April 15, 2015 "ICH"
- 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 tęte-ŕ-tętes, 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.”
John Chuckman is former chief economist for a large Canadian
oil company. He has many interests and is a lifelong student of history. He
writes with a passionate desire for honesty, the rule of reason, and concern for
human decency.
Really? Could
anyone with half a brain and a smidgen of self respect, vote for this person?
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