Vincent J. Curtis
7 Aug 2016
The Hillary Campaign, with much assistance from President
Obama, are floating the idea that Donald Trump is unfit to be president. I’m
not sure what they mean by unfit, but the same argument has been used in
varying degrees and under various disguises against Republican presidential
candidates going back to the days of Barry Goldwater, in 1964, to my
recollection. Reagan was a dunce, and so
was George W. Bush. Sarah Palin was
beyond the pale. George H.W. Bush was
unfeeling towards others. Mitt Romney
was unfit because he too was unfeeling, grasping, and responsible for the
deaths of people in his employ, allegedly.
Andrew Jackson was the first to be labelled unfit for much
the same reasons that Trump is: he was crude, abrasive, and threatened to upend
a lot of apple carts.
The obvious retort of the Trump campaign is that Hillary is unworthy of being president. In particular, they could focus on the damage
to the body politic that would occur by validating her personal corruption. Her lying and her lying about lying to the
American people make her unworthy of their trust.
For all her alleged attainments, Hillary is remarkably
unaccomplished compared to Trump. True,
she turned a $1,000 investment in cattle futures into a $100,000 pay-off as a
rank amateur, but she has never attempted to duplicate the feat. Her rise to fame was as First Lady. She was handed a safe Senate seat in New York
in 2000 with the aid of her President husband and a compliant electorate. Her term of eight years in the Senate saw
precisely three bills of hers pass, and they were for naming public buildings. She failed in 2008 for the nomination of the
Democrat Party to a complete newbie in part because she was such a lousy
candidate. That newbie handed her the
job of Secretary of State which she botched at many levels. Her present campaign for president is founded
upon her at last inevitability.
Her unworthiness arises from her character, which led to her
misdeeds as Secretary of State. Already
by 1996, Hillary was identified as a congenital liar. She set up a secret, unauthorized, private
email server in her home in 2009 in order to avoid lawful and constitutionally
mandated congressional oversight of her conduct of affairs as Secretary of
State and of Freedom of Information Act requests. What this amounted to on her part was
espionage, for she kept the secrets of the United States government on her
private property without authorization.
This server was likely hacked by foreign powers, but because she
destroyed evidence, no confirmation or disproof of that is possible. The fact is Hillary put national secrets in a
place where they could be found by foreign powers. An unauthorized, private place.
Because of her extreme, hostile attitude towards Republicans,
who were beneath her contempt, she fell into perjuring herself before two
Republican led congressional committees inquiring into her conduct while in
office. She also perjured herself before
a civil court judge in the case involving Judicial Watch and the State Department.
These bodies may be beneath her contempt, but they are
lawfully and in decency entitled to the truth, even if it proves embarrassing
or leaves one open to humiliation.
Upon the discovery of her secret email system, Hillary
declared that she neither sent nor received classified material. “There is no classified material.” Then, upon the discovery of classified
material, she modified her statement so that none was “marked classified.” Even
that proved to be false. She alleges
that much of the classified material was so designated after the fact, i.e.
after they were discovered on her server.
This excuse is pathetic to those who understand. The Secretary of State is one of the
classification authorities within the United States government. Part of the Secretary’s job is to make sure
that state secrets are kept secret, in part by ensuring that classified
material is so marked, among other securities.
At a minimum, such responsibility entails the recognition of material
that ought to be classified. Hillary’s
excuse about emails not being marked classified is to blame a clerk who did not
know about the material for failing to do her
job.
Before the FBI, Hillary pleaded ignorance. She did not understand, she apparently said,
what classification markings at the beginning of paragraphs meant, and she was
utterly unequipped to classify material herself, despite being a classification
authority. Let’s assume that this is not
another lie.
She may not have known, but it was her responsibility as
Secretary to come to know, and to exercise that authority properly. Assuming she wasn’t lying, becoming
acquainted with the responsibilities of her job as Secretary and exercising
those authorities properly were, apparently, beneath her. And failing to do her job makes her worthy to
be president?
How many more responsibilities would she have as president that
she would regard as beneath her dignity to know and to perform?
Her arrogance, her contempt for political foes, her history
of self-seeking, and particularly her chronic lying to the American people and to
its lawful, responsible bodies, and her conspiring to keep her misdeeds secret
makes Hillary unworthy to be entrusted with the presidency.
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