Retired pundit William Safire predicted eight years ago that Hillary would run, under Bill's direction, for the White House. Everyone accused him of paranoia and smoking dope. My learned cousin dissed me openly for not merely repeating what Safire had said -- these right-wing rumor-mongers! Merchants of malcontent! -- but worse, actually believing him. Yeah, well.
A couple of years later, with Hillary ensconced in the Senate and sucking up left and right, I hazarded Bill Safire's "story" during a smoke-break in a poker game at my house, out on the back patio, and I added a couple of speculations of my own, to-wit that I thought that Hillary, if elected, would return the favor by trying to get Bill elected General Secretary of the U.N., to help expunge the "stain" of impeachment. (The Clintons are vindictive as hell, and conservatives may rejoice daily in the knowledge that impeachment really nailed them hard where it hurts the most, in their pride, of which they have tons.)
I went on to elaborate a bit, that I thought Hillary and Bill might then try, having established themselves as accomplished politicians, try to pull the ladder up, as it were, by debasing the office so that successors would always be "in a hole" to the Clintons in the "greatness" sweepstakes, which is basically all they care about.
The best way to accomplish that debasement would be to "bring America into camp" as it were, with the international crowd, and turn in our independence and sovereignty by treaty (such as, e.g., LOST and ICC). That would effectively, with Bill in the General Secretaryship and Hillary in the Oval Office, make the U.N. the Government of the United States and the U.S. military the enforcement arm of the U.N. Thus Bill Clinton would become, in effect, the Founder of the World Empire, the New World Order -- and a world-historical figure forever, thus squashing all the House impeachment managers and all past and future Presidents of the United States at one blow.
To which not one but two of my poker-playing friends replied instantly, almost in unison, "You've just described the coming of the Antichrist!" Which surprised me, since I hadn't read or heard much about the Left Behind series. But they had, evidently.
While I don’t ascribe to the premillenial point of view, remember that the Clintons, particularly Bill, were disciples of Carroll Quigley. A brilliant man, but TOTALLY evil.
I thought the the Secretary General of the UN cannot come from any nation of the permanent security council?
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