Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Finkelstein Puts Clinton On The Offensive
Posted by Joe under GeneralVia Crooks and Liars. Former President Bill Clinton took Arthur Finkelstein to task at a recent news conference in Harlem. Apparently Finkelstein is behind the latest ‘Stop Hillary’ campaign and Bill Clinton was quick to shed some light on Finkelstein’s character. Finkelstein has worked behind the scenes for the conservative powerbase for years, helping to elect people like Jesse Helms over the years. The odd thing is that Finkelstein is also gay and traveled to Massachusetts last weekend to marry his male partner. Yet, as Crooks and Liars
Crooks And Liars put it,
the people you work to elect don’t believe in visitation rights, health care benefits and the other human relationship contracts for gay couples. They don’t think of your relationship as human or normal. They hate you.
I’m not sure how someone can work for a system that goes so fundamentally against their way of life. It is further proof that much of what goes on in politics, specifically with the convervative right’s agenda, is pure business. There isn’t one ounce of faith-based values in this man’s lobbying. It’s all dollars and cents and poll statistics. He gets paid to put certain conservative people in office regardless of their hate for homosexuality and then he goes home and climbs in bed with his husband. I’d like to know what his partner does for work and how he feels about all this. If you’re going to believe in something, then believe in it with all your heart. The definition of “Fink” in the dictionary is,
1. A contemptible person. 2. An informer. 3. A hired strikebreaker.
Finkelstein is just a fink.
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April 12th, 2005 at 9:57 pm
Finkelstein Puts Clinton On The Offensive
Isn’t this against the law in some states:…
May 18th, 2005 at 8:39 am
Finkelstein is quite right to pursuit his career objectives and if he is good at it, so what! The fact that Arthur is gay should be of no consequence. Whether or not the people he works for support his lifestyle is irrlevant. There are lots of people who work for the Democratic party who are racist, opportunistic and part of the parasitic oligarchy. Don’t be self righteous. Leave Arhtur be.
May 18th, 2005 at 9:45 am
Hi Ansil III, thanks for the comments. I couldn’t disagree more. There is a battle for civil rights going on right now and this guy is part of the group that is fighting against those rights. If he was just minding his own business and living a simple, quiet, private gay life doing his job then that’s fine. It’s not about him being gay. It’s about him supporting those who promote gay discrimination even if his support is by indirectly helping those in power. If he was the treasurer for a local chapter of the KKK but didn’t “really” go out and burn crosses because he actually loved African Americans, would we just forgive him and let him be? Come on, the parasitic oligarchy is the problem and as they say, if you aren’t part of the solution, you are part of the problem. It’s not enough to just sit on your ass and let everyone else worry about the rights of a civilization. It’s not being self righteous; it’s being equal in America. I have little respect for those who decide to turn their back on their own beliefs to profit. How about a little dignity? Career objectives my ass.