Well, it's official. Hillary's running for the highest office in the land: the U.S. presidency. But do Americans know the real Hillary, or will her gloss and gender be enough to convince the American people to vote in the first woman president?
You know the history and power behind the Clinton dynasty. Last year in my column, "Even libs say no to Hillary in 2016," I cited top progressives and why even they fear a character and personality like Hillary as president.
Frida Ghitis, former CNN producer and correspondent, touched on a core flaw: "[Hillary] cannot simply ignore the controversies and wage an energetic defense, a full embrace of America's international record at a time when Obama is scoring the lowest poll numbers of his presidency on that issue. Obama's foreign policy looks like a key vulnerability for Democrats in the next presidential election. … Clinton did not get everything right. Her failure to list Nigeria's Boko Haram as a terrorist organization, for example, was a mistake. And to the extent that she did play a role in Obama's foreign policy, she cannot completely disassociate herself from his failures."
She not only completely disassociates herself from Obama's failures but also her own failures, too. When it comes to culpability, denial is her modus operandi. And the added problem is that it is coupled with ultimate Washington political power. Do people really want more power-hungry duck-n-dodge in the White House, again? Comedian Dennis Miller spoke the truth when he said, "The only yoga that Hillary Clinton practices is contorting the truth."
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Clinton isn't a simple politician. She's a powerful political robot with little if any character beyond the value of deciding what is politically expedient. Sally Kohn, a progressive activist and CNN contributor, summarized it well: "If there was an actual, authentic 'I am going to listen to you about your issues' from Clinton, instead of kind of pounding the drum of inevitability and stampeding over the left on her way to assumed victory, that would be effective. … You wonder if it is a pivot or whether she is saying what the moment demands."
Greg Craig, former White House counsel under Barack Obama, told the New Yorker: "You're getting to that five percent of Hillary that I don't like – which is to see in every corner a conspiracy or an opponent that must be crushed. … I want a president who is looking to move the country with positive inspirational ideas rather than to fight off the bad guys and proclaim victory by defeating the forces of reaction. I would like us to inspire the forces of reaction to join us in treating people better, and lifting more vulnerable people and people in jeopardy out of their vulnerability and jeopardy."
Otto Kroeger, a world renown expert, pioneer and best-selling author of five leading books on personality, as well as past president of the Association of Psychological Type and a current member of the prestigious National Training Laboratory Institute of Applied Behavioral Sciences, warned the American public about those with Hillary's personality type: they "'do not cope well when things don't go as planned.' They have a 'short fuse when anything suggests they are losing control. [They] can become loud, rigid, domineering, and can induce a great deal of stress within anyone nearby.' If Truman was 'Give 'Em Hell Harry,' then the current [Clinton personality] seeking the highest office could end up nicknamed 'Go to Hell Hillary.'"
And while being married to a former president might seem like an added credential to some, it can also be a detriment when he's an immoral egomaniac. Does character matter anymore in the highest office in the land? Or do we think two volatile progressive self-aggrandizing presidents – one past and one present – simultaneously occupying the White House will somehow bring back American decency and exceptionalism?
There's no doubt that being a senator, first lady and secretary of state is no small amount of experience. But being an impulsive, short-fused persona who has profoundly botched security situations like Benghazi, rebelled against State Department policies, and repeatedly avoided culpability before the American public and press is no small sin and character flaw, either. Suppressing secret emails and skirting moral frays only reinforce her same negative narrative, revealing what lies in the inner chambers of Hillary's heart.
And not all of Hillary's experience is entrenched in an expanse of wisdom and knowledge. While the Middle East is presently on fire, I fear another president who seems to understand Islamic militancy as much as Vice President Biden understands germs that are passed by sucking on babies' pacifiers.
Case in point, when Hillary addressed the members of the American Muslim Council at the first-ever White House celebration of Eid al-Fitr (a Muslim religious holiday), she summarized her Islamic education: "I have to admit that a good deal of what my husband and I have learned (about Islam) has come from my daughter. (As) some of you who are our friends know, she (Chelsea) took a course last year in Islamic history."
The only thing worse than a shortsighted volatile personality poised with mega-political power that can't admit wrongdoing is that same person backed by unlimited wealth. I know that billionaire buddies like Walmart heiress Alice Walton, philanthropist Jon Stryker and progressive globalist George Soros were among 32 other wealthy elite who helped the former first lady raise over $4 million last year for the "Ready for Hillary" super PAC.
If you thought Obama railroaded Congress and the American public, Hillary will control them like a Tyco train set. Ever heard the adage: Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely?
The truth is: What's scarier than Hillary entering the presidential race is Hillary winning the presidential race. Not only would her presidency be "Obama, the Sequel," but she would be an unbridled, more powerful, mega-wealthy, powder-keg Obama personality.
Instead of multiplying more of the same White House, I say that we flush the presidential political system and get some fresh water in Washington.
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