This website has certainly spent its share of time dishing it out against Barack Obama. How about Sen. Clinton? The argument against Hillary Clinton for president is summed up in this conversation between Hugh Hewitt and Christopher Hitchens on Hewitt's radio show:
HH: 20 seconds, who’s going to be the next president of the United States?
CH: Hillary Clinton.
HH: Oh…because of yesterday?
CH: No, no, I’ve feared it for a long time, and there’s something horrible and undefeatable about people who have no life except the worship of power.
HH: The Mummy is back.
CH: …people who don’t want the meeting to end, the people who just are unstoppable, who only have one focus, no humanity, no character, nothing but the worship of money and power. They win in the end.
This comment struck me as I have been in more than my share of meetings lately. Perhaps you know these people, too. People who absolutely love meetings, with the arguments, the sense of distinction that comes with hanging out with important people and making decisions, the almost giddy feeling they get when something goes wrong because now a there is a problem to be solved. A smart administrator once told me to beware of administrators who actually like it when something bad happens because that makes them look important. The Clinton's strike me as having these pathologies. I recall Bill Clinton lamenting once that there was no big catastrophe during his presidency that could have raised his legacy. Apparently the Oklahoma City bombing wasn't big enough. Hillary Clinton absolutely loves power and what it gets her: the warm feeling of being more important than other people and being able to tell them what to do. To be sure, this is out of pure condescension. Sen. Clinton is so smart and so compassionate we'd be fools not to let her tell us what to do.
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