RightWave

With her most recent assertions, Hillary Clinton has sunk to a new low, even by Clintonian standards.

As usual, Peggy Noonan captures this well in her most recent column:

In case you didn’t get what was behind that exchange, Mrs. Clinton spent this week making it clear. In a jaw-dropping interview in USA Today on Thursday, she said, “I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on.” As evidence she cited an Associated Press report that, she said, “found how Sen. Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me.”

White Americans? Hard-working white Americans? “Even Richard Nixon didn’t say white,” an Obama supporter said, “even with the Southern strategy.”

If John McCain said, “I got the white vote, baby!” his candidacy would be over. And rising in highest indignation against him would be the old Democratic Party.

To play the race card as Mrs. Clinton has, to highlight and encourage a sense that we are crudely divided as a nation, to make your argument a brute and cynical “the black guy can’t win but the white girl can” is — well, so vulgar, so cynical, so cold, that once again a Clinton is making us turn off the television in case the children walk by.

We may all need a shot by the time this election’s over!

 Obama denounces big corporate pay packages

Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama denounced huge pay packages for U.S. corporate chiefs on Friday in a drive to convert middle-class anger about the U.S. economy into votes. 

“Some CEOs make more in one day than their workers make in one year,” Obama said, jockeying for position against rival Democrat Hillary Clinton in Indiana, which votes on May 6.

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Clinton and Republican presidential candidate John McCain also have criticized big payouts for chief executive officers who benefit hugely even when their companies are struggling.

“We’ve seen what happens when CEOs are paid for doing a job no matter how bad a job they’re doing,” Obama said. “We can’t afford to postpone reform any longer.”

I’m not sure where in the Constitution it says that the United States Government should regulate pay for anyone other than employees of the government.  Last time I checked, it’s the job of the shareholders and boards of corporations to make hiring, firing and compensation decisions.  This is nothing more than ugly class warfare rhetoric from the Left (though, sadly, it seems Senator McCain has co-opted it as well), and it’s disgraceful.

I was lucky enough to be at the Media Research Center’s 2008 Gala and Dishonors Awards last night, they showed this GREAT video.

Tired of hearing Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, et al., talk about change?  Well, at least we can laugh at them!