Hillary Clinton should not be president
Democratic Presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton has enough baggage to make Samsonite envious.
Aside from being untrustworthy, she also has a tendency to lie.Neither of these are characteristics we want in our country's highest officeholder.OK, you want particulars, and here they are:Clinton stated in July 2014 that she and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, were "dead broke" upon leaving the White House in 2001.Well, let's see: In 1999, the couple bought a five-bedroom home in Chappaqua, New York, for nearly $2 million.In December 2000, they bought a seven-bedroom house near Embassy Row in Washington, D.C., for almost $3 million.You will pardon us if we're outraged that Mrs. Clinton is so out of touch in not being able to recognize her own good fortune. She and husband Bill command about $200,000 per speaking engagement. We should all be "so broke."Mrs. Clinton shamelessly claimed in 2008 that she landed under sniper fire in Bosnia, which was repudiated by video evidence. (NBC Nightly News Anchor Brian Williams made similar claims and was demoted for his embellishments.) In 1995, Mrs. Clinton claimed that she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary, the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, but Hillary did not accomplish his extraordinary feat until six years after Mrs. Clinton was born, making it highly unlikely that her mother would have been knowledgeable about the climber that early in his career.On top of that, Jerry Zeifman, counsel and chief of staff of the House Judiciary Committee, charges that during her work with the Watergate Committee in the early-1970s, Mrs. Clinton (then Hillary Rodham) wrote a fraudulent legal brief and confiscated public documents in order to prevent President Richard Nixon from being impeached.This was done, Zeifman says, so that Sen. Edward "Ted" Kennedy would have a chance to win the presidency in 1976.She's a notorious flip-flopper. In 2000, she stated, "I think a marriage is as a marriage has always been, between a man and a woman."Mrs. Clinton retained this position during her 2008 campaign and until 2013, when she said that gay Americans are "full and equal citizens and deserve the rights of citizenship, that includes marriage."Now, she may have had a change of heart, but it is not the first time that she has altered her position when political winds have shifted. She favored the Cuban embargo in 2000, before opposing it in 2014, and voted for the Iraq War in 2002 before campaigning against it - and refusing to admit her vote - in 2008.Then there was the incredible flip-flop of flip-flops in a 2007 debate when she spoke in favor of giving driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants, changed her stance two minutes later, then changed her position back to the original the next day.She has been involved in a multitude of scandals. Aside from the many unanswered questions about the Benghazi fiasco in Libya, she was involved In the infamous Whitewater Controversy. She and husband Bill were found to be involved in some suspect real estate investments during their time in a failed business venture.Mrs. Clinton was also implicated in the Travelgate scandal, which alleged that the Clintons had fired White House Travel Staff employees so that some of the Clintons' friends could take their places.While President Clinton was exonerated of any wrongdoing, Mrs. Clinton was found to have played a central role in the firings and made false statements about them.Mrs. Clinton was also involved in the Filegate scandal. In June 1996, Craig Livingstone, a senior White House official improperly requested, and received from the FBI, background reports concerning several hundred individuals without asking permission. The revelations provoked a strong political and press reaction because many of the files covered White House employees from previous Republican administrations.Under criticism, Livingstone resigned from his position. Allegations were made that other senior White House figures, including the first lady requested and read the files for political purposes, and that she had authorized the hiring of the official who originally read the documents.