HILLARY’S NIGHTMARE OF LOVE

When Hillary Clinton becomes President, she may not be able to deliver on anything she stands for. The Hillary Haters believe the most heinous things about her; they find her dishonest and not to be trusted.  They are never to be dissuaded (believe me, I've tried).  They may continue to obstruct her efforts, having become well skilled at that during the Obama Administration.

Having said that, I still have hope and believe in her ability to be a fine president, and I believe she will win, despite the “Bill problem” that is and always has been the monkey on her back, that is in my opinion, the source of all her image problems.

I am not naïve.  I’ve known since my first day working to elect Bill Clinton that he had always had a serious woman problem – which later became clear is an addiction.  His supporters did everything possible to keep that from ruining his political path. It was a struggle from the day he entered public life.  Anyone who understands addiction knows that part of the profile is engaging in crazy and dishonest efforts to hide the behavior and keep the secret.  Those who loved and believed in Bill as a leader (first and foremost his wife) took sometimes extreme actions in order to shield him from the consequences of his bad behavior.  It may have been wrong; perhaps his wife and all his accolytes should have refused to help him in his political career because of his private behaviors.  However, in actuality, no one really knows, or knew then, the actual extent of those behaviors.  Hillary, especially, was lied to many times, I am sure. 

She is a smart lady; perhaps theirs has always been an open marriage.  Despite the stories, she stayed, some will say it was because she wanted to ride his coattails to power.  To those who do not know her biography, I would add that her path to political power began long before she met him; she was on a fast track on her own, and she sidelined her career to follow him to Arkansas.  Why?  I can only point to the blindness of love.

How unfair that she is tarred with his transgressions.  The distrust that dogs her always comes back to her tying her wagon to the handsome and charismatic young man from Hope.  Over the course of her life, she has been caught up in scandal after scandal that always goes back to her initial efforts to keep a “zone of privacy” around her relationship.  Does no one believe that love can blind a person to their own personal best interests?  When it all came crashing down in the most public way, perhaps her biggest mistake was keeping her marriage together.  She could have jettisoned him then, and many wanted her to.  But I choose to believe that their marriage works for them in their own way, the details of which are no one’s business. 

If she had divorced him at any point in their almost 50 years together, would that have satisfied the Hillary Haters?  I think there would be no haters at all had she never got mixed up with him to begin with.  Such is the power of love; to change a life for better or worse.  When she is elected President of the United States, will it be because of, or in spite of, her marriage? Does it really matter?