Why do I say this? Because the political atmosphere in America has become so thick and toxic with lies, she is the right candidate at the right time. She has much more experience at lying than any other potential candidate, and so she is much better at it, as proved by the fact that she has gotten away it with so often. Certainly she is better than Obama, who is routinely exposed for lying, though the media pretends not to have noticed.
Why, just yesterday the president was asked when he learned that the Hills was using her personal email account while Secretary of State. Mr Obama looked the interviewer more or less in the eye and said what he always says when a scandal erupts: I learned of it when you did, through the press reports. Why, if it wasn't for reporters, the president wouldn't know anything! How many times has he said this? I can't even count. But I thought I did detect a bit of weariness in his response this time, as if even he were getting tried of admitting that he is clueless. But realistically, my friends, how is it possible that in the years the Hills was Secretary, and in daily communication with the White House, neither the president nor anyone on his staff noticed that her emails were coming from a private server, and not from a government account? And this even after Mr. Obama had ordered everyone in his cabinet to use a government server.
Of course, the interviewer did not follow up when the president denied he knew. He did not exclaim: How is that possible? Didn't you notice?! Didn't anybody in the White House notice?! What is wrong with your staff?! No, as usual, the president was given a pass, allowed to slide. Allowed to lie.
Still, no one can rival the Hills for the sheer longevity, frequency, and boldness of her deceit. Not even Richard Nixon, who, because he was male and a Republican, was far less likely to escape unexposed than Hills, who is female and a Democrat. No, Hills is the distaff Nixon, and much more likely to succeed at deception than Tricky Dick.
Take some of her more memorable lies, for example. She lied about her cattle futures profits, she lied about Travelgate, she lied about the Rose Law Firm records, she lied when she wrote that she was shocked to learn of Bill's infidelity, she lied about being under fire in Bosnia, she lied about Benghazi, and she is lying now about her State Department emails. But, you say, she has directed State to turn them all over. Yes... the ones she gave to State. But how many more are there? And how many of those have been destroyed? They are not her property; they are the government's property. She does not have the right to retain them, and she certainly does not have the right to decide which ones will be made public and which will not.
This passing flap over the tens of millions of dollars donated to the Clinton Foundation by oppressive governments that deny women even the most basic human rights is merely eyewash. Hills is a champion of women's rights and a heroine in the war against women. As Bill said just the other day, they only took the money from those regimes in order to do good. The end does, after all, justify the means. And of course, Hills said she took no such money while she was Secretary of State... Wait, it turns out she did. But she assures us that no influence was bought with it. That, too, I suspect, is a lie.
One of the first public figures to comment on Hillary's integrity (or lack of it) was her supervisor on the Senate Watergate Committee, investigating that legendary liar, Richard Nixon. Hillary Clinton, he wrote in his memoir of Watergate, is "a corrupt lawyer deserving of neither public nor private trust." Why, she even lied about how she got her name! As for the other lies, well, don't take my word for it; read the now-famous column by William Safire, which I reproduce here:
Blizzard of Lies
By WILLIAM SAFIRE
Published: January 8, 1996
Americans of all political persuasions are coming to the sad realization that our First Lady -- a woman of undoubted talents who was a role model for many in her generation -- is a congenital liar.
Drip by drip, like Whitewater torture, the case is being made that she is compelled to mislead, and to ensnare her subordinates and friends in a web of deceit.
1. Remember the story she told about studying The Wall Street Journal to explain her 10,000 percent profit in 1979 commodity trading? We now know that was a lie told to turn aside accusations that as the Governor's wife she profited corruptly, her account being run by a lawyer for state poultry interests through a disreputable broker.
She lied for good reason: To admit otherwise would be to confess taking, and paying taxes on, what some think amounted to a $100,000 bribe.
2. The abuse of Presidential power known as Travelgate elicited another series of lies. She induced a White House lawyer to assert flatly to investigators that Mrs. Clinton did not order the firing of White House travel aides, who were then harassed by the F.B.I. and Justice Department to justify patronage replacement by Mrs. Clinton's cronies.
