JOY OH JOY, HILLARY IS RUNNING
John Chuckman
Yes, there is still bias "out there," as some have
written, about an American woman running for President, but I do not believe the
bias is decisive: after all, America has broken what surely was its fiercest
taboo with the election of a black man, twice. There is, however, another bias “out
there,” and a decisive one: a bias against the Clintons, a ghastly pair in
almost every respect, America's contemporary version of the Borgias - both of
them grasping, vicious, ruthless, two-faced, and lacking only the Borgias' good
taste in art and literature.
Among the distinguished achievements of Hillary’s husband
are the bombing of Serbia's capital, including the offices of journalists, and the
bombing of a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan claimed to be a chemical weapons
plant. President Clinton bragged of "ending welfare in our time,"
quite the claim for a self-styled liberal. It was his blundering, belligerent FBI
and ATF that committed the atrocities at Waco. He embarrassed everyone with his
grotesque personal behavior, and he pardoned some ghastly criminals in return
for huge contributions to his "foundation." He is good friends with people
like Jeffrey Epstein, a registered sex offender who solicited and kept underage
girls to “service” guests on his private island or on the “Lolita Express,”
nick-name for his private jet - both jet and island having Clinton recorded as
a guest.
Bill Clinton failed every major undertaking of worth,
including healthcare reform, Hillary playing a large role in that failure. Sometimes
forgotten, he also frequently played the public coward, not standing behind
appointments he made when they were attacked viciously in the Senate, allowing
honorable people to be pilloried, then finally withdrawing their nominations.
Perhaps his greatest act of cowardice involved the genocidal horrors of Rwanda.
He was aware of them quite early, but his government was instructed not to use
inflammatory language in public, and he made virtually no effort to save a
million lives.
His contemptible behavior should, in theory, have nothing to
do with Hillary, but in fact it very much does. They were the ones going around
talking up the idea of getting “two for one” during his term of office. She still
treats him as a confidant and advisor, having been photographed a number of
times engaged in serious tête-à-têtes, and he has had several sessions with
Obama, and big money sources, concerning Hillary’s ambitions.
Both Clintons have long records of chasing, indeed
grovelling in much the same fashion as the smarmy Tony Blair, after big money -
money for the foundation, money for elections, she having set an unenviable
record for cancerous spending when running for the Senate in New York, and they
have both been involved in at least as many questionable deals on the side as
several former Israeli Prime Ministers combined.
I wish a woman could run for President, but must the
candidate be someone who resembles Richard Nixon in drag and shares views the late
ogre, J. Edgar Hoover? Everyone who doubts what a colossally unpleasant
character Hillary has in private should read the memoirs of former secret
service agents. Her behavior was appalling, tasking agents with things like
holding her purse in public, and shouting a stream of "f--k off" invective
at them if they declined.
She has always voted for war in the Senate, including the
horrible war crime of invading Iraq. She goes around making speeches – at
$300,000 a pop plus a whole printed list of demanded perquisites – about
America’s need for a strong defense. Strong defense? America? How does one
manage to spend more than America already spends on death and destruction? Park
a nuclear-loaded B-52 at every civilian airport? Supply every Boy Scout troop
with heavy machine guns and plenty of ammo? The woman borders on deranged here.
She has lied countless times in office and while running for
office. The bloody mess at Benghazi was her baby, and she has done nothing but
lie about its embarrassing and deadly failure. The last time she ran for
President, in order to bolster her image for toughness, she bragged of coming
under gunfire when she landed on a visit to Bosnia as First Lady, but a news video
promptly appeared which showed nothing but a sweet little girl presenting flowers
to her at the airport. Of course, she had to lie again when the video turned
up, saying she hadn’t remembered events clearly, but no one ever forgets coming
under gun fire. It is not possible unless your faculties are in such a jumbled
state you should be disqualified from office.
Of course, in the end, Hillary’s mass of deceptions and
terrible associations and rotten personality really do not matter because
America's real government, its ongoing unelected one, allows no President to
depart much from the established script. The last one who made a serious try
had half his head blasted into the streets of Dallas.
Anticipation and excitement about the first woman candidate
reminds me of America’s electing and celebrating its first black - a seemingly
charming and intelligent man at the time - and he has proved just another
George Bush, giving ordinary Americans nothing, and especially his own people.
He weekly approves extrajudicial killings in a half dozen places, behavior completely
in keeping with former South American juntas who made thousands of people just
disappear, and he happily does business with tyrants and absolute monarchs and
madmen like Netanyahu. Hillary would do precisely the same.
In the end, the person America elects as President makes no
appreciable difference to what America does in the world or how its wealthy
rulers treat their own people, a presidential election being little more than
the most costly theater performance in the world, “a tale / Told by an idiot,
full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing.”