At a recent debate Hillary was finally and at long last asked, by an extremely intelligent questioner, to explain what her political position is. This seemed quite reasonable and long over due given that she is running to be President of the United States. Without hesitation or shame she seized the moment and lied through her teeth to all of America about being a liberal because she knows America is not liberal.
Christopher Hitchens wrote a book about her husband called "No One Left To Lie To" but that was mostly just about child abuse with Monica Lewinsky, a lifetime of sex with Jennifer Flowers, groping Kathleen Willy, and the alleged rape of Juanita Broderick. But Hillary has now dramatically multiplied the family tradition one hundred fold by telling all Americans a perfect lie about everything she stands for politically, although, thankfully, she has left her sex life out of this particular lie.
One supposes that a huge lie or two might seem to be a small Shakespearian tragedy to a woman who came to power by saying she would not be a silent victim of her husband's infidelities, but who did stay silent when it appeared that victim hood was worth far more votes than the hippie, age of Aquarius, 1960's, feminist dignity to which she originally aspired. In the end, though, the ends justified the means because she knew that in the end liberalism is what America truly needed, regardless of whether democracy implies that a candidate ought to state her liberal position truthfully for liberal democracy to truly have meaning. One might call this leadership or even a profile in courage, but only if one cares little about freedom and is need of being led.
Here is what Hillary said and how an intelligent Republican would have responded:
CLINTON: You know, it (liberal) is a word that originally meant that you were for freedom, that you were for the freedom to achieve, that you were willing to stand against big power and on behalf of the individual.
Intelligent Republican: this is generally quite true, from the Magna Carta (to pick an arbitrary but important point) forward to the American Revolution, liberals were those who stood up against the highly centralized aristocratic govt's of Europe.
CLINTON: Unfortunately, in the last 30, 40 years, it (liberalism) has been turned up on its head and it's been made to seem as though it is a word that describes big government, totally contrary to what its meaning was in the 19th and early 20th century.
Intelligent Republican: It is true that the word is now used almost universally to describe big gov't programs. The very best example is the
