After Super Tuesday, the nightmare scenario has moved a step closer to reality. America is on the brink of electing a polarising president with a long history of dishonesty, scandals and shady finances.
No, not Donald Trump. While the Republican front-runner was once again dominating the media coverage of the primaries, Hillary Clinton effectively sewed up the Democratic nomination...
Forget Trump... what's the U.S. done to deserve Hillary, asks RICHARD LITTLEJOHN
By Richard Littlejohn for the Daily Mail
3 March 2016
Daily Mail
While the Republican front-runner was once again dominating the media coverage of the primaries, Hillary Clinton sewed up the Democratic nomination
After Super Tuesday, the nightmare scenario has moved a step closer to reality. America is on the brink of electing a polarising president with a long history of dishonesty, scandals and shady finances.
No, not Donald Trump. While the Republican front-runner was once again dominating the media coverage of the primaries, Hillary Clinton effectively sewed up the Democratic nomination.
Her sole challenger, self-proclaimed socialist Bernie Sanders, is still in the race, but Hillary is now unstoppable. She was nailed on for the nomination before a single vote was cast.
Nobody of substance was prepared to stand against her. They were all terrified of the wrath of the Clinton attack machine, which has left a trail of bodies in its wake over three decades.
Nevertheless, her preordained progression towards the White House masks a distinct lack of enthusiasm on the part of the electorate.
Turn-out in the Democratic primaries has been well down, compared with the wave of excitement generated by the Barack Obama bandwagon eight years ago.
His optimistic ‘Yes We Can’ has been replaced by Hillary’s implied ‘It’s My Turn’. In a direct inversion of John F. Kennedy’s dictum, Mrs Clinton asks not what she can do for her country, but what it can do for her.
Hillary’s sense of entitlement dwarfs even that of our own Cherie Blair, who still bristles privately that she had to play a supporting role to her husband.
Insulting
But while the Wicked Witch has settled for a pot of gold and a vast property empire, Hillary has unfinished political business.
Not that the Clintons are short of a shilling. When Bill left office in 2001, Hillary complained that they were flat broke. Yet 15 years later, they are reported to be worth in the region of $110 million (about £80 million).
Hillary is said to account for more than a third of that money. Which is why it was absurd to hear her condemning the wealthy and powerful at her victory rally on Tuesday night.
Turn-out in the Democratic primaries has been well down, compared with the wave of excitement generated by the Barack Obama bandwagon eight years ago
Wealth and power are what the Clintons live and breathe. Through their charitable foundation, which allows them to lord it like potentates, they have taken tens of millions of dollars from dubious foreign donors. Meanwhile, only 10 per cent of the foundation’s income has actually gone to charity.
Equally insulting this week was Mrs Clinton claiming to champion those who are struggling to ‘put a little away for their retirement’.
There’s little chance of Hillary having to choose between heating and eating in her old age.
You won’t find the former First Lady spooning cat food out of the tin, in front of one bar of an electric fire, at her home in upstate New York, while Bill wraps himself in a moth-eaten blanket and watches a scratchy video of Debbie Does Dallas.
This is a woman who, while railing against the bankers, has made a fortune from financial institutions. She was paid $675,000 by Goldman Sachs for three speeches.
When asked why she accepted so much money, she replied: ‘That’s what they offered.’
In other words, it would be rude not to. Her answer recalled that of the notorious American bank robber Slick Willie Sutton. When asked why he robbed banks, he replied: ‘That’s where the money is.’
Coincidentally, Hillary’s husband is also known as Slick Willie, not because he robs banks, but because he has made a career out of extricating himself from sticky situations.
After Super Tuesday, it looks as if Hillary and The Donald will be going head-to-head for the White House, unless the Trump Travelling Circus can somehow be derailed — which appears increasingly unlikely
Bill has been involved in a series of ‘bimbo eruptions’, most notably the Monica Lewinsky affair, which led to impeachment proceedings being brought against him. He came dangerously close to being kicked out of office for lying.
