"In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility." Eleanor Roosevelt
December 30, 2015
By: Linda Case Gibbons
The New York Times has it all wrong, the whole Bill-Trump-Hillary thing.
We all know Bill is a bad, bad boy, and time hasn't changed that. You don't get impeached for being a good boy.
The Democrats try to ignore it. The New York Times says it's literally old news, but they're dead wrong.
This isn't about Bill. It's about Hillary.
This isn't about Bill being one of the two U.S. presidents to be impeached, in the history of our country, although that is interesting.
It isn't even about his disrespectful behavior as a sitting president, or his lying under oath -- as a sitting president.
It's about Hillary's reaction to his behavior.
It goes to character.
It raises the question: "Does Hillary Clinton have the strength of character to make sound decisions for our country?"
From what we've seen of her performance so far, the answer is no.
No one says that over a lifetime people don't make mistakes. It's called living. Mistakes are not the problem. The problem is when you don't learn from those mistakes, when you don't change what you've been doing.
It doesn't seem the Clintons have learned anything.
Hillary's reaction to the Monica Lewinsky scandal was to go public and blame right wingers for falsely attacking her man. That was back in 1998.
Then, after Bill admitted he actually did "have sex with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky," Hillary's reaction was to do everything in her power to destroy that woman, as she had many times before, with many women before, in Arkansas and up to the present day.
Now, after all she's been through, and after all Bill has done, and continues to do, she has decided to bring him onboard her campaign as her "secret weapon."
And she talks about the Republican war on women?
The question being asked in the media is: "Is Bill Clinton fair game in this presidential race?" And the answer is yes.
When it comes to the Clintons, America's mail box is full. Americans are worn out from these two and their antics.
They're appalled at Hillary's handling of Benghazi;
They are suspicious of Bill's huge speaking engagement fees, garnered from questionable foreign countries, while Hillary was secretary of state;
And they are aghast at Hillary's foolish and dangerous decision to use a private e-mail server for confidential State Department business, from a server that ended up in someone's bathroom.
Bone weary of the pathological lies and the "in your face" disregard for laws the rest of us mortals have to observe, Americans have had enough.
They see the town halls where little kids are given flash cards to ask Hillary about gun control and know the kids didn't write the questions.
They notice Hillary cannot and will not answer unplanned questions from anyone, anywhere, about anything.
They wonder about the state of her mental health after the health problems she has had, but has not fully disclosed.
And they know then that they have no desire to go through again what they have been going through with Obama for the past eight years.
Loyal as she is to all things Obama, if elected, Hillary promises to be an Obama mini-me, accountable to no one, disrespectful of the rule of law, and clueless to the meaning of transparency.
Some question how she ever got into the presidential race at all. Many wonder about pending indictments from the Department of Justice.
But Hillary knows she's owed. Throughout her political career she has made it clear she deserves to be rewarded with the presidency for standing by her man.
She is determined to be the first woman president because she feels she is the best qualified. She's a woman.
But as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. has said, it is important to judge a person by the content of their character, not the color of their skin.
Well, we already disregarded that rule in 2008. Let's not do it again because of gender.
American voters didn't agree to the deal Hillary struck with the Democratic machine. No, Americans have decided they would rather Make America Great Again.
Hold the line, America.