Letter to Hillary Clinton

January 17, 2008

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton

Keating Building

100 State Street #4109

Rochester, New York 14614

RE: Well I’ll be! We agree.

Senator Clinton,

Honest Injun, but we do, we do. Who would have thought it could happen?

I am a rational, literate adult who has both knowledge and sense of History. You are a politician would bomb an orphanage to get to the White House. The thing we agree on is the role Lyndon Johnson played in getting the major Civil Rights acts in 1964 and 1965 passed.

You said, in a calculated and controlled chickie hissy fit that while Martin Luther King set the tone Lyndon Johnson did the heavy lifting. As usual, you left out part of the story. You may recall your days at the Rose Law Firm. By omitting material matters, most assuredly known to you, you bumped up against the fraud statutes.

You made the obligatory obeisance at the altar of President Kennedy, you failed to mention Eisenhower, and you conveniently flushed harsh facts about your own party down the memory hole so beloved of modern American Liberals suffering from terminal eclectic indignation.

President Johnson got Senate approval because of Republican support. In fact, a higher percentage of Republican Senators voted for it than Democrats. Look it up.

In terms of legislation President Kennedy did nothing. You can look that up also. An argument could be made for submitting legislation to Congress knowing that it will not be approved. T.E. Lawrence, noted diversity champion, said that “not much could be gained from a sure win but a certain defeat could be a valuable thing”. [As an aside, in 1995 when you were secretly running the State Department – Don’t worry about Madeline Albright getting mad. She still hasn’t caught on. – why wasn’t the Kyoto Accord submitted to the Senate as the Constitution requires? It would have gotten 20 votes tops. It would have been the right thing to do. Now, with polar bears drowning, with melting icebergs causing tsunamis in Little Rock, and with people going mad over Global Warming robbing them of a future, you could have used it as a club. Too bad]

President Eisenhower, the man whose name you failed to mention, did a bit for Civil Rights. HE SENT THE UNITED STATES ARMY TO LITTLE ROCK TO ENFORCE A COURT ORDER. That’s the Little Rock in Arkansas. You may wish to ask your husband where Senator Fullbright was during all this. Forgive my choice of words but he was an intern for him, wasn’t he?

Should you get back to the White House the first thing – well, maybe not the first thing – will be to “channel” Eleanor Roosevelt and find out why her husband signed the Davis-Bacon Act into law. If at anytime in the 20^th century a more bigoted, racist act than this was passed into law on the Federal level I would like to know of it.

It’s fun when we agree.

I am waiting for the argument that raising taxes is the best way to fight slow growth. Be careful when you say that because somewhere Keynes is listening.

If you give me an address I’ll send a few bucks to help your brother out with his back child support.

It probably is an inconvenient truth but it takes a village to care for an abandoned child. I’m sure your brother has his reasons but if those scoundrels who make up the detested “vast Right-Wing conspiracy” ever find out about it you know what they will do with it.