Hillary Clinton's now famous retort in the Benghazi hearings, "What difference, at this point, does it make?", has been ringing in my ears for almost two years now. Her glib dismissal of the efforts of some in our government to try and find out the what and why of the Benghazi terrorist attack was beneath anyone with the kind of power that affects life and death decisions. That statement was damning enough on its own, but her actions since have been even more cynical. Inadvertently, the self-imagined heiress to be the Democrat nominee for president summed up in that question her entire governing philosophy.
Many of us have already lived through the "trailer trash in the White House era" when the nation was assaulted regularly with scandal after scandal of the Clinton administration. There were Bill's multiple dalliances, the Whitewater scandal, Hillary making good in cattle futures, missing FBI files, the epic failure of Hillarycare and of course Monica. It makes me want to take a shower. But as demonstrated over and over and over again, that is the Clinton way. When you get caught you dissemble, misdirect, attack the accuser and quibble over syntax. "It depends on what the meaning of 'is' is." Who can forget Hillary blaming a "vast right-wing conspiracy" for all the Clinton woes.
The Clinton's do get props for consistency, however. Absolutely nothing has changed for them. They were above the law then, they are above the law now. Bill makes very feeble attempts at covering up his current dalliances and Hillary pretends she doesn't know or it doesn't happen. Bill spends time on "Orgy Island" with convicted child molester and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and the national media offers a long, bored yawn. Meanwhile, Hillary prances about the world as Secretary of State accomplishing nothing, unless getting four Americans killed is now considered an accomplishment, and then begins the Clinton Cover-up Two-Step. First she sends in her longtime knuckle-breaker Cheryl Mills to sort through State Dept. documents prior to them being sent for Benghazi oversight to remove anything that might reflect badly on her or the State Department. Then begins the long wait. In this electronic era, anyone can retrieve almost any piece of information within minutes, except anyone in the Obama administration. The Clinton's are masters at this. It has been 2 1/2 years since Benghazi and the House of Representatives is still waiting for a single e-mail from the former Secretary of State in reference to Benghazi.
Now we find out about a private e-mail server. It was Bill's. Bill didn't use e-mail. Well, it was convenient and everyone knows how impossible it is to get two e-mail accounts onto one electronic device these days. Let's be very clear here about the Clintons: They rely on the "stupidity" of the American people, but they are not stupid people. Many adjectives would describe them but "stupid" is not one of them. They are both trained lawyers--disbarred or disgraced as they may be. They know the law and they are the masters of flirting with crossing the line, walking on the edge and dipping their toes in the pool of non-prosecutable offenses.
The thought of living through another four or eight years of the Clinton political machine is slightly more revolting than the thought of Jeb Bush in the White House. No surprise here, but I can't stand the Clinton's politics. They parade around this country pretending to defend women's rights and protect the little guy while accepting money from regimes oppressive to women in the Middle East, taking infidelity in marriage to new and unimaginable heights, and offering their best reason to have Hillary as President by suggesting, "Don't you want to see a woman in the White House?" This is not about politics, however. This is about the rule of law.
Every whit of our Constitutional Government was established within the mindset that the law was sacrosanct. The Founding Fathers had lived under the whims of a king who refused to recognize the rights of his British subjects in America. We must remember that the Revolution was not about tea or taxes. The fight for freedom became paramount when the rights of Americans as sovereign British citizens were taken away out of convenience by a king with too much authority. As a result, our laws were crafted to view every citizen equally from the President down to the lowliest beggar in the street. None were to be above or outside of the law and all were to be given blind justice. But the Clintons, and many others on both sides of the aisle, have created an insulated bubble for a special political class which sees themselves as superior to and outside the reach of law.
Multiple examples exist of Hillary discussing her knowledge of what records are subject to subpoena and FOIA requests. Perhaps she did not commit a prosecutable offense in having a private e-mail server, but there can be no doubt that she knew it was outside of proper boundaries and standards for a "public servant". Her actions scream it. A private e-mail server, a stammering press conference, stupid technological excuses, self-sorted e-mails (trust me, I gave you everything you need) and now a hard drive wiped clean shout: "Cover-up!" Those are not the actions of a trustworthy person and certainly not the actions of anyone who should be seeking the Presidency. Anyone who can abuse power to that degree as the Secretary of State would be terrifying with the now almost limitless power of the Executive Branch. The Founding Fathers weren't perfect, but the system they set up is darn close. How long will we turn a blind eye to the defiling sewage that exists in the power circles of Washington DC? If we allow the continued erosion of the separation of powers and the rule of law, we will end up as slaves; permanent pawns in a political game which shuffles power within the impenetrable walls of elitism. So, what difference does it make, Hillary? It makes all the difference in the world. It matters--every bit of it. Don't look away, don't ignore, don't enable. If you do...may the odds be ever in your favor.
