Captain Queeg As Hillary Clinton

I have nothing to add to this fine piece of insight which defines Hillary, what's his name and her liberal friends.

P.M. Carpenter at BuzzFlash;

Hillary Clinton's Self-Swiftboating into Irrelevance

As the New York Times put it: "In what proved to be an awkward juxtaposition, the disclosure of the records — which revealed the Clintons to be in the top one-hundredth of 1 percent, or roughly 14,500, of all taxpayers — came on the day that Mrs. Clinton called for the creation of a cabinet-level post to tackle poverty."

As understatements go, awkward, indeed. But at least that wretched insult publicly overpowered, for the moment, the wretched insult of delaying, once again, the release of her 2007 returns. And as we know, the Clintons live for nothing more than the moment. Lord, just get us through one more day. We'll deal with today's backlash in defense of yesterday tomorrow.
But, oops, what did tomorrow bring, which today would be yesterday? You got it. Another scandal.

Hillary, it seems, has been fibbing again. According to the New York Times,

For five weeks Hillary has featured in her campaign stump speeches the
story of a health care horror: an uninsured pregnant woman who lost her baby and died herself after being denied care by an Ohio hospital because she could not
come up with a $100 fee. The woman, Trina Bachtel, did die last August, two
weeks after her baby boy was stillborn at O’Bleness Memorial Hospital in Athens,
Ohio. But hospital administrators said Friday that Ms. Bachtel was under the
care of an obstetrics practice affiliated with the hospital, that she was never
refused treatment and that she was, in fact, insured. "We implore the Clinton
campaign to immediately desist from repeating this story," said Rick Castrop,
chief executive officer of the O’Bleness Health System. Linda M. Weiss, a
spokeswoman for the not-for-profit hospital, said the Clinton campaign had never
contacted the hospital to check the accuracy of the story.

That abomination speaks for itself. As does this one, which is to say, yet another one from merely the past couple days:

Mark Penn, chief campaign strategist to the New York senator, has apologized
for meeting with Colombia's U.S. ambassador in his separate role as a lobbyist
hired by the South American country to win congressional approval of [a] trade
deal with the United States [that his candidate opposes].

But I'm sure Hillary knew nothing about it. She's a perpetual victim; either subjected, like Captain Queeg, to the machinations of disloyal subordinates, or, like Richard Nixon, to the machinations of a hostile press.

I wonder if secretly Hillary still checks the fridge for errant strawberries when her hired help leaves.