Secretary Clinton - the past stays hidden
Written by Michael Vass
Call me a purist, but I tend to respect when the media pays attention to the news of the day. This tends to happen sporadically, if ever, but since the candidacy of President Obama it’s become a rare treat indeed. Case in point, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
I know there are many examples of the inefficiency of the Obama Administration, the rampant failure to pay taxes, the hoards of people that fail to gain acceptance to Cabinet positions, and the multiple policy reversals and broken promises of President Obama himself. But in the Secretary’s example we see just how willful and different the media is behaving.
Secretary Clinton, back when she was a candidate in the Democrat Party, took $1 million in campaign contributions from a known fugitive of the law. This is not a matter of politics, but fact. Not only did her campaign take the money, not only was Norman Hsu an associate of the Clinton’s (photographed often with them), but her campaign actively stonewalled attempts to reveal how much money was given to them by Hsu. They even went one step further in blocking attempts to identify and repay funds from Hsu, which were found at that time to have been stolen money.
You would think that should have been enough to end the career of then Senator Clinton. It did not. In fact, Clinton nearly won the Democrat nomination. Stop for a moment can consider all that being done by a Republican. The news media would have eviserated them. The careers of all involve would have been crushed. But in the Democrat Party, Clinton was rewarded with a Cabinet position. At least she did pay her taxes.
You might think that all that was swept under a rug back then because she might become President. Which seems ludicrous to me as I think that should have been a reason not to let this go. you might think it would have come up at her confirmation hearings. you might think that it would come up now during the trial of Norman Hsu. And you would be wrong on all counts.
Yesterday, for the briefest of moments, the fact that Secretary Clinton took stolen money from a known fugitive, and tried to keep it was slightly addressed. Today it is a memory. At least for the major news media.
I continue to have to question any political party, and any President, that would count as one of its key operatives a person so power hungry as to be this corrupt.
Again this is not political. For me. Because a Republican under these same circumstances would be under attack by me as well. Likely the news media would also be involved, with a daily recount of the trial and all the facts proving the guilt of the politician. Hell, the Bush Administration is still under fire for the firing of people that serve exclusively at the will of the President. Seriously, people that could be fired at any time, for any reason, at the president’s whim. And our Secretary of State bloody near committed a crime. (If not factually breaking several)
Considering the first 100 days under President Obama, we have seen a pandering to the most extreme liberal Democrat views, the violation of the most important of campaign promises, the active violation of the Constitution, the weakening of the military and Intelligence divisions of the nation, and wasteful spending the size of which is incomprehensible to everyone save perhaps the astronomical scientific community. But beyond some bloggers, the near complete news media industry has turned a blind eye.
So I have to wonder who this benefits? Just as I wondered who benefited from the failure to repay all the money Norman Hsu donated to the Clinton campaign. Because in the end, I know who is suffering - America. Everyone may not see it right now, but considering the cast of incompetents we have leading Congress (will Speaker Pelosi ever give a straight answer that she remembers) and the Cabinet, we are all sure to live the repercussions shortly.
