Hillary Clinton on Gonzales Resignation

Upon Alberto Gonzales resignation yesterday, Hillary Clinton released her public statement. As she starts to lose her composure, this video shows Hillary's unbalanced and irrational behavior. This, along with many others urging for Gonzales's removal, solidifies my belief in their replacement of common sense with biased and charlatan principles.

In her press release she mentions Gonzales betraying his obligations and the trust of the American people. She does not mention her husband's firing of all 93 US Attorneys, but because Alberto Gonzales accepted resignations from only a fraction of that amount, he is partisan and unconstitutional. I won't even begin to preach about Bill and Hillary Clinton's shared presidency and its lacking of trust of the American people, that would be a novel.

For anybody who cares to do a little research, or simply switch on their memory button they will see that Hillary's statements are absurdly hypocritical.

The final statement from Clinton's press release is one that I find particularly senseless is:

"The second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina is one more reminder that the President must appoint someone to lead the Department of Justice with the leadership and competence necessary to defend the Constitution."

What exactly is she trying to say here? Is this more manipulation of voters emotions? Probably. This definitely gets my "Huh?!" award.

Scoundrels, Part 2

Hillary Clinton is taking some heat for her presidential campaign's chief strategist, Mark Penn. Penn is the CEO of Burson-Marsteller, a public relations company whose clients include tobacco and pharmaceutical firms, along with many other "evil" institutions. She chooses a chief strategist who has helped companies who she is politically against, at the very least against her views on health care and our delicate environment. This seems to prove further hypocrisies in the beast that is Hillary. Mr. Penn does not think that there is any conflict of interests, of course to him this is all very normal since he has been a manipulative tool of the Clintons since 1996. Penn said, "I don't think that there's any obligation that the firm's clients agree on every issue that's out there either with themselves or Sen. Clinton." No, there certainly isn't an obligation, but I think we all expect a little more from this extremely self-righteous presidential candidate.

Another example of the complex hypocrisy in this Clinton/Penn relationship is in Hillary's stance on eavesdropping for public safety. She said that this system is "far-fetched" and damned it by saying that it is "a secret program that spies on Americans!" But recently Mark Penn was accused of illegally monitoring a former employee's e-mail. We will see how that plays out in court, but for now, these are more examples of Hillary Clinton's hypocrisy. After eight years as the first lady, I never thought she would have made it this far. But clearly, many Americans can turn their cheek as easily as Hillary herself.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/08/wclinton108.xml

Senator Clinton Condemns the Libby Commutation

Hillary's statement on the Libby Commutation:

"Today's decision is yet another example that this Administration simply considers itself above the law. This case arose from the Administration's politicization of national security intelligence and its efforts to punish those who spoke out against its policies. Four years into the Iraq war, Americans are still living with the consequences of this White House's efforts to quell dissent. This commutation sends the clear signal that in this Administration, cronyism and ideology trump competence and justice." --Sen. Hillary Clinton

Well before we start dissecting the hypocrisies of Hillary's statement, let me first state that Libby was probably judged a bit too harshly for the crimes he committed, which are debatable in my mind. Libby was targeted because of his relationship to the White House. That's it and that's all.

Even if I were a Hillary-fan I would not be able to take this condemnation of Bush's commutation, or any other pardon he may execute while in office, to heart. I have to first take into account the number of commutations and pardons her husband gave while they "shared" the White House. There were 38 commutations and 147 pardons. Then I have to think about some of the crimes these people were pardoned and commuted for. These offenses include (but are certainly not limited to) cocaine trafficking, tax evasion, perjury (but we know that the Clintons were okay with perjury), bank fraud and sexual assault...to name a few.

I hope that anyone who takes Hillary's words to heart will keep this in mind.