A Hillary Clinton Presidency Would be a Disaster, A Nightmare for Americans
Make no mistake. A Clinton presidency would be disastrous – the worst of all possible deplorable choices, none worthy or any public office, all aspirants beholden to wealth, power and privilege exclusively.
Don’t let their
duplicitous rhetoric fool you. They’re all cut out of the same cloth.
Otherwise, they wouldn’t get public attention. Populist Green Party
aspirant Jill Stein gets none.
Doug Henwood is
editor and publisher of the Left Business Observer. It covers “economics
and politics in the broadest sense,” discussing what everyone needs to
know, suppressed in mainstream reporting.
In November 2014, his Harper’s article
headlined “Stop Hillary! Vote no to a Clinton dynasty.” It bears
repeating. A second Clinton presidency is the worst of all deplorable
choices.
Her qualifications “boil down to this,” says Henwood.
“She has experience, she’s a woman, and it’s her turn. It’s hard to find any substantive political argument in her favor.”
As first lady, she
pushed husband Bill to bomb Belgrade in 1999. The rape of Yugoslavia
raged throughout the 1990s, culminating with 78 days of lawless US-led
NATO aggression from March 24 – June 10, 1999.
She encouraged her
husband to end welfare for needy households. Vital Aid to Families with
Dependent Children (AFDC) ended. The so-called Personal Responsibility
and Work Opportunity Reconciliation (PRWORA) followed, changing
eligibility rules.
Temporary
Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) set a five-year time limit –
leaving millions of needy households (many with single mothers) on their
own when aid was most needed.
As New York senator and Secretary of State, she “bec(ame) increasingly hawkish on foreign policy,” Henwood explained.
“What Hillary will deliver (as president) is more of the same. And that shouldn’t surprise us…American politics has an amazing stability and continuity about it.”
No matter who’s
elected president, business as usual always continues, hardening, not
softening deplorably during Bill Clinton’s presidency, worse than ever
post-9/11 under Bush II and Obama – certain to be worse than ever no
matter who gets the top job next November, especially if it’s Hillary, a
neocon, anti-populist war goddess.
Her self-proclaimed
progressivism is pure fantasy. Her record as first lady and in public
office exposes her real agenda, warranting condemnation, not praise.
She “has a long
history of being economical with the truth,” said Henwood. As New York
senator, “she voted for the Iraq war, and continued to defend it long
after others had thrown in the towel.”
She echoed the Big
Lies about Saddam’s nonexistent WMDs and ties to Al Qaeda. She cozied up
to right-wing Republicans to ward off criticism. As Secretary of State,
she was “less of a diplomat and more of a hawk,” Henwood explained.
She backed
escalated war on Afghanistan, pushed for continued US military presence
in Iraq, helped orchestrate lawless aggression on Libya, and urged Obama
to bomb Syria without required Security Council authorization.
She was involved in
developing “pivot to Asia” strategy. “Since leaving the State
Department, (she) devoted herself to…Clinton, Inc…(a) fund-raising,
favor-dispensing machine” together with husband Bill, said Henwood.
Their style is
self-promotion, including “huge book advances and fat speaking fees… And
with an eye to the presidency, (she) kept up her line of neocon patter,
while carefully separating herself from Obama.”
She deplorably
supports Netanyahu’s high crimes – from naked aggression on Gaza to
current war throughout the Territories. Palestinian bloodshed and
horrific suffering are of no consequence. Israeli imperial interests
alone matter.
Henwood concluded
his lengthy article, saying “Eight years of Hill? Four, even? To borrow
her anti-McCain jab from the 2008 Democratic convention: No way, no
how!”
His new book titled “My Turn: Hillary Clinton Targets the Presidency”
covers in greater detail what his article discussed. The cover shows
her hawkish image, pointing a gun with her arm outstretched.With Biden
out as a potential candidate, she looks like a shoe-in Democrat nominee,
despite all the exposed baggage about her.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. His new book as editor and contributor is titled “Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III.” http://www.claritypress.com/LendmanIII.html Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.
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