Throughout, Hillary stood by her man. One of Bill’s many conquests, Gennifer Flowers — who was his mistress for 12 years — recently came out of the woodwork to condemn Hillary for condoning his behaviour and hinted that there was more dirt to come.
Women who cross the Clintons have to endure a torrent of ordure poured from a great height. Lewinsky’s life was blighted for ever.
I recently met a ferociously bright, thirtysomething professor of U.S. politics at Cambridge.
She told me that while young American women would love to see a female president, they couldn’t abide Hillary — whom they accuse of being complicit in her husband’s crimes against the sisterhood.
Scandal
Twice-divorced Trump is also frequently accused of mistreating women. If he wins the Republican nomination, reports suggest that we will witness the exquisite irony of Bill Clinton leading the attack on Trump’s suitability to be President.
Bill has been involved in a series of ‘bimbo eruptions’, most notably the Monica Lewinsky affair, which led to impeachment proceedings being brought against him. He came dangerously close to being kicked out of office
It will be interesting to see how Trump responds to being called a misogynist by Slick Willie, who these days resembles a redneck roué in a Reno casino.
The Clintons have been mired in scandal, as far back as the Whitewater Controversy, which revolved around dodgy land deals in Arkansas, when Bill was governor.
After he became President, Hillary was accused of lying to an official inquiry into the sacking of several White House staff who were replaced by Clinton cronies.
Now Mrs Clinton is being investigated by the FBI for illegally using her own private email server to send and receive classified correspondence in connection with her position as Secretary of State, the American equivalent of Foreign Secretary, and deleting 30,000 messages she described as ‘personal’.
U.S. government officials have been sacked and prosecuted for less.
Mrs Clinton makes great play of her ‘experience’, but her record in office is dismal.
She was Secretary of State for four years until 2013. On her watch, the world became a more dangerous place.
Having once said she’d nuke Iran to protect Israel, she then supported the deal to bring the mad mullahs back into the fold, by lifting sanctions and allowing them to develop a ‘peaceful’ nuclear programme.
She lied about coming under sniper fire while on a visit to Bosnia.
Worst of all, she refused a request to send military reinforcements to protect the American embassy in Benghazi, Libya.
Hillary Clinton and rival candidate U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders speak simultaneously at the NBC News - YouTube Democratic presidential candidates debate in Charleston, South Carolina
The result was an attack by jihadists on September 11, 2012, in which the U.S. ambassador was murdered.
Clinton has never accepted responsibility.
No wonder between 50 and 65 per cent of voters regularly say she is ‘dishonest and untrustworthy’. Her negatives are almost as high as Donald Trump.
While her husband has a roguish charm and a fierce intellect, Hillary is just plain weird.
She looks like a Botoxed beaver and has a voice like a blowtorch. She’s a grown-up version of Labour’s Yvette Cooper.
She claims to speak for the common people, but has been part of the self-serving elite for the past quarter of a century, a fully paid-off member of the insidious alliance between Washington and big business.
Nightmare
A photograph of the Clintons sucking up to Trump at his most recent wedding tells you pretty much all you need to know about the rotten state of American politics. They all sup from the same pot.
Trump even claims that Bill Clinton rang him in the summer, urging him to stand.
After Super Tuesday, it looks as if Hillary and The Donald will be going head-to-head for the White House, unless the Trump Travelling Circus can somehow be derailed — which appears increasingly unlikely.
This gruesome twosome deserve each other, but what has America done to deserve either?
The smart money is on Hillary, but then the smart money has been wrong about Trump up to now.
Ben Stein, a former Nixon speechwriter, this week described Trump as ‘terrifying, truly terrifying’.
But he added: ‘I’m not sure even Hillary can beat him.’
Even if she can, is the alternative to The Donald any less terrifying?
The nightmare has only just begun.
