Eight years ago I wrote that Hillary Clinton was running the campaign she had envisioned a couple of decades earlier and it would fail. I was right. She was playing the game that had gotten other women in top office, succeeding the husband, but that wouldn’t fly in the United States of America.
Standing by her man through thick, thin, blondes, redheads and brunettes isn’t the way to get votes in 2016 or even in 2008. It may have worked in the 1960’s or 1970’s when the American public still lied to themselves about the “perfect marriages” of their political leaders.
But now Hillary is plagued by very different scandals, ones that aren’t sexist or feminist, and it makes you wonder what was really behind husband Bill’s victories. The one that may turn Americans against her is the money factor. The Clinton Foundation is funded by foreigners, and a major corruption scandal is brewing.
Hillary Clinton is making her life more difficult than it needs to be. I’m speaking in this instance of the donations by foreign governments to the Clinton Foundation. As Jonathan made note of yesterday, a New York Times story on the forthcoming book by Peter Schweizer, Clinton Cash, asserts that “foreign entities who made payments to the Clinton Foundation and to Mr. Clinton through high speaking fees received favors from Mrs. Clinton’s State Department in return.” When the secretary of state has a policy of pay-to-play, that is bad enough. It reinforces the impression that Mrs. Clinton is a tangle of corruption, dishonest and untrustworthy, and playing by rules that apply to her and her husband but not to others. That has happened time and again with the Clintons; it’s the pattern and habits of a lifetime. And there’s no indication it will change. The portrait of Mrs. Clinton is that of a hardened, brittle, unreflective, and self-justifying individual. Whatever problems she faces are always the result of others, often the “right-wing conspiracy” she has invented in her over-active imagination… full article in Commentary…
What really bothers many Jews and Israelis is the Hillary-Suha kiss and hug, rewarded to Arafat’s wife after her hateful and lie-filled anti-Israel talk. We find it unforgettable and unforgivable.
Another thing that really bothers me is that there will be women especially voting for her just because she’s a woman and not because she is at all the best candidate. It’s just like those who voted in the most racist way for Obama, just because he has Black genes. Qualifications for high office aren’t supposed to be based on genetics or gender.