Posted by
jarhead on Thursday, December 20, 2007 3:57:51 PM
So Hillary is one of the most experienced candidates in the race. Boy. Just where does that come from?
She has held no elected office but Senator from New York and there are not a whole lot of stunning legislative achievements coming out of that. So just where does that experience come from?
There seems to be a strong desire to equate the fact that she was First Lady with the actual job of the President. Unfortunately she was not the President. While she may have stuck her nose into the travel office, with very suspect results, and headed up the ill fated effort to revamp healthcare in America it is quite clear from the results that with that evidence in hand she did not exhibit any competence that would qualify her for the Presidency. But there could be more there than we know. How do we get at those facts so necessary to understanding that she was much more a part of Bill’s Presidency than appears to the case?
Well there are those records in Bill’s library that, if released, would give us all insight into her, thus far, less than stellar qualifications. But for some unknown reason Bill is not letting those out. Why the reluctance to help her enhance her position?
One of two obvious answers leaps to mind. First, of course, is that those records are far from flattering and rather than enhance her reputation they might well achieve the exact opposite. The second is that while we might see her playing a significant role that might equip her for President, depending on your opinion of the results, such experience would bring into question exactly what Bill was doing if Hill had to play such an important part in his Presidency. More importantly we’d have to question how someone who was not elected and did not take the oath of office could assume such an important role. What we are left to believe is that somehow, bereft of any evidence to support the idea, Hill has experience. Why?
Because Bill says so? A man prohibited from practicing law in his home state and from presenting before the Supreme Court because he lied under oath might not be the best source for any reliable information.
Because she says so? Absent those pesky records there is really nothing to go on but her word for it.
Because the press repeats the unsupportable in the hopes that a fabrication repeated often enough will take on the aura of a truth? Any sensible person should be suspicious of anything coming from the established traditional press.
The bottom line is that she is not the most qualified candidate or anything close to it. She’s Bill’s wife and a participant in enough scandals during his Presidency to be readily discounted as candidate for anything. God help us all should this blatant opportunist somehow become our President.