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Senator Clinton Slams GTA
Joining the ranks of such luminaries as Jack Thompson and Governor Blagojevich, GamesIndustry.biz has the word that Senator Hillary Clinton has joined right wing advocates in decrying the gaming industry as a paragon of loose morals and corrupting influences. From the article: "Children are playing a game that encourages them to have sex with prostitutes and then murder them...This is a silent epidemic of media desensitisation that teaches kids it's OK to diss people because they are a woman, they're a different colour or they're from a different place." Commentary available at The Australian. Update: 03/30 02:22 GMT by T : Thanks to reader mantle_etching, here is a link to the entire speech as delivered, so you can judge its content for yourself.
Well, she's not from New York. She's from Little Rock.
Also, speaking as a right-wing kook, I consider to the Clintons to be very centrist.
Apart from an aborted attempt at nationalizing health care (which GWB has made great strides towards in his wake anyway), Clinton was a very centrist President.
Look at all the conservative reforms he signed into law: A capital gains tax cut. Welfare Reform. Free trade agreements. Corporate deregulation. The list goes on. Not to mention two years out of eight with a budget surpluss while still keeping top marginal income tax rates under 40%, and pushing for manditory use of the "V-chip."
Bush the Elder can only wish he had conservative credentials like that.
Bill and Hillary talk a good enough game at the right to convince most of the liberal base of the party that they are really still the same couple of "dirty hippy" 60's radicals they always have been, who are only in the disguise of suit-wearing, cookie-baking, friends of Big Business... but as Kurt Vonnegut once pointed out, you tend to become who you pretend to be, and Hillary's been wearing those power suits for a long time now.
I was one of those who though President Clinton should have resigned as soon as it became clear that he was criminally in contept of court, but in most other regards I thought he served his nation (and the centrist movement) fairly well most of the time.
If I was a centrist, rather than a radical libertarian, I probably would like him even more.
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
I thought they were being discriminated against because they were, well, fake.
Is killing fake people new? Or is this just another of Hillary's attempts to con people into believing she's become more centrist?