Why Hillary Wouldn't Be Welcome Back at the White House

Hillary Clinton seeks the nomination of the Democratic Party to the candidacy for President. She is the least likely to succeed in that office, having alienated many in her previous occupation of the White House as First Lady. Not only did she play an equal role as her husband in the many scandals that enveloped them, she evinced a truly frightening lack of interest in constitutional niceties as well as a callous disregard for the careers of the many who toiled in security or service positions in the White House or support functions. Will any of them welcome her back to Washington with open arms? That is doubtful.

It would be nice if I could support her as a smart and politically savvy woman candidate, but her flaws run so deep that they threaten to crack her façade into a hundred pieces. Even her most vociferous defenders from way back have fallen away and are now critics. The LA Weekly recently called her "a ventriloquist for the patriarchy with a skirt." And Nora Ephron, once a dyed-in-the-wool Hillary apologist, now writes in the Huffington Post blog that Hillary "will do anything to win, who...doesn't really take a position unless it's completely safe" and that her own husband "can't stand her position on the war (and doesn't) trust her as far as you can spit."