Hillary, Jeb, and Elián González
The professional table setters have planned the next electoral dinner, the political soiree to be presented to us as mere spectators in 2016 as the contest between Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush. Whoever wins will, of course, take the oath of office to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. To either of them, that oath will mean not a blessed, doggone thing.
Mrs. Clinton, the former first lady, U.S. senator, and secretary of state, announced the last time she ran for president that she wanted to be the “commander in chief of the economy” from “day one” of her presidency. That suggests that, for all of her impressive resumé, she does not have clue one about the powers of the president under the Constitution. The president is commander in chief of the armed forces, not of the economy. We do not have a command economy. We have a mostly free-market economy, no thanks to Mrs. Clinton and others of her ideological bent. The Soviet Union had a command economy, and how did that work out for the Russkies?
Hillary Rodham Clinton, the promised co-president in her husband’s administration, no doubt played a key role in bringing Janet Reno into the Cabinet as the nation’s first female attorney general. Reno was in office barely a month when she resolved the conflict with the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas, by turning the wood frame buildings of the Davidian “compound” into raging infernos, killing 82 people, including more than a dozen children under the age of five. “Black lives matter” is the catch phrase of our day. Branch Davidian lives apparently did not.
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