The Beast Throws her Hat in the Ring
by Jeff Davis
Yahoo News reports that “Hillary Rodham Clinton entered the 2008 U.S. presidential race on Saturday with a swipe at President George W. Bush as she capped years of speculation about her White House ambitions.” Well, you could have just knocked me down with a feather, I was so surprised!
Like hell. The bleached-blonde poster girl for Political Correctness has been running for president ever since she had to be dragged kicking and screaming out of the White House in 2001. Some members of the Clinton regime literally trashed their offices when Al Gore lost his election. All sorts of White House valuables disappeared as the Clintons left the White House. A few items were grudgingly returned.
After suffering her philandering husband for decades, Hillary hung onto Bill’s coattails long enough to get her Senate seat in New York. Hillary supposedly is a “strong” woman, but what kind of strong woman puts up with an adulterous husband? A woman with character and a backbone would leave the cheater and get on with her life. The liberals of New York rewarded a woman whose only credentials were (1).far left, impractical political beliefs, (2).membership in the (very crooked) Rose Law Firm and (3).putting up with a louse of a husband, who just happened to be big shot in the Democrat Party.
Bill supposedly tried to put some of Hillary’s universal health care ideas into legislation. The result was an encyclopedia of regulations in which leftist political commissars would spy on and punish medical doctors for any infractions. Thousands of small and medium businesses faced bankruptcy if forced to supply their workers with free medical care. Americans quickly overthrew the Democrats voting them out of Congress. Most Americans decided it was better to have a job with no health care, than health care and no job.
According to Yahoo, “In a message on her Web site, the former first lady, who aims to become the first woman elected U.S. president, wrote: ‘I’m in. And I’m in to win.’” The horror of it is, she may be right. It may well be that by 2008, the people of this country will be so sickened and disgusted by eight years of neocon rule, so enraged by the ghastly mess Bush has made of his Middle Eastern war of imperial conquest (which will by then almost certainly include an unprovoked attack on Iran) that Americans will vote for anybody just to get the horrible George Bush and the neocons of the White House.
“Boobus Americanus,” as H. L. Mencken described the bulk of our fellow citizens, has a memory about two inches long, and by 2008 all that the average Homer Simpson will remember about the Clinton years is that when the Clintons were in power, he had a job that paid decently. Never mind the corruption, the treason, the mysterious deaths, the impeachment, and the grotesque and bizarre history of the Clintons in power–all that will go down the memory hole. Never mind the fact that the Clinton “boom” was offset by the outsourcing of American jobs, that Ross Perot warned us about. By 2008 the Clinton name will stand for what many people in their selective memories will view as a “golden age.”
I have the terrible suspicion that if Hillary gets the Democrat nomination, that’s all she wrote. She’ll have eight years of power–that seems to be the two-party system’s arrangement these days, with the out-of-power party always running an unelectable doofus like Bob Dole or John Kerry after a president’s first term. Eight years during which she will have at her fingertips all those lovely “security” laws like the Patriot Act and the Military Commissions Act of 2006 and the FISA court for wiretapping anybody she wants.
True, she does appear to face some primary opposition in the form of Barack Obama, who has been catapulted out of a well-earned obscurity into the limelight by forces which are as yet mysterious and unclear. It could be that Hillary’s foes in the Democratic party, who are many (NOBODY likes this woman, even her own kind) may have rallied behind Obama. Or the whole thing may well be a subtle Hillary plot to stage a fake primary “contest” and end up with Obama as her vice presidential running mate.
Folks, better get in all your Hillary jokes and comments in the next two years, because once this vile woman takes power, you’d better believe the Iron Heel is coming down. Hillary is known to be vindictive and she’s got a lot of scores to settle, including some with the far right. One way or another, the next few years in this country are going to be one hell of a runaway sled ride.