Reply #110: Here's a good comment from a letter writer in this week's Village Voice [View All]

[despairing optimist]

Written in response to a fawning article about Hillary and how she is a darling of the Texas elite:

"Through each of the worst assaults by the Bush administration on rights, civilian bodies, and simple decency, Senator Clinton has generally been on board. She was there for Bush on the resolution to use force against Iraq and insists she has no regrets; she endorsed the Patriot Act's shredding of basic civil liberties. Like John Kerry, she has been helpfully silent on the issue of torture, occupying herself instead with the critical business of hidden porn in video games. She shares the president's enthusiasm for so-called free trade and endorses the substance, if not the style, of his opposition to gay marriage. Rumor has it she is prepared to vote in favor of Bush's nominee to the Supreme Court, John Roberts.

"Given all this, it's certainly no surprise that Clinton finds support among the business and political elite of Texas. The far bigger mystery is why any New Yorker, let alone a reader of the Voice, would regard her rising star with anything but disgust and dread. And please, calling this most undistinguished of right-leaning centrists the 'lioness of liberalism' is just gross. It demeans both lions and liberals."

Michael McFadden
Park Slope


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