Deconstructing Saint Hillary -Updated


A Democrat challenge to the nomination wears the polish off


This article points out one of the reasons I oppose Hillary Clinton as President.

Mrs. Clinton has never gone after a fellow Democrat quite the way she's going after Mr. Obama, and it's an indication of how threatened she is not only by his candidacy but, one suspects, his freshness. He makes her look like yesterday. He makes her look like the old slash-and-burn. I doubted he could do her serious damage. Now I wonder.

What Mrs. Clinton is trying to establish is this: to criticize her--to speak of her critically as a human being, as a person with a record and a history and a style and attitudes--is, ipso facto, to be dirty, and low, and destructive. To air and raise questions about who she is, how she operates, and what can be inferred from her past actions is by definition an unjust act.

I will say that what Senator Clinton is doing is not that unusual for someone on the left. What is unusual is her insistence that it applies to her personally and not just her programs. Of course, I am still waiting to hear what her programs are, I suspect she is too. Maybe the polls will come in soon.

This also isn't something new, it dates back to at least her husband's first term as Governor of Arkansas. The whole perception of Saint Hillary is premised on the point that she is beyond criticism.

Update - Saturday morning
Three interesting postscripts to this entry.

First is this article that I almost linked to a week ago when I was playing catch up.

"Now it's time to say the redeployment should start in 90 days or the Congress will revoke authorization for this war," the New York senator said in a video on her campaign Web site, repeating a point included in a bill she introduced on Friday.

Odd, but for some strange reason I don't remember the vote passing Congress. Of course, the good Senator would never take it on herself to speak for the entire Congress unless she was actually authorized to, would she?

Second is this choice collection of (admittedly biased) quotes published at Tammy Bruce's website. Now crudity and profanity is nothing unusual in politics, heck, LBJ not only cussed up a blue streak but was known to take the occasional whiz on the White House lawn. But take a look at the tone and the disrespect in these quotes and judge for yourself.

Third, Hugh Hewitt noticed something that no one else did. Emphasis in original (it's the title of the post).

"Everybody in politics lies, but they [the Clintons] do it with such ease, it's troubling,"

The title quote is of course from David Geffen, and it launched the first big dust-up of the 2008 campaign.  Rudy Giuliani told me that he thought the collision was accidental.  Others see a careful plan --but disagree which side had it laid out.  Lost in all the analysis has been a focus on what Geffen asserted about both Clintons:  Are the Clintons particularly inclined to lie?

To me, these show that Hillary Clinton can't be trusted enough to be President. I don't believe she can be trusted enough to be Senator, but I don't live in New York so that is not my decision to make.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Fri - February 23, 2007 at 01:39 PM  Tag


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