Senator Clinton’s broad vision
Apr 22, 2007 Politics and Poker
Hillary Clinton can’t stand cronyism:
She denounced the Bush administration, which she said has left the government incompetent. “They have shown contempt for our government,” Clinton said. “We’ve got to get back to having qualified people, not cronies, serving in the government of the United States.”
That must be why “if she is elected president, she would make her husband a roaming ambassador to the world, using his skills to repair the nation’s tattered image abroad”:
“I can’t think of a better cheerleader for America than Bill Clinton, can you?” the Democratic senator from New York asked a crowd jammed into a junior high school gymnasium. “He has said he would do anything I asked him to do. I would put him to work.”
All right, that’s a little bit of a cheap shot. It isn’t exactly cronyism when the crony used to be President. I actually believe cronyism is this Administration’s signal weakness, and that most other of its weaknesses flow from it. But coming from a Clinton, it is hard to stomach. Here’s what one writer, doing a little of the homework for me, wrote a couple of years ago:
While we’re on the subject, let us not forget that the Bush Administration did not invent cronyism. Hillary Clinton in charge of Heath Care … Or what about Harry and Linda Thomason and Web Hubbell?
Those were bad. The Bush Administration may be worse. But is it so much worse that Hillary Clinton wants to raise this issue in a campaign where George Bush will not even be running?
April 23rd, 2007 at 12:24 pm
I think we remember when American state secrets found their way to China.
I think we remember when America refused to accept custody of Bin Laden.
I think we remember when a President’s adultery supposedly got under the First Lady’s radar.
I think we remember her great success as a commodities trader.
I think we remember her various comical attempts to mimic African-American speech in public.
They take us for absolute fools.