Tim Inwood gopguy63@yahoo.com

Hillary the Unethical: Clearly Unqualified for the Presidency

I have watched the media's reaction to Hillary Clinton's yarn about landing in Bosnia under sniper fire with amusement. They acted as though they were stunned by this bold face lie. Where was this reaction when she told all those scores of lies over the last sixteen years? Obviously, they ignored her lies then. As we all know, they loved the Clintons when they were on top, but since many of the press corps is now in the tank for Barack Obama, they are now starting to note Hillary's fibs more often.

Just in case you have forgotten, here are some examples she got a pass on. She got away with saying her parents named her after Sir Edmund Hillary, the famous mountain climber. The problem with that story was Hillary Rodham was born in 1946 and Edmund Hillary did not achieve fame with his climb on Everest until 1953. The press did not care. She said Chelsea saw the planes hit the World Trade Center while jogging. Chelsea blew that one out of the water by later saying to the media that she was at a friend's apartment watching it on TV.  One of my favorite Hillary whoppers took place on April 22, 1994. Rush Limbaugh has dubbed this the "Pretty in Pink" press conference where she sat beneath the portrait of Abraham Lincoln, striking the same pose as Lincoln, and then spun the most improbable yarn about the Rose Law billing records. That was April 22, 1994, so it has been a little while back. To refresh your memory, I will just say the billing records concerned fraudulent land deals in Arkansas that she said she had no recollection of working on. Turned out the records of her work and billing for it were found in her office with her fingerprints all over it. Mixed into that was a question about her assistant, Maggie Williams, removing documents from Vince Foster's office right after his suicide while investigators were in the room! By the way, Maggie Williams is managing Hillary's Presidential campaign today. Oh, all the fond memories of corruption that rises with the Clintons. Be assured if they get back in power, we will again face a scandal a week.

Now we learn that these sorts of shenanigans were nothing new for Hillary prior to her White House years. In fact, the misconduct I am about to address goes back thirty-four years ago to when a twenty-seven-year-old Hillary Rodham was working on the House Judiciary Committee's Impeachment Inquiry staff as they proceeded with their effort to impeach then President Richard Nixon. General Counsel for the House Judiciary Committee at that time was a man named Jerry Zeifman, and he kept a detailed record of what transpired in his diary.

The story is rather long and detailed and I will link Mr. Zeifman's website so you can go read the details. I will, however, give you the story in short.

http://www.jzeifman.com/

While working on the House Judiciary Committee's Impeachment Inquiry staff, Hillary Rodham sought to deny President Nixon legal counsel. She did this knowing there was legal precedent for representation in an impeachment case. In other words, she wrote a fraudulent brief for submission to the court. To make things worse, she purloined and hid the documents on the 1970 impeachment of Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas in her office, in a bungled attempt to hide the truth. Luckily for Mrs. Clinton, President Nixon resigned before the brief could be submitted. Had this fraud been given to a judge, it is the view of Mr. Zeifman that Hillary would have been disbarred.  Mr. Zeifman's story came to light because of a posting on his web site following Hillary's cry fest in January. I made light of that stunt in my own article on the subject that same month.

http://www.thecincinnatusstandard.com/Tim_Inwood_January_15_2008.html

Mr. Zeifman wrote:

"Hillary?s Crocodile Tears in Connecticut"

I have just seen Hillary Clinton and her former Yale law professor both in tears at a campaign rally here in my home state of Connecticut.  Her tearful professor said how proud he was that his former student was likely to become our next President. Hillary responded in tears.

My own reaction was of regret that, when I terminated her employment on the Nixon impeachment staff, I had not reported her unethical practices to the appropriate bar associations.

Some may wonder about Mr. Zeifman's motivation for raising this incident now after so many years have passed. Actually this is a not a new effort at all.

Jerry Zeifman has tried for many years to draw attention to this story and the issue of Hillary Clinton's ethical lapses. He actually wrote a book about this in the 1990s. Unfortunately, the press took no interest in looking into the subject. In recent days, he has since given interviews to Dan Calabrese and Radio talk show host Neal Boortz. His motivation to get this story out at this time is actually rather noble. He considers himself a good Democrat and he says he wants to save the party of Roosevelt, Truman and Johnson. Now, while I am sure Mr. Zeifman and I disagree on most political issues, one thing is very clear: he and I both agree that for Hillary Clinton to become president would be a huge disaster for our nation. Clearly her actions and behavior tell us the young woman who tried to subvert the Constitutional rights of a fellow American has not changed much at all. Indeed, except for the toll of years on the body, she is very much the same creature she was thirty-four years ago.

Therefore, I urge all of you to make sure your friends and family learn of this story and that you go to Mr. Zeifman's site to read the detailed account of what happened in 1974. It will make clear?if you had any doubts?that Mrs. Clinton is not qualified to hold the highest office in the land, nor does she possess the character to be our next Commander in Chief.

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