Obama's Cabinet: Full of Bill Clinton's Rotten Fruit
By W. Michael Kilgore
President-Elect Obama's Cabinet is quickly filling up with the rotten fruit of
Bill Clinton's days. He hasn't even taken the oath of office yet and already
his songs of "change" are falling on deaf ears - his own. While many more
appointments are still to come, evidently his idea of change means to load up
his administration with the beltway refuse of Clinton's Administration.
Rahm Emanuel was one of his first appointments. Typically, a President
interested in a "change" from normal partisan politics will appoint a Chief of
Staff that is known for reaching across the aisle to friends from both parties.
The ideal COS provides access to the President from both parties in order to
accomplish more together. Too bad Emanuel couldn't be worse for the job. This
is a man who, when angered by the poll numbers that a pollster sent him, mailed
a dead fish to the man in gratitude. A shining example of integrity and
trustworthiness himself, Bill Clinton couldn't even trust the guy. Dick Morris
tells us of being chastised by President Clinton when he gave Emanuel some
confidential information. Evidently, Clinton knew he couldn't even trust his
own deputy counsel (Emanuel at the time) with the information necessary to
effectively run his administration. Morris' take on Emanuel: Emanuel is out
for Emanuel.
Eric Holder, another spoiled fruit of Clinton's days, could prove to be Janet
Reno 2.0 if his past record is any indicator. Frankly, his platform is a
nightmare to the Constitution. First, he favors hate crime legislation. He
literally believes that if someone attacks a homosexual and an old lady, the
attacker of the homosexual should be more heavily punished because his
so-called "motive" was of "hate for a protected class." Evidently, Mr. Holder
thinks himself worthy to look deep into the souls of every criminal and
decipher whether their motive was to inflict hate on that special someone or
just to get his or her money. "Dear Ms. Old Lady, you better watch your back
because Mr. Attorney General isn't."
It gets worse. Remember the Clinton pardons? Holder's role in granting
clemency to 16 former members of the Puerto Rican terrorist group, The Armed
Forces of National Liberation (FALN), was even more influential than that of
his boss, Janet Reno. Additionally, Marc Rich was a man guilty of tax evasion
and illegal trading with Iran. Eric Holder gave a "neutral to favorable"
recommendation to Clinton for Rich's pardon, which was eventually granted.
Evidently, Mr. Holder considers it his constitutional duty to grant pardons to
international terrorists and criminals. Now Grandma isn't looking out for just
everyday thieves, she has to worry about those big-time criminals Mr. Holder
has put back on the street.
Mr. Holder's love of basic constitutional rights is equal to his regard for the
justice system. When the Columbine shootings occurred, he was so scared by the
boys' use of the internet in bomb-making that he attempted to pass legislation
that would violate First Amendment speech rights on the internet. The Sixth
Amendment right to a jury trial wasn't any safer. Mr. Holder was instrumental
in getting laws changed that made jury trials more difficult for certain
defendants.
There you have it: two men on the payroll who already make the cabinet room
stink to high heaven. Appointments like this lead me to make a quite startling
statement: "Hillary! Save us!" With Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, we
can look to her as one of the most conservative appointees of Obama's pungent
cabinet. Yet, choosing a "conservative" out of Obama's Administration is like
deciding whether one would like to (a) be baptized by Rev. Wright or (b) debate
politics with Bill Ayers. Despite the pure idiocy of appointing to the highest
cabinet position a woman who has eyes for un-seating him in 2012, Obama has
thankfully chosen someone slightly stronger than himself on foreign policy.
This wouldn't take much since Obama's foreign policy qualifications are that he
(1) majored in international relations and (2) grew up abroad.
President-Elect Obama has implemented "change" on Washington with the
astounding skill and craft of a used car salesman. The combined years spent in
Washington of his appointments exceed those of Bush's appointments. His
promises of working against "business as usual" have manifested themselves in
the appointment of people who not only worked for Bill Clinton but implemented
some of the worst constitutional atrocities our country has ever seen while
doing so. This isn't "change" at all - it is Bill Clinton all over again.
The Mulindwas Communication Group
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