Hillary Clinton: "a sleek, well-funded, power-seeking machine"

i stumbled across this from barbara ehrenreich's blog in my usual morning mosey through my various rss feeds... i don't think i've seen a better characterization of hillary clinton, and the final paragraph pretty much says it all...

In the end, the question of who Hillary is seems almost a bit anthropomorphic. Surely she has loved, laughed and suffered in the usual human ways, but what we are left with is a sleek, well-funded, power-seeking machine encased in a gleaming carapace of self-righteousness. She’s already enjoyed considerable power, both as a Senator and a “co-president,” and in the ways that counted, she blew it. What Americans need most, after fifteen years of presidential crimes high and low, is to wash their hands of all the sleaze, blood, and other bodily fluids, and find themselves a president who is neither a Clinton nor a Bush.

agreed, and precisely why, if the various mechanisms that bush has used to move us to an authoritarian state are not nullified, i believe hillary would be at least as dangerous in office as bush has proved to be...

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