Hillary Clinton: Return of the Congenital Liar | The American Spectator
– 8.20.15
A candidate genetically incapable of honesty.
Hillary Clinton had a brand new clean slate. After years of imprinting on the American people that she was a not so clever liar for whom allegations of deceitful, arrogant, and even bullying behavior seemed to follow her like a perpetual rain cloud — to be Secretary of State was a chance to begin again. To shine as the smart woman her most devoted supporters insist she really is.
Gone would be the stories about the missing Rose Law Firm billing records that mysteriously turned up on a table in the White House Residence. Gone too would be the memory of her conduct in the Whitewater investigation, where the prosecutors assessment of her testimony was described as follows by Washington Post and Time investigative reporters Susan Schmidt and Michael Weisskopf in their 2000 book Truth at Any Cost: Ken Starr and the Unmaking of Bill Clinton:
Virtually everybody concluded that the first lady had lied but that the evidence was not strong enough to convict her.
Disappeared down the memory hole too was Juanita Broaddrick’s allegation that Hillary had threatened her to be silent over Broaddrick’s allegation of being raped by Bill Clinton. Not to mention had memories faded that Hillary was involved with getting investigators to rummage through the private lives of Bill’s various romantic targets, as with Broaddrick the objective being to intimidate into silence.
As January of 2009 dawned, all of these stories had vanished in the euphoria over the Obama ascension. Hillary Clinton was now Secretary of State — with a clean slate. Limited only by the President’s views, most of which she shared, she was now free to work her will on America’s role in the world. To roam the globe and imprint the Hillary Clinton trademark on a job that had once been held by predecessors whose historical reputations shone through history with accomplishment. Hillary Clinton now sat where George Shultz, Henry Kissinger, Cordell Hull, John Hay, William Seward, John Quincy Adams, James Madison and Thomas Jefferson had been seated. And as with those earlier predecessors — Jefferson, Adams, Madison and a few others — she would be free to position herself as the eventual Next President. A Sure Thing as the First Woman President.
Alas. There is the Aesop fable of “The Scorpion and the Frog,” ...
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