The Perfect Democratic Candidate

Some terrible things are being said about Hillary Clinton.  The atmospherics have become so acidic that many Democrats are worried about whether the former first lady is their best candidate for president.  They fear she may have too much baggage.

But how can this be?  Hillary is the perfect person to represent liberal aspirations.  She is a fitting symbol for everything that progressives epitomize.  Dishonest and incompetent, with a smug sense of entitlement, she incorporates the Democratic spirit in a single package.

Secretary Clinton tells us that she aims to be a champion for the middle class—or it is the working class—or perhaps the poor and disinherited.  One way or another, she will rebuild the economy and distribute social assets such that justice is retuned to our benighted land. 

So where has she been for the last seven years?  Why wasn’t she a champion while Barack Obama was president?  After all, for four of those years, she was part of his administration.  Did the vast right wing conspiracy perhaps hold her back?  If so, why wouldn’t it keep doing so with her in the White House?

Ms. Clinton tells us that the current charges against her are a “distraction.”  These accusations of cupidity have all been addressed; so let’s move on.  She is obviously forthright and candid; hence her detractors ought to allow her to get on with the business of saving the nation?

In truth, the only persons Hillary is saving are herself and her family.  If she is anyone’s champion, she is theirs.  The evidence?  Although she regularly rails against the one per cent, she is a charter member of the crony capitalist contingent.  

Back in Arkansas, she magically converted a thousand dollar investment into a hundred thousand.   Nowadays, of course, she has participated in converting an ostensible charity into a billion dollar slush fund.

Yet all of this was legal and transparent.  Despite the critics, those deleted e-mails would not have shed light on any inappropriate extra-curricula activities.  They could not have helped us understand how she and Bill—or their friends—raked in millions.

Yet Hillary was only doing what Democrats have always done.  After all, didn’t Harry Reid and Barack Obama also grow rich in public service?  That pesky man behind the curtain, the one saying there were quid-pro-quos and maybe bribery, is an enemy agent.  He is not to be believed.

Remember, however, Democrats are adept at shooting the messenger.  They always find enemies who are responsible for their distress—or ours.  As they see it, they—and she—are perpetually helping others.

Have we forgotten HillaryCare?   Or those peripatetic travels intended to bring world peace?  While people are now asking embarrassing questions about what Hillary accomplished, this is preposterous. 

Nonetheless, can’t this also be asked of Democrats in general?  Despite their grand promises about producing social justice and prosperity, what have they actually done to improve education, eliminate poverty, reduce crime, end the recession, deal with immigration, or balance the budget?

Democrats are clearly phony’s.  But who is phonier than Hillary Clinton?  Does anyone believe her painted on smile?  Who, likewise is a more worthy successor to Obama’s mendacities.  While she is not as smooth, she is every bit as deceitful.

Peter Schweizer’s book Clinton Cash is merely the opening salvo of what should be a long campaign to remind people of Hillary’s history.  Standing by a husband who had sex with an intern in the Oval office is not the best qualification for chief executive.

Democrats may be having doubts about Secretary Clinton, but they have no alternative.  Between them, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton took the air out of their party.  Its presidential bench is consequently so bare that there seems to be no alternative to a coronation.

All the same, Democrats should be of good cheer.  Their political program is so faulty that they have become well-practiced hypocrites.  And nobody is a more accomplished hypocrite than Hillary.

Melvyn L. Fein, Ph.D.

Professor of Sociology

Kennesaw State University