As all too often, we continue to
obsess over things that just don’t matter, while ignoring things that do.
Hillary Clinton’s health problems are
much in the news lately. Is she really
sick, or just having a bad week? Who
cares. Forget what you read in the Tom
Clancy novels: the next US president is not going to fight Vladimir Putin in
single combat, or challenge the Chinese premier in a contest on the TV trivia
game-show Jeopardy.
Presidents set broad policy. They don’t need to be healthy. They don’t need to know the middle name of
the under-secretary of defense of Uzbekistan.
They have staff for that.
If Hillary Clinton dies in office, her
hand-picked corporate lickspittle Tim Kaine will continue the same
pro-donorist, pro-war, pro-Wall Street, anti-worker policy that she would
have. If Hillary Clinton becomes demented,
her staff will similarly ensure that the policies of her wealthy donors are
dutifully enacted, the national interest be damned. So it doesn’t matter.
Oh, you say, but what about her lying
about her health? OK, maybe that is of
some relevance, but when you consider Hillary’s lies on not supporting TPP, and
not being joined at the hip to Wall Street, etc.etc., who cares. Frankly, if a public official tries to tough
out an illness and act like they are healthier than they are, well, that could
almost be considered admirable (or it would be if she was not in every other
way a supremely disgusting person).
Similarly, the upcoming presidential
debate is irrelevant. Hillary supporters
will claim she won, Trump supporters will claim he won, and it won’t matter
either way. As well have a swimsuit
competition. I don’t care if Hillary
comes off on TV as assured or as a bitch, I don’t care if Trump gets off a
zinger or looks befuddled. That’s TV. It
doesn’t matter.
Let’s go back to the record. Just consider Libya. Libya was the most prosperous nation in
Africa, it wasn’t paradise but it was mostly peaceful, people had jobs and
money and health care, and the government was an ally in war on terror (maybe
reluctantly, but an ally nonetheless) and maintaining stability in the
region. As Secretary of State Hillary
pushed to have the United States ally with Al Qaeda and other jihadist groups
(yes you heard me right we are now allied with Al Qaeda. You know, the nutjobs that blew up the twin
towers on 9/11? And people still say
that Hillary Clinton is ‘qualified’ to be president??), and then we attacked a
nation that didn’t threaten us, and killed God only knows how many people, and
immiserated and uprooted God only knows how many more, and turned Libya into a
post-apocalyptic wasteland like in “Mad Max Fury Road” (great movie but I
wouldn’t want to live there), and now there are refugees going everywhere and
ISIS and related fanatics are doing unspeakable things etc.etc. And Hillary is apparently proud of this, and
is certain, if elected, to do even more of it!!!
For this real, actual, substantial,
and relevant actions, Hillary Clinton is scum. And the Libya thing is just one of many (using
her office as Secretary of State as a personal ATM selling out the national
interest for cash, supporting a TPP trade policy that gives foreign corporate
lawyers meeting in secret supreme legislative power over our nation, etc). I don’t care about her style in pantsuits, or
if she has fainting spells, or is mean to her staff, or throws heavy objects at
her husband (confession: I do find this last prospect cheering), or can
maintain her composure on national TV in the face of Donald Trump’s
needling. Focus on what matters, people.
As far as Trump, he is a
wildcard. He says a lot of sane and
responsible things, like, we shouldn’t blow up countries that don’t threaten
us, we shouldn’t pick a fight with nuclear-armed Russia, etc. Talk is however cheap, and what he would do
as president remains to be seen. But
Hillary’s track record is crystal clear: the Queen of Chaos, the candidate of
Wall Street and War, she’s a bona-fide monster.
And this would be true even if tomorrow she set
the world record for fastest time running the marathon.
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