
Clinton’s Middle Class Hang-Up
By TED VAN DYK;
Published: January 30, 1992
… First, the Governor should abandon his shameless pandering to the middle class. Hardly a sentence passes his mouth without use of the words “middle class.” The first two economic planks of his Plan for America’s Future are naked tax cut appeals to voters that would do justice to Ronald Reagan. The first, titled Tax Relief for the Forgotten Middle Class, says “we should cut middle class taxes immediately by 10 percent.” The second, an expanded children’s tax credit, would provide an immediate $480 annual tax saving for each child in an “average income” family…
More disturbing than the tax cut grandstanding is the shorthand at work in the repetitive use of “middle class.” In 1980’s and early 1990’s political parlance, the term has been a code phrase used by moderate and conservative Democratic candidates to mean “taxpayers, not tax-eaters.” Repeated and emphasized often, it signals 1980’s Reagan Democrats that it is safe to come home to their party because poor, black, Hispanic, urban, homeless, hungry, and other people and problems out of favor in Middle America will no longer get the favored treatment they got from mushy 1960’s and 1970’s Democratic liberals…
But of course neither Mr. Dyk or the New York Times realized that Mr. Clinton was just following the Saul Alinksy playbook for gaining power. A technique his wife would also zealously follow 15 years later.
For behold the master’s prescription for a successful revolution from the final chapter of his notorious tome, Rules For Radicals, pp 184-90:
read the rest..
http://sweetness-light.com/