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politics and politicians Title: An Open Letter to hdr22@clintonemail.com--Dowd trashing Hillary SINCE open letters to secretive and duplicitous regimes are in fashion, we would like to post an Open Letter to the Leaders of the Clinton Republic of Chappaqua: It has come to our attention while observing your machinations during your attempted restoration that you may not fully understand our constitutional system. Thus, we are writing to bring to your attention two features of our democracy: The importance of preserving historical records and the ill-advised gluttony of an American feminist icon wallowing in regressive Middle Eastern states payola. You should seriously consider these characteristics of our nation as the Campaign-That-Must-Not-Be-Named progresses. If you, Hillary Rodham Clinton, are willing to cite your mothers funeral to get sympathy for ill-advisedly deleting 30,000 emails, it just makes us want to sigh: O.K., just take it. If you want it that bad, go ahead and be president and leave us in peace. (Or war, if you have your hawkish way.) Youre still idling on the runway, but were already jet-lagged. Its all so drearily familiar that I know were only moments away from James Carville writing a column in David Brocks Media Matters, headlined, In Private, Hillarys Really a Hoot. When you grin and call out to your supporters, like at the Emilys List anniversary gala, Dont you someday want to see a woman president of the United States of America? the answer is: Yes, it would be thrilling. But therein lies the rub. What is the trade-off that will be exacted by the Chappaqua Republic for that yearned-for moment? When the Rogue State of Bill began demonizing Monica Lewinsky as a troubled stalker, you knew you could count on the complicity of feminists and Democratic women in Congress. Bills female cabinet members and feminist supporters had no choice but to accept the unappetizing quid pro quo: The Clintons would give women progressive public policies as long as the women didnt assail Bill for his regressive private behavior with women. Now you, Hillary, are following the same disheartening Well make you an offer you cant refuse pattern. You started the Guernica press conference defending your indefensible droit du seigneur over your State Department emails by referring to womens rights and denouncing the letter to Iran from Republican senators as out of step with the best traditions of American leadership. None of what you said made any sense. Keeping a single account mingling business and personal with your own server wasnt about convenience. It was about expedience. You became judge and jury on whats relevant because you didnt want to leave digital fingerprints for others to retrace. You could have had Huma carry two devices if you really couldnt hoist an extra few ounces. You insisted on piggybacking on Bills server, even though his aides were worried about hackers, because you were gaming the system for 2016. (Or even 2012.) Suffused with paranoia and pre-emptive defensiveness, you shrugged off The Ones high-minded call for the Most Transparent Administration in History. It depends upon what the meaning of @ is. The subtext of your news conference cut through the flimsy rationales like a dagger: You can have the first woman president. You can get rid of those epically awful Republicans who have vandalized Congress, marginalized the president and jeopardized our Iran policy. You can get a more progressive American society. But, in return, you must accept our foibles and protect us. You exploit our better angels and our desire for a finer country and our fear of the anarchists and haters in Congress. Because you assume that if its good for the Clintons, its good for the world, youre always tangling up government policy with your own needs, desires, deceptions, marital bargains and gremlins. Instead of raising us up by behaving like exemplary, sterling people, you bring us down to your own level, a place of blurred lines and fungible ethics and sleazy associates. Your familys foundation gobbles tens of millions from Saudi Arabia and other repressive regimes, whose unspoken message is: Were going to give you money to go improve the world. Now leave us alone to go persecute women. Thats an uncomfortable echo of a Clintonian trade-off, which goes: Were going to give you the first woman president who will improve the country. Now leave us alone to break any rules we please. Bill, your pathology is more human and interesting. Its almost like you need to create messes to see if your extraordinary political gifts can get you out of them. Its a fatherless boys How Much Do You Love Me? syndrome. Do you love me enough to let me get away with this? Hillary, your syndrome is less mortal, more regal, a matter of What Is Hillary Owed? Ronald Reagan seemed like an ancient king, as one aide put it, gliding across the landscape. You seem like an annoyed queen, radiating irritation at anyone who tries to hold you accountable. Youre less rhetorically talented than Bill but more controlling, so its harder for you to navigate out of tough spots. No Drama Obama and his advisers are clearly appalled to be drawn into your shadowy shenanigans, just as Al Gore once was. Whatever else you say about this president, he has no shadows. We hope this letter enriches your knowledge of our constitutional system and promotes mutual understanding and clarity as the campaign progresses. Sincerely, America
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#1. To: out damned spot, *2016 The Likely Suspects* (#0)
Maureen Down wrote that? YIKES!
#2. To: sneakypete (#1)
LOL yes. And the editors of the NY Slimes published it. The Left is in full rejection mode.
Delicious, isn't it?!
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