The smart money is on Hillary, but then the smart money has been wrong about Trump up to now
No, not Donald Trump. While the Republican front-runner was once again dominating the media coverage of the primaries, Hillary Clinton effectively sewed up the Democratic nomination...
Forget Trump... what's the U.S. done to deserve Hillary, asks RICHARD LITTLEJOHN
By Richard Littlejohn for the Daily Mail
3 March 2016
Daily Mail
While the Republican front-runner was once again dominating the media coverage of the primaries, Hillary Clinton sewed up the Democratic nomination
After Super Tuesday, the nightmare scenario has moved a step closer to reality. America is on the brink of electing a polarising president with a long history of dishonesty, scandals and shady finances.
No, not Donald Trump. While the Republican front-runner was once again dominating the media coverage of the primaries, Hillary Clinton effectively sewed up the Democratic nomination.
Her sole challenger, self-proclaimed socialist Bernie Sanders, is still in the race, but Hillary is now unstoppable. She was nailed on for the nomination before a single vote was cast.
Nobody of substance was prepared to stand against her. They were all terrified of the wrath of the Clinton attack machine, which has left a trail of bodies in its wake over three decades.
Nevertheless, her preordained progression towards the White House masks a distinct lack of enthusiasm on the part of the electorate.
Turn-out in the Democratic primaries has been well down, compared with the wave of excitement generated by the Barack Obama bandwagon eight years ago.
His optimistic ‘Yes We Can’ has been replaced by Hillary’s implied ‘It’s My Turn’. In a direct inversion of John F. Kennedy’s dictum, Mrs Clinton asks not what she can do for her country, but what it can do for her.
Hillary’s sense of entitlement dwarfs even that of our own Cherie Blair, who still bristles privately that she had to play a supporting role to her husband.
Insulting
But while the Wicked Witch has settled for a pot of gold and a vast property empire, Hillary has unfinished political business.
Not that the Clintons are short of a shilling. When Bill left office in 2001, Hillary complained that they were flat broke. Yet 15 years later, they are reported to be worth in the region of $110 million (about £80 million).
Hillary is said to account for more than a third of that money. Which is why it was absurd to hear her condemning the wealthy and powerful at her victory rally on Tuesday night.
Turn-out in the Democratic primaries has been well down, compared with the wave of excitement generated by the Barack Obama bandwagon eight years ago
Wealth and power are what the Clintons live and breathe. Through their charitable foundation, which allows them to lord it like potentates, they have taken tens of millions of dollars from dubious foreign donors. Meanwhile, only 10 per cent of the foundation’s income has actually gone to charity.
Equally insulting this week was Mrs Clinton claiming to champion those who are struggling to ‘put a little away for their retirement’.
There’s little chance of Hillary having to choose between heating and eating in her old age.
You won’t find the former First Lady spooning cat food out of the tin, in front of one bar of an electric fire, at her home in upstate New York, while Bill wraps himself in a moth-eaten blanket and watches a scratchy video of Debbie Does Dallas.
This is a woman who, while railing against the bankers, has made a fortune from financial institutions. She was paid $675,000 by Goldman Sachs for three speeches.
When asked why she accepted so much money, she replied: ‘That’s what they offered.’
In other words, it would be rude not to. Her answer recalled that of the notorious American bank robber Slick Willie Sutton. When asked why he robbed banks, he replied: ‘That’s where the money is.’
Coincidentally, Hillary’s husband is also known as Slick Willie, not because he robs banks, but because he has made a career out of extricating himself from sticky situations.
After Super Tuesday, it looks as if Hillary and The Donald will be going head-to-head for the White House, unless the Trump Travelling Circus can somehow be derailed — which appears increasingly unlikely
Bill has been involved in a series of ‘bimbo eruptions’, most notably the Monica Lewinsky affair, which led to impeachment proceedings being brought against him. He came dangerously close to being kicked out of office for lying.
