Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Ms Paglia opines

"It remains baffling how anyone would think that Hillary Clinton (born the same year as me) is our party’s best chance. She has more sooty baggage than a 90-car freight train. And what exactly has she ever accomplished — beyond bullishly covering for her philandering husband? She’s certainly busy, busy and ever on the move — with the tunnel-vision workaholism of someone trying to blot out uncomfortable private thoughts. 
I for one think it was a very big deal that our ambassador was murdered in Benghazi. In saying “I take responsibility” for it as secretary of state, Hillary should have resigned immediately. The weak response by the Obama administration to that tragedy has given a huge opening to Republicans in the next presidential election. The impression has been amply given that Benghazi was treated as a public relations matter to massage rather than as the major and outrageous attack on the U.S. that it was. 
Throughout history, ambassadors have always been symbolic incarnations of the sovereignty of their nations and the dignity of their leaders. It’s even a key motif in “King Lear.” As far as I’m concerned, Hillary disqualified herself for the presidency in that fist-pounding moment at a congressional hearing when she said, “What difference does it make what we knew and when we knew it, Senator?” Democrats have got to shake off the Clinton albatross and find new blood. The escalating instability not just in Egypt but throughout the Mideast is very ominous. There is a clash of cultures brewing in the world that may take a century or more to resolve — and there is no guarantee that the secular West will win."

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

"Who?" is a word that has been bouncing around my skull a lot this past couple of days. Who do we elect? Who do we trust? Who do we ally with?

A Democrat is the last thing we need. Hillary would be a disaster. Biden would perhaps be even more so.

Christie could be a strong leader, certainly charismatic, but he strikes me as too willing to compromise and cede issues for political gain, too much of an elitist, and too eager to hamper the Second Amendment: "He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither," as Franklin said. Rand Paul is intriguing, and would certainly work to diminish the outrageous Constitutional abuses of the recent years, but I don't know strong his foreign policy would be.

But, in the end, anybody but a Democrat.

-Sean

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