Posted by
VBushmills on Monday, July 20, 2009 2:22:11 PM
No really.
If you will recall, one of the first acts of GWB's presidency was to order buried the findings of the Justice Department case against Hillary Clinton.
Yes, I know it was an act of Christian charity in GW's mind, but as he proved to us on more than one occasion, no good deed ever goes unpunished.
GW has only been out of office for 6 months, but it seems like a decade, doesn't it? I expect there will be a whole slough of books coming soon, many in the "What if George W Bush had done this or that" vein.
In the 1960s McKinley Cantor wrote an interesting book, "What if the South Had Won the Civil War?", and it was actually pretty good in speculative analysis, especially as it pertained to race relations in the United States. Cantor was right about one thing, there would have been a totally different dynamic about race in the US had slavery ended on its own accord twenty or thirty years later, and had there been no subsequent federal intervention, Jim Crow, and the rest.
With that sort of speculation in mind, my suggested title, above, pertains less to Hillary Clinton, who, as a major player in government has become an empty suit (unless she quits her job and throws in her hat for the 2008 primaries) than to all the people she would have ratted out had she been indicted.
Based on the DOJ case against Hillary, she could easily have been indicted and probably convicted (granted for rather minor felonies) but we believe she would never have gone quietly.
How history would have changed is that many of the people Hillary would have ratted out are major movers and shakers now in the Obama administration.
OK, Obama simply could've gone out and gotten still others cut from the same cloth...only with one proviso; the old Clinton crowd he pulled in was able to hit the ground running. They were well oiled, and able to move with what has proved to be an amazing pace.
Had Hillary been indicted many of that crowd would now be in jail, or in some level of public humiliation...and it would have bought the Republic a full extra year...a year we so desperately need now.
Thanks, George.
Bernard Chumm