Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y.

Hillary Clinton and her husband, Bill Rodham, are being completely honest in this presidential campaign of theirs. I know, I know, it's startling, but the Dynamic Duo of Deceit and Deception is, for once, being very up front on two major campaign themes without parsing words with an atom splitter.

Those two themes are "we'll be safer" and "you will no longer be invisible to your government."

This might sound hunky-dory to some voters, but the methods they'll use to attain both are what deserve scrutiny.

As you know, another fundraising scandal has been swirling around Hillary – a revelation as shocking as waking up to find the sun rising in the East and Larry Craig insisting he's not gay.

Allegedly, after "discovering" the felonious history of Norman Hsu, the Hillary Clinton campaign vowed to require all major fundraisers to submit to a criminal background check.

Anybody who passes the background check will of course be kicked off her campaign.

Seriously though, if Hillary's going to be checking fundraisers for criminal records, the only way to add complete integrity to the process is to make sure it also works the other way around, but don't hold your breath.

Though this is considered a "scandal," dirty money is where the "security" part of Hillary's platform comes in.

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The Clintons insist that we were safer when Bill Clinton was president. Now that Hillary's running, they're asking Americans if they want to go back to those peaceful times when there were only five destructive missiles launched in eight years – two at Afghanistan, two at Sudan and the one documented in the Starr Report.

I don't doubt for one second that this country was at least a little safer when Bill Clinton was president, especially concerning China. The Chinese weren't about to nuke the White House with their own citizens crashing in the Lincoln bedroom, especially if they had the state checkbook with them.

Norman Hsu was born and raised in Hong Kong. This doesn't involve China directly, and Hsu is an American citizen, but don't forget – this was only a preseason game.

I have no doubt the Clintons are serious when speaking of national security – it's how they go about it that has always been the problem.

Here's the Clintons' philosophy on national security: Your enemies usually won't want to harm you as long as there are still cheap goodies available in your national garage sale.

This is, to a great degree, "security by mutual extortion" – an under-the-table quasi free market system that provides open communists abroad and closet Marxists at home a way to practice guilt-free capitalism because their principles aren't being publicly compromised.

Invisibility vs. transparency

The second item in recent weeks that Hillary's been focusing on is evident in her campaign ads.

Ads that ran in Iowa and elsewhere featured Hillary touting what will happen if she's elected: Americans "will no longer be invisible to their government." Well I don't doubt it – she's got our FBI files and a heck of a bright flashlight.

If only Hillary would allow her documents as First Lady to be as visible and accessible as she wants the rest of us to be.

"You will no longer be invisible to your government" is targeted as an attractive line to anybody seeking a handout, freebie and ready access to somebody else's money – a demographic the Democrats have sewed up nicely – but for the rest of us, this talk should give us goosebumps.

What does this "you won't be invisible to my administration" rhetoric really say? "We will know where you are, what you're doing, what you're eating, what you're drinking, what you're buying, who your doctor is, what you're smoking, where you're sending your kids to school and what kind of car you're driving."

I want a president who appreciates my desire to remain invisible to my government, and Hillary won't be that person. The government should be transparent by force and the citizens invisible by choice – unfortunately it's become the other way around.

What would be humorous if it weren't so sad is that those who nod their collective heads in agreement when they hear "you will no longer be invisible to your government" are many of the same people who despise the Bush administration for warrantless wiretaps on suspected terrorists.

Hasn't anybody considered that maybe Dubya is just trying to find out where they live so he can offer them free health care?

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