Now we know, from a memo long concealed from investigators, that there would be "hell to pay" if the furious First Lady's desires were scorned. The career of the lawyer who transmitted Hillary's lie to authorities is now in jeopardy. Again, she lied with good reason: to avoid being identified as a vindictive political power player who used the F.B.I. to ruin the lives of people standing in the way of juicy patronage.
3. In the aftermath of the apparent suicide of her former partner and closest confidant, White House Deputy Counsel Vincent Foster, she ordered the overturn of an agreement to allow the Justice Department to examine the files in the dead man's office. Her closest friends and aides, under oath, have been blatantly disremembering this likely obstruction of justice, and may have to pay for supporting Hillary's lie with jail terms.
Again, the lying was not irrational. Investigators believe that damning records from the Rose Law Firm, wrongfully kept in Vincent Foster's White House office, were spirited out in the dead of night and hidden from the law for two years -- in Hillary's closet, in Web Hubbell's basement before his felony conviction, in the President's secretary's personal files -- before some were forced out last week.
Why the White House concealment? For good reason: The records show Hillary Clinton was lying when she denied actively representing a criminal enterprise known as the Madison S.& L., and indicate she may have conspired with Web Hubbell's father-in-law to make a sham land deal that cost taxpayers $3 million.
Why the belated release of some of the incriminating evidence? Not because it mysteriously turned up in offices previously searched. Certainly not because Hillary Clinton and her new hang-tough White House counsel want to respond fully to lawful subpoenas.
One reason for the Friday-night dribble of evidence from the White House is the discovery by the F.B.I. of copies of some of those records elsewhere. When Clinton witnesses are asked about specific items in "lost" records -- which investigators have -- the White House "finds" its copy and releases it. By concealing the Madison billing records two days beyond the statute of limitations, Hillary evaded a civil suit by bamboozled bank regulators.
Another reason for recent revelations is the imminent turning of former aides and partners of Hillary against her; they were willing to cover her lying when it advanced their careers, but are inclined to listen to their own lawyers when faced with perjury indictments.
Therefore, ask not "Why didn't she just come clean at the beginning?" She had good reasons to lie; she is in the longtime habit of lying; and she has never been called to account for lying herself or in suborning lying in her aides and friends.
So you see, it's not just me. I'm not making this up, nor am I a member of a vast right-wing conspiracy. The emails story was broken by the New York Times, and it is being pursued by every major media outlet. Why, even MSNBC has questioned whether, if Dick Cheney had done what Hillary did and continues to do, the press would not be in a Jaws-like feeding frenzy. And Democrats, realizing they have no alternative to the Hills, are slowly coming forward either to distance themselves from her, as the president has done, or urge her to come clean. (Now, that is the one area in which she does lack credentials, and so it is not likely to happen any time soon.)
Even so eminent a commentator as William Safire noticed the Hills' pattern of deception. Add to that the paranoia which she has exhibited by, for example, using her personal email account to conduct her State Department business, so that she alone could control the records of her actions, as well as the reports of her "enemies lists," a la Nixon. Add also the hypocrisy inherent in her accepting from governments that oppress women tens of millions of dollars, while claiming to be a crusader for women's rights. And the hypocrisy in the fact that she required her subordinates to use government email accounts, and fired one of her ambassadors for disobeying. Do as I say, not as I do. The rules don't apply to me! So add hubris, as well.
Even so eminent a commentator as William Safire noticed the Hills' pattern of deception. Add to that the paranoia which she has exhibited by, for example, using her personal email account to conduct her State Department business, so that she alone could control the records of her actions, as well as the reports of her "enemies lists," a la Nixon. Add also the hypocrisy inherent in her accepting from governments that oppress women tens of millions of dollars, while claiming to be a crusader for women's rights. And the hypocrisy in the fact that she required her subordinates to use government email accounts, and fired one of her ambassadors for disobeying. Do as I say, not as I do. The rules don't apply to me! So add hubris, as well.
So what do we have? A long pattern of deceit, paranoia, vengefulness, hypocrisy, and hubris.
Yes, I predict that Hillary will be our next president. Given the state of political discourse in this nation after eight years of Obama, how can she miss?
Yes, I predict that Hillary will be our next president. Given the state of political discourse in this nation after eight years of Obama, how can she miss?
