CLINTON’S MORAL HIGH GROUND
In order to deflect the media’s attention from her false claims about Bosnia, Hillary Clinton has attempted to re-ignite the Wright issue. Until now, she has avoided the issue but she said Tuesday in Pennsylvania that she would have “left the church in protest if he were her pastor”.
THE HOPE
Hillary is banking on the hope that American people will continue to be more upset by Wright’s remarks than her lies about Bosnia. (Yes, lies. She didn’t earn “four Pinocchios“ from the Washington Post for “misspeaking”.)
Hillary is also banking on the hope (and probable reality) that the media will not investigate her own secretive religious group who’s goal is “a leadership led by God–leaders of all levels of society who direct projects as they are led by the spirit.”
It seems a lot of the “God-led people”, according to the Fellowship, happen to be vicious dictators.
According to the Fellowship’s archives, the spirit has in the past led its members in Congress to increase U.S. support for the Duvalier regime in Haiti and the Park dictatorship in South Korea. The Fellowship’s God-led men have also included General Suharto of Indonesia; Honduran general and death squad organizer Gustavo Alvarez Martinez; a Deutsche Bank official disgraced by financial ties to Hitler; and dictator Siad Barre of Somalia, plus a list of other generals and dictators.
Hillary has been an active member of this religious group for 15 years. Her collaborations with right-wingers such as Senator Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) and former Senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) grow in part from that connection.
THE HYPE
Fortunately for her, the tabloid-like media scrutiny of religious connections only applies to Obama. As mentioned in a previous post, the controversial words of McCain’s “spiritual advisers” have also been largely ignored.
SOURCE: Hillary Clinton’s Criticism May Come Back to Haunt Her
SOURCE: Hillary Clinton’s Religion and Politics
