Today’s paragraphs come to us from Mollie Hemingway, writing for thefederalist.com.
Here they are – and I doubt you’ll need me to tell you why she wins:
“You may have heard Senator Sanders say I’m unqualified to be president,” Hillary Clinton said at a rally on Friday. “Well seriously, seriously, I’ve been called a lot of things over the years, but unqualified has not been one of them. Heh heh heh.” You can watch it here.
Is she kidding us? Is her memory failing? I believe I first heard her called “unqualified” when she was driving HillaryCare into a ditch as first lady. Or was it when she fired the White House Travel Office staff and replaced them with close friends? Or was it when she blamed her husband’s inability to act in an even remotely decent fashion on a conspiracy theory? I honestly don’t remember when it was, except that it was decades ago.
Since then, she had a very nice time in the Senate, during which she got along well with colleagues but accomplished absolutely nothing memorable. Unless you think that it’s memorable to sponsor bills to establish an historic site in New York, name a post office, or designate a portion of New York’s U.S. Route 20 as the Timothy J. Russert Highway. She did vote to invade Iraq, so there’s that. She was somehow completely out-organized and out-hustled for the Democratic nomination for president in 2008, before being given a keep-your-friends-close-but-your-enemies-closer job as Secretary of State in the Obama administration.
Her campaign for this turn at the Democratic nomination once claimed that they’d run on how she had “restored America’s place in the world, which had been very badly battered through the previous administration.” Good luck with that. She hasn’t just failed to lock up the easiest contested Democratic nomination race in history, she’s been given serious contention from a 70-bajillion-year-old, white-haired, honest-to-goodness socialist from Vermont.
Well said!
Mollie Hemingway wins Paragraphs Of The Day honors for how much she has said, how much solid evidence she has presented, in how few words.
I’ll bet even Ernest (I don’t know if he’s any relation) would be more than a little proud.
