Clinton backs rule breakers when it benefits her

Senator Hillary Clinton on Wednesday warned that millions of people in Florida and Michigan "are in danger of being excluded from our democratic process" if their votes are not counted.

Notice how she presents this situation as a true injustice to millions of Americans? The Democratic National Convention stripped Florida and Michigan of their delegates back in January because they illegally held their primaries early. Michigan and Florida both knew they would lose their delegates but went through with the primaries anyway.

When they broke the DNC rules, she said nothing, when they discovered they will lose their delegates, she said nothing, when she learned that by them losing their delegates she would fall far behind Obama in their race to be the democratic nominee, she is now all over it.

This illustrates her motivation for anything she does now and will do if elected. It is not for the common good that she is fighting, it is for her own good. These states broke the rules knowing full well the consequences and now she is lobbying for them to not have to suffer the consequences, because it will benefit her. She is not being altruistic here. She is fully committed to the belief that rules do not have to be followed.

How do you suppose she would handle this if it was Obama who would benefit by having the DNC decision overturned?

What happens, if while president, she is confronted a with situation in which a corporation, a state or a foreign government decides they don’t want to play by the rules and by shunning those rules she will benefit personally but harm will come to our country if they are not punished? She is giving us an insight into how she will react right here and now. Pay attention people.

Clinton didn’t even consider Florida important enough to campaign in when they held their early illegal primaries on January 29. But now that she sees how their delegates would benefit her, she wants them counted.

She wants the fact that rules were ignored to go away, and she wants to benefit from it.

Florida Governor Charlie Christ’s comment, "It's unconscionable to me that some party boss in Washington is not going to permit the people to be heard. That's not what America is all about, and it's wrong", is not well thought out. Both states knew the rules, and knew the consequences and forged ahead anyway. These are the facts. By allowing these states to break the rules and benefit from breaking those rules is not what America is all about. It is very conscionable that some ‘party boss in Washington’ is following the rules. Live with it.

Power to the People, not under this administration

After Benazir Bhutto was brutally murdered last week, the Pakistan People's Party was left without a leader.

She had named her husband Asif Ali Zardari to head the Pakistan People's Party in her will, which was read on Sunday, but he handed over the position to the couple's son, PPP official Makhdoom Amin Faheem said.

How can you ‘will’ political power to another person? And how can you just ‘hand it over’ to another person? This is not the way of true democracy.

Blood is not a deciding factor on the ability of a person to run a country. But, then again, neither is a democratically held election.

I suppose one could say that if the party accepts the person presented as the leader then democracy, in its truest sense, does exist.

This sense of true democracy is struggling in the U.S.

Bush and Cheney have created a stronger presidential office much to the detriment of democratic freedoms. Their own reasoning for their actions, of course, is to protect those same freedoms, but those freedoms are not in danger from anyone other than these two power hungry old men. This is a case of where their egos got in the way of doing what is right for this country. They have lost faith in Democracy and decided they know better than our forefathers on how to maintain and nurture democracy.

In their zeal to appear as if they were putting this nations’ security first, they grabbed a bunch of people of Arabic dissent without solid evidence of any clear terrorist ties and then held them for six years under the guise of guilt. Their guilt has never proven and habeas corpus suffered because these two old men refused to admit they could have made a mistake.

This administration has condoned torture. Sure it cannot be proven in a court of law because the very people we need as witnesses are all involved. But citizens of this country and of the world know the U.S. participated in it and perpetrated it.

I present this question to the world: which is worse, Saddam Hussein, who we all despised for his use of torture to control his citizens and ensure his reign of power, or a democratically elected president, by the way that election was disputed and not decided by the public, who looks the other way as long as torture is used for our purposes?

If any other country took American citizens and held them in prison as “enemy combatants” without proof, without any clear date set for prosecution, and used torture to extract information from them, would the American government sit back and not do anything?

This president and vice president have seen fit to set up an illegal spy network on its own citizens that reflects the FBI era of J. Edgar Hoover. This was done in the name of ‘protecting’ our freedom. As U.S. citizens learned they had their privacy invaded by this illegal network and wiretapping practice, lawsuits were filed against the communications companies that this administration used to realize their plan. The response from the administration is to change legislation to protect the communications companies! Unbelievable, but typical, Bush/Cheney tactics.

If we extend the Bush/Cheney ‘reasoning’ for warrantless wiretapping to every law enforcement entity in this country there would be spying taking place on every U.S. citizen based on whatever reason law enforcement would choose. A giant leap towards George Orwell’s 1984.

People who believe in the ‘freedom’ that our forefathers granted us should be outraged that these practices are taking place and even more outraged that they are not being stopped.

The expectation of freedom in this country has diminished greatly since these two took office.

The main danger with granting power to someone is that they don’t want to give it up. The main danger of granting power to egotistical, delusional madmen increases the danger of us losing even more of those freedoms that we have cherished for so long.

Given the general trend that this country seems to be following, that being that people are becoming more unethical, more immoral and more willing to do whatever it takes to get what they want and to hell with everyone else, will only solidify the bleak Orwellian prediction and may very well place George Orwell as a greater prophet than Nostradamus.