The Democratic Convention Film on Hillary Clinton Lied to America
The short movie claimed that the Children's Defense Fund was the essence of Clinton's early career—and avoided the ugly fact that she betrayed the beneficiaries of that fund and all children in poverty, beginning as first lady of Arkansas.
A scene from "Hillary," the 12-minute film shown at the Democratic convention. (The Daily Conversation / YouTube)
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The dominant message of the convention, aside from a truly obscene co-option of every bit of victimhood in the nation, including the “undocumented,” of whom Obama has deported by the millions, was Clinton’s lifelong concern for “the children.” Ah, yes, the children! Thank you, Morgan Freeman, for reminding us in the “Hillary” film of the Children’s Defense Fund being the claimed essence of Clinton’s early career.
The film avoided the ugly fact that Clinton betrayed the beneficiaries of that fund and all children in poverty, beginning when she was first lady of Arkansas, proclaiming the virtues of a sham called “Project Success” as the best way to help poor women and their children. Project Success was a success only for those who wanted to devastate welfare.
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That plan, as I documented as a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, forced women on welfare to abandon mothering their children and take low-paying jobs at places like Wal-Mart and Tyson poultry, both of which Clinton represented as a lawyer with Little Rock’s Rose Law Firm, and the program was an atrocious failure.
But facts be damned. Project Success became the national model for President Clinton’s much-ballyhooed 1996 “welfare reform” that turned over the nation’s main anti-poverty program, Aid to Families with Dependent Children, to the tender mercies of the states.
That action was condemned by Marian Wright Edelman, founder of the same Children’s Defense Fund championed in Clinton’s bio, who said it “makes a mockery of his pledge not to hurt children.” Her husband, Peter Edelman, resigned in protest from the Clinton administration.
Undoubtedly, readers troubled by this column will quickly produce quotes establishing that Trump wants to hurt poor children far more barbarically. But if that’s enough to float your boat as you hold your nose for Clinton, know that that is a truly depressing choice for the country.
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