The Invisible Hillary Clinton
3 comments August 14th, 2007
The Clinton political machine has unveiled their first television ad, now running in Iowa. It is clever, portraying George W. Bush as an “invisible” president, at least to average American citizens who have need of a government that listens. Given the obtuseness and incompetence that many people now associate with the Bush administration, this is clearly an attractive campaign strategy for Hillary Clinton to pursue. It makes Bush the issue, while remaining silent on the record of Hillary Rodham Clinton, and on proof that would suggest her being more optically aware on the issues that matter.
When it came time to read the National Intelligence Estimate prior to voting in support of Bush’s planned Iraq war, Hillary chose to treat it as an invisible document, and let her staffers read it instead. When her husband engaged in sleazy behavior with a White House intern, Hillary Clinton chose to treat the evidence as invisible, and denounce the so-called “vast right-wing conspiracy,” that is until that famous stain on someone’s blue dress appeared, and could not be rendered invisible by even the most adroit Clintonian alchemy.
While Al-Qaeda plotted to attack America during the first Clinton administration, Hillary joined with her husband in treating the threat as invisible, while pursuing other matters unencumbered by national security concerns. And now, with dangers pointing to possibly another Al-Qaeda attack on the nation, this threat remains largely invisible to Hillary Clinton, while she focuses on her YouTube appearances and campaign song contests.
Hillary Clinton is trying to convince the American electorate that she is different from Bush, and that their concerns will not be invisible to her. Based on her track record, should we really believe her?
