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It remains astonishing that somebody with the ethical baggage of Hillary Clinton should be receiving less attention and less serious attempts to block her nomination than is Eric Holder. If Holder is not worthy of office because of the pardons of Marc Rich and the Puerto Rican terrorists, then why do those things not disqualify Hillary as well? Especially when combined with.... the Hollywood fundraising scandal, the coffee klatsches in the White House, the entire sordid history of Whitewater and the Rose Law Firm, the missing billing records, the corrupt cattle trades, her lies in the White House Travel Office fiasco, her unethical behavior on the Watergate Committee, her repeated going to bat for big donors to her husband's foundation, her husband's convoluted business affairs, her husband's conflicts of interest (which benefit her, too) with so much speech money and foundation money coming from foreign interests...... etc etc etc etc etc.

She is no more fit to be secretary of state than Bernie Madoff is fit to be an ethics counselor.

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Tom| 1.13.09 @ 11:36AM

or her own version of campaign fraud .
http://www.americandaily.com/article/17059

Alan Brooks| 1.13.09 @ 3:21PM

alrighty, but she doesnt like ahmadinejad, and thats a plus. why not give her a chance and if that doesnt work then she's back in Arkansas.
or NY.

Jeremiah| 1.13.09 @ 4:01PM

Block Hillary!

Oh, yes. That'll happen.

Mr. Hillyer --

I think you need to check into a reality clinic.

Like it or not, Clinton will be confirmed, and there's really no reason not to. She's competent, smart, and respected by heads of state around the world.

Also --

After the last eight years, you'll forgive us on the left if we don't look to Republicans or conservative bloggers for advice on how to be ethical.

Alan Brooks| 1.13.09 @ 4:31PM

Jeremiah,
just because the masses are downtrodden doesn't mean there is anything ethical about them, either.
i like Hillary because she is bourgeois, she's not some meth addled whore in a slum. she's not a member of the castrati.
If she is a you-know-what then that make her a formidable opponent to our enemies.

Jeremiah| 1.13.09 @ 5:45PM

Alan Brooks --

I think you're a mean and probably crazy fool: don't address comments to me anymore. I'm not interested in what you say.

Real American| 1.13.09 @ 6:23PM

Conservatives shouldn't block her. The Hussein Administration will be much more fun to watch with her in it.

Jeremiah| 1.13.09 @ 7:47PM

Real America --

See, now that's funny: "the Hussein administration."

Witty.

I get it.

It's witty because, you know, there was an Arab leader named Hussein who we fought a war against, and there's ALSO an American politician whose middle name is Hussein. Right?

Do I have that right?

Is that why it's funny, or am I missing something even more clever?

Man, you have a mind like a steel trap: you don't miss anything, do you "Real American." A regular Socrates.

Because you could have tried a real lame joke, like calling it the "Slobama administration," or something like that -- and that would be stupid, because everyone knows Obama's very well dressed and not a slob at all.

But see you were smarter. You knew the way in. You were more cunning than those liberal elitists who tried to trick you. They thought they could get that middle name past you; they thought you were just an ignorant hick. But you were too smart for them! You sure got yours! I don't know why they ever thought they could fool you.