Hillary Clinton As President
1 comment July 30th, 2007
With the odds in favor of Hillary Clinton being elected America’s 44th president continuing to grow in her favor, we all need to assess what a second Clinton presidency will mean for America. Those who have read my book, “Hillary Clinton Nude,” will be familiar with my critique of her presidential qualifications.
George W. Bush, in my view, has been nowhere near as competent as his father, President George H. Bush, who had the wisdom to avoid occupying Baghdad after expelling the Iraqi army from Kuwait. Some may look at the differences between Bush father and son, and use that as an argument to avoid looking at Bill Clinton’s administration as an insight into what a Hillary Clinton presidency would look like. However, there are radical differences betweeen the Bush and Clinton political phenomena.
George W. Bush was never an important player in the presidential administration led by his father. If anything, he has sought to create a distinct presidential identity. There is every indication that Bush senior and his key advisors were not thrilled with Bush junior invading and occupying Iraq. In summary, Bush father and son are very different political animals.
With the Clintons, the exact opposite is the case. Bill Clinton boasted that Hillary was his co-president, and without question she was a key and decisive actor in the first Clinton administration. This was the same administration that was asleep while Osama bin Laden plotted, that was mired in a scandal of pornographic character, and that presided over the contraction of America’s military and the dotcom economic deflation. Unlike the situation with Bush junior and senior, Hillary and Bill Clinton were joined at the hip politically during his administration. Accordingly, Bill Clinton’s 8 years in office are a valid preview of Hillary Clinton as president.
If Hillary Clinton would be a replication of Bill Clinton, what does that mean for America? In the face of the Iraq war, looming fiscal imbalance and the threat of global terrorism acquiring hideous weapons of nighmarish destructive potential, it’s not a pretty picture of what we will all be in for. Hillary Clinton as president will likely be no different from how Bill Clinton conducted his presidency. Those who will vote for Hillary Clinton in November 2008 should do so with full realization of the implications of repeating the perfidious and scandalous epic of the first Clinton administration.
