There's a column in today's Sacramento Bee by someone named Jack Ohman who concludes that the reason so many people hate Hillary Clinton is because she's a woman. Ohman goes through black marks on the Clinton resume like being a liar and an enabler for Bill, but he concludes that on honesty she's no worse than Trump and that the charges against Bill are overblown and mostly disproved. I'm not sure I've ever read the Sacramento Bee before, so I have no idea who this Ohman clown is, but nevertheless, one would think that the paper would at least require minimal fairness and honest from a columnist.
Let's think for a moment about what Ohman has to say.
1. Ohman left out the nature and quantities of Hillary's lies. Trump may have pretended to be his publicist twenty years ago while speaking to a reporter. Hillary lied to the families of the victims of Benghazi as they were at the airport receiving the dead bodies of their loved ones back in this country. For her entire life in the public eye, it has been one lie after another for Hillary. She seems incapable of telling the truth.
2. Ohman left out what seems like criminal behavior by Hillary that put our national security at risk. Say what you want about Trump, he never put national secrets on a private unsecured system that was hacked by people from other countries and, almost certainly, by hostile governments. Oh, and of course, Hillary lied about it for years now.
3. Ohman also left out Hillary's bogus schemes to amass a fortune. Trump made his billions mostly by building enormous profitable real estate projects. There were things along the way that certainly were unsuccessful and maybe some small stuff that bordered on inappropriate, but basically Trump made his fortune in real estate development. Hillary, on the other hand, never made much money working in the private sector or developing any businesses. For the last thirty years, at least, Hillary and Bill have been public employees. Somehow, however, the Clintons have managed to amass a fortune larger than the GDP of many small nations. No one actually believes that Goldman Sachs paid Hillary a quarter of a million dollars for a speech because she is such a good speaker. After all, we've all heard her speak. Many people would pay a few bucks just so they wouldn't have to listen to her. But it's worse. It wasn't just Goldman Sachs. Huge number of Wall Street firms and other big business paid Hillary a fortune for one of her horrible twenty minute speeches. How can Ohman leave out what seems like Hillary's efforts for graft in his summary?
4. Ohman is also silent about the Clinton Foundation. That entity is supposedly a charity (and people actually get a tax deduction for giving it cash.) But the reality is something different. We know that over 80% of everything spent by the Foundation was not a gift to people in need (other than the Clintons.) The foundation functions as a giant slush fund for the Clintons. They used it to keep their political staff employed during the years spent waiting for Hillary to run for office again. They used the foundation to pay for millions of dollars of travel expenses and the travels were in the most opulent fashion imaginable.
5. Ohman is also silent about Hillary's total disdain for ordinary people. It doesn't take much effort to realize that Hillary has no use for ordinary Americans. She may say the opposite, but it's not enough. Ohman ignores the reality that Hillary's own dislike for most Americans leads those same people to reciprocate the feeling.
6. Finally, Ohman doesn't mention the anger Hillary displays. Sanders seems angry at those people whom he blames for economic inequality. Trump seems angry at those who are destroying the American dream. Hillary, however, seems angry at nearly everyone who isn't named Clinton. Most likely, she's also angry at Bill even though he is a Clinton. There's no joy, no happiness with Hillary; there is only unrelenting anger. Most people just don't like someone who is always angry. After all, what's to like?
So, to be fair, there are a heck of a lot of reasons to dislike Hillary Clinton. It's not that she's a woman. It's the whole disgusting package rolled into one.
Let's think for a moment about what Ohman has to say.
1. Ohman left out the nature and quantities of Hillary's lies. Trump may have pretended to be his publicist twenty years ago while speaking to a reporter. Hillary lied to the families of the victims of Benghazi as they were at the airport receiving the dead bodies of their loved ones back in this country. For her entire life in the public eye, it has been one lie after another for Hillary. She seems incapable of telling the truth.
2. Ohman left out what seems like criminal behavior by Hillary that put our national security at risk. Say what you want about Trump, he never put national secrets on a private unsecured system that was hacked by people from other countries and, almost certainly, by hostile governments. Oh, and of course, Hillary lied about it for years now.
3. Ohman also left out Hillary's bogus schemes to amass a fortune. Trump made his billions mostly by building enormous profitable real estate projects. There were things along the way that certainly were unsuccessful and maybe some small stuff that bordered on inappropriate, but basically Trump made his fortune in real estate development. Hillary, on the other hand, never made much money working in the private sector or developing any businesses. For the last thirty years, at least, Hillary and Bill have been public employees. Somehow, however, the Clintons have managed to amass a fortune larger than the GDP of many small nations. No one actually believes that Goldman Sachs paid Hillary a quarter of a million dollars for a speech because she is such a good speaker. After all, we've all heard her speak. Many people would pay a few bucks just so they wouldn't have to listen to her. But it's worse. It wasn't just Goldman Sachs. Huge number of Wall Street firms and other big business paid Hillary a fortune for one of her horrible twenty minute speeches. How can Ohman leave out what seems like Hillary's efforts for graft in his summary?
4. Ohman is also silent about the Clinton Foundation. That entity is supposedly a charity (and people actually get a tax deduction for giving it cash.) But the reality is something different. We know that over 80% of everything spent by the Foundation was not a gift to people in need (other than the Clintons.) The foundation functions as a giant slush fund for the Clintons. They used it to keep their political staff employed during the years spent waiting for Hillary to run for office again. They used the foundation to pay for millions of dollars of travel expenses and the travels were in the most opulent fashion imaginable.
5. Ohman is also silent about Hillary's total disdain for ordinary people. It doesn't take much effort to realize that Hillary has no use for ordinary Americans. She may say the opposite, but it's not enough. Ohman ignores the reality that Hillary's own dislike for most Americans leads those same people to reciprocate the feeling.
6. Finally, Ohman doesn't mention the anger Hillary displays. Sanders seems angry at those people whom he blames for economic inequality. Trump seems angry at those who are destroying the American dream. Hillary, however, seems angry at nearly everyone who isn't named Clinton. Most likely, she's also angry at Bill even though he is a Clinton. There's no joy, no happiness with Hillary; there is only unrelenting anger. Most people just don't like someone who is always angry. After all, what's to like?
So, to be fair, there are a heck of a lot of reasons to dislike Hillary Clinton. It's not that she's a woman. It's the whole disgusting package rolled into one.
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