Clinton Unfit To Serve As President

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Senator Clinton’s behavior and campaign methods over the past weeks have shown that she will do anything to be President and values her own ego more than her country. I say this with a great deal of levity and sadness, as I have been a supporter of Hillary and her husband Bill for many years. If she cares about her country and party, she will bow out of the race for the Democratic nomination.

Clinton’s campaign has used every dirty trick in the book to tamp down the growing popularity of Senator Obama. She has raised the ugly specter of race, lies and innuendo to undermine her opponent’s candidacy, all to no avail. In the last week, she has raised the issue of Senator Robert Kennedy’s assassination to promote her campaign, leaving some observers wondering if perhaps she is hoping for an untimely injury to Senator Obama. To put it directly, there is no logical reason for Clinton to remain in the race at this late date. She has nothing to gain… unless something catastrophic where to afflict her opponent. God only knows what motivations drive her to continue holding on but explanations for her position are increasingly harder to rationalize.

Clinton’s primary campaign reminds me of Stalin’s retreat in the opening months of the war on the Eastern Front. After the failed Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, The German army appeared ready to crush the Russian resistance before a counter attack could be organized. Stalin gave the order to burn every building, kill every animal and lay waste to his own country, rather than leave anything for the advancing Germans to appropriate. In a year that should lay the groundwork for a rational policy in the Middle East, economic policies that sustain American jobs and fortify our infrastructure for the coming global transformation, we are witnessing Senator Clinton risk all in a last ditch effort to scorch the Democratic Party to the ground rather than let Obama lead the party in the November election.

I still have a great deal of respect for Senator Clinton but she has clearly demonstrated that she is unfit to serve as President. We need change in America and Ms. Clinton chose to run on experience. She made her bed and now she must sleep in it but someone must first change the sheets. They are far too soiled.