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Saturday, September 15, 2007

Clark Comes Out for Hillary...
Posted by Melina | 2:19 PM
Hillary behind the curtain
Non-event of the week? In a conference call aimed at bloggers, and dubbed a "major Endorsement," Hillary Clinton's people announced the "major" General Wesley Clark's endorsement of her campaign...ho hum...
OK, I guess that its a good endorsement and anyone would want to have Clark on their equipment belt, and good for her, but what about the state of the world? What does this military build-up mean?
Hillary is a machine, and people like the robotic Clark, even with is military cred, seem to be no-brainer additions to that tidal wave. What troubles me is that a guy with experience like Clark has, is not being more cautious at the hawkishness that seems to exude from every pore in her body.
Mom was over this morning and she was assuring me that all of this is just some kind of ruse that Hillary "has to" put forward in order to get into office. She is so sure that once in place, Hillary will become whatever it was that she was trying to project as first wife. I'm not getting the secret messages that Hill's people seem to be sending out, so maybe its just Mom being hopeful about someone who would bring Bill back into the White House.
I have been thinking lately about who Hillary really is, spurred on by
a podcast of Ring of Fire in which Mike Papantonio talks about her ties to religious fundamentalist groups.
I didn't realize how deeply she has been in with The Fellowship and for how long. If this is true, then we have alot to worry about with a Clinton candidacy.
According to Mother Jones:
throughout her years in Washington, Clinton has been an active participant in conservative Bible study and prayer circles that are part of a secretive Capitol Hill group known as the Fellowship. 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. "A lot of evangelicals would see that as just cynical exploitation," says the Reverend Rob Schenck, a former leader of the militant anti-abortion group Operation Rescue who now ministers to decision makers in Washington. "I don't....there is a real good that is infected in people when they are around Jesus talk, and open Bibles, and prayer."

Clinton's faith is grounded in the Methodist beliefs she grew up with in Park Ridge, Illinois, a conservative Chicago suburb where she was active in her church's altar guild, Sunday school, and youth group. It was there, in 1961, that she met the Reverend Don Jones, a 30-year-old youth pastor; Jones, a friend of Clinton's to this day, told us he knows "more about Hillary Clinton's faith than anybody outside her family."

Because Jones introduced Clinton and her teenage peers to the civil rights movement and modern poetry and art, Clinton biographers often cast him as a proto-'60s liberal who sowed seeds of radicalism throughout Park Ridge. Jones, though, describes his theology as neoorthodox, guided by the belief that social change should come about slowly and without radical action. It emerged, he says, as a third way, a reaction against both separatist fundamentalism and the New Deal's labor-based liberalism.


Which is worrisome to me, as is this part, which keeps coming up all over the place in one form or another:

During a Democratic candidate forum in June, hosted by the liberal evangelical group Sojourners, Hillary Clinton fielded a softball query about Bill's infidelity: How had her faith gotten her through the Lewinsky scandal?

After a glancing shot at Republican "pharisees," Clinton explained that, of course, her "very serious" grounding in faith had helped her weather the affair. But she had also relied on the "extended faith family" that came to her aid, "people whom I knew who were literally praying for me in prayer chains, who were prayer warriors for me."

Such references to spiritual warfare—prayer as battle against Satan, evil, and sin—might seem like heavy evangelical rhetoric for the senator from New York, but they went over well with the Sojourners audience, as did her call to "inject faith into policy."


When you get to the injecting faith into policy part, you've lost me. Its the secretive part of this that troubles me, and the knowledge that Hillary polls as one of the least religious of the field of candidates on either side. But in secret she is meeting in the basement of the caverns of power with the real agenda makers.
That is not what America is supposed to be about. Call me naive, but I'm not ready to just lay down yet in the face of what the settlers did to get here, kill the Indians, steal their land, and form this less than perfect union.
People like my Mom think that this is just a show to try to get to certain groups and that deep down Hillary is really very liberal and peaceful, but I don't buy it.

So, Clark thinks shes a good bet? Whatever....
The die may be cast already in this thing, but to me there is an awfully long time to go before the primary and alot can happen....and among those things, I hope, will be some sort of answer on this question and if she is still a working member of the Fellowship...I'm looking for answers....

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