A Younger, Equally Unethical Hillary

Is it me, or are others tired of Democrats speaking about their holy trinity of revulsion – Nixon, Vietnam and Watergate – as if they never went away? John Kerry made the first two the entire basis of his presidential campaign, playing on the memories of my fellow baby boomers who are at their happiest when they relive the righteous anger–make that hatred–that fueled their only successful political battle. Dan Calabrese from the North Star Writers Group brings us back to those thrilling days of yesteryear, but with a decidedly different perspective:

Jerry Zeifman, a lifelong Democrat, supervised the work of 27-year-old Hillary Rodham on the [Watergate] committee. Hillary got a job working on the investigation at the behest of her former law professor, Burke Marshall, who was also Sen. Ted Kennedy’s chief counsel in the Chappaquiddick affair. When the investigation was over, Zeifman fired Hillary from the committee staff and refused to give her a letter of recommendation – one of only three people who earned that dubious distinction in Zeifman’s 17-year career. Why? “Because she was a liar,” Zeifman said in an interview last week. “She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer. She conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality.”

Substitute “he” for “she” in the final paragraph and you’d have the Democrats’ typical description of Richard Nixon. Clearly, I’ve misjudged Hillary all along. It looks like she really is presidential material after all.

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