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that defending your man once may seem heroic, the eighth time you look like a sap." Some laud this lack of judgment as strength, dignity and the power of forgiveness. Most know it as a Faustian agreement void of any noble-mindedness, a singularly selfish pursuit of "ME".

America has witnessed an unprecedented phenomenon in the current Bush administration: the rise of a powerful executive branch and sub-Cabinet. Abrams, Cheney, Feith, Hadley, Libby, Pearle, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Wurmser et al. have exerted extraordinary power together with those now known as the "Architects of the War". It is highly unlikely and most undesirable that such a convulsion of ideology would be summoned in another U.S. administration ever again. However, we know that when Hillary Clinton was First Lady the East Wing was a veritable politburo of left-wingers. One brusque individual was Sidney Blumenthal, a senior presidential adviser in the Clinton administration and loyal Hillary Clinton operative. Edward Klein comments: "As members of the New Left, both Sid Blumenthal and Hillary Rodham manifested the qualities that historian Richard Hofstadter identified in his 1963 landmark study The Paranoid Style of American Politics "heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy." Intuitively accurate and chillingly perceptive, Blumenthal would acquire many monikers during his White House tenure, such as "Hillary's Brain", which was also given to Karl Rove, special adviser, consigliore and member of Bush's inner-circle.

America can ill-afford to be flirting with the prospect of a second Clintonesque White House. It would be aposematic for the U.S., her allies and a unipolar world. Proceeding hot on the heels of the most calamitous presidency in living memory, having the chronicle of presidential history read Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton would be disastrous. This propagation of American presidential dynasties is an abhorrent throwback to colonialism. It's not only an immoral highjacking of the national psyche, but an absence of real-world credibility.

Hillary Clinton can't do "real world", and America can't sustain a fantasy presidency with a harem in the East Wing and a court jester-filled West Wing, "First Man" Bill Clinton holding-court with President "ME" Hillary Clinton.

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