WASHINGTON SINCE open letters to secretive and duplicitous regimes are in fashion, we would like to post an Open Letter to the Leaders of the Clinton Republic of Chappaqua:
It has come to our attention while observing your machinations during your attempted restoration that you may not fully understand our constitutional system. Thus, we are writing to bring to your attention two features of our democracy: The importance of preserving historical records and the ill-advised gluttony of an American feminist icon wallowing in regressive Middle Eastern states payola.
You should seriously consider these characteristics of our nation as the Campaign-That-Must-Not-Be-Named progresses.
If you, Hillary Rodham Clinton, are willing to cite your mothers funeral to get sympathy for ill-advisedly deleting 30,000 emails, it just makes us want to sigh: O.K., just take it. If you want it that bad, go ahead and be president and leave us in peace. (Or war, if you have your hawkish way.) Youre still idling on the runway, but were already jet-lagged. Its all so drearily familiar that I know were only moments away from James Carville writing a column in David Brocks Media Matters, headlined, In Private, Hillarys Really a Hoot.
When you grin and call out to your supporters, like at the Emilys List anniversary gala, Dont you someday want to see a woman president of the United States of America? the answer is: Yes, it would be thrilling.
But therein lies the rub.
What is the trade-off that will be exacted by the Chappaqua Republic for that yearned-for moment? When the Rogue State of Bill began demonizing Monica Lewinsky as a troubled stalker, you knew you could count on the complicity of feminists and Democratic women in Congress. Bills female cabinet members and feminist supporters had no choice but to accept the unappetizing quid pro quo: The Clintons would give women progressive public policies as long as the women didnt assail Bill for his regressive private behavior with women.
Now you, Hillary, are following the same disheartening Well make you an offer you cant refuse pattern. You started the Guernica press conference defending your indefensible droit du seigneur over your State Department emails by referring to womens rights and denouncing the letter to Iran from Republican senators as out of step with the best traditions of American leadership.
None of what you said made any sense. Keeping a single account mingling business and personal with your own server wasnt about convenience. It was about expedience. You became judge and jury on whats relevant because you didnt want to leave digital fingerprints for others to retrace. You could have had Huma carry two devices if you really couldnt hoist an extra few ounces. You insisted on piggybacking on Bills server, even though his aides were worried about hackers, because you were gaming the system for 2016. (Or even 2012.)
Suffused with paranoia and pre-emptive defensiveness, you shrugged off The Ones high-minded call for the Most Transparent Administration in History.
"What is the trade-off that will be exacted by the Chappaqua Republic for that yearned-for moment? When the Rogue State of Bill began demonizing Monica Lewinsky as a troubled stalker, you knew you could count on the complicity of feminists and Democratic women in Congress. Bills female cabinet members and feminist supporters had no choice but to accept the unappetizing quid pro quo: The Clintons would give women progressive public policies as long as the women didnt assail Bill for his regressive private behavior with women."
MoDo has produced some powerful insights into the feminist modus operandi during the Clinton years. I do not believe I have ever heard this from a liberal source before. The quid pro quo always worked before.
What's going on this time???
******* Daniel Greenfield, January 29, 2015, The Imaginary Islamic Radical
"Our problem is not the Islamic radical, but the inherent radicalism of Islam. Islam is a radical religion. It radicalizes those who follow it. Every atrocity we associate with Islamic radicals is already in Islam. The Koran is not the solution to Islamic radicalism, it is the cause."