I haven’t paid much attention to Hillary Clinton. Looking through my archives, I found a few posts criticizing her statist inclinations on issues such as taxation, geography, economics, the War on Drugs, class warfare, and financial privacy.
Compared to other major political figures, that’s a pretty meager list.
Moreover, to the best of my recollection, other than a few cartoons, I’ve never shared any Hillary humor (whereas Bill is a never-ending source of material).
That needs to change, and thanks to a quiz that was showed up in my inbox, that change happens today.
The quiz provides a series of quotes and asks the reader to identify the author (unlike the quizzes I usually share, which allow readers to decide how they feel on various issues).
Anyhow, here’s the quiz, taken verbatim from my inbox.
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Answer all the questions (no cheating) before looking at the answers.
Who said it?
1) “We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.”
A. Karl Marx
B. Adolph Hitler
C. Joseph Stalin
D. Barack Obama
E. None of the above
2) “It’s time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by
the few, and for the few……and to replace it with shared responsibility,
for shared prosperity.”
A. Lenin
B. Mussolini
C. Idi Amin
D. Barack Obama
E. None of the above
3) “(We)…..can’t just let business as usual go on, and that means
something has to be taken away from some people.”
A. Nikita Khrushev
B. Josef Goebbels
C. Boris Yeltsin
D. Barack Obama
E. None of the above
4) “We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give
up a little bit of their own … in order to create this common ground.”
A. Mao Tse Dung
B. Hugo Chavez
C. Kim Jong Il
D. Barack Obama
E. None of the above
5) “I certainly think the free-market has failed.”
A. Karl Marx
B. Lenin
C. Molotov
D. Barack Obama
E. None of the above
6) “I think it’s time to send a clear message to what has become the most
profitable sector in (the) entire economy that they are being watched.”
A. Pinochet
B. Milosevic
C. Saddam Hussein
D. Barack Obama
E. None of the above
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Answers
(1) E. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton – 6/29/2004
(2) E. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton – 5/29/2007
(3) E. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton – 6/4/2007
(4) E. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton – 6/4/2007
(5) E. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton – 6/4/2007
(6) E. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton – 9/2/2005
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Actually, this isn’t humor. It’s horror. The last thing America needs is another statist president. Bush and Obama already have done enough damage.
Though many of the quotes are taken out of context in order to make Hillary look radical. For what it’s worth, the leftists at Politifact rate the email quiz as a pants-on-fire lie. I think “significant exaggeration” would be more accurate.
Let’s not forget that she cavalierly dismissed the likely economic damage of her 1993 healthcare scheme, asserting that “”I can’t be responsible for every undercapitalized entrepreneur in America.”
P.S. This quiz is somewhat similar to the infamous Al Gore-Unabomber quiz. For what it’s worth, I flunked that quiz with a score of only 42 percent.
P.P.S. Speaking of Gore, I’m also surprised I have so little humor with him as the target. All I could find was this video and a couple of one-liners from Leno and Conan. He also played a cameo role in this joke featuring Monica Lewinsky.
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3) “(We)…..can’t just let business as usual
… and have the American middle class occupy the top spot in worldwide prosperity. We need to copy the rest of the world…”
As far as exaggeration… you don’t need to get to extremes to decline.
When you are accustomed to being number one in the world prosperity rankings, as the American middle class is, you don’t have to mess up things horribly to lose it. A small retreat from top competitiveness is enough. You just need to make a few mistakes which drop your competitiveness below the next group of most competitive nations in the world.
Then the vicious cycle of decline typically takes care of the rest: “We are in a crisis, the country is declining, we need to all pull together and sacrifice personal interest for the common good”. Nice talk but in practice few follow. Demotivation and further decline trigger the death spiral.
Soon, Americans will be voting like the French.
Make your escape plans now. Once the decline becomes felt enough amongst the population, the exit chutes will be jammed. Desperate voters will come after you with renewed vengeance, …to finally recruit you to exceptional work for the common good (yea, it will work, don’t worry, it’s always worked everywhere else…)
Daniel Greenfield on the Clintons:
” The Democrats want to run on empathy for the common man suffering under a bad economy, but their candidate is a living reminder of why he’s suffering. The Clintons are part of an elite that profits from direct political access to the upper tier of the political and financial infrastructure of the country. Their enormous wealth makes a mockery of public service and non-profits. Their power and privilege reminds everyone that liberalism is a much bigger welfare state for those on top than those on the bottom.”
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/hillarys-greed-is-destroying-her-presidential-campaign/
How did Hillary become so incredibly ignorant? She embarrasses me. How do I resign from the female gender? Or, better yet, how do we get her to resign?