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[Patriot Games]

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Clinton Fights Pressure to Withdraw, Tees Up for Fight With Party Elders
Friday, March 28, 2008

Hillary Clinton, under mounting pressure to bow out of the presidential race
and avoid a floor fight at the Democratic National Convention in August, is
standing firm in her determination to fight Barack Obama to the finish.

Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut, a former candidate himself, said Clinton has
virtually no chance of winning, and Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont said
Friday the New York senator should just end her campaign.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants the party's uncommitted superdelegates to
support the candidate who has the most votes, which to this point is Obama.
And Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean on Friday urged all
those superdelegates to announce whom they will support by July 1.

But Clinton says she will not abide by anyone's timetable.

"There are some people who are saying, 'You know, we really ought to end
this primary; we just ought to shut it down'," she said Friday in South
Bend, Ind. "Well, one thing you know about me, when I tell you I'll fight
for you, I'll get up every day and that's exactly what I will do."

Clinton told FOX News in an interview Wednesday that the race is a "long way
from being over," and that she'll take it to the convention if she has to.

The Clinton campaign sent a fund-raising letter Friday that argued: "Every
time our campaign demonstrates its strength and resilience, people start to
suggest we should end our pursuit of the Democratic nomination . and they
know we are in a position to win."

The promise of short-term reward is not lost on Clinton. Polls show her way
ahead in Pennsylvania, which holds its primary April 22 and offers an
attractive 158 pledged delegates. That is roughly how many delegates
separate the candidates.

"I think there's very little chance that Hillary Clinton will drop out at
all," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for
Politics. "I think this will go all the way through to the end of the
primaries. And look, she's poised for a very substantial victory in
Pennsylvania."

But Democratic primaries are not winner-take-all. With a proportional
allotment, Clinton has little chance of gaining much ground on Obama in
Pennsylvania, even if she wins handily.

And party leaders are concerned that every day the Democratic race lasts
gives another opening to presumptive GOP nominee John McCain.

On the day that McCain launched his first general election ad of the
campaign, Obama supporter Leahy called on Clinton to withdraw, citing Obama's
endorsement by Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey as the latest sign of her
undoing.

"There is no way that Sen. Clinton is going to win enough delegates to get
the nomination," Leahy told Vermont Public Radio in an earlier interview.
"She ought to withdraw and she ought to be backing Senator Obama. Now,
obviously that's a decision that only she can make. Frankly, I feel that she
would have a tremendous career in the Senate."

Dodd, who also has endorsed Obama, told National Journal radio that party
leaders need to "reach a conclusion" over the next several weeks.

"I think it's very difficult to imagine how anyone can believe that Barack
Obama can't be the nominee of the party. I think that's a foregone
conclusion," he said. "I think you have to make a decision, and hopefully
the candidates will respect it and people will rally behind a nominee that,
I think, emerges from these contests over the next month."

The upper-level pressure is coming from Pelosi and Dean. They are both
uncommitted and are not outright calling on Clinton to leave the race, but
they are stonewalling part of her victory strategy.

Clinton and her supporters are banking on uncommitted superdelegates to put
her over the edge, and they are looking to the convention as a final
opportunity to settle the dispute over the Michigan and Florida delegations.
Clinton won the primaries in both states, but they were disqualified for
holding their primaries early, and none of the candidates campaigned in
either of the states.

Dean's determination to compel the superdelegates to announce their picks on
July 1 could result in a candidate being chosen before the Florida and
Michigan controversies are resolved.

Appearing on CBS' "Early Show" on Friday, Dean said: "Well, I think the
superdelegates have already been weighing in. I think there's 800 of them
and 450 of them have already said who they're for. . I'd like the other 350
to say who they're on between now and the first of July so we don't have to
take this into the convention."

In a separate interview with The Associated Press, Dean warned against
"demoralizing" Democrats with a drawn-out fistfight between Clinton and
Obama.

Pelosi, meanwhile, has urged superdelegates to follow the choice of the
pledged delegates, more of whom favor Obama. She rejected an overture by
wealthy Clinton donors Wednesday that she recant that position.

With no end to the intra-party squabbling in sight, Obama joked Friday that
this primary season is "like a good movie that lasted about a half an hour
too long."

"I think there are some people who felt like 'God, when will this be over?'"
he told a Pittsburgh, Pa., crowd. He later qualified, adding: "It's been
hard and tough because both Clinton and I understand what is at stake, how
important this race is, how important the next presidency will be to the
American people and to families right here in Pennsylvania."

