Chelsea Clinton has been campaigning for her mother for a while now. She was asked a question that referred to her mothers response to the the Monica Lewinsky scandal and comments Hillary Clinton made after the scandal broke. The question was not about the scandal it self but the conspiracy ideas Clinton put out afterward. I do not think it was an invalid question. Here are some videos about it.
This is the student who asked the question explaining why he asked it.
This is the news report with Chelsea Clinton’s response.
3/21/08 The Hunt for the Red October by Tom Clancy. Most of you have read this or watched the movie so you know what it is about. Find that sub Mr. Ryan.
The NCAA is around again. This year I didn’t join a pool. The last few years it has been like throwing my money away anyhow. I find unless I am in a pool I don’t care about the games as much. The only team I was cheering for lost yesterday. Oh well… Let me know who wins.
Yet, the teacher has talked for more than a week about the topics on the test. She has given homework each night that was not always completed by the student. She took questions each day on the homework and on the problems presented in class. She gave a review sheet that had 14 problems very similar to the ones on the test and gave extra problems from the book so that the student would get a thorough review. And, she gave the student an index card that she could write whatever she wanted to from the chapter on and use it during the test. The student hastily wrote one thing on the card the morning of the test.
“Where’s the shared sense of sacrifice?” asked council member Rodger Koopman, an Air Force veteran, “If you do support the troops, be willing to suck it up just a little bit.”
I am sure many of you have heard of the murder of Eve Carson. She was the student body president of UNC and was loved by most on campus. The arrested two young men and charged them with her murder and a spree of other crimes. So, is it their fault they were out early in the morning murdering a young woman. Of course not it was education’s fault, as this letter writer to our local paper says. When can we place the blame squarely on the shoulders of the offenders responsible for these horrendous crimes?
Recently it has been revealed that Barack Obama’s pastor, Rev. Wright has some very divisive racial views. He attacks white Americans and advocates a new separation of the races. Obama has been a member of this man’s church for twenty years or more. He claims Rev. Wright is has been his spiritual mentor for many years. He also claims he did not know Wright’s views and had never heard him speak the way he did about whites.
It would be the height of ignorance to believe Obama did not know his pastor’s racial views. To accept the premise of Obama’s ignorance leads to only one conclusion, Obama is so naive and blind to those around him that he would not make a good leader. It is like Ulysses S. Grant. He was a great leader but was not aware of the corruption of his friends. We can ill afford another president of that caliber.
The proper conclusion to draw is that Obama knew about his pastor beliefs. That leaves you with one of two conclusions, either he believes the same way Rev. Wright believes or he is truly is a tolerant man who looks past his friends flaws. If he believes Rev. Wright’s hat speech then he is unfit to be president as he will find a majority of the people of this nation repugnant. If he is truly tolerant of other people’s opinions then he may be a decent leader but would invite similar controversies in the future. Again, the nation would be in a situation where every move the President makes will be questioned because of his associates (see Tony Rezco).