Ready to Go

Two years ago I would have said no way Hillary Clinton would be Commander in Chief but today it looks very possible. Perhaps John "Chameleon" Kerry will be the VP running mate as repayment for taking a dive in 2004's election. Many on the left, right, and center find the idea of Hillary as CIC a very unpleasant prospect but if you believe in stolen elections then who is to say the next globocorporate hydra head will not be the lady on the hill.

This week Germany has their first female chancellor, Angela Merkel. An ex-communist from the East but we know communists were only communist because they had to be back in those days. Similar to how Hillary used to be a liberal. Clinton is working hard, and succeeding, to change her image from a liberal feminist to a moderate democrat, strong on national security. Both women supported the Bush invasion of Iraq, or in newspeak – the liberation of Iraq. Merkel credits Hillary as inspiration for her own softer hair-do and welcomed Clinton on her Living History book tour in Germany (where it was a bestseller). Doubtful we'll hear Rodham-Clinton natter about a global village ever again. Talk will be of global peacekeeping troops – it now takes a boot - of well-armed global khaki to raze a child. President Hillary will cobble an international army ASAP with assistance from Europe.

Ms. Clinton woos the rightwing fundies and Jewish votes with periodic pilgrimages. She recently slipped a note between the stones of Jerusalem's Western Wall - many Jews believe that pleas placed between the stones of the holy site are answered by God (Hillary's note said "Me 2008"). At the other wall, (the apartheid wall that Humpty Sharon built) Clinton stated "This wall is not against the Palestinian people. This is against terrorists. The Palestinian people have to help prevent terror. They have to change their attitudes about terrorism." Her solution (the same as Bush solution) – Palestinians need a change of attitude.

Last week she urged Bush to challenge China's "forced abortion" policy, calling the Chinese policy of one child per family a "fundamental injustice." She condemned China's "use of psychological and economic pressure and threats to force women to terminate pregnancies." One billion+ Chinese need US family planning challenges from Hillary who personally produced one child. (Chelsea will be a credit to her though.)

She is not against free trade and outsourcing as we know it. Last year, defending India's software giant TCS, she said "We are not against all outsourcing; we are not in favor of putting up fences." (Humpty's wall against terror is not a fence.) Clinton assured heads in India this past May regarding any anti-India sentiment in America that … "there are people who feel left behind and might stir up negative feelings against India because they do not understand the economic benefits of outsourcing," In Hillaryspeak – people have a bad left-behind attitude because they misunderstand corporate economics.

Last month she slammed S. Korea's "historical amnesia" or their seeming ingratitude for the peace and prosperity given them by US benefactors; the right gets pumped up hearing that sort of come-uppance to ingrate nations. But then she backpedaled stating she only meant both countries need to ensure their relationship remains strong (as if there's any chance of Korea reuniting or us giving a spit if they did).

Putting aside her weenie faux suggestions to tweak the P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act she supports the Act as necessary in the War on Terror. Offhand I can't think of anything she has accomplished in the area of civil rights, women and children, privacy, poverty, equality in the legal system, etc. But I may have been out of the country when she did so perhaps others can enlighten me of her triumphs for the people.

Ms. Hillary is quoted as wanting tighter border security and a solution to illegal immigration, but voted no on more border patrol. Last July when speaking to the National Council of La Raza she said she wanted to make sure Hispanic children get a fair education, that families have medical insurance, (can the rest of us have some of that too?) and spoke of supporting legislation to make it easier for immigrants to send money home to Mexico. (Still keeping it easy for most of us to send money home to IRS.)

Hillary stops just short of supporting reparations for Black America but says "We owe an apology to African-Americans for hundreds of years of slavery." Haven't heard the slavery apology but the old boys in the United States Senate apologized June 2005 to the victims of lynching and for not passing anti-lynching legislation sooner. Fortunately for Ms. Clinton the Bush regime's abysmal response to Katrina, and exclusion in the aftermath, will drive many wavering Black conservatives to the Democratic party. Bush apologized for that one already but as with any lynching – it was too little, too late.

She attends church; she supports faith based initiatives. She has "always been a praying person." And claims the debate over faith initiatives and separation of church and state has been a "false division." Amen Sister Hillary saith the Christian wing.

She proposes liberating oppressed women around the world with access to credit (through IMF and World Bank traps), uplifting starving mamas and their children (continuing war on poverty), yet has proven a woman's place is to stand by her philandering man and give him all the love she can, because she knows the road to the White Hou… er … I mean … knows marriage is sacred.

Scandal seems to have taken a holiday from the Clintons. Looks as if all the Arkansas and Potomac ponds have been dredged and the "gates" closed. The coming image of H. Clinton will be packaged as a new era in American politics which so many rightly believe is so needed. A female president, a living history event. Intelligent, experienced, no longer a bleeding heart but a moderate hawk. A matron saint who could unite the US dysfunctional family. Typical red state voters will reason "well, she cain't do no worse than a man."

Coming soon, to a blitz near us, more important than the issues and advisors, will be the Clinton shade of lip gloss and her choice of suit color, walking across tarmacs in black boots, exquisite coat flared in the wind, tailored square shoulders. By the end of the PR campaign, folks will be real keen on the idea an iron-fisted Commander in silk and cashmere; fascism all gussied-up.