Though trailing in Pennsylvania, Obama's shown a resilience to the recent
controversy over his former pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.

According to a Gallup Poll released Friday, Obama leads nationally with 50
percent to the New York senator's 42 percent, his biggest lead in that
survey since the Wright controversy broke.

In response to Leahy's calls for the race to end, Clinton supporter Sen.
Chuck Schumer in a conference call Friday urged supporters to wait and see,
citing the upcoming Pennsylvania primary.

Former Vice President Al Gore said Thursday that he expects the Democratic
nomination fight will work itself out before the party's convention.

"What have we got, five months left?" he told The Associated Press in a
brief interview after a speech at Middle Tennessee State University.

"I think it's going to resolve itself. But we'll see."

Gore didn't elaborate.

 

[BretCahill@peoplepc.com]

On Mar 29, 6:20�am, "Patriot Games" <Patr...@America.com> wrote:
> http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/03/28/clinton-fights-pressure-to-wi...
>
> Clinton Fights Pressure to Withdraw, Tees Up for Fight With Party Elders
> Friday, March 28, 2008
>
> Hillary Clinton, under mounting pressure to bow out of the presidential race
> and avoid a floor fight at the Democratic National Convention in August, is
> standing firm in her determination to fight Barack Obama to the finish.
>
> Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut, a former candidate himself, said Clinton has
> virtually no chance of winning, and Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont said
> Friday the New York senator should just end her campaign.
>
> House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants the party's uncommitted superdelegates to
> support the candidate who has the most votes, which to this point is Obama..
> And Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean on Friday urged all
> those superdelegates to announce whom they will support by July 1.
>
> But Clinton says she will not abide by anyone's timetable.
>
> "There are some people who are saying, 'You know, we really ought to end
> this primary; we just ought to shut it down'," she said Friday in South
> Bend, Ind. "Well, one thing you know about me, when I tell you I'll fight
> for you, I'll get up every day and that's exactly what I will do."
>
> Clinton told FOX News in an interview Wednesday that the race is a "long way
> from being over," and that she'll take it to the convention if she has to.
>
> The Clinton campaign sent a fund-raising letter Friday that argued: "Every
> time our campaign demonstrates its strength and resilience, people start to
> suggest we should end our pursuit of the Democratic nomination . and they
> know we are in a position to win."
>
> The promise of short-term reward is not lost on Clinton. Polls show her way
> ahead in Pennsylvania, which holds its primary April 22 and offers an
> attractive 158 pledged delegates. That is roughly how many delegates
> separate the candidates.
>
> "I think there's very little chance that Hillary Clinton will drop out at
> all," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for
> Politics. "I think this will go all the way through to the end of the
> primaries. And look, she's poised for a very substantial victory in
> Pennsylvania."
>
> But Democratic primaries are not winner-take-all. With a proportional
> allotment, Clinton has little chance of gaining much ground on Obama in
> Pennsylvania, even if she wins handily.
>
> And party leaders are concerned that every day the Democratic race lasts
> gives another opening to presumptive GOP nominee John McCain.
>
> On the day that McCain launched his first general election ad of the
> campaign, Obama supporter Leahy called on Clinton to withdraw, citing Obama's
> endorsement by Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey as the latest sign of her
> undoing.
>
> "There is no way that Sen. Clinton is going to win enough delegates to get
> the nomination," Leahy told Vermont Public Radio in an earlier interview.
> "She ought to withdraw and she ought to be backing Senator Obama. Now,
> obviously that's a decision that only she can make. Frankly, I feel that she
> would have a tremendous career in the Senate."
>
> Dodd, who also has endorsed Obama, told National Journal radio that party
> leaders need to "reach a conclusion" over the next several weeks.
>
> "I think it's very difficult to imagine how anyone can believe that Barack
> Obama can't be the nominee of the party. I think that's a foregone
> conclusion," he said. "I think you have to make a decision, and hopefully
> the candidates will respect it and people will rally behind a nominee that,
> I think, emerges from these contests over the next month."
>
> The upper-level pressure is coming from Pelosi and Dean. They are both
> uncommitted and are not outright calling on Clinton to leave the race, but
> they are stonewalling part of her victory strategy.
>
> Clinton and her supporters are banking on uncommitted superdelegates to put
> her over the edge, and they are looking to the convention as a final
> opportunity to settle the dispute over the Michigan and Florida delegations.
> Clinton won the primaries in both states, but they were disqualified for
> holding their primaries early, and none of the candidates campaigned in
> either of the states.
>
> Dean's determination to compel the superdelegates to announce their picks on
> July 1 could result in a candidate being chosen before the Florida and
> Michigan controversies are resolved.
>
> Appearing on CBS' "Early Show" on Friday, Dean said: "Well, I think the
> superdelegates have already been weighing in. I think there's 800 of them
> and 450 of them have already said who they're for. . I'd like the other 350
> to say who they're on between now and the first of July so we don't have to
> take this into the convention."
>
> In a separate interview with The Associated Press, Dean warned against
> "demoralizing" Democrats with a drawn-out fistfight between Clinton and
> Obama.
>
> Pelosi, meanwhile, has urged superdelegates to follow the choice of the
> pledged delegates, more of whom favor Obama. She rejected an overture by
> wealthy Clinton donors Wednesday that she recant that position.
>
> With no end to the intra-party squabbling in sight, Obama joked Friday that
> this primary season is "like a good movie that lasted about a half an hour
> too long."
>
> "I think there are some people who felt like 'God, when will this be over?'"
> he told a Pittsburgh, Pa., crowd. He later qualified, adding: "It's been
> hard and tough because both Clinton and I understand what is at stake, how
> important this race is, how important the next presidency will be to the
> American people and to families right here in Pennsylvania."
>
> Though trailing in Pennsylvania, Obama's shown a resilience to the recent
> controversy over his former pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.
>
> According to a Gallup Poll released Friday, Obama leads nationally with 50
> percent to the New York senator's 42 percent, his biggest lead in that
> survey since the Wright controversy broke.
>
> In response to Leahy's calls for the race to end, Clinton supporter Sen.
> Chuck Schumer in a conference call Friday urged supporters to wait and see,
> citing the upcoming Pennsylvania primary.
>
> Former Vice President Al Gore said Thursday that he expects the Democratic
> nomination fight will work itself out before the party's convention.
>
> "What have we got, five months left?" he told The Associated Press in a
> brief interview after a speech at Middle Tennessee State University.
>
> "I think it's going to resolve itself. But we'll see."
>
> Gore didn't elaborate.

