The Chris Moeller Archives

The Senator from Wal-Mart

There are few figures in our entire political system that I find more personally distasteful than Hillary Clinton. She’s a crass opportunist in the category of her marriage partner. She's actually worse than an opportunist-- she's literally been on the take.

It is shocking what racist behavior she got away with during her 2008 primary battle with Barack Obama. In New Hampshire, her campaign co-chair, Billy Shaheen, called their African-American opponent a drug dealer. In rural Pennsylvania, to an audience of white working-class voters, she said he couldn't win because he was black. (This particular pandering was also an insult to the white working-class voters.) Then of course, there was the photo of Obama wearing a native Somalian garment that the Clinton campaign leaked to the press. As usual, our elitist press corps allowed her to get away with it, and then the president-elect let her off the hook too by giving her a plum job she was unqualified for, and at which, she proceeded to blow chunks for four years (see: the exposed secrets in the WikiLeaks cables, the Arab Spring, Palestine, Benghazi).

Even as she walks away from the State Department, she's lucky that she lives in the country where you don't go to jail or even lose your job when it's discovered that you have been employing diplomats as spies. As she collects buckets of cash on the back end for her long-time corporate service in government, our news media fawns over what they perceive as her good fortune and resourcefulness. She's earned it, you see. You mean after all she's done for us, she has to give Congressional testimony on Benghazi? They actually applaud her skill at public deceit because god help 'em, it's just so inspiring to see an ambitious woman on the national stage! There's old Hillary Clinton again, spinning gold. Just like she did in 1998 when she rode her husband's untamed penis all the way to the corner of Capitol and Wall. She Tammy Wynette'd him in 1992, then he returned the favor two terms later by agreeing to move with her to New York City so she could run for the Senate, and he was very obviously fibbing on her behalf even two terms after that when he told a crowd of Iowans in 2008 that she had opposed the Iraq War from the very beginning.

Not an inch of Hillary Clinton projects authenticity to me, including her public contention that the one-time president of the College Republicans at Wellesley College is not now and always been a Republican. More lies: On a trip to Nepal a decade ago, she made the claim that she was named for Edmund Hillary, even though she was born in 1947, and the explorer didn't climb Mount Everest until 1953. That story lasted long enough to make it into her husband's autobiography. I don’t believe that public service has ever been her motivation in working in government. It's been about making money. Bill and Hill rented out the White House bedrooms to their corporate benefactors (to say nothing of what Bill rented out in the Oval Office). Hillary sat on the Board of Directors for Wal-Mart for years, and then as Secretary of State, used her position to clear the company's path into India. She voted to bail out Wall Street. She voted to murder innocent Iraqis so that that country might be opened up for investment, or rather I should say, profiteering. Even though she lied about this one also in '08: she adamantly backed her husband's key legislative accomplishment, the North American Free Trade Agreement, which has proven to be a boon for Corporate America-- and also the most damaging piece of legislation to working people on both sides of the U.S./Mexico border since the passage of the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947. Thanks again, Democrats.

Hillary becoming the public face of the women’s empowerment movement might be the single worst thing to happen to feminism since the word came into existence. Most famously, she covered for her high-profile husband, who by all uncompromised accounts of his deeds and misdeeds, has a deep-seated hatred for women. But she's also done virtually nothing to help poor women get ahead, here or abroad, except to champion abortion rights, which is certainly an important issue, but sadly, the only women's issue that the Democratic Party uses as a litmus test for its candidates. Heaven knows she never saw the battle against poverty to be a women's issue, but statistically it most certainly is.

Hillary Clinton believes that projecting a positive female archetype means saying that you want to drop more bombs than the boys do. And of course at that moment that her long public career reached its zenith-- its most desperate stage-- on the ground in New Hampshire in 2008, when it was win or go home, she was faced with the challenge of all challenges. How did she respond? She tried to "George Wallace" her opponent as described above and then she cried in front of the cameras. Disgusting.

Is it too much to hope for in this dark world that Hillary might decide to skip the 2016 presidential race altogether. I won't even begrudge her the private speakers' fees she worked so hard to earn for years as one of our most insatiable elected prostitutes-- just as long as she goes away.

posted by CM @ 10:58 PM