Hillary's achilleshiel: The family

[Henk Elegeert]

REPLY TO: D66 at nic.surfnet.nl

Ja ja, en dit zou Obama nooit doen, dus doet Hein het (zelf) maar? :)
En wat als straks blijkt dat Obama de D66-streken van Hein heeft over
genomen? ;)

Overigens, ze gooit zelf haar eigen ruiten wel in. Gezien het
stuitende commentaar dat ze nu geeft bij haar aankomst destijds op de
balkan?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BfNqhV5hg4

 Oh ja. Ook  leuk: ;)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hillaryclinton/

Henk Elegeert


2008/3/26, Hein van Meeteren <heinwvm at chello.nl>:
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>  Say Hillary, What About The Religious "Family" You Have Chosen To Be
>  Part Of?  "You don't choose your family, but you choose what church you
>  want to attend." said Hillary Clinton, to reporters and editors of the
>  Pittsburgh Tribune-Review on Tuesday the 25th. This is an interesting
>  choice of words, since - while we mostly hear about her Methodist
>  upbringing - Hillary Clinton has chosen to associate herself with The
>  Family (also known as the Fellowship), a very conservative,
>  fundamentalist organization started by Abraham Vereide... "...an
>  immigrant preacher who in 1935 organized a small group of businessmen
>  sympathetic to European fascism, fusing the Far Right with his own
>  polite but authoritarian faith. From that core, Vereide built an
>  international network of fundamentalists who spoke the language of
>  establishment power, a "family" that thrives to this day. In public,
>  they host prayer breakfasts; in private they preach a gospel of
>  "biblical capitalism," military might, and Am
>   erican empire. Citing Hitler, Lenin, and Mao, Doug Coe, the Family's
>  current leader, declares, "We work with power where we can, build new
>  power where we can't." This quote is taken from the book on The Family
>  by the same name which will be published in May... a book which claims
>  to  "...dramatically challenge conventional wisdom about American
>  fundamentalism, revealing its crucial role in the unraveling of the New
>  Deal, the waging of the Cold War, and the no-holds-barred economics of
>  globalization. The question Sharlet believes we must ask is not "What do
>  fundamentalists want?" but "What have they already done?"A long article
>  was written about Hillary Clinton's participation in this organization
>  last September in Mother Jones, and The Family, itself, was the subject
>  of an extensive article in Harper's in March of 2003. And on March 21st,
>  The Nation published an article on Hillary and The Family by Barbara
>  Ehrenreich that was published on The Huffington Post and CBS News' we
>   b site. The Family avoids the word Christian but worships Jesus, though
>  not the Jesus who promised the earth to the "meek." They believe that,
>  in mass societies, it's only the elites who matter, the political
>  leaders who can build God's "dominion" on earth. Insofar as The Family
>  has a consistent philosophy, it's all about power - cultivating it,
>  building it and networking it together into ever-stronger units, or
>  "cells."...wrote Ms.Ehrenreich.  Is it possible that Hillary's
>  participation in this fundamentalist group - which apparently preaches
>  the "gospel of military might" - would help explain her vote in favor of
>  authorizing President Bush to attack Iraq? Is it possible her pro-NAFTA
>  stance during her husband's administration comes from its embrace of
>  "the no-holds-barred economics of globalization"? Is it possible that
>  the sense some get that Hillary feels entitled to be president comes in
>  part from this group's belief that "it's only the elites who matter"?  I
>  encourage
>   any reporter covering Hillary's campaign to ask her about all this.
>  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-g-brant/say-hillary-what-about-t_b_93435.html
>
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