The games people play

LARRY ANDERSON
Larry Anderson

If you are around my age, you may remember the late Joe South, a recording artist of several of the 1960s’ most memorable anthems. Here are some lines from his song, Games People Play:

“Oh, the games people play now,

“Every night and every day now,

“Never meaning what they say now,

“Never saying what they mean.

“Oh, they wile away the hours,

“In their ivory towers,

“‘til they’re covered up with flowers,

“In the back of a black limousine.”

Joe’s message was reflective of liberal themes of the time.

Liberals then professed to be seekers of truth, justice, and simplicity. They abhorred traditional ways of doing things, favoring instead an activist government and a laid back, hazy approach to everything else. A responsible life wasn’t worth much to them, or, at least, that was the impression modeled.

Libs in those days were too busy practicing radicalism to pay much attention to attitudes long advanced as preservationist: family, faith, and country.

Wasn’t America at fault for coming to the aid of a struggling Vietnamese government?

Weren’t white people racist, every one?

Wasn’t the country built on conquest?

Wasn’t America, really, a pretty awful place?

Shouldn’t government controlled by correct-thinking people rectify everything?

Now, has the Left changed in the decades since Joe South lit up the airwaves with his song about people living their lives poorly?

Not really.

Now a finger-wagging old hippie from the Joe South era wants to be president.

Hillary Rodham Clinton wants to be in the ivory tower, and she is still peddling those ancient themes of victims wronged by greed, party, and gender and of wealth misplaced by those who earned it.

Does Hillary ever mean what she says or ever say what she means?

Well, she recently made a big point of emphasizing her and Bill’s poverty when her husband’s second term as president ended in 2000. They were financially adrift, she said.

We were supposed to reply, “How sad for Hillary” and, “Gosh darn it, Hillary had problems too.”

Today, the Clinton team is worth tens of millions. Reportedly, Hillary herself recently took in $300,000 for a single appearance.

So poor. So sad.

When asked about the fiasco in Benghazi while Secretary of State, HRC said little about what was meant by dead men in her department’s employ. Instead, she wiled away her hours as they were covered up with flowers in the back of a black limousine. Truth is, it made no difference to her.

Yes, we see HRC continuing the Obama pattern as follows:

Create controversy via reckless behavior.

Ignore as long as possible one’s role in the controversy.

Deny, stonewall, and obfuscate concerning one’s role.

Finally, admit the role in the controversy, but make it sound insignificant, as if it was invented by someone else.

Appear as if departmental rules and such are one big bother.

Brush off any notion of further cooperation.

Instead, suggest conspiracy. Imply mountains out of mole hills.

Demonstrate a few paragraphs of commentary will be enough to clear things up.

Rely on Big Media to cover one’s butt with a hefty pantsuit of silence.

Walk all over the transparency plank once lauded as part of this administration‘s platform.

Get on with life and the campaign that really isn’t a campaign yet.

Hillary deleting thousands of emails she wasn’t supposed to have made and then didn’t turn over according to rules established within the Department of State will blow over soon.

Indeed, public amnesia is the Left’s greatest defensive weapon. Secrecy, ignored rules, and potentially endangered national security is of little significance.

Not to Hillary, anyway, and isn’t that what’s truly important?

After all, she plays the game so well, and what difference will it make by 2016?

Oh, the games people play now,

Every night and every day now…

Larry W. Anderson sees no hope for change in a Hillary Clinton regime.