 

[Topaz]

The Origins of Political Correctness
An Accuracy in Academia Address by Bill Lind

Variations of this speech have been delivered to various AIA
conferences including the 2000 Consevative University at American
University

Where does all this stuff that you've heard about this morning - the
victim feminism, the gay rights movement, the invented statistics, the
rewritten history, the lies, the demands, all the rest of it - where
does it come from? For the first time in our history, Americans have
to be fearful of what they say, of what they write, and of what they
think. They have to be afraid of using the wrong word, a word
denounced as offensive or insensitive, or racist, sexist, or
homophobic.

We have seen other countries, particularly in this century, where this
has been the case. And we have always regarded them with a mixture of
pity, and to be truthful, some amusement, because it has struck us as
so strange that people would allow a situation to develop where they
would be afraid of what words they used. But we now have this
situation in this country. We have it primarily on college campuses,
but it is spreading throughout the whole society. Were does it come
from? What is it?

We call it "Political Correctness." The name originated as something
of a joke, literally in a comic strip, and we tend still to think of
it as only half-serious. In fact, it's deadly serious. It is the great
disease of our century, the disease that has left tens of millions of
people dead in Europe, in Russia, in China, indeed around the world.
It is the disease of ideology. PC is not funny. PC is deadly serious.

If we look at it analytically, if we look at it historically, we
quickly find out exactly what it is. Political Correctness is cultural
Marxism. It is Marxism translated from economic into cultural terms.
It is an effort that goes back not to the 1960s and the hippies and
the peace movement, but back to World War I. If we compare the basic
tenets of Political Correctness with classical Marxism the parallels
are very obvious.

First of all, both are totalitarian ideologies. The totalitarian
nature of Political Correctness is revealed nowhere more clearly than
on college campuses, many of which at this point are small ivy covered
North Koreas, where the student or faculty member who dares to cross
any of the lines set up by the gender feminist or the homosexual-
rights activists, or the local black or Hispanic group, or any of the
other sainted "victims" groups that PC revolves around, quickly find
themselves in judicial trouble. Within the small legal system of the
college, they face formal charges - some star-chamber proceeding - and
punishment. That is a little look into the future that Political
Correctness intends for the nation as a whole.

