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Hillary Clinton, Feminist-at-Large
Remember Whack-a-Mole? The theme park game that
features insouciant plastic rodents popping out of
the hole – Whack! Here comes another one
– WHACK!
That’s the image that comes to mind as I
ponder Hillary Clinton’s controversial career:
Staunch defender of a wayward Commander-in-Chief.
Achievement-free senator from New York.
Once-inevitable presidential candidate.
And just when you think the drama has thankfully
drawn to a close, the curtain rises on yet another
act.
In the current scene, Mrs. Clinton is nominated
to serve as the Secretary of State. You wonder,
exactly what qualifies her to serve as
America’s ambassador to the world? During
Hillary’s eight years in the White House, she
didn’t attend any National Security Council
meetings. She didn’t receive the
president’s daily briefings. She didn’t
even have a security clearance.
These facts prompted candidate Barack Obama to
jeer, “What exactly is [her] foreign
policy expertise?” Incoming White House
counsel Greg Craig proffered this blunt response:
“There is no reason to believe…she was a
key player in foreign policy at any time during the
Clinton Administration.”
Not only is Hillary Clinton over-hyped and
under-qualified, many of the claims in her foreign
relations brief are simply false.
“I was deeply involved in the Irish peace
process,” Clinton once boasted on the campaign
trail. I “pulled together in Belfast, in the
town hall,” a group of Catholic and Protestant
women so “the hard work of peacemaking could
go forward.”
That claim triggered this rebuke by Nobel Peace
Prize winner David Trimbell, who was present at the
time: “Hillary Clinton had no direct role in
bringing peace to Northern Ireland and is a
‘wee bit silly’ for exaggerating the part
she played.”
During a 1996 Bosnia outing, a hail of sniper
fire at the airport forced Clinton’s entourage
to run “with our heads down to get into the
vehicles to get to our base” – at least
that’s what she said during a speech at George
Washington University.
But then CBS replayed the videotape showing a
cadre of Bosnian schoolgirls happily chatting with
Mrs. Clinton and Chelsea on the tarmac – but
no whizzing bullets.
During a March 8 CNN interview, Clinton claimed,
“I negotiated open borders to let fleeing
refugees into safety from Kosovo.”
But Congressional Quarterly’s
PolitiFact.com throws cold water on the boast. The
group concludes, “We don’t find evidence
to support that” and ridicules her claim as
“Barely True.”
During another interview, Hillary claimed she
had advocated for military intervention in Rwanda.
But no one else remembers it that way.
“Whatever her private conversations with
the president may have been, key foreign policy
officials say that a U.S. military intervention in
Rwanda was never considered in the Clinton
administration’s policy deliberations,”
counters National Security Council insider Gail
Smith.
I have no doubt that Mrs. Clinton fully
appreciates the difference between a French fry and
a Belgian waffle. But the stubborn question
remains, what are Senator Clinton’s
qualifications to serve as Secretary of State?
The truth is, Hillary does have extensive
experience working in other countries -- but not in
the way most Americans would expect. During the
Clinton administration, she was Bill’s
goodwill ambassador, traveling to the four corners
of the globe as a high-profile advocate of the
feminist agenda.
Inevitably the abortion issue came under the
glare of the media spotlight.
At the 1994 World Conference on Population
Development in Egypt, Hillary worked behind the
scenes to establish a universal right to abortion
on demand. That brought her into conflict not only
with Mother Teresa, but also with the Pontiff.
The following year she led the U.S. delegation
to China to attend the Fourth World Conference on
Women. She delivered the meeting’s keynote
speech, making the wrongful assertion that
“Women are 70% of the world’s poor.”
Clinton narcissistically concluded,
“Women’s rights are human rights and
human rights are women’s rights.”
Three years later she appeared at a meeting of
First Ladies held in El Salvador. This time she
made the bizarre claim that “Women have always
been the primary victims of war.”
Hillary Clinton was also behind her
husband’s 1996 selection of women’s
rights advocate Madeline Albright as Secretary of
State. Bill was reportedly leaning to George
Mitchell, but once again Hillary had the last
word.
There is little doubt that as Secretary of
State, Hillary Clinton will attach highest priority
to advancing the global feminist agenda,
particularly the right to kill the innocent unborn.
Pro-life lobbyist Jeanne Head predicts,
“Hillary would promote her husband’s
agenda at the United Nations to make abortion a
fundamental human right worldwide.”
We’ll need to keep a close eye on this
woman.
Carey
Roberts probes and lampoons political correctness.
His work has been published frequently in the
Washington Times, Townhall.com, LewRockwell.com,
ifeminists.net, Intellectual Conservative, and
elsewhere. He is a staff reporter for the New Media
Network. You can contact him at E-Mail
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