When the Clinton family announced the birth of its newest member Monday, some folks noticed something a little funny about how the current Democratic presidential frontrunner positioned herself for photo-ops.
As Chelsea and Marc Mezvinsky left the Lenox Hill Hospital with their newborn son Aidan this week, the former president and first lady were positioned directly behind them. How touching, three generations of American political royalty on display for the entire world to see.
Here’s a look:
As the pictures of the Clintons leaving the hospital began to hit news wires, many outlets began to point out how extremely similar the newborn Clinton photos were to photos taken of Prince William and Kate Middleton as they departed the hospital with their royal offspring in 2013 and 2015.
The message Clinton sent by placing herself and Bill just so for the photos was no oversight. It’s pretty clear that the former first lady views herself as American royalty— and she wants her supporters to as well.
For anyone paying attention to Clinton over the past several years, this isn’t news.
There are well-documented reports of the Democratic presidential hopeful treating government employees like servants on her personal payroll throughout her years of riding Bill’s coattails to the highest rung on the nation’s political ladder (that of a two-term former president).
But it wasn’t enough for the former first lady, who’d sacrificed so much dignity over the years to stand by her man so that they may both reach the top, to retire along with Bill and deal in the drudgery of managing a group of philanthropic family organizations.
Hillary isn’t the kind of person who allows circumstances to get in her way without finding a way to use them for personal gain. So she and Bill figured out pretty quickly that philanthropy is a powerful money laundering tool for the politically astute. And if you’re going to be queen one day, you have to be politically astute.
Clinton became a senator, citing here tenure as first lady to both a president and governor as a stand in for actual experience. After all, unless you count ferreting out vast conspiracies and helping child rapists avoid consequences, she didn’t have much else to talk about.
And it showed, as Jeb Bush pointed out last year “she has her name on three laws in eight years.” She did, of course, sign her name to plenty of high-profile legislation during that time—but Clinton’s role in helping to pass the bills she co-sponsored was usually minimal.
What did the three pieces of legislation Clinton saw through from start to finish do? Must’ve been important stuff, right?
Well, not really. She established a historic site in New York, and named a Post Office building as well as a highway.
Then, she decided to run for president.
The late Christopher Hitchens probably provided some of the best (and, he’d be sad to know, still most relevant) writing about why another Clinton in the White House— particularly this one—was a terrible idea.
During the Senate debate on the intervention in Iraq, Sen. Clinton made considerable use of her background and “experience” to argue that, yes, Saddam Hussein was indeed a threat. She did not argue so much from the position adopted by the Bush administration as she emphasized the stand taken, by both her husband and Al Gore, when they were in office, to the effect that another and final confrontation with the Baathist regime was more or less inevitable. Now, it does not especially matter whether you agree or agreed with her about this (as I, for once, do and did). What does matter is that she has since altered her position and attempted, with her husband’s help, to make people forget that she ever held it. And this, on a grave matter of national honor and security, merely to influence her short-term standing in the Iowa caucuses. Surely that on its own should be sufficient to disqualify her from consideration? Indifferent to truth, willing to use police-state tactics and vulgar libels against inconvenient witnesses, hopeless on health care, and flippant and fast and loose with national security: The case against Hillary Clinton for president is open-and-shut. Of course, against all these considerations you might prefer the newly fashionable and more media-weighty notion that if you don’t show her enough appreciation, and after all she’s done for us, she may cry.
After learning that she wasn’t far enough away from her previous positions and, more importantly, that a first female president doesn’t beat first black president for novelty in the 2008 election, Clinton took her consolation prize: U.S. Secretary of State.
It was a pretty good trade, too. In return for endorsing President Obama, Clinton would have a chance to add to her experience profile with some actual experience. And better yet, all her foundations would need to do is promise that “not even the appearance of a conflict of interest” would exist when government power as the top diplomat met her foundation’s international fundraising smoke and mirrors.
But Clinton’s ambitions didn’t align with her position. Instead of being American royalty, she had to follow her current boss’s lead and bow to the world’s dignitaries. Luckily, she’d learned as first lady how merely showing up was half of the public opinion battle. She flew around. She had a bunch of good pictures taken doing it.
Meanwhile, those dignitaries she bowed to in public had private conversations with her family’s foundation. Some of those conversations were no doubt largely facilitated by Clinton’s super-secret home email server. Remember, the rule was “not even the appearance of a conflict of interest” not “no conflict of interest.”
And as Clinton worked to build very important relationships for herself and her yet unrealized presidential ambitions— Americans died, countries fell to pieces and ISIS began to grow into the powerful force it is today.
But Clinton vows that she now has the experience she needs to run the country.
What does this all have to do with the picture I mentioned at the beginning of this piece? Everything.
The picture and its similarity to those used for royal family propaganda are the Emperor’s new clothes. Hillary, just like William, Kate and their children, has never done anything to deserve the position she’s held except deal with the publicity it requires.
The only differences, though, are what make Hillary so damn scary. The royals across the pond don’t have any actual power and are born into their ceremonial positions— Clinton wants all she can get and has demonstrated a willingness to do anything for it.
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