Arrogance Caused the Boos

November 4, 2001

by Charles E. Perry

When Hillary Clinton appeared onstage at a benefit concert for New York firefighters, she was booed off the stage by the crowd. I find that heartening myself, not being a fan of the junior Senator from New York, but the spin doctors went to work almost immediately. First they said that those who booed were all right wing listeners of Rush Limbaugh. They followed that with the charge that they were drunk. Today, I heard that not that many booed and it’s being exaggerated.

Let’s set the record straight: the majority of the crowd booed the woman who would be our Queen. Hillary had to shout to be heard at all, and that with a modern sound system at her disposal. It wasn’t an isolated few in the crowd who booed Hillary, it was the majority. That’s something that the Democrats may just want to pay attention to in the future, if they want to keep getting people elected that is. Her high-handed and arrogant style offends people, and Democrats who mimic her style should reconsider.

That arrogant style is what leads so many of the liberal persuasion to use "right wing" or "conservative" as insults. I, for one, am sick of that, and we should start calling those spin doctors on it when they do. They may believe that only they have a lock on the truth, but the rest of us aren’t sure they even come close to the truth, and we’re getting might tired of being told that we’re not bright enough to figure things out, so we should just leave it all to them. The fact is that most people lead their lives by conservative principles, and that no single group has a lock on the truth, politically speaking.

It was arrogant when Hillary stiffed a waitress during her campaign for the Senate. It was arrogant when she ran down a cop at an airport security checkpoint, and it’s arrogant of her coterie to declare that people only did it because they were drunk. Boo the Queen? Why you would have to be drunk to do that, right? Well, no, but the arrogance of Hillary and her followers won’t let them admit that she’s the cause of it. To them, Hillary can do no wrong.

The leaders of the left have been arrogant for quite a while. One of the reasons Gore, a sitting Vice President, lost to George Bush was his arrogance. He spoke down to people in a condescending manner, and he lost the presidency to a man who comes across as "one of the guys." That should have been a warning for those on the left, but it doesn’t appear that it was.

Well, maybe that’s a good thing.

God bless America.

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Charles E. Perry is a freelance writer living in Michigan. He has done a variety of things in his life, including Ward Supervisor at the State of Michigan's Maximum Security Mental Facility. His degree is in accounting, but he discovered writing and now spends his time hunched over a keyboard, hollow-eyed, looking for just the right word. Perry is the author of "How Government Should Work: A Look at the Federalist Papers and the Constitution of the United States," currently pending publication.

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