COMMENT POSTED TO A BOOK REVIEW BY THOMAS FRANK IN THE
GUARDIAN
Hillary Clinton's book
has a clear message: don't blame me
Hillary has always been a ridiculous politician - that is,
apart from being a dangerous one (i.e. her infamously ugly quote on video about
Gadhafi's death or her quote on Julian Assange, “Can’t we just drone him or
something?”) and under-handed (i.e. cheating Bernie Sanders out of the
nomination).
She is ridiculous precisely because she always tries to be
all things to all people and often has been caught in her false and even
contradictory claims.
Witness her claim about bravery under sniper fire in Bosnia
in 1996. They were a complete fabrication, repeated many times on the campaign
trail until we got the video of her actual arrival with a sweet young girl
giving her flowers and not a shot to be heard. Her response: “I misspoke.”
There was her complete inability to say a word of truth
about what she as Secretary of State achieved at Benghazi. She actually cried
and melted down later trying to gain sympathy over her efforts in that
murderous fiasco which only occurred because her administration was running a
black-ops program of transferring weapons and thugs to use them from the ruins
of Libya to try ruining Syria too.
Of course, in both cases, Libya and Syria, many women and
children would be killed, but that seemed of little consequence to this
self-proclaimed champion of women’s interests.
Remember her days, way back in the White House, swinging
between speaking at times as though she were the President and then doing
things like a photo-op baking cookies and wearing an apron?
Or witness the opening of her last campaign with the
ill-considered, broad statement, designed to snare the votes of all young
women, that a woman should always be believed in a rape case. Of course, there
were several women making that exact charge against her husband, women she
studiously ignored and often disparaged.
Now, all politicians are guilty in some degree of this kind
of thing, but Hillary seems almost a screaming parody of the normal practices.
Of course, it cannot be any different with the
responsibility for losing. She will not admit the truth we all recognize.
