She stands oblivious to the toll time has taken on her credibility. Never a popular politician, she somehow believes it is her time to ascend to the presidency. She cites experience and “know-how” though all her credits can be read in a number of interpretations. She says she can get things done, but here persona inflames the Republican party to a such a degree that if elected impeachment proceedings will probably begin the day of her inaugural. On what grounds? Does the disloyal opposition need a reason? Not really, since the opposition proceeds forward on the flimsiest of evidence. Needless to say gridlock follows.
But the Clintons soldier on citing all their concerns and the accomplishments of Bill, excluding, of course, a discussion of anything that may pin prick the bubble of dubious if not questionable ties to Wall Street. The two of them Bill and Hillary stand center ring and swing wildly at any suggestion of Bernie Sanders. Funny, this flaying is doing little but the tiring out and already tired effort to regain the White House. Why? Might I suggest that they are punch drunk on power. They want what it because; they think they are entitled to it.
Let me suggest, just like the aged boxer, the two have lost their ability to really think things through. They can’t see that the Sanders campaign is a chance for the Democratic Party to infuse its ranks with those who have been loyal but have been sold a bill of goods in the form of cheap talk for bold ideas. Obama rode into office on a wave of a super majority. What we got was a watered down Health care with the insurance companies right in the thick of all transactions with their greedy hands on every dollar spent. We got Bush’s war and the outright obscene expenditures on arms, we got Wall Street Wolves guarding the Hen House, and an Attorney General who was always anticipating his next job. Where? On Wall Street. Discouraged? You bet.
That everything is better than when Bush left is testament to the fact that Republicans have nothing to offer the country other than bullshit, anger, fear, and tax breaks for the wealthy. The powers to be on the right sold their party out to bigots and ignoramuses. That a buffoon can take the reins and run the chariot off the cliff is nothing less than poetic justice.
Hillary would like us to believe she is one of the common folk. That she and her husband have accumulated for than 100 million dollar is testament to how common folk can overcome their humble origins, provided of course, you can grease the skids for some slimy bankers and heads of states. That this humble couple can visit their daughter in a ten million dollar apartment shows that public service is not such a bad deal. What is behind all this accumulated wealth? Hard work? It would take a village of hard working stiffs a lifetime and still they wouldn’t get there.
Hillary and Bill talk of Sanders’ campaign promises as too far fetch. See Bill understands how important it is to deregulate Wall Street and promote Welfare Reform. Hillary knows what it is like to talk to heads of state especially when they are connected with Bill’s foundation. More importantly all she is offering us is more of the same. If she thinks that she has a better chance of working with the disloyal opposition than Sanders, she is suffering from serious head trauma.
The key to reform this country’s body politic is to get more people involved in the election. For too long the two party system has been whoring itself out to special interests. Both sides curry the favor of the well heeled because money is the lifeblood of politics. The country needs bold new leadership. This business of big money guys sitting down with elected officials has resulted in nothing less than a corrupt system. Only Sanders is talking about reform, revolution. The rest don’t really want to change a system that they know how to play and win it.
Time for the Clintons to throw in the towel and go away. They certainly have enough money to do that in a style that common folk will never know.
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