Really? What exactly did she say?

http://www.thejewishpress.com/news_a...p?article=2751

That could be the most ridiculous item I have read in a long time.

Even the author doesn't claim that Hillary blamed Bush for the blackout. He
claims she said "I don't think that the administration under the current
president is doing enough to make sure we don't have more blackouts in the
future." Is that the same thing as blaming the current blackout on Bush? No. Of
course not.

It gets really good just a paragraph or so down. The author passes along a
supposition that Hillary's "incendiary comments" ("I don't think the current
administration to doing enough to
make sure we don't have more blakcouts in the future") would lead directly to
"cops fighting for their lives in our streets!"

Then, while they're at it, they drag up some old bone from a year and a half
ago
("Did Bush Know"?) and beat her up some more with that. Clearly, these people
are
extremely afraid of HC.

Cops "fighting for their lives in our streets" because HC thinks the
administration could be doing more to prevent future blackouts? Puh-leeze.

What's Yiddish for ridiculous drivel?


??Not two hours after the lights went out in the Northeast last Thursday, Sen.
Hillary Clinton
was in front of the microphones doing what she does best: carping, criticizing,
dividing. Her
first thoughts in a time of crisis were not about how she might help her
constituents in their
time of need, but about how she might exploit the situation for selfish
political gain.

While other, far more responsible, elected officials were offering consolation
and advice to a concerned citizenry, Hillary was in full campaign mode. While
those affected by the power
outage were worried about relatives, friends and fellow citizens trapped in
high-rise elevators
or sweltering subway cars, Hillary had more important matters on her mind.

“I don’t think,� she told reporters, “the federal administration under
this president is really focused on making sure we don’t have these problems
in the future.�

New York Republican Congressman Peter King, a pragmatic sort whom even Hillary
would
never link to the vast right-wing conspiracy roaming the attic of her
overactive imagination,
described the comments as “absolutely disgraceful,� not least because of
their incendiary
potential.

“There could have been some incident last night,� King told radio host Sean
Hannity during
an interview on Friday, “and then you attach that to what she’s saying and
you get out of
control and, before you know it, you have cops fighting for their lives in this
city.�

Hillary delivered herself of her shrill commentary just as the darkness of
night was
enveloping a city that found itself with neither lights nor — on an
oppressively hot August
evening — air conditioning.

“We didn’t know what was going to happen,� King told Hannity. “And all
you need is
someone who’s supposedly a national leader, trying to sow the seeds of
division — and you have
the police out there trying to keep order in the streets — and you have an
elected official
basically trying to divide the country, I mean, it’s irresponsible to do
that.�

NewsMax.com’s Carl Limbacher, author of the new book Hillary’s Scheme which
argues
that Sen. Clinton is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004,
writes that “Given
her outraged tones,� most Americans “would never know that she’s been a
leader in opposing
energy independence for New York State, preferring instead to champion
environmental cause
celebs like fighting acid rain and closing the Indian Point nuclear plant.�

Limbacher notes that a year ago, “Clinton slammed a Bush administration
proposal to
allow utilities to upgrade their plants by relaxing a few of the more punishing
environmental
regulations. She warned of ‘dirtier air and rising temperatures’ that would
expose citizens ‘to
increased childhood asthma rates, higher sea levels and more acid rain and
mercury-tainted
fish.’�

Limbacher contrasts Clinton’s position to that of former New York City Mayor
Rudy
Giuliani, “who was making the case that New York needed more power plants as
far back as
1999. ‘If we don’t increase significantly the amount of power in the city
of New York, we will
have happen to us what happened in California,’ Giuliani said after a
blackout in upper
Manhattan.�

Hillary’s behavior brings to mind her performance on the floor of the Senate
in May 2002.
A New York Post story on U.S. intelligence pre-9/11 carried the terribly
misleading headline
“Bush Knew.� As the story itself made clear, Bush in fact did not know that
massive terrorist
attacks against the U.S. were planned for Sept. 11, 2001, but Hillary saw her
opportunity:

“I am simply here today, on the floor of this hallowed chamber, to seek
answers to
questions,� she intoned. “Questions raised by our newspapers in New York,
such as the one
with the headline ‘Bush Knew.’ The president knew what? My constituents
would like to know
the answers to those questions....�

Hillary was well aware that the newspaper account to which she referred did not
at all
justify her innuendo, but she was determined to squeeze the non-story for every
last drop of
political juice.

Note To Readers: Radio talker Michael Savage, whose program was terminated
by WABC, has been hired by WOR (710 AM) to host a show weeknights from 8 to 10
p.m.

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