12 Questions I Would Ask Hillary

If given the chance, these are the twelve questions I would love to ask Hillary Clinton:

1.   If elected president, would your economic policies be able to create as many new millionaires as your predecessor policies did?

 

2.   After losing the Democratic Presidential nomination to Barack Obama who subsequently went on to win the Presidency, what kind of a deal did he make with you to get you to join Team Obama and be his Secretary of State?

 

3.   If you had it to do over again, would you save you and our nation the embarrassment and double check to be sure that your aids spelt “Reset” in Russian correctly?

 

4.   In your former life as an attorney, if a senior White House staff member came to you inquiring as to if they should set-up an in home email server and conduct all their official correspondence using a personal email address, what advice would you give them?

 

5.   For westerners, many regions of the world have become a very dangerous place and as the POTUS and Commander in Chief, you would be required to travel inside many of these regions.  In doing so, do you have any concerns that this might bring back the terror you experience from the fictitious sniper fire you came under during her 1996 trip to Bosnia?

 

6.   You were amongst those that found their way to the situation room to witness the capture/killing of Osama bin Laden on the big screen TV however, during the 8 hour span of the attack on the US Consulate and CIA Annex in Benghazi, Libya, you failed to make the 1.5 mile trip from your Foggy Bottom office to the White House basement where the situation room, specifically designed and equipped as a command and control center for the management of foreign and domestic crisis, is located.  Is there a believable reason that you chose not to join the crisis management team in the situation room during the Benghazi attack or were you directed by a higher authority to remain at in your State Department office?
       

7.   If elected, would you denounce American Exceptionalism in the same manner as your predecessor has?

 

8.   During your eight years serving in the Senate you sponsored an astonishing 417 bills.  Where you shooting for some kind of Guinness record or something?

 

9.   Have you given any thought to a new domain name for the private email address you will use if elected president or will you simply resurrect the @clintonmail.com domain?

 

10. Was the live video feed, from the drone flying over the US Consulate and CIA Annex in Benghazi, as crisp and clean as the high definition imagery you have in your in-home entertainment studio?

11. Watergate was a very long time ago and most have forgotten the wrongdoings of Richard Nixon and his administration.  Could you please refresh our memories of the Watergate investigation, specifically what your old boss was referring to when he stated this about you: “She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer. She conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality.”?

And the question that just has to be asked …..
 

12.  If you are elected as President of the United States, will Bill have access to the White House interns?

Hillary – Helping Republicans Win in 2016

So it’s official, through a single Tweet signed ‘-H’, Hillary Rodham Clinton announced on Sunday, “I’m running for president…..”

This announcement is a bit of a catch 22 for Hillary who, through her silence, has maintained an overwhelming lead over all other potential democratic presidential hopefuls yet, through her announcement yesterday, Hillary has relinquished the luxury of being able to remain tight lipped. 

Hillary will now have to face what will no doubt be a relentless barrage of attacks on her.  She will be forced to answer questions pertaining to her less than stellar record as a US Senator as well as to her tenure as Secretary of State which was void of any notable achievements.  On the foreign policy front she will certainly be challenges on her roll in destabilizing Libya as well as the infamous Russian reset.  Maybe the most damaging will be the questions raised regarding her refusal to disclose what took place in her office for the eight hours during the Benghazi attack.  And the course, the most recent issue to plague her long history of scandals and cover-ups, her continued attempts to hide the content of her State Department emails which she held in private until recently but did not release in hard copy until after scrubbing clean the email server to which they resided.  There are plenty more shortcomings in her political career, each one of which is likely to find its way to the surface at the aid of her political opponents.

Entering in what most consider a pool of one, most assume Hillary’s defense against these attacks will be met with the standard comebacks that do little more than demonize the opposition and never answer a question.  But what happens when the opposition comes from within her own party, what will she do then?

The only hope any democrat wishing to capture the presidential nomination has in beating Hillary is to take the very same approach that republicans will be taking.  Voting democrats have place Hillary on such a high pedestal that her political positions and promises mean little if anything, she has sealed their endorsement and so it leaves little else but for her democratic opponents to go directly for her jugular.  The danger of this is is that attacking Hillary on some of the very controversial issues and dealings she has been accused of being involved in exposes the party.

But after the past six, and then what will be eight long years of compromising the future of their political careers in order to protect the party, many democratic hopefuls are simply fed up.  Democrat up and comers cannot help be feel some level of disdain for Hillary, whose current party popularity is driven by name and historical value only.  Under the leadership of Hillary, many see a future of another 4 and possibly 8 years of a White House constantly under fire, political dysfunction and the further damaging of the Democratic Party brand. 

The likelihood of no other democrat throwing their name in the hat is highly unlikely and you can be assured, anyone even considering doing so is already developing their anti-Hillary campaign.  This will take huge pressure off of Republican’s who can remain focuses on policy issues and leave all the dirty work to those democrats who will be going after Hillary from a moral and ethical standpoint and who may even push the point of how damaging she could be to the future of the party.

Then there is the issue of the current administration and how Hillary will deal with following an unpopular president and a list of failed and failing policies. Another catch 22 for Hillary who has to be careful to not paint herself  as an Obama 2.0 yet in order to disassociate herself from the current administration she has few options other than calling the Obama’s policies a mistake that have not served the better good of the nation.

And nobody is watching closer than the democratic hopefuls who are no doubt waiting in the wings and are ready to pounce on any opportunity Hillary presents them to damage her campaign.  A savvy republican campaign will ensure that those opportunities transpire.    
      
Hillary and Bill certainly have their work cut out for them.  In their effort to defend Hillary’s past and separate her from the Obama Administration, they have to do so without playing to the hand of the Republican Party.  This could prove to be the impossible task.