Many of us have already lived through the "trailer trash in the White House era" when the nation was assaulted regularly with scandal after scandal of the Clinton administration. There were Bill's multiple dalliances, the Whitewater scandal, Hillary making good in cattle futures, missing FBI files, the epic failure of Hillarycare and of course Monica. It makes me want to take a shower. But as demonstrated over and over and over again, that is the Clinton way. When you get caught you dissemble, misdirect, attack the accuser and quibble over syntax. "It depends on what the meaning of 'is' is." Who can forget Hillary blaming a "vast right-wing conspiracy" for all the Clinton woes.
The Clinton's do get props for consistency, however. Absolutely nothing has changed for them. They were above the law then, they are above the law now. Bill makes very feeble attempts at covering up his current dalliances and Hillary pretends she doesn't know or it doesn't happen. Bill spends time on "Orgy Island" with convicted child molester and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and the national media offers a long, bored yawn. Meanwhile, Hillary prances about the world as Secretary of State accomplishing nothing, unless getting four Americans killed is now considered an accomplishment, and then begins the Clinton Cover-up Two-Step. First she sends in her longtime knuckle-breaker Cheryl Mills to sort through State Dept. documents prior to them being sent for Benghazi oversight to remove anything that might reflect badly on her or the State Department. Then begins the long wait. In this electronic era, anyone can retrieve almost any piece of information within minutes, except anyone in the Obama administration. The Clinton's are masters at this. It has been 2 1/2 years since Benghazi and the House of Representatives is still waiting for a single e-mail from the former Secretary of State in reference to Benghazi.
Now we find out about a private e-mail server. It was Bill's. Bill didn't use e-mail. Well, it was convenient and everyone knows how impossible it is to get two e-mail accounts onto one electronic device these days. Let's be very clear here about the Clintons: They rely on the "stupidity" of the American people, but they are not stupid people. Many adjectives would describe them but "stupid" is not one of them. They are both trained lawyers--disbarred or disgraced as they may be. They know the law and they are the masters of flirting with crossing the line, walking on the edge and dipping their toes in the pool of non-prosecutable offenses.
The thought of living through another four or eight years of the Clinton political machine is slightly more revolting than the thought of Jeb Bush in the White House. No surprise here, but I can't stand the Clinton's politics. They parade around this country pretending to defend women's rights and protect the little guy while accepting money from regimes oppressive to women in the Middle East, taking infidelity in marriage to new and unimaginable heights, and offering their best reason to have Hillary as President by suggesting, "Don't you want to see a woman in the White House?" This is not about politics, however. This is about the rule of law.
Every whit of our Constitutional Government was established within the mindset that the law was sacrosanct. The Founding Fathers had lived under the whims of a king who refused to recognize the rights of his British subjects in America. We must remember that the Revolution was not about tea or taxes. The fight for freedom became paramount when the rights of Americans as sovereign British citizens were taken away out of convenience by a king with too much authority. As a result, our laws were crafted to view every citizen equally from the President down to the lowliest beggar in the street. None were to be above or outside of the law and all were to be given blind justice. But the Clintons, and many others on both sides of the aisle, have created an insulated bubble for a special political class which sees themselves as superior to and outside the reach of law.
Multiple examples exist of Hillary discussing her knowledge of what records are subject to subpoena and FOIA requests. Perhaps she did not commit a prosecutable offense in having a private e-mail server, but there can be no doubt that she knew it was outside of proper boundaries and standards for a "public servant". Her actions scream it. A private e-mail server, a stammering press conference, stupid technological excuses, self-sorted e-mails (trust me, I gave you everything you need) and now a hard drive wiped clean shout: "Cover-up!" Those are not the actions of a trustworthy person and certainly not the actions of anyone who should be seeking the Presidency. Anyone who can abuse power to that degree as the Secretary of State would be terrifying with the now almost limitless power of the Executive Branch. The Founding Fathers weren't perfect, but the system they set up is darn close. How long will we turn a blind eye to the defiling sewage that exists in the power circles of Washington DC? If we allow the continued erosion of the separation of powers and the rule of law, we will end up as slaves; permanent pawns in a political game which shuffles power within the impenetrable walls of elitism. So, what difference does it make, Hillary? It makes all the difference in the world. It matters--every bit of it. Don't look away, don't ignore, don't enable. If you do...may the odds be ever in your favor.
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