John W. Lillpop

Hillary's Tin Ear on Illegal Aliens



During the October 30 Democratic debate, moderator Tim Russert asked Hillary Clinton, "Do you the New York Senator, Hillary Clinton, support the New York Governor's Plan to give illegal immigrants driver's licenses?"

The Queen of Mean answered with several flip-flops between "Yes" and "No."

That shoddy Halloween eve performance has haunted Hillary ever since and has resulted in new life for the campaigns of challengers Barack Obama and John Edwards.

One wonders why "No person is illegal!" was not Hillary's immediate response in Philadelphia?

That was clearly her tactic while stalking potential victim-voters in a Hispanic neighborhood in Las Vegas on January 10.

"No woman is illegal," Clinton screeched to cheers, mostly in Spanish, coming from people who apparently forgot that they were consigned to the shadows.

Still, Hillary's confusion is fairly plausible, when one thinks about.

After all, being surrounded by the likes of Bill Clinton, Norman Hsu, Sandy Burger, and Sidney Blumenthal could distort one's ability to distinguish between right and wrong, legal and illegal.

However, the issue of illegal versus illegal as pertains to immigration is really quite well defined in federal laws such as the Immigration Reform and Control Act, passed by Congress and signed into law in 1986.

IRCA: http://www.oig.lsc.gov/legis/irca86.htm

In that law, the term "Illegal alien" is the operative term for those whom are in the United States illegally.

But perhaps the law does not mean all that much to an ambitious woman on a scavenger hunt for votes who also just happens to be a congenital liar?

Is Obama's "Audacity of Hope" a Fairy Tale?



Former president Bill Clinton fancies himself to be America's First Black President and promotes that notion whenever the opportunity arises.

The idea is to sell Clinton as that rare breed of Caucasian who understands and empathizes with African-Americans as if he were black himself.

It has also been a cynical ploy to keep black voters as the exclusive domain of the Democrat party, and, more specifically, the private property of the Clinton family.

But in his recent attempt to stifle Barack Obama, Bill Clinton demonstrated precious little understanding of or empathy for black people when he termed Obama's campaign a "fairy tale."

That remark, loaded with subtle racism, was meant to remind African-Americans of their "proper place" in American society. Roughly translated, it means, "The idea that a person with black genes could be elected U.S. president is a fairy tale."

In effect, Bill Clinton was declaring himself to be the only "black" who could actually be considered presidential timber.

Or an even more sinister rendering: "Black candidates, especially those with Muslim names, are unelectable, regardless of how clean and articulate."

At which point, desperate blacks would be referred to the candidacy of Hillary as the only viable hope for African-Americans.

All of which begs the question:
 
Which is the greater fairy tale--Bill Clinton's blackness, or Barack Obama's "Audacity of Hope"?

Using the Race Card To "Lynch" Free Speech

 
 
Kelly Tilghman is a "hot" fox and a babe. She is also is an exceptionally talented commentator for the GOLF channel, the first woman to hold that position on a full time basis.

Tilghman is now the first woman commentator to be suspended for poorly chosen and "insensitive" on-air remarks.

Who would imagine that behind that long blond hair, crystal blue eyes, perfect teeth, and angelic smile resides a deranged racist who achieves spiritual fulfillment only when she has spiked a burning cross into the lawn of an innocent black family?

Yet that is exactly how the Reverend Al Sharpton would portray Tilghman for her recent on-air remark about Tiger Woods. In that broadcast, Tilghman said that, in order to have any chance of beating Woods, younger golfers should "Lynch him in a back alley."

Naturally, Sharpton immediately took exception to the remark, and declared that Tilghman should be fired for using words that offend African Americans.

Make that words that offend Sharpton and anyone one whom he can rouse into a frenzied state of racial outrage.

In her defense, perhaps Tilghman was unaware that "Lynch" has been expunged from English lexicon. Along with the "N" word and "illegal immigrant," the word Lynch is no longer acceptable in polite, or even impolite, circles.

One wonders if Reverend Sharpton is aware of just how much harm he does to his cause with mindless complaints about trivial matters?

Kelly Tilghman's remark was neither insensitive nor racist. Rather, she was simply making the point that Tiger Woods is preeminent in the world of golf, and as such is heads and shoulders above younger golfers on the PGA tour.

The only people offended by Ms. Tilghman's commentary are those who eagerly wait in the shadows for an opportunity to be victimized. Such people actually want to be offended-- they should be ignored.

Tiger Woods himself did not buy into the Sharpton indictment of an entirely innocent remark. The Woods camp correctly called the controversy a "complete non-issue."

Isn't it time that Al Sharpton refrain from crying racism in obviously non-racism situations, so that America can identify and eradicate the malady where it really exists?

 



                                                  John W Lillpop is a recovering liberal who has been "clean and sober" since 1992

                                             when he last voted for a Democrat. He resides in the San Francisco Bay Area,

                                         the sole place on earth where Nancy Pelosi and Barbara Boxer are considered sane

                                                                                                and intelligent.

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