...Mr. Obama has begun to challenge Mrs. Clinton on her central claim that her candidacy represents a return to the Age of Pericles, a k a the 1990s. The Clinton candidacy -- everyone knows it is a her-and-his affair -- is at its core an appeal to selective nostalgia. We are supposed to remember the lack of a hot war, not the "holiday from history" as al Qaeda gained strength. We are supposed to recall the late-1990s boom, not that it began only after the GOP took Congress and repudiated many Clinton policies.
And we are supposed to forget entirely about Travelgate, Whitewater, lost billing records, the Rose law firm, the Lippo Group, Johnny Chung, Harold Ickes, miraculous cattle-future winnings and lying under oath. So selective is our memory supposed to be that we are asked to credit Mrs. Clinton as a kind of co-President during her husband's eight years, while her husband blocks public access to his Presidential records that might let us examine her actual contribution...
We can now add Benghazi and the entire, catastrophic "Arab Spring" to her impressive C.V. Not to mention the growing Clinton Foundation scandal.
If the field of politics didn't exist, precisely what would a woman like Hillary Clinton be qualified to do?
be a harpy? And how does that differ? Then she'd just annoy Bill
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...and we were sure Madeleine Albright was the fire starting champion.
ReplyDeleteThis is what happens when an unqualified nincompoop is appointed Secretary of State.
I'm sure John Kerry, the most incredible Veteran ever, can fix things.
You almost have to feel more sorry for the world, as opposed to us.
She would be qualified to be the warden at any deep-south prison in the '50s.
ReplyDeleteBy temperament, if not by training.
Or play one in a movie.