Hillary Clinton for President?
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As Mrs. Clinton does her Secretary of State farewell tour, we should ponder if we really want her as President in 2017
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Hillary Clinton is doing a farewell tour as she wraps up a stint as Secretary of State. As she is jockeying herself for a possible run at president in 2016, it is important to think about who she (and her husband) really are. While this page has listed some of their sins (“Clinton Nostalgia,” September 12, 2012), the most recent transgression and perhaps the one that sums up the thoroughly
political animals that both she and her husband are is the Benghazi fiasco in which 4 U.S. foreign service officers were murdered in large part because of inadequate security which Mrs. Clinton was ultimately responsible for.
At Senate hearings last week, Democrats praised her effusively and forgot why she was there: Benghazi. It was surreal how what was supposed to be a thoughtful inquiry into the avoidable murder of this country’s ambassador to Libya and 3 other foreign service officers degenerated into what Liberals characterized as the rough treatment of the delicate and dainty Hillary Clinton. Chris Matthews was even babbling on his MSNBC blather session how her Republican senatorial inquisitors were speaking to her in a degrading way because of her gender; never mind that there’s clear evidence (including her own admission) that she was negligent in protecting the consulate that was attacked and a full discussion of such could save lives in the future. Substance be damned; this is all about protecting a prospective presidential candidate in 2016 who is a Liberal darling. Sometimes you have to ignore a few murdered people to save a political career. And regarding her acceptance of responsibility, she and her media enablers will draw a line no later than 2015 that this subject is off-limits should she run for president. So much of an assumption of responsibility by her.
Just like Houdini, the Clintons are escape artists…from responsibility
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But perhaps a better question the senators could have asked is who would ever want to work in some foreign outpost wrought with danger if they know that their country and a President Hillary Clinton may not adequately protect them and then whitewash any such failure in the name of politics?
And it can’t be missed how the death of people associated with the Clintons means little if anything to them: from Bill Clinton’s smiling at his commerce secretary Ron Brown’s funeral to their political damage-control response to Vince Foster’s death to Ambassador Chris Stevens’ unnecessary murder, the Clinton’s are utterly unmoved by anything except their own political interests.
With friends like the Clintons, who needs mortal enemies? Better yet, shouldn’t this disqualify her from being president?
-I.M. Windee