Indeed, all ideologies are totalitarian because the essence of an
ideology (I would note that conservatism correctly understood is not
an ideology) is to take some philosophy and say on the basis of this
philosophy certain things must be true - such as the whole of the
history of our culture is the history of the oppression of women.
Since reality contradicts that, reality must be forbidden. It must
become forbidden to acknowledge the reality of our history. People
must be forced to live a lie, and since people are naturally reluctant
to live a lie, they naturally use their ears and eyes to look out and
say, "Wait a minute. This isn't true. I can see it isn't true," the
power of the state must be put behind the demand to live a lie. That
is why ideology invariably creates a totalitarian state.

Second, the cultural Marxism of Political Correctness, like economic
Marxism, has a single factor explanation of history. Economic Marxism
says that all of history is determined by ownership of means of
production. Cultural Marxism, or Political Correctness, says that all
history is determined by power, by which groups defined in terms of
race, sex, etc., have power over which other groups. Nothing else
matters. All literature, indeed, is about that. Everything in the past
is about that one thing.

Third, just as in classical economic Marxism certain groups, i.e.
workers and peasants, are a priori good, and other groups, i.e., the
bourgeoisie and capital owners, are evil. In the cultural Marxism of
Political Correctness certain groups are good - feminist women, (only
feminist women, non-feminist women are deemed not to exist) blacks,
Hispanics, homosexuals. These groups are determined to be "victims,"
and therefore automatically good regardless of what any of them do.
Similarly, white males are determined automatically to be evil,
thereby becoming the equivalent of the bourgeoisie in economic
Marxism.

Fourth, both economic and cultural Marxism rely on expropriation. When
the classical Marxists, the communists, took over a country like
Russia, they expropriated the bourgeoisie, they took away their
property. Similarly, when the cultural Marxists take over a university
campus, they expropriate through things like quotas for admissions.
When a white student with superior qualifications is denied admittance
to a college in favor of a black or Hispanic who isn't as well
qualified, the white student is expropriated. And indeed, affirmative
action, in our whole society today, is a system of expropriation.
White owned companies don't get a contract because the contract is
reserved for a company owned by, say, Hispanics or women. So
expropriation is a principle tool for both forms of Marxism....

In 1923 in Germany, a think-tank is established that takes on the role
of translating Marxism from economic into cultural terms, that creates
Political Correctness as we know it today, and essentially it has
created the basis for it by the end of the 1930s. This comes about
because the very wealthy young son of a millionaire German trader by
the name of Felix Weil has become a Marxist and has lots of money to
spend. He is disturbed by the divisions among the Marxists, so he
sponsors something called the First Marxist Work Week, where he brings
Lukacs and many of the key German thinkers together for a week,
working on the differences of Marxism.

And he says, "What we need is a think-tank." Washington is full of
think tanks and we think of them as very modern. In fact they go back
quite a ways. He endows an institute, associated with Frankfurt
University, established in 1923, that was originally supposed to be
known as the Institute for Marxism. But the people behind it decided
at the beginning that it was not to their advantage to be openly
identified as Marxist. The last thing Political Correctness wants is
for people to figure out it's a form of Marxism. So instead they
decide to name it the Institute for Social Research.

Weil is very clear about his goals. In 1971, he wrote to Martin Jay
the author of a principle book on the Frankfurt School, as the
Institute for Social Research soon becomes known informally, and he
said, "I wanted the institute to become known, perhaps famous, due to
its contributions to Marxism." Well, he was successful. The first
director of the Institute, Carl Grunberg, an Austrian economist,
concluded his opening address, according to Martin Jay, "by clearly
stating his personal allegiance to Marxism as a scientific
methodology." Marxism, he said, would be the ruling principle at the
Institute, and that never changed...

The stuff we've been hearing about this morning - the radical
feminism, the women's studies departments, the gay studies
departments, the black studies departments - all these things are
branches of Critical Theory. What the Frankfurt School essentially
does is draw on both Marx and Freud in the 1930s to create this theory
called Critical Theory. The term is ingenious because you're tempted
to ask, "What is the theory?" The theory is to criticize. The theory
is that the way to bring down Western culture and the capitalist order
is not to lay down an alternative. They explicitly refuse to do that.
They say it can't be done, that we can't imagine what a free society
would look like (their definition of a free society). As long as we're
living under repression - the repression of a capitalistic economic
order which creates (in their theory) the Freudian condition, the
conditions that Freud describes in individuals of repression - we
can't even imagine it. What Critical Theory is about is simply
criticizing. It calls for the most destructive criticism possible, in
every possible way, designed to bring the current order down. And, of
course, when we hear from the feminists that the whole of society is
just out to get women and so on, that kind of criticism is a
derivative of Critical Theory. It is all coming from the 1930s, not
the 1960s.

