If Barack Obama really wants to be president, then he’s acting
like a gutless wonder.
The same goes for John Edwards and Joe Biden and Bill Richardson
and everybody else in the Democratic field.
If they really wanted to be president, then when they look at
the polls and realize that Hillary Clinton is leaving them in her
dust, they would vow to stop her with every fair and accurate tool
at their disposal — and the beauty is, they would legitimately be
able to tell themselves they are doing it to save the United States
from somebody so corrupt that she is “unfit for elective
office.”
Those are the words of the (very) liberal New York
Observer in a 2001 editorial. Ultra-liberal New York
Times columnist Bob Herbert added that Hillary’s husband Bill
Clinton “is so thoroughly corrupt it is frightening.” It is, of
course, almost impossible to separate Bill from Hillary in this
regard, because their careers are so intertwined and because so
many of the corruptions in Clinton’s past specifically involved
projects on which Hillary was actively involved.
Both Herbert and the Observer were specifically
responding to former President Clinton’s tawdry abuse of his pardon
power as he left office. Hillary’s fingerprints were all over them,
too, particularly since her own brothers were massively involved in
peddling some of the pardons. Both Clintons also were involved with
questionable efforts to claim White House belongings for their own,
moving the leftist New York Times editorialists to lament
that they would “never understand the process by which a departing
president and his wife come to put sofas and flatware
ahead of the acute sense of propriety that ought to go with high
office.”
These quotes all come courtesy of The Clinton Crack-Up,
the rip-roaring account of both Clintons’ post-presidential
high-jinks chronicled by The American Spectator’s
founder R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. They are noteworthy both because the
political left and the big media (but I repeat myself) have a
curious case of cyclical amnesia about their own harsh (and
entirely accurate) judgments about the Clintons’ mind-boggling
record of corrupt political thuggery.
Surely Sen. Obama and his fellow challengers should have the
guts to make an issue of the voluminous public record thereof —
shouldn’t they?
The truth is that Pardongate and the other end-of-presidency
improprieties were child’s play compared to the vast record of
Hillary’s joint misdeeds with her spouse — and this is
not including any that had anything directly to do with
sex.
Still, for instance, there is no honest explanation for
Hillary’s killing in the cattle futures market, when she made about
$100,000 very quickly on a $1,000 investment just at the time when
brokers appeared to be curiously post-dating and probably
re-allocating trades to benefit favored clients.
Then there was Whitewater, somehow written off by the big media
as irrelevant even though the investigation landed about a dozen
convictions of (mostly) close Clinton associates, even though the
Clintons both benefited financially from the whole imbroglio, and
even though Hillary’s own Rose Law Firm was hip-deep in the whole
mess — as was shown when the infamous firm billing records
mysteriously and belatedly showed up in a spare White House office,
reportedly with Hillary’s fingerprints (real, not figurative) all
over them.
Hillary Clinton was intimately involved with the botched
handling of the firing of longtime White House Travel Office
employees, combined with the odd and scary (and utterly
disproportionate) use of the FBI to investigate the employees on
what proved to be utterly spurious charges.
Then there were the multitudinous examples of skullduggery
involving unseemly access for and unseemly and/or illegal campaign
contributions from a veritable cornucopia of shadowy Asian
businessmen. Hillary, again, was a big player in the whole mess.
And Hillary’s own subsequent campaigns have been bedeviled by other
questionable contributions similar in kind if not in degree to the
various White House Asia-gate scandals.
Remember that Hillary Clinton actually was cited by independent
counsel Robert Ray for making false statements at a 1995
deposition. They are part and parcel of a voluminous record of lies
that she has been caught making through the years on matters big
and small, for reasons apparently ranging from the most nefarious
to the most petty.
Again and again through the years, even the big liberal media
mavens recognize and excoriate the Clinton corruptions, only then
to conveniently and willfully forget their own judgments and turn
viciously against those on the right who dare make an issue of
them.
But the records are abundant, and they are incontrovertible.
Hillary Clinton, just like her husband Bill, is “is so thoroughly
corrupt it is frightening,” and she is “unfit for elective
office.”
If Obama and Company are too frightened to say those things, and
to make them stick, then they are cowards, pure and simple.
