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.

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Re:She is actually quite rightwing

[Shakrai]

Our job is to get a real Progressive nominated in 2008.

Yeah, because if they can't even get past the Democratic nomination, they are so going to win the swing and western states required to actually win the election. You show me a Progressive that can win enough of the states that Bush won while keeping all of those that Kerry did (New Hampshire and Pennsylvania come to mind as states that wouldn't fare well for a leftist Progressive) to carry 270 electoral votes.

Respectfully, our job is to make sure that we get somebody better then Bush elected. I don't care if that somebody is a Republican or a Democrat -- as long as they aren't a religious-right neo-con. Of course that means I'll still be voting Democrat because the Republicans in the real world (unlike Alan Ada on the West Wing) are too fucking arrogant to nominate a centrist.... even though there are some centrist Republicans that could probably carry 48-50 states (Giuliani?). But why would they do that when they can go further to the right and look out for the base of multi-millionaires and religious fundamentalists that is the modern-day Republican Party.

Do you think (as a staunch Democrat) that I like this? Do you think I like having to settle for somebody center-left/centrist/center-right? Hell no. But the reality of current demographics and the Electoral College is such that I don't foresee any leftist Democrats being elected in the next decade or so. Would Clinton himself even have won the first time if it wasn't for Perot?

And speaking of Bubba.... Clinton was right-wing??? Is that why he cut taxes on the rich to avoid a balanced budget and alienated all of our allies except for Israel and the UK? Oh wait...