Don't let their duplicitous rhetoric fool you. They're all cut out of the same cloth. Otherwise, they wouldn't get public attention. Populist Green Party aspirant Jill Stein gets none.
A Clinton presidency would be nightmarish for the vast majority of Americans and world peace. It'll combine the worst of George Bush and Obama, an agenda of endless wars of aggression, maybe targeting Russia, China, and/or Iran, corporate favoritism, destroying social justice, and full-blown tyranny against resisters.
Doug Henwood is editor and publisher of the Left Business Observer. It covers "economics and politics in the broadest sense," discussing what everyone needs to know, suppressed in mainstream reporting.
In November 2014, his Harper's article headlined "Stop Hillary! Vote no to a Clinton dynasty." It bears repeating. A second Clinton presidency is the worst of all deplorable choices.
Her qualifications "boil down to this," says Henwood.
"She has experience, she's a woman, and it's her turn. It's hard to find any substantive political argument in her favor."
Comment: Substantive? How about no evidence at all. But there's plenty to back up Mr. Lendman's assessment of 'disaster'.
As first lady, she pushed husband Bill to bomb Belgrade in 1999. The rape of Yugoslavia raged throughout the 1990s, culminating with 78 days of lawless US-led NATO aggression from March 24 - June 10, 1999.
She encouraged her husband to end welfare for needy households. Vital Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) ended. The so-called Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation (PRWORA) followed, changing eligibility rules.
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) set a five-year time limit - leaving millions of needy households (many with single mothers) on their own when aid was most needed.
As New York senator and Secretary of State, she "bec(ame) increasingly hawkish on foreign policy," Henwood explained.
"What Hillary will deliver (as president) is more of the same. And that shouldn't surprise us...American politics has an amazing stability and continuity about it."No matter who's elected president, business as usual always continues, hardening, not softening deplorably during Bill Clinton's presidency, worse than ever post-9/11 under Bush II and Obama - certain to be worse than ever no matter who gets the top job next November, especially if it's Hillary, a neocon, anti-populist war goddess.
Her self-proclaimed progressivism is pure fantasy. Her record as first lady and in public office exposes her real agenda, warranting condemnation, not praise.
She "has a long history of being economical with the truth," said Henwood. As New York senator, "she voted for the Iraq war, and continued to defend it long after others had thrown in the towel."
She echoed the Big Lies about Saddam's nonexistent WMDs and ties to Al Qaeda. She cozied up to right-wing Republicans to ward off criticism. As Secretary of State, she was "less of a diplomat and more of a hawk," Henwood explained.
She backed escalated war on Afghanistan, pushed for continued US military presence in Iraq, helped orchestrate lawless aggression on Libya, and urged Obama to bomb Syria without required Security Council authorization.
She was involved in developing "pivot to Asia" strategy. "Since leaving the State Department, (she) devoted herself to...Clinton, Inc...(a) fund-raising, favor-dispensing machine" together with husband Bill, said Henwood.
Their style is self-promotion, including "huge book advances and fat speaking fees... And with an eye to the presidency, (she) kept up her line of neocon patter, while carefully separating herself from Obama."
She deplorably supports Netanyahu's high crimes - from naked aggression on Gaza to current war throughout the Territories. Palestinian bloodshed and horrific suffering are of no consequence. Israeli imperial interests alone matter.
Henwood concluded his lengthy article, saying "Eight years of Hill? Four, even? To borrow her anti-McCain jab from the 2008 Democratic convention: No way, no how!"
His new book titled My Turn: Hillary Clinton Targets the Presidency covers in greater detail what his article discussed. The cover shows her hawkish image, pointing a gun with her arm outstretched.With Biden out as a potential candidate, she looks like a shoe-in Democrat nominee, despite all the exposed baggage about her.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. His new book as editor and contributor is titled Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III. Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.
As I recall, way back on election night in 1996, iconic American newscaster David Brinkley actually said the unvarnished truth.
When it was announced that Bill Clinton had won the election against Bob Dole (an honorable gentleman and disabled war veteran), unable to contain his disgust and anger at the easily bamboozled American voters, Brinkley actually called Bill Clinton a "scumbag" on national TV.
I was absolutely blown away, and still am. There it was: utterly abject honesty from a world-class newscaster about one of America's WORST presidents ever, and a total sell-out to the zio-fascists of finance, who have plundered America and Americans ever since. Bankster's delight? Americans take flight!
Today, another Clinton scum-bucket threatens to plop her enormous fat ass cheeks into the chair of the American presidency and stink up the oval office with her fart-like noises about helping the middle class, etc. etc, ad nauseum.
Clearly to my mind at least, she is the "Bankster's Bitch" 100%, and the zionist-controlled American MSM and Wall Street will simply adore her presidency as she shifts more and more wealth, power and control their way, taken directly from the American citizenry and their ever-shrinking pockets and wallets.
Further to their collective neocon-zionist delight, she will continue making the world safe for Israel and the zionists by brutally obeying the PNAC vision against Russia, slaughtering innocent arabs in the ME and NA left and right, while actively seeking to implement the "Yinon Plan" and its break-up of the arab states surrounding Zio-land, and generally continuing the onslaught of doing the bidding of these overlords for (GASP!!) another eight straight years (if AIPAC gets its (belt)way, which it always does, doesn't it?)
The only question remaining: will the world survive another 'Clinton' presidency?