Other key members who join up around this time are Theodore Adorno,
and, most importantly, Erich Fromm and Herbert Marcuse. Fromm and
Marcuse introduce an element which is central to Political
Correctness, and that's the sexual element. And particularly Marcuse,
who in his own writings calls for a society of "polymorphous
perversity," that is his definition of the future of the world that
they want to create. Marcuse in particular by the 1930s is writing
some very extreme stuff on the need for sexual liberation, but this
runs through the whole Institute. So do most of the themes we see in
Political Correctness, again in the early 30s. In Fromm's view,
masculinity and femininity were not reflections of `essential' sexual
differences, as the Romantics had thought. They were derived instead
from differences in life functions, which were in part socially
determined." Sex is a construct; sexual differences are a construct...

How does all of this stuff flood in here? How does it flood into our
universities, and indeed into our lives today? The members of the
Frankfurt School are Marxist, they are also, to a man, Jewish. In 1933
the Nazis came to power in Germany, and not surprisingly they shut
down the Institute for Social Research. And its members fled. They
fled to New York City, and the Institute was reestablished there in
1933 with help from Columbia University. And the members of the
Institute, gradually through the 1930s, though many of them remained
writing in German, shift their focus from Critical Theory about German
society, destructive criticism about every aspect of that society, to
Critical Theory directed toward American society. There is another
very important transition when the war comes. Some of them go to work
for the government, including Herbert Marcuse, who became a key figure
in the OSS (the predecessor to the CIA), and some, including
Horkheimer and Adorno, move to Hollywood.

These origins of Political Correctness would probably not mean too
much to us today except for two subsequent events. The first was the
student rebellion in the mid-1960s, which was driven largely by
resistance to the draft and the Vietnam War. But the student rebels
needed theory of some sort. They couldn't just get out there and say,
"Hell no we won't go," they had to have some theoretical explanation
behind it. Very few of them were interested in wading through Das
Kapital. Classical, economic Marxism is not light, and most of the
radicals of the 60s were not deep. Fortunately for them, and
unfortunately for our country today, and not just in the university,
Herbert Marcuse remained in America when the Frankfurt School
relocated back to Frankfurt after the war. And whereas Mr. Adorno in
Germany is appalled by the student rebellion when it breaks out there
- when the student rebels come into Adorno's classroom, he calls the
police and has them arrested - Herbert Marcuse, who remained here, saw
the 60s student rebellion as the great chance. He saw the opportunity
to take the work of the Frankfurt School and make it the theory of the
New Left in the United States.

One of Marcuse's books was the key book. It virtually became the bible
of the SDS and the student rebels of the 60s. That book was Eros and
Civilization. Marcuse argues that under a capitalistic order (he
downplays the Marxism very strongly here, it is subtitled, A
Philosophical Inquiry into Freud, but the framework is Marxist),
repression is the essence of that order and that gives us the person
Freud describes - the person with all the hang-ups, the neuroses,
because his sexual instincts are repressed. We can envision a future,
if we can only destroy this existing oppressive order, in which we
liberate eros, we liberate libido, in which we have a world of
"polymorphous perversity," in which you can "do you own thing." And by
the way, in that world there will no longer be work, only play. What a
wonderful message for the radicals of the mid-60s! They're students,
they're baby-boomers, and they've grown up never having to worry about
anything except eventually having to get a job. And here is a guy
writing in a way they can easily follow. He doesn't require them to
read a lot of heavy Marxism and tells them everything they want to
hear which is essentially, "Do your own thing," "If it feels good do
it," and "You never have to go to work." By the way, Marcuse is also
the man who creates the phrase, "Make love, not war." Coming back to
the situation people face on campus, Marcuse defines "liberating
tolerance" as intolerance for anything coming from the Right and
tolerance for anything coming from the Left. Marcuse joined the
Frankfurt School, in 1932 (if I remember right). So, all of this goes
back to the 1930s.

In conclusion, America today is in the throes of the greatest and
direst transformation in its history. We are becoming an ideological
state, a country with an official state ideology enforced by the power
of the state. In "hate crimes" we now have people serving jail
sentences for political thoughts. And the Congress is now moving to
expand that category ever further. Affirmative action is part of it.
The terror against anyone who dissents from Political Correctness on
campus is part of it. It's exactly what we have seen happen in Russia,
in Germany, in Italy, in China, and now it's coming here. And we don't
recognize it because we call it Political Correctness and laugh it
off. My message today is that it's not funny, it's here, it's growing
and it will eventually destroy, as it seeks to destroy, everything
that we have ever defined as our freedom and our culture.

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