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Pro-Chelsea

Hillary Clinton, in true pro-choice liberal-style fashion, loudly opposes school vouchers, which were proposed to help kids in less-fortunate neighborhoods have the choice of attending a better school.

While Hillary was in the White House campaigning against the implementation of vouchers, First Daughter Chelsea was attending a private school of her choice.

We’re In The Money

The Left resents the multitude of rich white men in the Republican party.

After the 2000 election, here were the four richest senators -

John Kerry (Democrat)
Jon Corzine (Democrat)
Herb Kohl (Democrat)
Jay Rockefeller (Democrat)

Each worth over $200 million. All white men, by the way.

Are You Taping This?

Here’s a quote of some relevance towards the Bill Clinton impeachment process:

"Yes, the president should resign. He has lied to the American people, time and time again, and betrayed their trust. He is no longer an effective leader. Since he has admitted guilt, there is no reason to put the American people through an impeachment. He will serve absolutely no purpose in finishing out his term; the only possible solution is for the president to save some dignity and resign."

This is the type of statement that’s been classified by the Left as evil, right-wing, Republican hate-speech. The kind of thing that could only come from a knee-jerk Clinton basher; someone who would probably defend to the death the actions of Richard Nixon.

But pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. The author of that statement: Bill Clinton, 1974, commenting on… Richard Nixon.

Haven’t I Seen You Somewhere Before?

Leading up to the 2000 elections, the Left made a huge point about Bush’s lack of qualifications to lead the country. They challenged his amount of overseas travel and his knowledge of history.

Yet despite a large media gathering, the following event received coverage in only one major newspaper across the country (USA Today, 1/18/93): During a stop at Monticello during Clinton’s 1993 inaugural festivities, Al Gore pointed to carvings of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin and asked the curator: “Who are those guys?”

The One-Word Expression

Martin Sheen once quipped: “Bush is a moron, if you’ll pardon the expression.”

Note that Sheen never went to college after flunking his college entrance exam, while George W. Bush is a graduate of Yale and Harvard.

Controversy In the Media

Think the news media is removed from Left-wing hypocrisy? Here are the opening words from the three major news telecasts the day Bill Clinton took office in 1993, and the day George W. Bush took office in 2001.

Dan Rather, CBS News:
1993: “On the anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, President Clinton fulfills a promise, supporting abortion rights. It was twenty years ago today, the United States Supreme Court handed down its landmark abortion rights ruling, and the controversy hasn’t stopped since. Today, with the stroke of a pen, President Clinton delivered on his campaign promise to cancel several anti-abortion regulations of the Reagan-Bush years.”

2001: “This was President Bush’s first day at the office and he did something to quickly please the right flank in his party: He reinstituted an anti-abortion policy that had been in place during his father’s term and the Reagan presidency but was lifted during the Clinton years.”

Tom Brokaw, NBC News:
1993: “Today, President Clinton kept a campaign promise and it came on the twentieth anniversary of Roe vs. Wade legalizing abortion.”

2001: “We’ll begin with the new president’s very active day, which started on a controversial note.”

Peter Jennings, ABC News:
1993: “President Clinton keeps his word on abortion rights. President Clinton kept a promise today on the twentieth anniversary of the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion. Mr. Clinton signed presidential memoranda rolling back many of the restrictions imposed by his predecessors.”

2001: “One of the president’s first actions was designed to appeal to anti-abortion conservatives. The president signed an order reinstating a Reagan-era policy that prohibited federal funding of family planning groups that provided abortion counseling services overseas.”

According to all three reporters, in their own words, President Clinton kept a promise, while George W. Bush engaged in controversy and appeased right-wing conservatives. Notice how the mainstream media avoids the labels “left-wing” and “liberal,” yet has no qualms using the opposite labels. With the polls telling us America is split 50/50 on the subject of abortion, how was Bush’s decision “controversial” while Clinton’s was not?

What’s In A Name?

The Left can’t let go of the notion that Bush got where he is based on his father’s legacy. They use this as a means to illegitimatize his accomplishments as being due to his family name.

Ever hear this denunciation in regards to the Kennedy clan? How about Al Gore and his famous father, a former senator? Do you think the Clinton name had anything to do with Hillary making a successful run for the Senate?

Riding Daddy’s Coattails

Certainly, George W. Bush, nowhere near the genius of Al Gore, was only admitted to Yale because of his lineage.

Looking at the facts, however: When Bush was admitted to Yale, his father was a little-known congressman on the verge of losing his first Senate race.

When Al Gore was admitted to Harvard, he was the son of an already prominent U.S. senator.

Phi Beta Crappa

During the election, a great deal was made by the Left over Bush’s lack of intelligence, based on his alleged poor grades in school. Al Gore, on the other hand, creator of the internet, was considered “too smart for his own good.”

Reporting on his second year at Harvard, the Washington Post says Gore’s grades “were lower than any semester recorded on Bush’s transcript from Yale,” and “placed him in the bottom fifth of the class for the second year in a row.”

After Yale, Bush earned an M.B.A. from Harvard, while Gore failed out of divinity school and dropped out of law school at Vanderbilt University.

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