A Christian Liberal is NOT an oxymoron.

Posted by XT on January 31st, 2008 in Campaign News

By now, the only people who don’t think the Clintons got a raw deal at the hands of Kenneth Starr are those so blinded by partisanship that they don’t care what gets destroyed. It was - and is - and should be - inexcusable to spend so much money chasing what amounts to nothing in order to embarrass a sitting President over his sex life. There are two ways to deal with such an injustice - resolve it will never be visited upon another by your own hands (as John McCain has done with torture), or accept it as “the way things are” and learn to use it quicker, faster, and better than your opponents.

Hillary Clinton has opted for the second choice.

The Wall Street Journal - no friend of Bill and Hillary - has lent space to an Obama supporter who can see similarities between HRC’s charge that Obama worked for a slumlord and the Republican charge that Hillary must have worked behind the scenes on Castle Grande. It’s a low blow, unworthy of someone who would be President. But more than that, there’s this:

No one who has ever practiced law, let alone Mrs. Clinton, could argue, with a clear conscience, that these five hours on behalf of a church group that partnered with a man who at a later point in time would be alleged to be a scoundrel equated to knowingly representing a Chicago slumlord. Yet she could not resist leveling the accusation.

I suggest that this provides a window into Mrs. Clinton’s character because notwithstanding the enormous suffering she had to endure when accused of wrongful conduct in her representation of Madison Guaranty — a representation that appears to have been no more than a routine business transaction — she is willing to behave no differently than did her Whitewater accusers if she can gain politically. She appears to have learned no lessons from the Starr investigation.

No, she learned. She just learned the wrong lesson. This is what has haunted me about HRC’s desire to sit in the West Wing from day one. Someone else may not be able to get things done - they might not be able to change anything and they might not be able to get people to work together. But it’s a lead-pipe cinch that Hillary won’t. She may be ready to hit the ground running (I doubt it - being First Lady, I believe, must be orders of magnitude different than being President). But if she runs off in the wrong direction, her Administration will be crippled from the first step. When she’s already doing it before she makes it through the primary, what makes anyone think she will try anything different afterwards?

Enough already.

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