Letters to the Editor
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Hillary's Biggest Mistake of All
She ran on her husband's presidency, taking credit for the things that are remembered fondly, but disavowing or sloughing off the failures, scandals, mistakes, etc. Can't have it both ways.
She tried to sell being married to a president as a qualification for BEING president, which to many seems rather ridiculous. Laura Bush is not qualified to be President. Hillary needed to run on her own experience -- and frankly, that on its own wasn't enough of a selling point for her.
She made health care a key platform issue, despite having bungled, mangled and quite publicly self-destructed her own health care reform efforts.
She exaggerated (some say lied) about her own experience -- taking tea with the Prime Minister's wife, and accepting flowers from school children -- are not "diplomatic missions," nor is accepting flowers from children in Bosnia "dodging sniper fire."
But above all -- I think what's destroyed her campaign is fact of her utter failure when actually put to the test. She ran on the "Ready on Day One" experience issue, but she kept forgetting that Day One already came, and it was the day of the war authorization vote. And she blew it.
Despite all Hillary Clinton's experience, with all her years with access in the White House, being married to the President, privy to the inner workings of the government, and her years of "public policy" study and so on...
SHE MADE THE WRONG DECISION.
And she made it on what may be the most important political vote of the last half-century. And her decision has sent more than 4000 Americans to their death, and countless hundreds of thousands of others.
And not only was she wrong, she clearly made it to pander. America knows that.
SHE MADE A CRAVEN, WRONG, PANDERING, COWARDLY, BAD DECISION -- for her own political aims, because she didn't want to be one of those brave few senators willing to defy Bush to do what was right.
The 3 a.m. call came, day one has come and gone, and she was called upon to muster together all the benefits of her experience, access, and her vast intellect, and SHE GOT IT ALL WRONG.
So ultimately, HILLARY CLINTON FAILED THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF TEST, WITH A BIG FAT F...and, when the Iran vote came up, she went and failed the makeup exam on top of it.