Why Is it Hillary Clinton's Turn?
By Barbara J. Stock
January 29, 2007
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After the Hillarycare debacle, Hillary retired to the more mundane First Lady obligations and seemed to fall off the radar screens for a while. She then became the long-suffering-but-faithful wife as the Whitewater and later the impeachment proceedings went forward. Bill had destroyed their dream. His legacy would now be a stained blue dress and not much more. Hillary knew this. All of her humiliation and looking the other way to protect him had been for nothing. Their co-presidency had been a total failure. Under Bill's watch, their party had lost power in both houses of Congress for the first time in 40 years. To add insult to injury, Bill's vice-president, Al Gore, lost to Republican George W. Bush.
At some point in all this political commotion, Hillary made a decision. She would become president and she would do it the way she wanted to do it. As president, she could assign men to watch her wayward husband and keep him out of embarrassing trouble. All of her socialist dreams came alive once again. Bill had had his chance and now, it would be Hillary's turn. Hillary had paid a high price to get Bill Clinton and herself in the White House and Bill, unable to control himself, had ruined everything.
The "Rodham" surname appeared once again in her public name. One does not jump from first lady to president in a single bound so Hillary would have to bide her time and take the lowly job of senator so that she had some credentials to show America other than she could tolerate being married to Bill Clinton. Hillary had to build her own political persona minus one wandering and often embarrassing husband who just happened to be an ex-president.
Hillary looked around for a state that would be prestigious enough to suit her and one that would be dazzled by a former first lady as its senator. New York filled that bill nicely and a lush estate was purchased in New York to make it legal. It is a lovely home rarely shared by the former first couple. In fact, they are rarely seen together at all. When Bill is present, he is usually forced into the background and if one looks carefully, he usually has the look of a young boy who has been told to go stand in the corner and be still. This is not a position Bill takes too graciously.
As Hillary pastes a smile on her face and tells Americans that she wants to "have a conversation" with them, one has to wonder about a few small, but important items.
What has Hillary Rodham Clinton done to prove her worth to be president of the United States of America? This honor and great responsibility is not a "right" bestowed on someone simply because she saved her husband's political career by lying to the people. Hillary does not have some special rights because she was, and remains married to, a man who had repeatedly cheated on her throughout their marriage and lied about it. We do not owe her some "humiliation debt" because she chose to remain married to Bill Clinton.
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