Recently, Hillary Clinton has gotten a lot of attention for her "red phone" advertisement, in which she implies that if the "red phone" rang, she has the lifetime of experience to handle that responsibility.She mocks Obama's lack of such experience and previews the potential downside in a debate with McCain.
Here's a short clip of her schtick:
But what does Hillary's lifetime of experience really amount to? Basically her main qualification that she be the next president is that she has spent the last 30 years riding Bill's coattails and "being there" in the White House for eight years.
Since being the wife of the president is Hillary's main qualification to be the next president, then wouldn't Monica Lewinsky then be qualified to be the next Secretary of State? After all, she was by his side in the Oval Office as he conducted the serious business of running our country and it's foreign and domestic "affairs", to use the term loosely.
But in reality, Monica is probably owed a large debt of gratitude by the American public. She kept Bill so busy that he couldn't really meddle in the affairs of governance and public policy, thus keeping his hands off our economy both literally and figuratively.
With Bill distracted by his sexual exploits and resulting scandal, the last years of his presidency were remarkably "unremarkable", producing very few foreign and domestic accomplishments.
As conservatives know, a grid-locked government is the second best thing that can happen to an economy, and there was a mini-boom in Bill Clinton's last term. For her service to our country, Lewinsky should at the least receive the Medal of Freedom.
Or maybe she could serve as Treasury Secretary in the next administration in keeping with her penchant for economic policy and growth.
