Thursday, April 10, 2014

Only in post-America do we lionize empty suits

Bill Kristol kicked off a most telling conversation on MSNBC's Morning Joe today.  He asked, just what has the H-Word Creature ever actually done? 

The panel, which initially scoffed at Kristol’s question, cannot name any accomplishment at all, and Chuck Todd ends up talking about how much she traveled as Secretary of State.

She's been involved on some shady dealings that she's never explained, but actual achievements?  Crickets.

Clinton has been in the public eye since the Clinton days in Arkansas, 30 years ago. She ran for President in 2008 after eight nondescript years in the Senate, and then served four years as Secretary of State in a tenure bookended by the embarrassing “reset button” with Russia and the Benghazi failure that left four Americans dead. If she had a major accomplishment in all of that time, we wouldn’t need a campaign biography to discover it.

The question now is how many post-Americans are so hot to have a brand-new demographic become Commander-in-Chief that they will ignore a resume short on substance but brimming with tawdriness.  
 

5 comments:

  1. Perhaps her predecessors have been found lacking in the New America. Isn't Ted Cruz man enough to beat her? This means he has to come off well face to face with her.

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  2. Believe me, I'd love to se this thing distill that way. In which case, yes, he would have to take very seriously the fact that he was going up against one of the most formidable machines in the history of American politics.

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  3. He will need to go into Mark Levine lambie pambie mode, as in whenever he interacts with one of his patriots he goes all soft and gushie inside.

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  4. You didn't happen to be at a meeting of the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada today, did you?

    A Heckler Threw a Shoe At Hillary Clinton. She Dodged It. Here's the Video:

    http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/04/hillary-clinton-shoe-throwing-las-vegas-video

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  5. I saw this on TV last evening. Has the shoe-thrower and / or her attorney made a statement yet?

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