Stand .... by.... your Man....

Oh please Kathleen Parker. Gag me with a cookie cutter:

Once again, Hillary Clinton has demonstrated herself to be the classiest person in the room. No wonder she’s one of the most revered public figures in America.

But she is a politician, the context by which all things must be judged — at least on second pass. The first pass goes as follows: She manned up. She took responsibility for the attacks at the Benghazi compound. Good for the secretary of state.
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Clinton sensibly has recommended stepping back from politics and allowing the FBI investigation to proceed. But this sentiment, appealing as it is, requires a third pass. Who benefits from stepping back? And when, exactly, did faulty intelligence on the ground excuse the commander in chief from responsibility? Not recently that I can recall.
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Our only conclusion at this point is that we don’t know what happened. But it is also clear that no one in the Obama administration knew what was going on either. We will see. Until then, it is fair and reasonable to entertain the notion that Hillary Clinton simply did the right thing.

The nation benefits from her example.

Oh dear, what silly thinking this is.

Remember back in '92, when Bill ran into some ... difficulties himself, in pursuit of his election to the highest office in the land. Then- Mrs. Clinton sat on the couch during a television interview, seemingly ready to say anything, and strongly verbally defended her husband.

He did NOT have a pattern of habitually enjoying the sexual pleasures of women outside his marriage, the missus told us all, right there on television. He did NOT do what he was accused of, by the numerous women who alleged non-consensual sexual improprieties from the colorful, up-and-coming politician.

Some say Mrs. Clinton's performance in that interview, parroted by Mrs. Maria Shriver so many years later when there were similar allegations against her man running for political office, saved the day. Pulled Bill's bacon from the fire, and helped restore his credibility, thus boosting him to the Oval Office... where, just a few short years later, there came undeniable "proof" of his cheating heart in the president's DNA findings left behind somewhere you wouldn't suspect, unless of course, it turned out the president indeed lying, and that... other woman telling the truth.

We all know the rest of the story.

Mrs. Clinton, and her then-young daughter, became the country's First Family victims. They were betrayed by the man they loved, and both were later rewarded for their sympathies with a fast track to top jobs: she as a New York senator; Chelsea as a broadcast journalist.

You can debate -- it doesn't matter to me one way or the other -- whether Mrs. Clinton knew of her husbands sexual appetites at the time, or if indeed she was so cluelessly unobservant that indeed, she believed all those women were lying way back when.

Way back when, if I might point out, when there was a chance to get help and nip said attitudes in the bud. Instead, the president played through, even bringing those sexual activities into his White House workspace, where some believed his scandal and attempted cover up eventually helped elect George W. Bush over Vice President Gore, so turned off were they by the huge downturn in the moral compass of the Democrats.


I hear you out there:
Why does the sex thing matter? Who cares?

Why?
Character counts. Patterns repeat. If you ... "Stand by your Man" to the point he doesn't have to own up, and make those changes while there's still time, truth be told?

You're not protecting anybody by helping hide the ball.
'Cept maybe yourself...

I don't care that she stayed married. Her choice.
I do think -- in the character department -- she's not to be trusted based on her past failings. So sure now-Sec. Clinton: Be ... "loyal". "Man up." The lesser ladies like Parker will applaud you, even if it means just temporarily obscuring the truth to buy time to get your man elected...

But ultimately, at what cost to the country?
This is not "manning up". This is dumbing down.
Ms. Parker, for one, appears to be falling for it. Again.

Silly ladies who never seem to learn...
Is it something in their DNA, do you suppose?

Or is it simply easier to be a loyal backer rather than an independent thinker, unafraid to go where the telling facts seem to be leading?

[I]t is fair and reasonable to entertain the notion that Hillary Clinton simply did the right thing. The nation benefits from her example.

No Kathleen, you speak solely for yourself, sister.
The nation undeniably deserves better. No matter what fine things might end up in Sec. Clinton's lap for her questionable loyalty policies.