A Time for the Clintons

“I have a lot of baggage, and everybody has rummaged through it for years,” Hillary says.

Let's not forget that you get two for one with Hillary:

"As Clinton was taking office in 1993, three important investigations were underway, all of which Clinton could have helped by ordering key documents declassified or giving other backing to the investigators.

"Special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh was still battling the cover-up that had surrounded the Iran-Contra scandal of the 1980s; Democratic congressmen were digging into the “Iraqgate“ scandal, the covert supplying of dangerous weapons to Iraq's Saddam Hussein in the 1980s; and a House task force was suddenly inundated with evidence pointing to Republican guilt in the “October Surprise“ case, alleged interference by the Reagan-Bush campaign in 1980 to undermine President Jimmy Carter's efforts to free 52 American hostages then held in Iran.

"Combined, those three investigations could have rewritten the history of the 1980s, exposing serious wrongdoing by Republicans who had held the White House for a dozen years. The full story also would likely have terminated the presidential ambitions of the powerful Bush family, since George H.W. Bush was implicated in all three scandals.

"However, Clinton and the leaders of the Democratic majorities in Congress didn't care enough about the truth to fight for it. Instead, they saw the truth as a bargaining chip that could be cheaply traded away.

"Clinton agreed to let George H.W. Bush retreat gracefully into retirement despite Bush's brazen attempt to destroy Walsh's criminal investigation by issuing six pardons to Iran-Contra defendants on Christmas Eve 1992."

Is Hillary or Obama More Vulnerable to Right-Wing Attacks?
By Robert Parry, Consortium News.

I have a lot of respect for Hillary. She has done much good, and has certainly had an interesting career, arriving into politics as a Goldwater Republican. (I was one, too, in 1964, as a high school student in a very conservative town, cheering Goldwater's famous rant, "Bomb Hanoi!", if you can believe it.)

But the above story of the 1992 Clinton pardons is just too much, too outrageous to ignore, worse than his year 2000 pardons. It's as damning of the Democratic Party as it is of Bill Clinton. Yet I was of his generation and outlook.

My basketball coach used to say, "Never give a sucker an even break." I guess that's true for Bill - Republicans hardly thanked him for this huge 1992 favor during impeachment. It's even more amazing the Dems didn't fight the 2000 Florida election disgrace with any real resolve, that on the heels of impeachment. One can only conclude the Republicans must be right. Democrats are truly spineless.

For more on Hillary's history, refer to Salon's, "How 1968 changed Hillary". It will take you back, as that was a pivotal year for us all.

More sentiment:

• Anti-Hillary Sentiment on the Rise Among Leading Feminists
  
• Clinton wins, will sanity be restored
• Women of My Generation Have Clearly Lost Their Minds
• Hillary or nothing?

I really believed the Clintons were going to change politics. (Take note, ye who are wooed by Obama.)

Do I want more of the Clintons?

Nope.