Throughout, Hillary stood by her man. One of Bill’s many conquests, Gennifer Flowers — who was his mistress for 12 years — recently came out of the woodwork to condemn Hillary for condoning his behaviour and hinted that there was more dirt to come.
Women who cross the Clintons have to endure a torrent of ordure poured from a great height. Lewinsky’s life was blighted for ever.
I recently met a ferociously bright, thirtysomething professor of U.S. politics at Cambridge.
She told me that while young American women would love to see a female president, they couldn’t abide Hillary — whom they accuse of being complicit in her husband’s crimes against the sisterhood.
Scandal
Twice-divorced Trump is also frequently accused of mistreating women. If he wins the Republican nomination, reports suggest that we will witness the exquisite irony of Bill Clinton leading the attack on Trump’s suitability to be President.
Bill has been involved in a series of ‘bimbo eruptions’, most notably the Monica Lewinsky affair, which led to impeachment proceedings being brought against him. He came dangerously close to being kicked out of office
It will be interesting to see how Trump responds to being called a misogynist by Slick Willie, who these days resembles a redneck roué in a Reno casino.
The Clintons have been mired in scandal, as far back as the Whitewater Controversy, which revolved around dodgy land deals in Arkansas, when Bill was governor.
After he became President, Hillary was accused of lying to an official inquiry into the sacking of several White House staff who were replaced by Clinton cronies.
Now Mrs Clinton is being investigated by the FBI for illegally using her own private email server to send and receive classified correspondence in connection with her position as Secretary of State, the American equivalent of Foreign Secretary, and deleting 30,000 messages she described as ‘personal’.
U.S. government officials have been sacked and prosecuted for less.
Mrs Clinton makes great play of her ‘experience’, but her record in office is dismal.
She was Secretary of State for four years until 2013. On her watch, the world became a more dangerous place.
Having once said she’d nuke Iran to protect Israel, she then supported the deal to bring the mad mullahs back into the fold, by lifting sanctions and allowing them to develop a ‘peaceful’ nuclear programme.
She lied about coming under sniper fire while on a visit to Bosnia.
Worst of all, she refused a request to send military reinforcements to protect the American embassy in Benghazi, Libya.
Hillary Clinton and rival candidate U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders speak simultaneously at the NBC News - YouTube Democratic presidential candidates debate in Charleston, South Carolina
The result was an attack by jihadists on September 11, 2012, in which the U.S. ambassador was murdered.
Clinton has never accepted responsibility.
No wonder between 50 and 65 per cent of voters regularly say she is ‘dishonest and untrustworthy’. Her negatives are almost as high as Donald Trump.
While her husband has a roguish charm and a fierce intellect, Hillary is just plain weird.
She looks like a Botoxed beaver and has a voice like a blowtorch. She’s a grown-up version of Labour’s Yvette Cooper.
She claims to speak for the common people, but has been part of the self-serving elite for the past quarter of a century, a fully paid-off member of the insidious alliance between Washington and big business.
Nightmare
A photograph of the Clintons sucking up to Trump at his most recent wedding tells you pretty much all you need to know about the rotten state of American politics. They all sup from the same pot.
Trump even claims that Bill Clinton rang him in the summer, urging him to stand.
After Super Tuesday, it looks as if Hillary and The Donald will be going head-to-head for the White House, unless the Trump Travelling Circus can somehow be derailed — which appears increasingly unlikely.
This gruesome twosome deserve each other, but what has America done to deserve either?
The smart money is on Hillary, but then the smart money has been wrong about Trump up to now.
Ben Stein, a former Nixon speechwriter, this week described Trump as ‘terrifying, truly terrifying’.
But he added: ‘I’m not sure even Hillary can beat him.’
Even if she can, is the alternative to The Donald any less terrifying?
The nightmare has only just begun.
The smart money is on Hillary, but then the smart money has been wrong about Trump up to now
