Much has been written about
Hillary Clinton’s atrocious foreign policy failures. Much has been written
about the suspicious activities of the Clinton Foundation and Hillary’s
involvement while acting as Secretary of State. This may be subject to an FBI
investigation. She seems to have avoided punishment for her private email
server.
Little has been said about why
she lost a presidential campaign against someone perceived to be the worst
adversary in political history.
These issues were all overlooked
by her passionate supporters determined, come what may, to elect the first
female president in American history. Past, present and future crimes and
failures were brushed aside in an emotion-laden crusade to trash her opponent, they closed eyes and ears to evidence of culpability by their champion in order to bring her triumphantly
into the Oval Office. Breaking the glass
ceiling took preference over, if not breaking the law, then breaking the barriers
of sound judgement.
Her ardent supporters make claims
about her achievements during her years of service to the country domestically.
So, when I received information about
the tasks that her presidential husband, Bill, gave her to execute, her home record
matched her utter failures abroad.
Here are some examples for you to
consider;
President Bill Clinton assigned her
to overlord an attempt at healthcare reform. Remember this was pre-Obama.
Even with her husband’s support
and with a Democrat-controlled Congress she couldn’t get her proposals pushed
through. The cost of this bureaucratic
failure to the American taxpayers was about $13 Million.
The forever feminist, Hillary
insisted that her husband appoint a female Attorney-General. The first two
selections were Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood. Both had to withdraw their names
after the “Nannygate” scandal. Then Janet Reno, who died recently, was
selected. Reno made the awful decision to attack the Waco compound in Texas held
by the weird David Koresh cult with tanks and tear gas which led to a massacre,
including many women and children. Over 80 people died due to FBI bungling
ordered by Reno.
Then Lani Guinier was selected to
be Assistant Attorney-General for Civil Rights. Guinier was a long-time friend
of Bill and Hillary since their days at Yale. When probing exposed Guinier’s radical
leftist views her name had to be withdrawn.
Going back through other serious scandals
connected with Clinton former business partners, Webb Hubbell (who ended up in
prison), Vince Foster who committed suicide in mysterious circumstances and
William Kennedy who was forced to resign, the Clintons were embroiled in what
became known as “Travelgate” which resulted in a three year
investigation and numerous convictions.
With statements of Hillary
Clinton’s “gross negligence” in handling official emails by FBI Chief,
James Comey, ringing in our ears it is worth recalling that her insensitivity
over security matters had been raised way back in 1996.
Craig Livingstone was appointed
as Director of security in the Clinton White House. Livingstone was investigated
for improper access to 900 FBI files in Clinton “enemies” in the
Republican Party. Under investigation no one in the White House claimed
responsibility for appointing Livingstone although a former FBI White House
agent, Gary Aldrich, confirmed that Livingstone was hand-picked by Hillary
Rodham Clinton. Livingstone had a past
record of drug use. Following this
embarrassment, after thirty years of service the FBI closed its White House
office.
Much was made of Hillary Clinton’s
memory loss when under recent FBI enquiry into the use of her server. She had a
case of concussion to fall back on, although this did not seem to affect her
memory during three presidential debates. Clinton’s memory loss seems to be
selective. Going back to another Clinton scandal, the White Water case went
on for twenty years. In that scandalous real estate case she repeated the “I
don’t recall” excuse over fifty times. At the start of this case she was a bright
young lawyer, head of a major local law firm, and with no concussion.
After leaving the White House, following
the end of her husband’s presidency, she was forced to return over $200,000 of
furniture, artwork and china she had “mistakenly” taken with her.
The history of Hillary Clinton’s poor
decision-making acted as the background for her more recent record as Secretary
of State, the head of the Clinton Foundation, and a losing presidential
candidate where her poor judgement and character flaws affected the outcome,
both in the recent past and potentially into the future.
Barry Shaw is the Senior Associate for Public Diplomacy
at the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies.
Here, here. And Benghazi wasn't even mentioned, nor did the writer mention the disastrous Iran deal which she began and supported. She had more experience and less common sense, second only to Obama.
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