Yesterday I penned a blog post titled, “Why Obama in the Shadows?” He has been an outstanding president in
every respect. His popularity should be skyrocketing, especially among liberals,
but it isn’t. Last night, I heard a talking head, +Rachael Maddow, give an explanation
that I had never suspected but perhaps should have. Republicans are attacking him externally but also party Democrats,
specifically by the well-oiled +Clinton political machine, is attacking him
internally. Admittedly, one should never take what a TV talking head like
Maddow says without question. Nevertheless, she is not +Fox News that has an out
and out problem with telling the truth. Rachael has a reputation for digging
out hidden truths in complicated situations, especially those dealing with political
intrigue such as this one.
First, we should ask why? Hillary Clinton is running for
president. She is the consummate politician, and as such attacks any opponent on
all fronts. What is notable is that she does not have an identified Republican opponent
but knows any Republican opponent she might have will attack anything and
everything Obama has done. All indications are that they will specifically
attack his foreign policy, which is obviously going to be her strength because
of her recent history as Secretary of State. In addition, she won her Senate
seat in New York by being strongly, and blindly, Israeli friendly, while Obama recognizes
the Israeli-Palestinian problem will require a two state solution, which Israeli
prime mister Netanyahu opposes because it would shut down his land-grab strategy.
In addition, Obama has taken an intellectual approach to the unrest in the
Middle East, centered on Iraqi and Syria; he has said, “No boots on the ground”.
In light of the horrific atrocities by ISIS bomb, bomb, conservatives oppose
this but so do liberals oppose this approach because it is too complex to easily
understand. Clearly, the Obama approach seems to be the only way to avoid remaking
the tied old mistake of Vietnam; if the people do not want to fight for them
selves, then we should not waste our blood and treasure to fight for them. This
means that ISIS could win control of the area, which would be especially bad for
Israel. Clinton’s political machine seems to have calculated that it is to
their advantage to attack the Obama policy, believing this approach makes them
immune from future attacks by Republicans for supporting Obama—they may be
right.
There is a made up word in Spanish, ‘vantejista’ or
advantage taker. The Clintons may be many things, but first among everything
else, they are “vantejistas”, which is what the expression ‘consummate politician’
means. They will take advantage of every thing they can. Candidate Obama beat
Hillary Clinton honestly in the primaries for the presidency, which she thought
was hers for the asking—that hurt. In addition, Bill Clinton and Barrack Obama
had a dust up over race in that primary as well, which Clinton lost for obvious
reason. Obama while assembling his “team of rivals” included Hillary as Secretary
of State; an office many believe is next to the president in influence. She did
a good job while in that position. However,
she carefully positioned herself, with Bill’s help I am sure, to blame anything
about foreign policy Republicans do not like, that is that went wrong during
her tenure such as the Israeli negotiations already mentioned, she could rightfully
claim that she was “only” following Obama’s policies.
Finally, the Clintons know that liberals like me, for
example, will vote for Hillary, even as devious as she is being, against a Republican
candidate under any circumstances. Thus,
Bill Clinton, and all of Hillary’s advisors, will continue to tout his (their) liberal
credentials based on the success of his presidency as he has been doing over
the past six-years. This is in contrast to Hillary, who will be fiercely claiming
independency from her husband’s policies while at the same time relying on
people giving her credit for being a faithful wife even during the most difficult
times. Politics is complicated but rest
easy, Hillary is up to the task. She should know that I would vote for her if
she is the final candidate but I will do everything, and I mean everything I
can do, to support +Joe Biden or independent +Bernie Saunders or someone else
up to that point. Read all of my blog posts and you will not find one-mention or
indications in any of them of my support for her deviousness, as a politician, up
to this point. That will likely not change.
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