As with all proclamations of the Clintons’ demise, the “Witch is Dead!” meme of the primary season has proven far too optimistic, as Sen. Hillary Clinton is now, for all intents, the Secretary of State in waiting.
Why do I hate Hillary so much? Well, besides the faux populism, the shameless warmongering, the put-on tears for victory, the malignant staff that surrounded her like flies around a fetid spirit, HilaryCare (no unelected figure should ever, ever be determining policy in this country. Ever.), the Whitewater dealings, the psychodramatic egotism, the Balkan lies, the memos, and the coyly veiled racism via Drudgeleaking, there’s the fact that she has stood for nothing but opportunism and callous nihilism. Bush’s wreckage is political; the damage of the Clinton administration is spiritual, and should not be dismissed out of hand.
Besides these, Ken Silverstein offers five good reasons why Clinton should not be secretary of state:
1. Hillary Clinton will have her own agenda (as will her husband).
She’s not a team player and will bring in a crew of cronies whose chief
aim will be to promote the boss, not the administration. Obama may wake up one day and discover that Hillary has decreed a new “Clinton
Doctrine†of foreign policy.
2. It would be impossible, politically, to fire Hillary. No matter what she says or does, or how insubordinate, Obama will be stuck with her as long as she wants to stay.
3. Her husband is a walking conflict of interest. Bill helps a Canadian businessman land a uranium contract in Kazakhstan, and soon afterwards the businessman contributes to the Clinton Foundation. Bill’s personal and business dealings are embarrassing enough without Hillary heading the State Department.
4. The Clinton style of management–for example, pitting one faction
of staff against another–would be a disaster at the State Department.
Just look at how well it worked on the campaign trail.
5. And the strongest strike of all against Hillary as secretary of state… look at who endorses her.
I predict, in youthful cockiness, that Andrew will come to regret supporting Hillary’s secretarial appointment, should it come to pass. I have trouble believing that the man who wrote this
would support having this Two-Headed Beast determine foreign policy for the years to come. It’s also depressing to see how little opposition to her that we see from the right — but what can you expect from a party’s whose main values seem to be “Drill, drill, drill!” and “Bomb Iran!” ?
