Posted on 06/07/2005 8:56:52 PM PDT by CHARLITE
Memorandum to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton
It is now widely expected that you will run for President in 2008, after successfully standing for reelection next year. By all accounts, you will enjoy the strong support of your party's generally left-of-center primary voters. But to win the Oval Office, you will have to overcome a very different challenge — persuading sufficient numbers of independents and perhaps even Republicans that you are the first Democrat in two generations who can safely be entrusted with the presidency in time of active, global hostilities.
"Mr. Bolton is greatly admired by Jewish voters and other friends of Israel — a constituency that can no longer be taken for granted by Democrats — for his engineering in 1991 of the repeal of the odious UN resolution equating Zionism with racism. Many who were offended by your longstanding sympathy for the Palestinian cause (epitomized by your controversial kiss of Mrs. Arafat in 1999) believe that a man who was able to achieve this sort of reform at the dysfunctional United Nations should be given a chance to accomplish more far-reaching change there.
As a former staffer and life-long admirer of the late Senator Henry M. Jackson (D-WA), I am confident that, were "Scoop" alive and in the Senate today, he would be leading the fight among Democrats for John Bolton's confirmation. To the extent you wish to enjoy anything like a Scoop Jackson Democrat's credibility on defense and foreign policy matters as you prepare to seek higher office, it behooves you to do the same.
Alternatively, you can vote as you did last month — for the Left's filibuster of the Bolton nomination. In that case, though, you may find the electorate in 2008 telling you, as they say in your adopted New York, "fuggedaboudit."
(Excerpt) Read more at jewishworldreview.com ...
Not to worry. Before the 2008 election Hill will visit the same plastic surgeon visted by her ugly daughter, sorry, but she really is ugly. We will see a much rested, softer Hillary.
No there's a difficult concept! More likely an oxymoron.
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