Now we’re sure there is something wrong with the axis of our planet. Hillary Clinton has gone from angering Democrats, to pissing off Liberals, and now finally to frustrating her socialist brethren. Could she have finally gone too far? This article about her speech in Chicago last week before the Economic Club of Chicago is written by Bill Van Auken - the SEP candidate for US Senate, New York. He is trying to get on the ballot “to provide a genuine alternative for working people” as he puts it. It’s a fascinating look at the disillusion of the Socialist Equality Party with Hillary and the Democratic party. Hillary’s shift to the middle has had her sounding more and more like a Republican everyday. And we believe it is finally starting to push the far left past the “point of no return”.
Couched in the empty boosterism and sanctimonious phraseology that is the stock-in-trade of such affairs, Clinton’s April 11 remarks were directed at making it clear to the assembled Chicago businessmen that she is indeed one of them—not merely as a native daughter of a Chicago Republican textile supply merchant, but also in terms of fundamental social interests and outlook…
She not only reverentially quoted Ronald Reagan at length, but also invoked the views of Lawrence Lindsey, Bush’s former top economic advisor and architect of the massive tax cuts for the rich. As part of this right-wing name-dropping, she boasted of her recent political collaboration with former House Republican leader Newt Gingrich, who led the drive to impeach her husband, as well as with the current Republican leader of the Senate, Bill Frist, on health legislation tailored to the needs of big business…
Significantly, in the course of her remarks, Clinton cited Corning, Inc. of upstate New York as an example of the ” ‘can do’ spirit that really is the fuel for the free enterprise economy.” Since Clinton took office as a senator from New York five years ago, Corning has embarked on a brutal campaign of plant closings and mass layoffs that has cut its workforce nearly in half, costing over 20,000 jobs.
During this same period, the company cemented close ties with the state’s new senator, donating close to $140,000 to her campaign fund since she first ran in 2000. The New York Times recently noted that the company had “supported Republican candidates for so long that its chairman once joked that it had not raised money for a Democrat since 1812.”
It is donations like these—given because Hillary Clinton defends the interests of the corporations at the expense of working people no less than the Republicans—that have helped swell her campaign fund to some $20 million, the highest amount amassed by any Democratic politician.
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It appears more and more likely that Hillary is going to bank her whole campaign on “the middle” of the electorate. That is, if she can get out of the Democratic primaries with a victory. We’ve all seen the vile hatred spewed by the far Left at President Bush. Will they do the same to one of their own in 2008? Obviously, Hillary and her people don’t think so.