Globally Rational

Hillary Clinton’s latest (of many) ridiculous comments really gives us an insight into her mind. People have said that they want to look past her slip-ups, but when we’re selecting a President, I think it’s very important to analyze these small comments to get a better picture of what the candidate will be like in office. I highly doubt that anybody would have voted for Bush if we knew that he’d take us into an endless and pointless war, but we couldn’t know that for sure… instead, we should have inferred it from his lack of knowledge of foreign policy matters. Similarly, we need to do the same analysis for Hillary.

When asked why she hasn’t dropped out yet, she recently cited two examples of past campaigns where such a drop-out would have been a mistake:

1. The 1968 election, where the frontrunner (Robert F. Kennedy) was assassinated after the California primary.
2. The 1992 election, where her husband supposedly “did not wrap up the nomination until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June.”

I don’t even know where to begin.

• What does it tell us about a candidate who is suggesting that she’s staying in a race just in case her opponent gets assassinated? It’s an especially big issue in a race that involves Barack Obama, who has received death threats in the past. If you suggest that a murder could get you the nomination, you’re adding another reason for some crazy person somewhere to commit that murder… not to mention the fact that it’s just plain wrong.
• In her apology, she only said that she had no intention of offending anybody. I don’t think that “offending” people is the issue here… the point is that we see how cold-hearted she can be.
• Kennedy may have been killed in June, but that was because campaigns happened later back then (Kennedy didn’t announce his candidacy until March 16, while Hillary seems to have done it years ago). He was assassinated about four weeks after his first primary.
• She also made the excuse that she was already thinking about the Kennedy family (because Ted Kennedy was recently diagnosed with a brain tumor). I think she forgot that she also made a similar comment two months ago.
• On a separate note, Bill Clinton didn’t have to go through June to secure the nomination. As this 1992 news story shows, he was up by a 7-to-1 margin in March, at which time everybody believed that he had the nomination locked up. Although he wasn’t the “official” nominee at the time (just like McCain won’t be the “official” nominee as long as Ron Paul is still technically in the race), he had started to focus on the general election by then.

Over the course of two sentences, Hillary managed to not only showcase her cut-throat cold-hearted campaign style, but also to (once again) lie about a known fact. This isn’t the first time that she’s lied to the public… how can you vote for somebody who is so dishonest? Do people seriously believe that she’ll follow through with her campaign promises if she has been caught in a lie multiple times?

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